From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. A large bird's nest labeled "11-state region" sits on the branch of a tall pine tree. The nest is full of hungry baby birds with beaks open to be fed. An adult eagle has flown to...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ariel Sharon walks out of a building labeled "Defense ministry." Above his head is a dark cloud labeled "Massacre findings." Marks drawn on the cloud indicate the hollow eye sockets and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. This cartoon is in two panels, and both sides are labeled "Beirut" on the ground at the bottom. In the left panel, a U.S. Army truck labeled "Peacekeepers" travels toward Beirut...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. A map shows Laos bordered by countries labeled Red China, North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Cambodia, and Thailand. Laos is drawn to resemble a small dog that is facing toward North...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The cartoon is divided into two panels. On the left side, Fidel Castro plays a guitar and sings, "Gren-ah-Da." On the right side, Castro's cigar has exploded. Puffs of smoke...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A large bear labeled "U.S.S.R." is sitting on a branch up in a tree. Both paws and its muzzle are covered in honey that is labeled, "Hungary...Afghanistan...Czechoslovakia."...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A dog with the words "Tax bite" for teeth sits in the grass in front of a door labeled, "Overlapping and duplication in state government." A note on the stoop reads, "Need for a...
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 Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. An address to SNCC staff members and/or civil rights workers and a list of approximately 200 questions about Mississippi history and government. The questions are designed for use as part of the...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; Newsletter from Amite County; discusses trial of white men for a racially-motivated beating, and local agriculture and federal farm subsidies.
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 Eldon Pletcher. Leonid Brezhnev is dressed as a doctor and has a small badge with hammer and sickle on his shirt. He is in a hospital ward with three beds labeled...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. A bird labeled "Czechoslovakia" is trying to fly, but a man's hand has caught hold of the bird's tail feathers and is preventing flight. The sleeve of the man is labeled "USSR."...
Booklet from the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Booklet distributed by the Coordinating Committee for Fundamental American Freedoms in an effort to explain the origin and purpose of the Civil Rights Act of 1963. The authors argue that the...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Memorandum describing the legal basis of the Federal government's authority in dealing with civil rights issues, whether by court action or force.
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Brief memorandum regarding the legal authority of the federal government in matters related to civil rights. According to the memo, the federal government has the authority in court to...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. In the jungle in Vietnam, an American soldier is on duty lying at the entrance of an open bunker holding a machine gun. Across the top of the bunker entrance are the words,...
