cartoon by John Riedell; A wife stands in her front doorway as she tells her husband goodbye. Her husband is a pilot for "Southeast Airlines." The wife asks him,"..oh, and dear, if you should get over to Havana, would you pick me up a."
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. The earth is personified with a human face. A bandaged area is labeled "Tensions," and wounded areas are labeled, "Riots; Disagreement on nuclear disarmament; Vietnam; Ambitious...
From the Camp McCain, Mississippi World War II Slides. Photograph (from a color slide) entitled "Come and Get It" of the mess line at Camp McCain, near Grenada, Mississippi, in the Spring of 1943. Photograph taken by Lt. Omer Austin Heacox, who was...
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 AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Richard Locher. A doctor is seated at his desk in his office. Diplomas hang on the wall behind him, and a name plate on the desk reads, "Dr. Sainty" [?]. A man with a disgruntled look on his...
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...
cartoon by Arthur Henrikson;"Percy" takes an arm of a lounging "Illinois voter" and says,"Get up and realize your potential!"Douglas" pushes the voter back down and says,"Relax--you've never had it so good!"
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ho Chi Minh is on top of a large tank that is marked with the Communist hammer and sickle symbol. The tank is moving across a curved surface (part of the globe) that is labeled,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An arm with a hook (instead of a hand) in the shape of a Communist hammer and sickle has a note tied onto it that reads, "Get out of Vietnam...Stop the bombing." A note nearby...
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...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Ed Valtman. Richard Nixon is dribbling a basketball all over a basketball court that is full of players, most of whom are on the floor. A broken line indicates Nixon has jumped over many of...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Jimmy Hoffa sits in the sear of a cart labeled "Teamsters" and holds a horse whip. The cart seat is labeled with dollar signs. Uncle Sam, wearing a police uniform and holding a paper...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Uncle Sam holds a paper that reads "Antiwar protests in Washington cost in excess of $1,000,000." He looks angrily at a large graph with a rising expenditure line labeled...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana gubernatorial candidates David Treen and Edwin Edwards look at each other from behind podiums under a banner that reads "Debate '83." Notes pages are on the podiums and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Charlie Daniel. Richard Nixon, dressed in a trench coat and hat, is reminiscent of cartoon character Dick Tracy. He points to a fat mouse and says, "I'm out to get you, you dirty rat." The...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. In the locker room of the New Orleans Saints football team and three football players, a section of locker, and a chalkboard with "0-14" on it. Above all this is a dark cloud....
From the Daniel Cohen Papers.; Layout sheet with illustrations and text from first galley of Daniel Cohen's Everything You Need to Know About Monsters and Still Be Able to Get to Sleep; 11 x 17
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This report explains why federal aid did not get to the people who really needed it in the South in the 1960s. The report also suggests adjustments that can be made to the aid programs so that...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A donkey is visiting a fortune-teller and is seated at a table on which stands a crystal ball. The fortune-teller is also seated at the table and both are looking at the crystal...
