From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Ed Valtman. On a sidewalk crowded with pedestrians, a man carrying a briefcase labeled "Stock prices" is about to step into an open manhole that is marked by three cautionary flags. The man's...
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, of a gathering in Dr. Aaron Henry's backyard in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Joe Youngerman and four local African-American...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Riedell. Two U.S. soldiers are behind a sandbag bunker in Vietnam. One is looking through binoculars at the scene in the distance. The other holds his rifle and is talking into the radio...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Riedell. An American bald eagle with talons outstretched flies downward toward smaller birds wearing "coolie" hats. The birds have heavy, serrated beaks that are perched on nests in the...
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, of a community meeting held in a church in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Participants hold hands as they sing "We Shall...
From the University of Southern Mississippi Art Museum collection. Watercolor of a cabin and trees with a barren corn field in the foreground, by J. Bruce Guraedy.
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 John Stampone. Two uniformed soldiers with rifles have entered a clearing in a jungle. The one labeled "U.S. withdrawal plans" is moving away from the other and calls over his shoulder, "Double...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A school building is right at the edge of a tall cliff; the back sidewalk of the building is hanging off the edge. The front door welcome mat reads, "Opportunity." The void...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. A Vietnamese man labeled "Viet Cong" sits on a mat beneath a tree. His rifle is beside him on the mat. The man's arms are crossed, and he smiles as he listens to a radio broadcast...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Richard Wallmeyer. An adult American bald eagle labeled "U.S." is sitting in its nest, which is built at the top of a mountain crag. The eagle is watching its young, a small soldier labeled...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. Hubert Humphrey looks into the shop window of "Eugene McCarthy--Cabinetmaker" and admires a tall wardrobe cabinet labeled "Specially designed for the White House." He says, "I...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. Richard Nixon, carrying a paper labeled, "Political settlement through free elections," walks up to a voting booth set up outdoors in Vietnam. The booth curtains are open, and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Collins. A smiling Japanese man sits cross-legged on a cushion with arms folded across his chest. Before him is a flower pot on a mat on the floor. The single stem, which rises and drops,...
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Kaspar and the Seven Wonderful Pigeons of Wurzburg by Julia Goddard, illustrated by Kate Greenaway (London: Marcus Ward, 1876). pencil sketch (12 x 8 cm.) in double mat 27 x 22 cm. unsigned. possibly an early sketch...
Typewritten letter from Matthew Zwerling to his parents, Israel and Florence Zwerling, and Sara, dated June 23, 1964. Discusses voter registration canvassing activities, other aspects of his work in and around Clarksdale, Mississippi, as well as...
Typewritten letter from Matthew Zwerling to his parents, Israel and Florence Zwerling, and Sara, dated June 26, 1964. Discusses the positive community response in and around Clarksdale, Mississippi, to voter registration drives, and expresses...
Typewritten letter from Matthew Zwerling to his parents, Israel and Florence Zwerling, and Sara, dated June 30, 1964. Discusses civil rights work in the community of Riverton, near Clarksdale, Mississippi, and describes the dedication required to...
