From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Mimicking Atlas, a man stands on a stone pedestal and balances a massive globe on his shoulders. A woman with a scarf labeled "Women's liberation" has put her foot on the base of...
Photograph of the campus radio station, WUSM. Caption: The station gives students opportunities for hands-on experience in broadcasting. News anchor, Brian Flynt, a senior, waits for a commercial break to end. Also found in the 1997 Southerner...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The document describes a plan to revamp and enlarge the communications department of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) so that it plays a greater role in the civil rights...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A man labeled "Congress" stands in the crossfire of two giant gun barrels, which have fired a barrage of letters at the man. The smoke from the gun barrel labeled "Gun lobby and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Melvin Laird, running, carries a board labeled "Board to examine role of military" toward the edge of a cliff. There is a gap between this part of the cliff and the other side, on...
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 Vic Runtz. Three military jets are seen flying away from a village which was just bombed. People, houses, and carts are seen in the destruction. The bombed area is labeled, "Delayed admission...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A nervous looking man labeled "Congress" stands in front of the Capitol building, looking up at the dome, and yells "Careful!" A giant-sized hand labeled, "Proposed Adam Clayton...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; News release by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), dated May 26, 1964, and titled "Whites Organize to Oppose Mississippi Summer Project." Statement warns those...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A large, covered, floating vessel labeled "Nixon's Ark" carries large guns pointing in all directions. President Richard Nixon stands on deck and looks into the sky. His thoughts are...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A man and Runtz's signature cat stand in a huge skillet labeled "Political discontent," looking over the lip and wiping sweat. Beneath the skillet is a roaring fire labeled, "Wallace...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. President Richard Nixon walks toward the left of the cartoon dressed as a Hussar, wearing a chest ribbon labeled "Presidensy" [sic] and holding a sword upright. Behind Nixon, a group...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. In the foreground, a patient labeled "John Q." is being forced to drink from a bottle labeled "Higher interest rates." Runtz's signature cat is beside John Q. holding a piece of...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Two battleships on the sea face off. One is a massive ship labeled "Southern bloc" and has a huge smoking gun. The other is significantly smaller and labeled "BIW DX contract." The...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A man with a "Kick" sign on his back is shown being flipped or tripped after a wallet he stooped to pick up from the pavement is yanked away. The wallet is labeled "Tax cuts, steady...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This document contains Silas Norman's critique of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) publication, the Student Voice. He notes the content of the publication and suggests that...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Vic Runtz. An aged man with a long beard wears sandles and a belted tunic labeled "The sixties." At the edge of a cliff, he has slipped on a banana peel labeled "Earth's unsolved problems."...
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 Roy Carless. The prow of a ship labeled "U.S. oil" has broken through thick ice on a body of water and pulled up to an igloo that flies a Canadian flag. A man wearing a fur-lined parka and...
