From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Paul Szep. An old, thin man sits on a throne with a very tall back. He wears a crown and clutches ermine lined robes around him. His feet are on a cushion. Around him on the floor are three...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Attorney General Ramsey Clark is dressed as a sheriff in the Old West and wears a star labeled, "The nation's No.1 cop--L.B.J." He has two gun belts around his waist with a...
Transcribed copy of a report by the General Legislative Committee of Mississippi based on findings from an investigation of the occupation of the University of Mississippi in 1962 by the United States Department of Justice. Action was taken in...
Transcribed copy of an essay written by a Freedom School volunteer. Describes the locations of the Freedom Schools, subjects taught, enrollment, activities, as well as the students' concerns regarding discrimination. Also discusses the burdens of...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in New York by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., circa 1880. Cover title. Caption title: Old fables in a new dress. In verse. Includes publisher's advertisement.
cartoon by Edward Kuekes; Two soldiers carrying a fallen soldier on a stretcher. First soldier says, "Wonder if he voted?" and the second soldier responds, "No,...he wasn't old enough."
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Jimmy Carter is dressed as a cowboy and is walking up toward the head of a huge, snorting bull. The bull is labeled, "Inflation" on its side, and "Prices...Wages" on the horns....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man is running away from ghosts labeled, "Vietnam...Inflation...Crime" and past a sign labeled, "The fabulous '70's." The sign shape includes a direction that is the same as...
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 Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The booklet is supplementary reading material for one of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's (SNCC) adult literacy projects. The text combines many excerpts from the Old Testament...
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 Ed Valtman. Alabama Governor George Wallace drives an old crank-start car labeled "Governorship" in front of a mansion. A small Confederate flag flies on the hood of the car, and a dog races...
cartoon by John Riedell; A man with a sombrero pours a barrel of "new vintage of social change" into the wineskin of "South American socio-economic structure." The wine is leaking out of both sides of the wineskin.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Karl Hubenthal. Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford, dressed in western clothing, are having a gunfight in an Old West town. Ford wears a sheriff's star on his shirt. Storefronts are labeled,...
Photograph of the curtain painting in the old auditorium on the third floor of College Hall. Also found in Dearly Bought, Deeply Treasured on page 23; 11 x 8
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Freedom School student Curtis Ducksworth stands on a chair and applies fresh paint to the ceiling of a wood frame building formerly used as a kindergarten. This building, located on Old Airport...
From the Major-Sowers Saw Mill Photographs Collection. Photograph of a side view of a railroad car piled high with timber to replace the decking on "Old Ironsides" The USS Constitution. The lumber came from the Tallahala site in Perry County.
From the Major-Sowers Saw Mill Photographs Collection. Photograph of a side view of a railroad car piled high with timber to replace the decking on "Old Ironsides" The USS Constitution. The lumber came from the Tallahala site in Perry County.
Handwritten diary kept by Didamie Emaline Hicks Fike for September 1843. The diary provides insight into daily life in a rural community in old Spartenburg County, South Carolina, and reveals the lifestyle of subsistence farmers which was hard and...
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Paste-ups for the jacket or title page of The Bear Hunt, The Gypsy Camp, Saving the Old Mill, and Shipwrecked on Christmas Island from the Dick and Janet Cherry series, from the books series of the McLoughlin...
