An interview conducted on 06-08-1999 with Umoja Kwanguvu (born1925). Born William Jones, Umoja Kwanguvu actively protested and defied segregation while in the military, conducted protest activities against the prevailing Jim Crow attitudes and laws...
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...
Oral history.; On September 13, 1924, Mr. Martin Thomas King, Jr., was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi. As a child, Mr. King witnessed the flood of 1927. Mr. King attended public school in Vicksburg. From 1942 to 1946, Mr. King served in the Navy in...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. Four protesters march from right to left in the cartoon, and each carries a picket sign. A woman wearing glasses carries a sign that reads, "Militant teachers." A young male...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Uncle Sam walks past a sign post on which are two signs pointing in opposite directions. The sign that points in the direction Uncle Sam is walking reads "Nuclear non-proliferation...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Richard Nixon is nervous and uncertain as he rides in the back seat of a car driven by Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger, who is holding a sign that reads, "Immediage...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A large thermometer set near the roofline of a building is flanked by two tall windows (ledges?). New Orleans mayor Victor Schiro is seen on either side of the thermometer,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. At the top of the cartoon is a large "Oregon" and at the bottom "California." The N of Oregon extends down to end in the I of California to form the Oregon Trail, as indicated...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The Grim Reaper is labeled, "Orleans Parish 1967 traffic fatalities," and holds a pointer indicating a sign on the wall that reads, "76 to date." Words next to the Grim Reaper...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Uncle Sam uses a pick ax to climb the face of a steep cliff labeled "Vietnam" toward a sign at the top of the cliff labeled "Victory." He carries a backpack labeled "U.S." on his...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Ed Valtman. Leaders from Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany, France, and Great Britain stand on the tarmac of an airfield, alongside a strip of carpet that reads "Welcome Dick." The...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. A wooden sign with the message "Bring us together" has been erected on a portion of the globe (the curve of the Earth is apparent, but the landform doesn't much resemble 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...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 2, 1974 with Mrs. Ellie J. Dahmer at her home in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Dahmer was born in Jasper County, Mississippi in 1925. After completing high school at Jasper County Training School she...
Oral history.; Father Peter Oliver Quinn was born on April 11, 1937, in Ireland. He was ordained when he was twenty-five years old in Ireland, and he came to Mississippi in September, 1962. Father Quinn's first assignment was at Sacred Heart...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A Saudi business man in raditional robes sits on a chair outside his gas station. The sign above the building reads "Saudi service." In front of him are gasoline pumps and a sign...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The cartoon is divided in the center by a vertical line and a sign with "Poland's border." On the left side, a man labeled "Independent union movement" holds a sign that reads,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man is sitting in an armchair in a home setting reading the newspaper. Above the electrical outlet on the nearby wall is a jagged dollar sign that resembles electrical...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. This cartoon is in two panels. On the left side, a man relaxes in a lawn chair and reads a book in front of his home, the roof of which is labeled, "La. property tax...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Eugene McCarthy and Nelson Rockefeller face each other. Each holds a sign in one hand and points behind himself (in the direction from which he has come?). McCarthy's sign...
