Oral history.; Mr. William F. Stallworth was born August 12, 1954, in Monroeville, Alabama. He grew up in Pensacola, Florida, Jackson, Mississippi, and Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in education at Jackson State...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on December 11, 1972 with Mr. Owen Cooper at his office in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Cooper was born on a farm near Vicksburg, Mississippi. He attended Culkin Academy in Vicksburg, and received a degree in...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 6, 1981 with Dr. W. J. Cunningham at his home in Memphis, Tennessee. William Jefferson Cunningham was born on December 23, 1905 in Iuka, Mississippi. In 1929, he graduated from the University of...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 18, 1980 with Phillip West (born 1946). He has served as president of the NAACP of Adams County and as second vice-president for the state.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 11, 1995 with Larry Rubin (born 1942). In 1961, he helped to register voters in the South for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. In late 1963 and in 1964, Mr. Rubin worked as a civil rights...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Fidel Castro is shown smoking a cigar labeled "Influence." An arm labeled "Brazil" uses scissors to cut the cigar in half at the same time that a thrown rock hits Castro on the back...
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 Richard Wallmeyer. Four birds with human heads are sitting on a telephone pole or on the wires attached to the pole. The birds portray President Lyndon Johnson, French prime minister Charles de...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. A giant-sized Fidel Castro bends at the waist, holding one hand behind his back. In his other hand, he holds a huge magnifying glass and looks through it to see Senator George...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Ed Valtman. Two dragons stand hip to hip, and they are looking back over their shoulders at each ohter. Each is breathing fire. One dragon has the hammer and sickle symbol on its body, and the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Collins. Five of six panels show world leaders reading newspaper headlines of Lyndon Johnson's decision not to seek reelection in 1968. Canada's Lester B. Pearson says, "Those Americans!...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Collins. The numbers 1-9-7-5 are linked to each other and placed underground to form a convoluted tunnel. Lions labeled "Inflation" and "Unemployment" guard the entrance and exit. Five men...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Collins. A large fish representing the United States swims in the foreground. Fidel Castro, wearing swim trunks bearing the hammer and sickle symbol, is pinching the tail of the American...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Fidel Castro runs in panic with his pants on fire. The flames are labeled, "Chile's anti-Communist vote." The cartoon caption reads, "Where it hurts!"
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. The upper frame of this cartoon shows four characters. In the center, Yitzhak Rabin and Anwar Sadat look back over their shoulders at Henry Kissinger. Kissinger gestures toward the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Fidel Castro holds a large compass marked with "Soviet influence" at the north compass point. Behind him, small figures representing "Non-aligned nations" observe him.
Oral history.; Interviews conducted on October 3, 1994 and October 10, 1994 with Mrs. Jane Menefee Schutt (born 1913). Mrs. Schutt was appointed to the Mississippi Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and served four years, the...
A collection of ten 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...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 14, 1995 with Eldridge W. Steptoe Jr. (born 1936). Mr. Steptoe witnessed his father's involvement in the McComb movement of the early 1950s and in the establishing of a local chapter of the NAACP in...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 6, 2008 with Rev. Lee J. Adams, Jr., a pastor at Little Rock Baptist Church in Gulfport, MS. Mr. Adams discusses the role of the church in recovering from Hurricane Katrina.
