From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Richard Locher. Ichabod Crane, labeled "Oil costs," is riding a horse at a full gallop. He is being chased by the Headless horseman, labeled "Gov't [government] control." The Headless horseman...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan is in a room labeled "Reagan lab" and he is wearing a white lab coat. He is standing under a sign that reads, "Pledges to cut taxes, hike defense spending and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana Governor Dave Treen is dressed as a Boy Scout troop leader. He is walking along a path carrying a compass, and he is looking intently at the compass. The path he is...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Philip Habib stands on top of a large stone labeled "Mideast," and he is trying in vain to remove a sword labeled, "War threat." A military jet flies overhead with the jet...
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 Eldon Pletcher. A Soviet official with a star on his chest walks into a room and catches a second man watching the Olympics on television. A cityscape [Moscow?] can be seen outside the window....
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 AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Richard Locher. A doctor is seated at his desk in his office. Diplomas hang on the wall behind him, and a name plate on the desk reads, "Dr. Sainty" [?]. A man with a disgruntled look on his...
Transcribed copy of an essay written by a Freedom School volunteer. Describes the locations of the Freedom Schools, subjects taught, enrollment, activities, as well as the students' concerns regarding discrimination. Also discusses the burdens of...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. "Being a poetical translation of several curious fables out of Aesop and other approv'd mythologists equally as diverting and beneficial to the English reader as his comic shape and instructive...
cartoon by Edward Kuekes; Two soldiers carrying a fallen soldier on a stretcher. First soldier says, "Wonder if he voted?" and the second soldier responds, "No,...he wasn't old enough."
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Jim Lange. An elephant (drawn as a man) is labeled "Okla. G.O.P." [Oklahoma] and is holding a sign that reads, "Welcome Spiro!" Hearts surround the elephant's head. In the background is an...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A man wearing a graduation robe and mortarboard kicks his heels together in excitement. He holds a rolled-up diploma labeled "'68," and the gown is labeled "Electoral college...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Hy Rosen. Leonid Brezhnev stands on the 1st place platform of an Olympic-style awards podium wearing a medal labeled "50% more land-based missiles." An arm with a spike collar on the wrist...
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 Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The booklet is supplementary reading material for one of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's (SNCC) adult literacy projects. The text combines many excerpts from the Old Testament...
From the T.P. Scott Papers. Page from an announcement about the Mississippi Normal College taken from the minutes of the Board of Trustees on 27 December 1910 concerning the selection of a site for the school.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan works at a desk, writing on papers. Other papers are scattered on the floor around him. On either side of the desk are large charts on easels. One is labeled...
