From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Charlie Daniel. The heads and upper bodies of Henry Kissinger and King Faisal of Saudi Arabia are shown facing each other. Kissinger says, "Now about foreign aid..." and King Faisal says, "How...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Riedell. Lady Justice, blindfolded, holds her sword upright in one hand and scales in the other. The scales are labeled, "Area" and "Pop." (population) and are uneven. Supreme Court Chief...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Stampone. Lyndon Johnson stands listening to a man labeled "Congress." Johnson holds a piece of paper in one hand with the heading "State of the Union" and on it are the words,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A field with large holes is strewn with human bodies and smoking debris. A sign (picturing bullets and a falling bomb) drawn to resemble an opened seed package reads,"Armaments for...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Apollo 8 flies through space on its way from Earth to the moon. Many planets and other celestial bodies are shown against the expanse of space. In the upper foreground is a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Richard Wallmeyer. A dove carrying an olive branch in its beak coughs as it flies past mushroom clouds of smoke labeled "Inflammatory rhetoric." The clouds have been generated from the bodies...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; July-August issue of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) bi-monthly newsletter, the Core-Lator. Issue number 107 features an article about the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman,...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. Newsletter of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Vol. 5, no. 20. Features an article about recovery of the bodies of three civil rights workers (James Chaney, Andrew Goodman,...
From the Zwerling (Matthew) Freedom Summer Collection. Telegram from Dr. Israel Zwerling, dated August 4, 1964, sent to President Lyndon B. Johnson, Senator Jacob Javits, Senator Kenneth Keating, Congressman William F. Ryan, Congressman Ogden...
Oral history.; Ms. Eleanora Hayes was born on May 28, 1930, in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. She grew up on her father's farm in Catahoula, Mississippi. During winter months, she and her siblings attended school, and during the six-month...
Oral history.; Discusses Murchison's time spent in the United States Army. Particularly focuses on his participation in the Vietnamese Conflict. During that time, Murchison served both as an adviser and in an actual unit. He received a number of...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on March 29 and April 13, 1977 with Mr. Amzie Moore at his home in Cleveland, Mississippi. Moore was born on September 23, 1911 in rural Mississippi, on the county line of Carroll and Grenada Counties. In...
Transcribed copy of a paper about racism in Mississippi during the 1960s. Follows the tribulations of college students who volunteered to register African Americans to vote during Freedom Summer. With regard to racism and white supremacy,...
From the Belcher (Granville W. and Mary Caroline) Letters. Granville W. Belcher, a farmer from Martinsville, Henry County, Virginia, served in company F, 57th Virginia Infantry during the Civil War. His wife, Mary Caroline Belcher writes on 13 and...
Oral history.; Ms. Frances Elkin Joyner was born on November 23, 1909, in Tupelo, Mississippi. She graduated from Tupelo High School and then attended National Park Seminary in Forest Glen, Maryland. She married Ernest Love Joyner, Jr. just...
Oral history.; Discusses her father, Erle Johnston. Describes his relations with Ross Barnett and his work with the State Sovereignty Commission, which she denies was ever a spy organization.
Oral history.; Howard Dudley (Blue) Long was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, on October 18, 1927. As a child, Mr. Long canvassed for votes with his father, the chancery clerk, and he heard many political speeches, including some made by Theodore...
Oral history.; Discusses Clarence Magee's family, his responsibilities on the farm, and first memories of racism. Talks about the African American schools around Columbia, Mississippi. Describes his attempts to register to vote in Hattiesburg and...
