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. Jimmy Hoffa sits at a desk with a name plate that reads, "Teamsters president." Another man in the room is looking out the window, and the blinds on the window are slanted so...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man dressed in colonial clothing labeled, "N.O." leans on the bar at the Blue Dollar Saloon, a drinking establishment. A large bottle labeled "Ol' fiscal crisis" stands on the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A small George Bush pulls at the coat of an elephant dressed in a suit standing at a bar. On the bar are bottles, one labeled, "Old Reagan." An area behind the bar is labeled,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A teenager dressed in leather jacket labeled "Hell raiser" is sitting on a stool at a lounge or diner (part of a wine or liquor bottle is drawn on a shelf behind the counter)....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Richard Locher. A man is sitting on a stool a bar. He says to the barkeeper, "Gimme a New York disaster." The bartender, who is drying glasses, says, "A what?" The man replies, "Manhattan on...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man sits at a bar. He has a cigarette in his hand. On the bar are a pack of cigarettes, an empty shot glass with spilled liquor, and a bottle. Ronald Reagan and David Stockman...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Al Hirt stands in the street outside the window of a bar or restaurant, and he is playing his trumpet. A pianist is sitting at a piano inside and sticks his fingers in his ears...
cartoon by John Knudsen; A man labeled "Czechoslovak Freedom" sits on a bunk in a jail cell with his face buried in his hands. On the wall behind him, a a series of over 150 tick marks (in groups of five) have been scratched onto the wall. A...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Charles de Gaulle and Uncle Sam stand face to face. De Gaulle holds a stack of gold bars, labeled "Gold standard." Uncle Sam holds "The U.S. dollar" out to de Gaulle. The cartoon...
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 sham prison guard is propped up in sitting position on a box in front of a prison cell door. The sham guard has a broom for a head and spine, has wooden limbs, and is dressed...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. This cartoon is in two halves, upper and lower. In the upper panel, a man at a bar asks the bartender for another drink, saying "One more for the road!" Marks around the man's...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 1, 1972 with Dr. Aaron Henry in his drugstore in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Henry was born on July 2, 1922 in Clarksdale, Mississippi. After serving in World War II, he went to Xavier College (now Xavier...
Oral history.; Dr. Antone Walter Tannehill, Jr., was born May 22, 1929, in New Orleans, Louisiana, but grew up in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He attended Vanderbilt University and Duke University Medical School. He served an internship at the...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 12, 1977 with Edward L. McDaniel (born 1934). Mr. McDaniel was instrumental in organizing the Ku Klux Klan in 1962 in Mississippi as the Grand Kleagle for the whole state. He started a state Klan in...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on November 1, 1995 with Joe Martin (born 1943). Mr. Martin became inspired by Medgar Evers after hearing him in elementary school. Martin and his Burgland High football friends formed an NAACP youth group. Mr....
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 22, 1996 with Mrs. Josephine Clemons Bell (born 1909). Her teaching career in elementary education in the public school of Natchez-Adams County spans twenty-nine and a half years. After retiring in...
Oral history.; Kathleen (Kat) Bergeron was born on April 23, 1950. She attended Gulfport East High School and the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism at Marshal University in Huntington, West Virginia. From 1995 to 1996, Ms. Bergeron attended...
Oral history.; Albert Lloyd Henderson was born in 1928 as William Eugene Ramsey but was adopted in infancy. When he was thirty-nine years old, he found his birth family, five sisters and two brothers. Mr. Henderson grew up in Monroe, Louisiana. ...
