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 Eddie Germano. Nancy Maginnes, wife of Henry Kissinger, sits up in bed, angrily calling after her husband. Henry Kissinger, briefcase in hand, is on his way out the door. Mrs. Kissinger says,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Fidel Castro runs in panic with his pants on fire. The flames are labeled, "Chile's anti-Communist vote." The cartoon caption reads, "Where it hurts!"
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 Eddie Germano. A man and woman, apparently a married couple, are riding up the "Vietnam escalator." Lyndon Johnson is drawn as an older woman and is labeled "Ma Johnson." Johnson is ahead of...
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...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Ed Valtman. Charles de Gaulle and Richard Nixon stand together in front of a plane labeled "American Airlines." American tourists have disembarked and are taking pictures of them. De Gaulle...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Hy Rosen. George Wallace lies in a hospital bed holding a broadside with a picture of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in a wheelchair. The picture is labeled, "F.D.R. the campaigner." The caption...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Lyndon Johnson is dressed in a kerchief and apron and labeled "Ma Johnson." He is thinking, "Hmm...let's see," and looking at a cabinet with dishes labeled, "Personal aides,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. Richard Nixon, Eugene McCarthy, and Robert Kennedy, drawn to resemble teenagers, are standing in front of a booth at a carnival or fair. The booth is labeled "Lyndon's stand" and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. President Ronald Reagan and Secretary of State Alexander Haig are in an office. On the desk is a paper with "New U.S. Central America-Caribbean policy." Both men are looking at...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Merle Cunnington. A donkey winks as he stands over a grave marked with a headstone that reads "Bobby Baker case." The donkey is wearing a blanket divided into three vertical sections. The first...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan and a man labeled "Demos." (Tip O'Neill) are dressed as painters (smock, tie, and beret) in an art gallery where an exhibition of framed paintings hangs. They...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Collins. A large fish representing the United States swims in the foreground. Fidel Castro, wearing swim trunks bearing the hammer and sickle symbol, is pinching the tail of the American...
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 Jon Kennedy. Lyndon Johnson, dressed in working ranch attire, walks away from the barbed wire fence he has just climbed over. He holds both hands behind his back, covering his posterier, and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Lyndon Johnson, dressed as a housepainter, kneels on the floor with a paintbrush in his hand and the paint bucket nearby. Looking back over his shoulder, he sees he has painted...
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...
Oral history.; Ms. Lillie Belle Johnson was born in Shannon, Mississippi, in 1925, into a family of farmers. She finished high school at Mary Holmes Junior College in West Point, Mississippi, married and then became a widow with four children, but...
Oral history.; Born to Denton and Odelier Jones Sr. on June 8, 1926, Odelier Morgan began her life on a plantation in Bolivar County, Mississippi, one of twelve children. She and her family were sharecroppers, and her parents also did day work to...
