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...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan is in a room labeled "Reagan lab" and he is wearing a white lab coat. He is standing under a sign that reads, "Pledges to cut taxes, hike defense spending and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Philip Habib stands on top of a large stone labeled "Mideast," and he is trying in vain to remove a sword labeled, "War threat." A military jet flies overhead with the jet...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Dave Treen, holding a gas can, is walking along a road in a deserted area. He is walking away from his car, labeled "State jobless benefits," which is parked on the side of the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A Soviet official with a star on his chest walks into a room and catches a second man watching the Olympics on television. A cityscape [Moscow?] can be seen outside the window....
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 Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph of a small boy standing near a wagon pulled by a team of bulls. Four barrels are on the wagon. Conflicting captions are written on the back, varying in when the picture was taken, what is in the barrels,...
Transcribed copy of an essay written by a Freedom School volunteer. Describes the locations of the Freedom Schools, subjects taught, enrollment, activities, as well as the students' concerns regarding discrimination. Also discusses the burdens of...
Photograph of doors in the Administration Building, from the interior. Through the doors, the Student Services Building can be seen in the far background.Photo also found in Chester M. Morgan's book, Dearly bought, deeply treasured on page 155.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A group of local African-American youths on the front porch of a house in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer 1964. One sign reading "MFDP" (for Mississippi Freedom Democratic...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A group of local African American youths on the front porch of a house in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer 1964. Two signs reading "MFDP" (for Mississippi Freedom Democratic...
From the Mack (Will) Hanging Photographs. Photograph of the gallows and crowd following the hanging of Will Mack, which took place on 23 July 1909 in Brandon, Mississippi. Will Mack can be seen hanging underneath the gallows covered in a black hood.
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. An man with an elephant head sits at a desk in an office in Washington, D.C. The U.S. Capitol dome can be seen through the window in the background. The elephant is reading a...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph of an unidentified house taken by Dr. Erwin D. Zeman, a member of the Medical Committee for Human Rights, September 1964. Two African American children can be seen in front of the house...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph of an unidentified house taken by Dr. Erwin D. Zeman, a member of the Medical Committee for Human Rights, September 1964. A young African American boy can be seen in the background...
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 Stampone. Five men dressed in Santa Claus costumes stand on a street corner under a street sign labeled "Anti-poverty program street." Each is ringing a bell, and four stand beside...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An elderly man with a beard looks out from the clouds and pours water from a watering can onto the landscape. He wears a top hat with a weather vane on top. In the background of...
Photograph of the Army Administration School at Mississippi Southern College, with uniformed students marching in formation. The administration building can be seen in the background.
