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 August 15, 1978 with Mr. Thomas Y. Minniece. Minniece was born in Meridian, Mississippi on October 9, 1912. He received a BA degree from the University of Texas in 1933 and a law degree from the University of...
From the University of Southern Mississippi Art Museum collection. Watercolor of a cabin and trees with a barren corn field in the foreground, by J. Bruce Guraedy.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Collins. A smiling Japanese man sits cross-legged on a cushion with arms folded across his chest. Before him is a flower pot on a mat on the floor. The single stem, which rises and drops,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. Richard Nixon, carrying a paper labeled, "Political settlement through free elections," walks up to a voting booth set up outdoors in Vietnam. The booth curtains are open, and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. A Vietnamese man labeled "Viet Cong" sits on a mat beneath a tree. His rifle is beside him on the mat. The man's arms are crossed, and he smiles as he listens to a radio broadcast...
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, of Mat Zwerling talking to Margie (Margaret) Hazelton at a gathering in Dr. Aaron Henry's backyard in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
Typewritten letter from Matthew Zwerling to his parents, Israel and Florence Zwerling, and Sara, dated June 26, 1964. Discusses the positive community response in and around Clarksdale, Mississippi, to voter registration drives, and expresses...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. An elegant, petite Asian woman labeled "Mrs. Nguyen Thi Binh" walks beside a very large soldier and holds his hand. The soldier carries a rifle over his shoulder and is grinning....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. Two uniformed soldiers with rifles have entered a clearing in a jungle. The one labeled "U.S. withdrawal plans" is moving away from the other and calls over his shoulder, "Double...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. President Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger stand on one side of a pit trap, looking disconcerted. On the other side of the pit trap are an American military prisoner bound in...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A school building is right at the edge of a tall cliff; the back sidewalk of the building is hanging off the edge. The front door welcome mat reads, "Opportunity." The void...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher; A man representing New Orleans jumps forward to greet a man walking through the door. A mat on the floor reads, "Welcome Mike Collins."
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. A man wearing a "coolie" hat labeled "Hanoi" is standing on a globe of the earth, playing golf on a map of the United States. A hole flag labeled "Washington" is stuck into the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. Hubert Humphrey looks into the shop window of "Eugene McCarthy--Cabinetmaker" and admires a tall wardrobe cabinet labeled "Specially designed for the White House." He says, "I...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Richard Wallmeyer. An adult American bald eagle labeled "U.S." is sitting in its nest, which is built at the top of a mountain crag. The eagle is watching its young, a small soldier labeled...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Riedell. Two U.S. soldiers are behind a sandbag bunker in Vietnam. One is looking through binoculars at the scene in the distance. The other holds his rifle and is talking into the radio...
