From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Statement to Attorney General Ramsey Clark compiled by the National Committee for Free Elections in Sunflower (NCFES) and delivered by a delegation led by Congressman William F. Ryan and Bayard Rustin....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Republican presidential candidates "Rocky" (Nelson Rockefeller) and "Nixon" (Richard Nixon) are shown from the waist down. Only knee high are two of the vice-presidential...
cartoon by Eddie Germano; A mailman delivers mail on Monday and a dog growls at him. The mailman says,"Here comes m'pal again with th'usual greeting!" On Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday the dog runs after the mailman and bites at his...
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 man is driving a car toward a large intersection on the Earth. The man is labeled, "N.O. property owner voters," and the car is labeled, "$20 million bond election tomorrow,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Richard Wallmeyer. A dove carrying an olive branch in its beak coughs as it flies past mushroom clouds of smoke labeled "Inflammatory rhetoric." The clouds have been generated from the bodies...
cartoon by Jim Ivey; "Appropriations Bills" worry as they look at an exclamation mark with a "Veto" stamp and a question mark with a "Veto Override" stamp.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An elderly man with a beard looks out from the clouds and pours water from a watering can onto the landscape. He wears a top hat with a weather vane on top. In the background of...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; Mrs. Walker's autobiography was originally published in May of 1965 in The Movement, 1: (2)" In it, she describes her early life and employment history in Mississippi. She laments losing her...
Photograph of the May 19, 1970, Student printz with the headline: "Bond cancellation spurs demonstration" and an article about the cancellation by Julian Bond of an address he was to make on campus on Sunday, May 17. Bond cancelled his appearance...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man is flying a jet plane labeled, "Constitutional amendments...Grants-in-aid, veterans' taxes, etc." over the Louisiana state house, causing a sonic boom labeled "Ker-boom!"...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Next door to the "State of La. Treasurer's Office," Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards is building a "State Fiscal Advisory Committee" building, smaller but in other respects...
cartoon by Ed Valtman; A man whose shirt is labeled "Connally" is pumping the handle of a water pump labeled "accelerated tax depreciation" Money in the form of bills and coins is pouring from the spout of the pump into a bucket. To the right of...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of a uniformed officer standing next to an early model car at Camp Shelby. The license plate number on the car is: PHS U.S. 2, and it may be a Public Health Service vehicle put in use during...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The background of the cartoon is the grid of a chart with an upward trend line that is labeled, "Cost of living index." At the lower end of the line is a man's leg with trousers...
