From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Riedell. Richard Nixon is shown raising both his hands in the symbol of victory. With two fingers of each hand, he also makes the "V" sign. The lines of his forehead are drawn in the shape...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. A large bird's nest labeled "11-state region" sits on the branch of a tall pine tree. The nest is full of hungry baby birds with beaks open to be fed. An adult eagle has flown to...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An elephant with a chain around its neck and a dog tag that reads "Jumbo" is labeled "$5.2 billlion general appropriations bill" across its back. Four men stand around Jumbo, and at...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to amend the existing Acts for the exemption of persons from military service." Mr Perkins moved the following as an amendment to the Exemption Bill, reported from the Committee on Military Affairs; enacted by the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana governor Dave Treen and a man labeled, "Legislature," appear as Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. They stand at the top of a knoll (levee, wall?) with stairsteps down to...
From the McAtee (William "Bill" G.) Civil Rights Collection; This collection contains an original curriculum packet given out at the SNCC-NCC training site in Oxford, Ohio, for Freedom Summer workers going to Mississippi. It is accompanied by...
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 Bill Severn Papers.; Comic book pages from "A Man Named Adelai Stevenson" in Adlai Stevenson volunteer's work kit (1952) used for research in Bill Severn's Adlai Stevenson: Citizen of the World (1966). 8" x 10.5"
Amendment: To Senate Bill (S.129) to provide for the employment of free negroes and slaves to work upon fortifications, and to perform other labor connected with the defenses of the county.
Amendments: Proposed by the Committee on Finance to the bill (H. R. 18) to lay taxes for the common defense, and carry on the Government of the Confederate States. Two hundred copies ordered to be printed by the Congress of the Confederate States...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to declare what persons shall be exempt from military service." By Mr. Collier, of Virginia; enacted by the Congress of the Confederate States of America circa 1861-1865.
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; 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...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Analysis of Senate bill 2988, the Internal Security Act of 1968, introduced to the Senate by Senator James Eastland. Thomas I. Emerson, professor at Yale University, deciphers the bill and its effects on all...
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. 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....
From the McAtee (William "Bill" G.) Civil Rights Collection; This collection contains an original curriculum packet given out at the SNCC-NCC training site in Oxford, Ohio, for Freedom Summer workers going to Mississippi. It is accompanied by...
From the Ingram-Day Lumber Company Photographs Collection. Photograph of a woman and a child standing in a grove of large pine trees. The original caption reads, "Big 'Bill Stuff' at Loper, Alabama".
