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...
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...
A collection of eight 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...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. The front landing gear of a large commercial airliner labeled "NATO" has collapsed. The fuselage is on the runway, and the body of the plane is badly cracked. The front wheels of...
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. Ronald Reagan is flying a plane over Washington, D.C. On the side of the plane is a sign that reads, "School prayer amendment." There are large holes in the plane, and Reagan...
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 Bob Taylor. A man labeled "Rocky," (Nelson Rockefeller), wearing a parachute, has just jumped from the side door of a plane labeled "The race." He looks back over his shoulder at the plane and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Two men, one labeled "Legislature," are standing near an experimental plane labeled, "Balanced state budget (by law)." The man labeled "Legislature" wears pilot's goggles. From...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Hy Rosen. President Richard Nixon drives a speed boat labeled, "G.O.P. hopes" along a developed beachfront. The Republican elephant rides in the boat and shows great fear at the sight of...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 24, 1972 with Dr. William Penn Davis at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Davis was born in Union County, Mississippi on August 5, 1903. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Mississippi College in...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on December 3, 1971 with the Honorable Charles Evers at his office in Fayette, Mississippi. Evers was born on September 11, 1922 in Decatur, Mississippi. In 1950, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in social...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 12, 1973 with Mr. Jerry Clower at his office in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Clower was born in 1926 at Route Four, Liberty, Mississippi. After graduating from high school, he joined the U.S. Navy. On...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Two men in a biplane fly across a graph leaving a trend line labeled "'82 stock market." Below the plane is a second trend line that reads "'29 crash." The pilot says to the...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Santa Claus flies a biplane and waves. A wreath is on the plane's rudder. The cartoon caption is "Merry Christmas," formed from the plane's exhaust.
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...
A collection of eight 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...
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...
