Typewritten letter from Matthew Zwerling to his parents, Israel and Florence Zwerling, and Sara, dated June 30, 1964. Discusses civil rights work in the community of Riverton, near Clarksdale, Mississippi, and describes the dedication required to...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on January 31, 1977 with Jimmy Carter Fairley (born 1921). A native of Greene County, Mississippi, Mr. Fairley was active in the civil rights movement at the local, state, and national levels.
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...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 14, 1995 with Dr. Barry Clemson (born 1941). He attributes his interest in civil rights work in part to his membership in the Church of the Brethren, one of the "key civil rights churches." Clemson was...
From the Zoya Zeman Freedom Summer Collection. Transcribed copy of the diary of Dean Hay, a Presbyterian minister from Nebraska, in which he details his trip to Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in February of 1964. The goal of this trip was to aid in the...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on April 2, 1972 with Mr. R. Jess Brown in Jackson, Mississippi. Brown was born in Coffeeville, Kansas, on September 2, 1912, and was raised in Oklahoma. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Illinois...
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...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev [?] sit in a car with their arms folded in a defiant pose. The car is stalled on railroad tracks and has been there for enough time to have cobwebs...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Gene Basset. Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew play ping-pong as partners in a game with unseen opponents, and Nixon is being hit in the head by a ball that has ricocheted off Agnew's paddle....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards, dressed as Uncle Sam, stands at a chalkboard pointing at the words, "Come let us reason together." He carries a briefcase labeled, "Shuttle...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Jimmy Carter, dressed in a tuxedo, is dancing with an empty ball gown labeled, "After Brezhnev, who?" A briefcase labeled, "Salt II treaty" is on the floor leaning against a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled "Diplomacy" holds a clapboard like a movie set hand, while bombs explode all around him. A movie camera is pointed at the man. The clapboard reads, "All foreign...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man in formal clothing and top hat is labeled "Diplomacy" on the coat sleeve. He is running down an escalator that is going up, while carrying a satchel labeled "De-" in one...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Ed Valtman. The countries of Southeast Asia -- South Vietnam, North Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand -- are outlined on the globe. Richard Nixon is behind the globe, crouched down, and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A sunburned man wearing swim trunks and sandals, and with a dazed or painful expression, stands before a vanity and mirror. The man is labeled "Burning Cyprus question." Heat from...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vance Rodewalt. A man dressed in suit and tie sits on a barstool holding a newspaper with the headline: "Kissinger marries." On the other side of the bar, the bartender says, "Now we'll find...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Jim Lange. President Jimmy Carter is shown wearing a coon skin cap and holding his hands behind his back. Carter is smiling at a large bear that is facing him. The bear is standing on its back...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher; A diplomat looks into a box labeled, "Peace in Lebanon" as he holds in his hand a round piece of wood labeled, "Multi-sided factions."
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. Uncle Sam is at a tailor's shop for a fitting. The suit he is wearing is labeled, "SALT II." Half the suit is too short for him and half is too long. President Jimmy Carter stands...
