Oral history.; Charles C. Jacobs Jr. was born in Greenville, Mississippi, on January 13, 1921. Mr. Jacobs attended the University of Mississippi and returned to its law school after serving as a Marine during World War II. During his career, he was...
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...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on April 3, 1995 and June 8, 1995 with Constance Baker (born 1912). Mrs. Baker has spent her life working for civil rights and in teaching. She was involved in the Head Start program from its inception and...
Oral history.; Three interviews conducted on April 28, 30 and May 7, 1981 with Mr. Claude Ramsay at his office in Jackson, Mississippi. Ramsay was born in 1916 in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. He served briefly in the Civilian Conservation Corps...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 7, 1991 with Miss Emma Ruth Corban in her home in Meridian, Mississippi. Corban was born in Fayette, Mississippi, on September 18, 1907. She completed a BA degree in English in 1929 and her Masters...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 3, 1976 with Dr. William A. Butts at his office on the campus of the University of Southern Mississippi. Butts was born in 1933 near Kilmichael, Mississippi. After graduating high school, he went on to...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 14, 1996 with Frances Thornton Smith (born 1916). In 1971, the year that elementary schools were integrated, Smith volunteered to teach at Fair Elementary School, an African-American school in Pascagoula,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Arthur Henrikson. A woman wearing an apron stands in an open doorway pointing her finger and shouting at Lyndon Johnson, who is behind a desk. The woman holds a newspaper with headlines of...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ben Wicks. A man is holding a map and, looking over his shoulder, speaking to Lyndon Johnson. Johnson, who has been looking out a window toward the U.S. Capitol, looks toward the man. The man...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Bob Taylor. President Jimmy Carter lifts his shirt to reveal a scar labeled "LBJ remarks" across his abdomen.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by by Eddie Germano. Vice President Hubert Humphrey's face is seen speaking as the trumpet of an old-style (Victrola) phonograph player. President Lyndon Johnson is operating the player, which is...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Charlie Daniel. A man (Lyndon Johnson?) with long hair stalks away from the barber chair and expresses his dissatisfaction by shouting obscenities. The barber, with an innocent expression on...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Charlie Daniel. Lyndon Johnson, dressed as a cowboy, stands in the corner of a room holding a dripping paint brush. A bucket of paint labeled "LBJ's fiscal policies" is nearby, and he has...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Dennis Renault. An elephant is tied to a bed labeled "Watergate," one leg to each bedpost. Gerald Ford, dressed in robes of a priest, is kneeling beside the bed with hands folded in prayer....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Gamble. Former President Richard Nixon is shown on the left half of the cartoon in a relaxed, outdoor setting. He is talking on the telephone while seated in a chair under a palm tree. He...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. A giant-sized Fidel Castro bends at the waist, holding one hand behind his back. In his other hand, he holds a huge magnifying glass and looks through it to see Senator George...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. J. William Fulbright crouches inside a doghouse on the side lawn of the White House. The doghouse and the lawn are covered with snow. Lyndon Johnson's beagle, Him, is barking at...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. Lyndon Johnson is escorting a man labeled "Businessmen" toward two doors, both closed. Johnson has twisted the arm of the man behind his back. The door on the left is labeled...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. Lyndon Johnson stands in front of a cracked mirror straightening the knot in his tie. The mirror is labeled "Polls," and the crack is labeled "Popularity." The crack in the mirror...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. President Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger stand on one side of a pit trap, looking disconcerted. On the other side of the pit trap are an American military prisoner bound in...
