From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Father Time (with his long beard and hour glass) stands under a sky filled with planets of the solar system. Before him is a counter (table, podium?) on which are a Roman style...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Hy Rosen. Leonid Brezhnev stands on the 1st place platform of an Olympic-style awards podium wearing a medal labeled "50% more land-based missiles." An arm with a spike collar on the wrist...
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 Jon Kennedy. Alabama Governor George Wallace speaks to a packed audience from a proscenium stage while standing at a podium with microphones. The floorboards behind Wallace are labeled "Wallace...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Sherman Copelin stands at a podium which has a banner attached reading, "Copelin for city council." Behind him are two ghosts of Copelin wearing white robes. One is labeled,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Walter Mondale is at a podium on a platform or stage in front of a curtain with a banner that reads, "Campaign 84." Mondale says, "I say Ronald Reagan is running away from the...
cartoon by Eddie Germano; A disheveled-looking man is standing on a podium with his fist clinched and thrust into the air. With his other hand, he is pushing down on the top of a man's head labeled "press" who is sitting beside the podium. The...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards is standing behind a podium labeled, "Your host, Edwin Edwards." The marquee above the stage reads, "Megabucks, the new tax show."
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, at the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) convention in Jackson, Mississippi. Bob Moses stands at the podium. Dr....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Clyde Wells. This cartoon is in three parts. In the first frame, Gerald Ford speaks from a podium which carries the seal of the Vice-President. Richard Nixon stands behind and below Ford....
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 1, 1972 with Dr. Aaron Henry in his drugstore in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Henry was born on July 2, 1922 in Clarksdale, Mississippi. After serving in World War II, he went to Xavier College (now Xavier...
Oral history.; Norman discusses the creation and work of the Mississippi Humanities Council, the people responsible for its early development, and its programs concerning race relations and public education.
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on June 18, 1992 and March 9, 1993 with Mr. C.B. "Buddie" Newman at his home in Valley Park, Mississippi. Newman was born on May 8, 1921 in Valley Park, Mississippi. In 1942, he left his job with the Southern...
Oral history.; Four interviews conducted on October 1, 2, and 23 of 1975, and July 1, 1976 with Mr. Hugh Clegg at his home in Anguilla, Mississippi. Clegg was born on July 17, 1898 in Mathiston, Mississippi. Clegg graduated from Millsaps...
Oral history.; Mr. Jack Raymond Reed was born on May 19, 1924, in Tupelo, Mississippi. In 1941, Mr. Reed graduated from Tupelo High School and he then entered the military and World War II as part of the Signal Intelligence Service, U.S. Army of...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 23, 1977 with Mr. Jimmy Swan. Swan was born in Cullman County, Alabama. He ran away from home when he was thirteen or fourteen and ended up in Wayne County, Mississippi. Swan sang in nightclubs and...
Oral history.; Mr. Palmer E. Foster was born in Jackson, Tennessee, and moved with his family to Ripley, Mississippi. After his high school graduation, he spent four years in the Army during World War II. Then he entered Rust College and in 1949...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on January 26, 1993 with Pete Johnson, nephew of Paul B. Johnson Jr., at his home in Madison, Mississippi. Pete Johnson was born on May 12, 1948 in Alexandria, Louisiana. He received his B.S. degree in business...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 26, 1977 with William Joel Blass (born 1917). As a lawyer in 1952, he successfully prosecuted the Boyce Holleman case by proving that voter fraud had kept Holleman from winning. Beginning in 1953, he...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 9, 1977 with the Honorable Herman B. DeCell in his office in Yazoo City, Mississippi. DeCell enrolled at the University of Mississippi but with the start of World War II, he was called to service. After...