From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Gerald Ford is walking to school, bundled up against cold winter weather, carrying his school books. The schoolhouse is in the background. Ford looks over his shoulder at the lamb...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. In the first of four frames, Richard Nixon is drawn to resemble a small girl walking to school wearing a dress and broad-brimmed hat. From one hand, he holds the end of the strap...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A small girl, walking and holding a schoolbook under one arm, is being followed by a white lamb labeled "Desegregation school days." The girl and lamb are looking back over their...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 25, 1971 with Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987). Mr. Caldwell was a prominent American author whose works include Tobacco Road, (1932) and God's Little Acre (1933).
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Color proof of cover (2 items) of Mary Had a Little Lamb and other Nursery Rhymes [illustrated by Jack Perkins] (Springfield: McLoughlin Bros., 1938) Little color classics #803, from the books series of the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A tiny lamb labeled, "US peace offers" and looking very afraid is standing in the mouth of an angry lion labeled, "Response from Hanoi."
cartoon by Richard Wallmeyer; A pencil, eraser, book, and apple are sitting on a desk. The apple, labeled "schools," has a worm labeled "drug traffic" coming out of it.
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...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 30, 1980 with Mr. Erle Johnston at his home in Forest, Mississippi. Johnston was born on October 10, 1917 in Garyville, Louisiana. In 1941, he moved Forest, Mississippi and bought the fledgling newspaper,...
Oral history.; Mrs. Edith Ruff Thomas was born on February 12, 1920. She grew up on a farm that became well-established, providing products throughout Tupelo. In 1936, she lived through the Tupelo tornado, and in 1937 she was graduated from Tupelo...
Oral history.; Three interviews conducted on April 28, 30 and May 7, 1981 with Mr. Claude Ramsay at his office in Jackson, Mississippi. Ramsay was born in 1916 in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. He served briefly in the Civilian Conservation Corps...
