From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The gridlines of a graph form the background of the cartoon. New Orleans mayor Victor Schiro rides in the back of a chauffeur-driven open car which forms the upward trend line...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. New Orleans Mayor Ernest Morial is trying to walk a high tightrope strung between two tall poles, with no net underneath. The poles are labeled "Expenditures" and "Revenues,"...
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 Eldon Pletcher. A bulldog sits on a sidewalk before a brick wall that has two large signs. The dog is trying to turn his head back and forth to see the signs and is confused at the messages....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A large thermometer set near the roofline of a building is flanked by two tall windows (ledges?). New Orleans mayor Victor Schiro is seen on either side of the thermometer,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. New Orleans mayor Ernest Morial is walking, wearing a sandwich-board that reads, "Re-elect Morial Mayor." The New Orleans skyline is in the background. The cartoon caption...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Mayor Ernest Morial is carrying a a box labeled, "Revenue raisers suggestion box." He is about to enter a door labeled "City council." The cartoon caption reads, "When all else...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Two men stand near the sign that reads, "U.S. Conference of Mayors." One asks, "Why didn't Reagan make an appearance?" The other says, "He sent his hatchet man instead." Around...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ernest Morial, dressed as a boxer, stands in the center of the ring. His arm is being held up high by the referee, who is shouting, "The winner and still the titleholder...."...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana state Senator Nat Kiefer, dressed as a runner, pauses between two traffic signs. One reads, "Yield" and the other, "Resume speed." Nearby is a sign in the shape of a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. New Orleans mayor Ernest Morial and William Jefferson are dressed in baseball uniforms. Morial is speaking angrily to Jefferson, saying, "You're minor league!" Jefferson smiles...
