From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Paul Szep. An old, thin man sits on a throne with a very tall back. He wears a crown and clutches ermine lined robes around him. His feet are on a cushion. Around him on the floor are three...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Polish Solidarity leader Lech Walesa is walking along a sidewalk carrying a large medal labeled "Nobel peace prize," and he is looking over at a pawn shop with large windows. A...
Transcribed copy of a report by the General Legislative Committee of Mississippi based on findings from an investigation of the occupation of the University of Mississippi in 1962 by the United States Department of Justice. Action was taken in...
Amendment: To Senate Bill (S.129) to provide for the employment of free negroes and slaves to work upon fortifications, and to perform other labor connected with the defenses of the county.
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...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Stampone. Five men dressed in Santa Claus costumes stand on a street corner under a street sign labeled "Anti-poverty program street." Each is ringing a bell, and four stand beside...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Leonid Brezhnev is dressed as a doctor and has a small badge with hammer and sickle on his shirt. He is in a hospital ward with three beds labeled...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan works at a desk, writing on papers. Other papers are scattered on the floor around him. On either side of the desk are large charts on easels. One is labeled...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A letter carrier swings a full mailbag labeled "Spreading mail strike" over his head at a man in a suit, who is reading a list of complaints about the Postal Service: "Increased...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Jimmy Hoffa sits in the sear of a cart labeled "Teamsters" and holds a horse whip. The cart seat is labeled with dollar signs. Uncle Sam, wearing a police uniform and holding a paper...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Jimmy Hoffa sits at a desk with a name plate that reads, "Teamsters president." Another man in the room is looking out the window, and the blinds on the window are slanted so...
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. This list of contacts made by Gene Guerrero includes observations on the positions held by the contacts regarding civil rights and labor unions, and assesses their leadership ability and...
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. This list of New Orleans contacts made by Gene Guerrero includes observations on the positions held by each regarding civil rights and labor unions and the help they offered to the project.
Transcribed copy of a booklet describing the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO). Includes the structure and history of the organization as well as a list of COFO programs.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. On a map of Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union is shaped like a bear. Its mouth is open and beginning to eat Poland. A Soviet star is placed in the bear's forehead. The cartoon...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Jon Kennedy. A zoo keeper wearing coveralls labeled "92nd Congress" and carrying a lunchbox walks briskly away from his work when he sees the time on his pocket watch. He had been near the open...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled "Labor party" is standing outside the door of a room, looking in. Margaret Thatcher sits at a desk yelling into a megaphone, "Early election call." On the side of...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The brochure discusses the unequal distribution of commodities in Mississippi, and points out the federal goverment will be hiring Mississippians to give out the food commodities to the poor.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Postmaster General Winton M. Blount drives a truck labeled "U.S. mail system" off of a cliff at a high rate of speed. The truck is propelled by the words "That strike." Blount says,...
