Schedule of events for the 75th anniversary and homecoming activities. Events include an academic fair, pep rally, performance by George Carlin, and the football game against Florida State University.
Schedule of events for the Fine Arts Festival, part of the 75th anniversary activities. Includes performances and exhibitions by musicians, dancers, actors, and artists.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Richard Nixon, with one hand, pulls on the ropes of a flag pole to raise the American flag and a pennant beneath it that reads, "The U.S. will fly high again." Nixon is holding...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man in an armchair has been reading a book, his feet on the footstool. The book is being tossed to the floor, and the man has put his hands on the chair arms and is lifting...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Riedell. In space, the earth is portrayed as a huge baseball. Two spacecraft labeled "Sox" and "Birds" hover in space. Astronauts on tethers are outside their ships; those near the "Sox"...
From the Justin Francis Denzel Papers.; A letter from Rev. Joseph Voelker at The Catholic Boy magazine (October 20, 1958) concerning Justin Denzel's "Siwash Boy."; 8 1/2 x 11
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...
From the Gail E. Haley Papers. Print, linoleum, "full color," for pages 12-13 of of A STORY, A STORY: AN AFRICAN TALE retold and illustrated by Gail E. Haley (New York: Atheneum, 1970), with the caption "Ananse and the Leopard" "#1/9" signed and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A child in a skeleton costume walks down the street carrying an enormous bag of candy labeled, "Trick or treat." The cartoon caption reads, "The affluent society."
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Three unidentified African American boys playing ping-pong on porch in Holly Springs. This is probably the porch of the second Holly Springs Freedom House at 110 Rust Avenue.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Jimmy Carter is dressed as a cowboy and is walking up toward the head of a huge, snorting bull. The bull is labeled, "Inflation" on its side, and "Prices...Wages" on the horns....
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Almanack for 1883 by Kate Greenaway (London: George Routledge and Sons, [1882]). illustration, brown ink (14.5 x 13 cm.) appears on October page, top.
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Almanack for 1883 by Kate Greenaway (London: George Routledge and Sons, [1882]). illustration, brown ink (5.7 x 5.5 cm.) appears on October page, bottom.
From the Adams County Police & Miscellaneous County Records. Page from the alms house register listing people admitted from September 1850-1856. Dated 27 October 1856.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Father Time (with his long beard and hour glass) stands under a sky filled with planets of the solar system. Before him is a counter (table, podium?) on which are a Roman style...
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 Kate Greenaway Papers. Watercolor (13 x 17 cm.) Two children leading an angel. Signed: Kate Greenaway Oct. 1892. Illustration not used in a publication.
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 Eddie Germano. A man and a woman are walking past the United Nations Building and its lineup of national flags. They look up at a new skyscraper in New York, and they appear surprised to see...