From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man who appears confused stands in the foreground looking at a huge chart labeled "Gross national product chart." A mostly upward trend line is labeled, "U.S. economic...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A large ship labeled "U.S. fiscal policies" is sailing through water in which floats three warning buoys and an iceberg. The buoys have signs: "Financial crisis--Federal Reserve...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A frog in a space suit is in a jump so high that he is in outer space, with planets in the background. The frog is holding a paper with the words, "Cost of living index," and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Jim Ivey. In one panel, a cow labeled "Fla. [Florida] milk prices highest in U.S." jumps over the moon, followed by an Apollo spacecraft labeled "FTC" carrying a detective reminiscent of...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Reg Manning. In the upper frame of the cartoon, Uncle Sam gestures toward a man labeled "Little Rhodesia," who is standing near a sign labeled "Off limits, U.N. sanctions." Uncle Sam says, "I...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. Uncle Sam and two young boys are looking at a poster attached to the wall of a brick building. The poster shows a fighter jet and has the words, "New! 1968 supersonic Mirage jet...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Jack Jurden. A bulldog with a British flag on its side is knocking on a closed door labeled "Common Market."
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. Graves are marked with crosses in a graveyard. One cross is topped with a U.S. soldier's helmet, and the soldier's identification tag is nailed to it. The cross has the words,...
A collection of ten 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...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 6, 1981 with Dr. W. J. Cunningham at his home in Memphis, Tennessee. William Jefferson Cunningham was born on December 23, 1905 in Iuka, Mississippi. In 1929, he graduated from the University of...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 2, 1974 with Mrs. Ellie J. Dahmer at her home in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Dahmer was born in Jasper County, Mississippi in 1925. After completing high school at Jasper County Training School she...
Oral history.; Mr. Donald Evans grew up on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and attended Arkansas A and M College on a football scholarship. In the late 1960s, he was drafted by the Minnesota Vikings. In 1968, Mr. Evans married Hiawatha Williams and...
Oral history.; Mr. Boyce Holleman was born on February 26, 1924, in Wiggins, Mississippi. Mr. Holleman enrolled at the Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College in the fall of 1940, but transferred to the University of Mississippi to study law. In...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 11, 1977 with the Honorable Horace Buckley at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Buckley was born on July 14, 1941 in Jackson, Mississippi. He obtained his undergraduate degree from Mississippi Valley...
Oral history.; Reverend Arthur Lewis Jr. was born on October 29, 1948, in Forest Home, Alabama. He grew up in Pensacola, Florida, where he was graduated from high school in 1967. From Jackson State University, he earned a B.S.W. degree, and from...
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...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 4, 1993 with Joseph E. Wroten (born 1925). Mr. Wroten became famous as one of only two Mississippi House Representatives who voted in favor of allowing blacks to enroll at the University of Mississippi.
Oral history.; Reverend Sammie Rash was born in Sunflower County, Mississippi, on July 31, 1942. His parents were sharecroppers, and in 1949 they moved the family to the McGann plantation in Bolivar County, where Reverend Rash grew up. In 1963...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection."White paper" on Mississippi agriculture, manufacturing, income, taxation, and their relation to the economic status of Black Mississippians.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This report documents the economic conditions in the South in the 1960s, and it addresses ways of bringing the region up to the standard of the northern half of the country. The document...
