From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A policeman labeled, "Under-staffed police" stands under a night sky with a city skyline in the background. Club in hand, he is watching a man watching in the foreground of the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana governor John McKeithen is using a crutch to walk, and one foot is bandaged and labeled "Tax raising ventures." He is standing outside an elevator door that is...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. A Jimmy Carter campaign staffer with folded papers under his arm, in the foreground of the cartoon, speaks to a group of puzzled-looking people at a "Carter for President" rally....
Oral history.; An interview conducted on July 7, 2006 with George Dale (born 1940). Former Commissioner of Insurance for the State of Mississippi, Mr. Dale now serves as Public Policy Advisor for the law offices of Baker, Donelson. Dale discusses...
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...
Zoya Zeman's senior thesis was written after her participation in the Mississippi Freedom Project in the summer of 1964. Putting her work into context, she begins with a description of the background history of Mississippi. Zeman then recounts her...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 19, 2006 with artist Lori K. Gordon. Ms. Gordon discusses her community, Clermont Harbor, Mississippi, before Hurricane Katrina, as well as her experiences afterward. Pieces from Ms. Gordon's work, The...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man holding a newspaper is looking back and forth between it and a clock on the wall. The clock face reads, "Election year." The newspaper headlines read, "State of the Union...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 2, 2007 and October 9, 2007 with Charles Benvenutti, a CPA in Bay St. Louis, MS. He describes his experience during and after Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 23, 1977 with Mr. Jimmy Swan. Swan was born in Cullman County, Alabama. He ran away from home when he was thirteen or fourteen and ended up in Wayne County, Mississippi. Swan sang in nightclubs and...
Transcribed copy of a document detailing the curriculum of Freedom Schools. Begins with a Table of Contents showing the major curriculum divisions: academic, citizenship, and recreational and artistic. Also gives details of activities and materials...
