From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Two men dressed as railroad engineers are sitting on top of a railway car that is part of a longer train. The car, labeled "85-day regular session," is the next to last, followed by the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Ed Gamble. This cartoon is in four parts. In the first frame, Richard Nixon is speaking on the telephone to Leon Jaworski. Nixon says, "More tapes? Look, Jaworski, I've just about lost all my...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A large bear labeled "U.S.S.R." is sitting on a branch up in a tree. Both paws and its muzzle are covered in honey that is labeled, "Hungary...Afghanistan...Czechoslovakia."...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Two huge grouper are hanging from large hooks (from ropes tied around the tails). They are labeled "Smuggling" and "Ring." A man with rod and reel is labeled "Fed. undercover...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Attorney General Ramsey Clark is dressed as a sheriff in the Old West and wears a star labeled, "The nation's No.1 cop--L.B.J." He has two gun belts around his waist with a...
From the Zwerling (Matthew) Freedom Summer Collection,; Photograph of civil rights volunteers taken at the Freedom Summer Training Session in Oxford, Ohio, in 1964. The training session was held to prepare volunteers for work in Mississippi. Andrew...
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...
cartoon by Eddie Germano; A middle-aged man stresses over the newpaper headline,"Plans for new schools are being drawn up." In the next frame, the man is literally hit with a "Tax rate increase." It is tied to a rock that jars the man. In the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, is next to a large globe on a stand. He is spinning it around. Above the globe is "A spot someplace." The cartoon caption reads, "All I want...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled "Chrysler" wearing a patched suit holds out an empty mug like someone begging for money. He stands next to a car, in front of which is a sign that reads "More help...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. Uncle Sam kneels on hands and knees next to a genie's lamp labeled "All-volunteer force." From the spout of the lamp comes smoke which forms the words "Cost: billions $$." In one...
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...
cartoon by Vic Runtz; Dwight D. Eisenhower carries his hat in one hand and gestures toward an open book with his other hand. The verso page of the open book is headed "1953-1961" and reads "Safe conduct through difficult and perilous times....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Reg Manning. Uncle Sam is sitting up in a hospital bed in a semi-private room. A thermometer labeled "Political fever" is in his mouth, and an icepack labeled "Energy headaches" is on his head....
cartoon by Eddie Germano; A man is looking at a young boy labeled "cost of living" and saying,"My, how you've grown." In the next frame, the young boy is taller and the man is saying,"And grown." The last frame shows the boy even taller and the man...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Collins. An elephant labeled "Nixon doctrine" has encircled Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau with its trunk, and Trudeau has dropped the maple leaf he was holding. The elephant's...
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 Jon Kennedy. A huge boxer labeled "Organized crime" sits in an armchair. The robe he wears is trimmed in fabric printed with U.S. dollar bills. A man stands next to the chair and gestures over...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher; In Moscow, there are balloons floating up toward an elderly man resting in the curve of a "hammer & sickle" labeled, "Harvest Moon." The balloons are labeled, "50th...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A donkey and an elephant sit on the doorstep of a house in front of a door labeled "Maine." Both are shivering due to conditions of snow and ice despite being dressed in winter...
