From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A huge pothole in a New Orleans city street is labeled "Needs." Other potholes are nearby, and the cityscape is in the background. A man with a hard hat is driving a dump truck...
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 Eldon Pletcher. A nervous Ronald Reagan is being squeezed between a rock labeled "Budget deficit" and a military tank with the barrel of the gun pointed at his face. Reagan is using a handsaw...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A road labeled, "Road to peace in Lebanon," winds between a large rock labeled, "Political factions," and a crate labeled, "Terrorist's explosives." The cartoon caption reads,...
Handwritten diary kept by Didamie Emaline Hicks Fike for September 1843. The diary provides insight into daily life in a rural community in old Spartenburg County, South Carolina, and reveals the lifestyle of subsistence farmers which was hard and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher; A man labeled, "Fiscal Hard Times" is playing a violin next to a sandwich board that reads, "Welcome to 'Face the Music'." A member of the 1983 legislature is saying, "Sad music...
cartoon by John Knudsen; A figure with an earth-shaped head carries a history book under one arm. The figure wears a slightly tattered jacket sporting a patch that says,"The School of Hard Knocks" His head bears some bumps and bandages, and the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. A river of oil, labeled "U.S. oil depot raids," spills from a hill in the upper right background of the cartoon. At the source of the oil, smoke rises. The oil flows toward the...
cartoon by Karl Hubenthal; An eagle labeled "United States" has been swirled in the air while flying. One of its outstretched wings is labeled "Hawks" and the other is labeled "Doves".
cartoon by Allen Johnson; A shabbily dressed, barefoot man labeled "Hungry countries" sits Indian-style on the ground in front of a plate. He holds a grenade in his hands. A crate of ammunition labeled "Food peace plan, from USA" is open and sits...
From the McCain (William D.) Pamphlet Collection; In the address delivered at the Annual Conference Convocation at Mississippi Vocational College, White gives advice to Freshman students about working hard and on taking up quality endeavors. He...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 24, 1972 with Dr. William Penn Davis at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Davis was born in Union County, Mississippi on August 5, 1903. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Mississippi College in...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on December 3, 1971 with the Honorable Charles Evers at his office in Fayette, Mississippi. Evers was born on September 11, 1922 in Decatur, Mississippi. In 1950, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in social...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 18, 1972 with Ms. Ruby Magee at College Hall at the University of Southern Mississippi. Magee was born in 1940 in Tylertown, Mississippi. In 1962, she received a BA in history and political science from...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 12, 1973 with Mr. Jerry Clower at his office in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Clower was born in 1926 at Route Four, Liberty, Mississippi. After graduating from high school, he joined the U.S. Navy. On...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on January 23, 1973 with Mr. William Dukes in his office in Gulfport, Mississippi. Dukes was born in the Sullivans' Hollow area near Raleigh, in Smith County, Mississippi on January 15, 1927. After his discharge...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 17, 1972 with Associate Justice Thomas Pickens Brady, of the Supreme Court of Mississippi in his chambers in Jackson, Mississippi. This is the second part of an interview conducted on March 4, 1972 with...
A collection of eight 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...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Roy Carless. A man wearing a business suit is in the turret of an armored tank, with his head holding up the hatch. The turret is marked with a Canadian flag, and the tank is labeled "Labor law...
