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 family watches a large vulture labeled "Interest rates" as it flies away with their house and car.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Uncle Sam is riding a Ferris wheel at a circus. The wheel is labeled, "High interest rates...Recession...Low interest rates...Inflation." The wheel operator stands nearby, his...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Paul Volcker, chair of the Federal Reserve Board, is twisting the wheel of a large press (or vise). Inside the press is Uncle Sam, labeled "The economy." Volcker says, "Good...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A family stands in front of a large graph with "Credit crunch" at the bottom and a "Dream house" at the top of the upward trend line. The trend line is labeled, "Interest...
Oral history.; Mr. John Sherman Crubaugh was born April 12, 1913. During his college years at Mississippi State, from 1931, he worked to pay for his education. After he received a B.S. degree and an M.Ed. degree from Mississippi State University,...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 7, 1993 with Ken Fairly, a Mississippi law enforcement officer and journalist. Fairly was born on February 18, 1928 in Hazlehurst, Mississippi. Now retired, he had two careers: one as a journalist and...
Oral history.; Four interviews conducted on June 11, September 26, October 10, and November 21, 1985 with Ms. Ruby Magee in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Magee was born on August 12, 1940 in Tylertown, Mississippi. In 1962, she received a BA 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.
Interviews conducted on 04-21-1977 and 05-12-1977 with Unita Blackwell (born 1933). Ms. Blackwell was a field worker for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1964 and also served that year as a delegate of the Mississippi Freedom...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Gene Basset. Lyndon Johnson holds the strings to three large balloons, one labeled "The economy." Holding his arm out, Johnson tries to prevent Harry Truman from piercing a balloon with the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan stands in an open elevator, the floor of which is labeled, "High interest rates." The elevator car is not at floor level, but halfway up to the next floor. Reagan...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled "Recovery" lies on the psychiatrist's couch and sees "Interest rates" above him (or on the nearby wall). The words have arrows pointing upward. The man shouts,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man in a baseball uniform is up to bat, and he is sweating nervously. The man is labeled "Legislature" and holds a bat labeled "Individual batting average." Home plate is in...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A larger than life-sized rabbit labeled "Some major banks" hops toward the left of the cartoon. The rabbit has left behind a decorated egg labeled "Prime interest rate." A man sees...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A mountain goat labeled, "Prime interest rate" is climbing a steep mountain and is standing on a very large "7 1/2 %." Below the goat on the mountain is a much smaller "7%." The...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A worried-looking man holding onto a kite string attached to a kite labeled "Soaring interest rates" is carried into the sky, far above the rooftops of a town. Runtz's signature cat...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. In the foreground, a patient labeled "John Q." is being forced to drink from a bottle labeled "Higher interest rates." Runtz's signature cat is beside John Q. holding a piece of...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Jon Kennedy. Richard Nixon carries a bouquet of flowers labeled "NATO talks," a heart-shaped box labeled "European priority," and a gift box labeled "de Gaulle visit" as he walks toward the...
