From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A heavy man labeled "Tax cuts...Exemptions" is standing on a scale that dispenses weights and fortunes. Louisiana Governor Dave Treen stands behind the scale and sticks his arm...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Two men, one with an elephant head and one with a donkey head, are working either end of a large saw to cut down a huge tree. The man with the donkey head is labeled...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Two men stand near the sign that reads, "U.S. Conference of Mayors." One asks, "Why didn't Reagan make an appearance?" The other says, "He sent his hatchet man instead." Around...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A man with a "Kick" sign on his back is shown being flipped or tripped after a wallet he stooped to pick up from the pavement is yanked away. The wallet is labeled "Tax cuts, steady...
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...
cartoon by John Stampone; A drunken man labeled "Critics" is slumped against a wall. He sniffs an imaginary rose, outlined with a dotted line. He holds a wine bottle labeled "Anti-U.S. military posture" in his right hand. On the floor nearby, a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan, dressed as a lumberjack, has just chopped down a large tree labeled, "Budget cuts," and it is falling off the stump. Two men labeled "Cities" and "States" are in...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Two small fish swim in one direction while a larger fish swims in the opposite direction. One small fish is labeled, "Social Security cuts," and the other "Welfare cuts." The...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man with a globe for a head is covered in cuts and bruises and has a bandaged foot and leg. Using a crutch, he is moving toward the United Nations building. He also holds a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan is dressed as a baseball player with a shirt labeled "Balanced budget team." He is looking upward at a baseball overhead, labeled, "Senate's tax cuts tied to...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. In the foreground is a line of very large footprints labeled “Local revenue needs…Fed. budget cuts.” A man labeled “Chehardy” is walking in the opposite direction,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana Governor Dave Treen is standing in a wooden stall or kiosk labeled, "Public workers' aid center...Outgrowth of fed. budget cuts." A first aid kit hangs from a nail at...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 2, 2007 and October 9, 2007 with Edmond Boudreaux, Jr., a longtime Mississippi Gulf Coast resident and active local historian of the region. Mr. Boudreaux discusses the impact of Hurricane Katrina on...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on December 29, 2006 with Letitia Willams, Director of the Hancock County Chamber of Commerce, who describes escaping to Jackson, Mississippi, before Hurricane Katrina's landfall and working with state and...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on October 27, 2005 with Jessica Broadus, a manager with American Medical Response in Gulfport, MS. Miss Broadus describes her evacuation and return to the Mississippi Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on October 6, 2006 with Fred Dunaway and Caroline Dunaway. Residents of Back Bay, Biloxi, Mr. & Mrs. Dunaway discuss their experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on October 27, 2006 with Hunter Dunaway in which he discusses his experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on May 30, 2007 with Glen East, Superintendent of Gulfport, Mississippi Schools. Mr. East discusses the impact of Hurricane Katrina on Gulfport Schools.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 21, 2007 with Tom Higgins, a retired shipyard manager and author of Sunshine on my Shoulders, a first-person narration of life after Hurricane Katrina. He describes his experience in Pascagoula,...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on June 12, 2007 and February 20, 2008 with Robert Gavagnie. A descendent of some of the first settlers on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Mr. Gavagnie discusses his experiences as Chief of the Bay St. Louis...
