From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan is labeled "Dutch Reagan" and is dressed in the clothing, cap, and wooden shoes reminiscent of the boy in the Hans Brinker story. Reagan stands before a high wall...
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...
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...
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...
Photograph of Brett Favre during a football game against Texas A & M. He is being defended by a player wearing No. 36 (unidentified) while he prepares to throw a pass. A Texas A & M player is coming up behind him. Also found in the 1988 Southerner...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan is flying a plane over Washington, D.C. On the side of the plane is a sign that reads, "School prayer amendment." There are large holes in the plane, and Reagan...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. An elephant labeled "GOP" is dancing with Henry Cabot Lodge. In the upper right background, President Dwight Eisenhower is playing a trumpet with "Tootin' it up" coming out of...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An oil barrel is on its side, and Jimmy Carter is on top of it crosswise and face down. Two large clouds are nearby [smoke?], one labeled “Imported oil prices" and the other...
cartoon by Richard Wallmeyer; A pencil, eraser, book, and apple are sitting on a desk. The apple, labeled "schools," has a worm labeled "drug traffic" coming out of it.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Jim Orton. A donkey and elephant are playing baseball, with the donkey pitching to the elephant. The elephant is distressed to see three balls coming at him, labeled "Watergate, Pardon,...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 24, 1972 with Dr. William Penn Davis at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Davis was born in Union County, Mississippi on August 5, 1903. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Mississippi College in...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on December 3, 1971 with the Honorable Charles Evers at his office in Fayette, Mississippi. Evers was born on September 11, 1922 in Decatur, Mississippi. In 1950, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in social...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 18, 1972 with Ms. Ruby Magee at College Hall at the University of Southern Mississippi. Magee was born in 1940 in Tylertown, Mississippi. In 1962, she received a BA in history and political science from...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 12, 1973 with Mr. Jerry Clower at his office in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Clower was born in 1926 at Route Four, Liberty, Mississippi. After graduating from high school, he joined the U.S. Navy. On...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on January 23, 1973 with Mr. William Dukes in his office in Gulfport, Mississippi. Dukes was born in the Sullivans' Hollow area near Raleigh, in Smith County, Mississippi on January 15, 1927. After his discharge...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 17, 1972 with Associate Justice Thomas Pickens Brady, of the Supreme Court of Mississippi in his chambers in Jackson, Mississippi. This is the second part of an interview conducted on March 4, 1972 with...
Oral history. Interview conducted on March 4, 1972 with Associate Justice Thomas Pickens Brady, of the Supreme Court of Mississippi in his chambers in Jackson, Mississippi. Brady was born on August 6, 1903, in New Orleans, Louisiana. He...
A collection of eight interviews with participants in the Mississippi civil rights movement. The people interviewed discuss how they came to participate in the civil rights movement, their various activities, including voter registration, Freedom...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Former Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards and then-current governor Dave Treen are throwing punches at each other next to a brick building onto which a worker is attaching a large...
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. Belcher writes to his wife, Mary Caroline, on...
