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 Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Black-and-white photograph of a Rust College student standing in front of the Freedom House in Holly Springs, Mississippi. A civil rights poster of Fannie Lou Hamer and a poster of the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Father Time (with his long beard and hour glass) stands under a sky filled with planets of the solar system. Before him is a counter (table, podium?) on which are a Roman style...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; With amendments attached to the legislative bill, the future Civil Rights Act of 1964 passes the United States Senate, but still requires concurrence from the United States House of...
cartoon by John J. Knudsen; A man dressed in a lab coat labeled "E.P.A." is holding a cip board in one hand and pointing at a line of mufflers connected to one another. The man is talking to another man in a suit. The mufflers are attached to a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Menachem Begin stands, looking satisfied, in the doorway of a building labeled "Israel." Attached is a smaller building labeled "Golan Heights." An angry man in robes labeled...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A lion sits inside an enclosure next to a wall on which are written "City...State." The lion is yawning as it records hash marks, four for City and three for State. Outside the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana governor John McKeithen, wearing mountaineering clothing, has a coil of rope attached to his belt. He is standing at the edge of a cliff, facing away from the edge,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Lyndon Johnson is sitting at the hospital bedside talking to the patient in the bed, a large rolled piece of paper with arms and legs wrapped and attached to traction devices....
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 John Riedell. An American bald eagle, with an olive branch in its beak and a clutch of arrows in one claw, is trying to fly. Its other leg is tied to a stake by means of a tether labeled "War...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Uncle Sam stands in front of a space shuttle ready for launch (attached to Saturn rocket and fuel assembly, upright on the pad). It is labeled "Columbia...First space cargo."...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. In a living room, a man is wrestling with a tangled tube (or hose or large cable) that is attached to the back of a television. On top of the televion is a "rabbit ears" antenna...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Riedell. Lyndon Johnson, dressed as an admiral, is in the crow's nest at the top of a sailing ship mast. He is looking forward into the distance and holding a monocular spy glass. The flag...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A large merchant ship labeled, "Economic benefits," is suspended above the Louisiana state house by a line attached to its central stack. At the bow and stern are two men...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Two boxes are stacked on top of each other, each labeled, "Vaccine...This end up." One box also has a sign attached that reads, "Orleans-St. Bernard K.O. measles...
From the Milton Meltzer Papers.; A letter from Jean R. Reynolds with a sketch of the final cover design attached to it (January 26, 1998). The letter and sketch are from Milton Meltzer's Food: How We Grow and Eat It, How We Buy and Sell It, How We...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Newly elected President Richard Nixon is shown walking at the head of a closely following crowd of men labeled "Cabinet." Interior Secretary Walter Hickel lags behind the crowd,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. The United States flag is shown partially attached to a flag pole, in tatters, and under attack. One attack is labeled "Anti-American from within," and another is "Anti-American...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Sherman Copelin stands at a podium which has a banner attached reading, "Copelin for city council." Behind him are two ghosts of Copelin wearing white robes. One is labeled,...
