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. A fortune teller named Madame Clarity looks into a crystal ball and sees, "La. fiscal crisis." She appears dismayed. A man sits in a chair opposite, and he is labeled, "Special...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Hubert Humphrey, clothed in Western dress, is trying to ride a bucking donkey that is labeled, "The national party emblem." Humphrey has lost hold of the reins. The donkey's...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher.President Lyndon Johnson is reading a book titled "Budget figures for next fiscal year," with the aid of bifocals. Three bookmarks in the pages are labeled "Deficit." The bifocal...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. The cartoon is divided in two parts. On the left side, an American soldier sits on one side of the demilitarized zone (DMZ) and reads a newspaper with the headline, "'68 election...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Lyndon Johnson, dressed in working ranch attire (jeans, shirt, boots, bandana, and Stetson hat), stands next to Lady Bird Johnson with his inaugural address in his hand. Mrs....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man dressed in colonial costume is holding a sign with the words, "La. wants equity, not a special favor." On the horizon (curved edge of the Earth) is the U.S. Capitol dome....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher; A man approaches a member of the City Council during the "Police Brutality Hearings" with a note that reads, "The hostages should have stayed in Iran." A member of the City...
cartoon by John Stampone; A stern looking business man labeled "Corporation Plan" carries an average-looking man through a doorway by the back of his jacket and the waist band of his pants. The average looking man is labeled "Politics," and a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. George Wallace is sitting in a chair with his feet propped up on a stool and his hands behind his head. Lurleen Wallace enters the room carrying a tray with coffee and food....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Arthur Henrikson. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and President Gerald Ford look over a fence while the Soviet Union's Leonid Brezhnev pushes a shopping cart full of missiles along a...
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...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 17, 1972 with Associate Justice Thomas Pickens Brady, of the Supreme Court of Mississippi in his chambers in Jackson, Mississippi. This is the second part of an interview conducted on March 4, 1972 with...
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...
