A collection of interviews with African-Americans of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, circa twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, who knew Colonel John Robinson, an African-American pilot who was tapped by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Sellassie in the...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on January 26, 1993 with Pete Johnson, nephew of Paul B. Johnson Jr., at his home in Madison, Mississippi. Pete Johnson was born on May 12, 1948 in Alexandria, Louisiana. He received his B.S. degree in business...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Ed Valtman. Edward Kennedy is on hands and knees in the center of a large group of people outside a tent labeled, " '80 camp." He is blowing on a campfire to increase the flames, and a plume of...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 3, 1993 with Mr. George Saxon, formerly of the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol as an investigator, at his home in Gulfport, Mississippi. Saxon was born on March 30, 1927 in Waynesboro, Mississippi. ...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. A large book is labeled "Wave of published memoirs by late Pres. Kennedy associates." A man labeled "Dedicated officials" is lying flat between the pages of the book, with arms...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. President Lyndon Johnson pedals in the first seat of a bicycle built for two. Behind him sits Robert F. Kennedy. Johnson apparently thinks Hubert Humphrey sits in the second...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 13, 1993 with Mr. Erle Johnston at his home in Forest, Mississippi. Johnston was born on October 10, 1917 in Garyville, Louisiana. In 1941, he moved Forest, Mississippi and bought the fledgling...
From the McCain (William D.) Pamphlet Collection; The pamphlet published by the Mississippi State Junior Chamber of Commerce states that its purpose is to explain parts of the story of the University of Mississippi's forced integration that the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Vic Rintz. A moth with stars on the forewings and stripes on the hindwings has flown very close to the flame of a tall candle and has been singed. The light field radiating from the candle has...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. President Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, and Robert Kennedy are dressed in football uniforms. Kennedy's uniform is a different color than the others. Johnson, the quarterback,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Ed Valtman. A line of six white men dressed in suits and ties stand before John F. Kennedy. They are labeled "Responsible leaders of Southern communities," and Kennedy is pinning a medal on the...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 30, 1978 with Thomas Jefferson Tubb (born 1899). Mr. Tubb served as chairman of the Clay County Executive Committee for 47 years from 1928 to 1975 and during the Dixiecrat movement from 1950 to 1956....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Two men, one with an elephant head and one with a donkey head, are working either end of a large saw to cut down a huge tree. The man with the donkey head is labeled...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ted Kennedy sits in an armchair reading a book called, "'84 primer," to a small boy drawn as a young donkey. Kennedy reads, "See Mondale run...See Cranston, Hart and Askew...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The cartoon is divided into two panels. On the left side, Jimmy Carter has been kicked down a flight of stairs that form a downward trend line on a large graph that is labeled,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The cartoon is divided into four panels, each of which shows Massachusetts senator Ted Kennedy. In the first three panels, he is attempting to spell a state's name but getting...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Doug Sneyd. A man smoking a cigar holds a placard with the words, "Let's end Vietnam the way it began -- with a Kennedy" for another man to see. The second man says, "Somehow, I don't think...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Presidential candidates Hubert Humphries, Robert F. Kennedy, and Eugene McCarthy look at a mirror in the shape of the the state of Indiana, labeled, "Indiana primary." Humphries...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher; The cartoon is divided into two panels. The top panel depicts Sen. Kennedy sitting on a cloud labeled, "Political Future." The bottom panel shows Kennedy with a cloud, also...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Edward Kennedy is portrayed as a boxer knocking out an opponent with a "1-2 punch." Only the opponent's feet and lower legs on the floor are shown. Kennedy is smiling broadly....
