cartoon by John Riedell; A wife stands in her front doorway as she tells her husband goodbye. Her husband is a pilot for "Southeast Airlines." The wife asks him,"..oh, and dear, if you should get over to Havana, would you pick me up a."
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 Kate Greenaway Papers. Manuscript. "A Short Account of a Boy of Guile and the Pigsty." Cover with illustration and title, page 1 "Oh little girlee..." illustration and text; page 2 "And they played awhile..." illustration and text; page 3...
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...
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. The background of the cartoon is the grid of a chart with an upward trend line that is labeled, "Cost of living index." At the lower end of the line is a man's leg with trousers...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. A cartoonist is shown working at the drafting table, pen in hand, with question marks surrounding his head. The faces of three past presidents (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Postmaster General Winton M. Blount drives a truck labeled "U.S. mail system" off of a cliff at a high rate of speed. The truck is propelled by the words "That strike." Blount says,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An elephant dressed in a suit and wearing a "Nixon & Agnew" button sees the ghost of Tom Dewey sitting at the top of a stairway and holding a paper that says, "Remember '48." On...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The cartoon is divided into two panels. On the left side, Jimmy Carter has been kicked down a flight of stairs that form a downward trend line on a large graph that is labeled,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan, representing Snow White, is dressed in a white dress that is labeled, "Workfare," and has a bow in his hair. He watches as a line of men, representing the elves,...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. This cartoon is in two panels. On the left side, Ronald Reagan is dressed as Santa Claus. He rings a bell and says, “Ho, Ho, Ho.” Sound waves from the bell are labeled, “Pledge to...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 24, 1972 with Dr. William Penn Davis at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Davis was born in Union County, Mississippi on August 5, 1903. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Mississippi College in...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on December 3, 1971 with the Honorable Charles Evers at his office in Fayette, Mississippi. Evers was born on September 11, 1922 in Decatur, Mississippi. In 1950, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in social...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 18, 1972 with Ms. Ruby Magee at College Hall at the University of Southern Mississippi. Magee was born in 1940 in Tylertown, Mississippi. In 1962, she received a BA in history and political science from...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 12, 1973 with Mr. Jerry Clower at his office in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Clower was born in 1926 at Route Four, Liberty, Mississippi. After graduating from high school, he joined the U.S. Navy. On...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on January 23, 1973 with Mr. William Dukes in his office in Gulfport, Mississippi. Dukes was born in the Sullivans' Hollow area near Raleigh, in Smith County, Mississippi on January 15, 1927. After his discharge...
Oral history. Interview conducted on March 4, 1972 with Associate Justice Thomas Pickens Brady, of the Supreme Court of Mississippi in his chambers in Jackson, Mississippi. Brady was born on August 6, 1903, in New Orleans, Louisiana. He...
A collection of eight interviews with participants in the Mississippi civil rights movement. The people interviewed discuss how they came to participate in the civil rights movement, their various activities, including voter registration, Freedom...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. Uncle Sam has opened a door labeled "Limitation of strategic arms talks" and, with hand still on the doorknob, has stepped into a room looking puzzled. Henry Kissinger sits at a...
