From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. A large bird's nest labeled "11-state region" sits on the branch of a tall pine tree. The nest is full of hungry baby birds with beaks open to be fed. An adult eagle has flown to...
From the University of Southern Mississippi Art Museum collection. Color print of the founding fathers of America signing the Constitution, by an unknown artist.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Stampone. Five men dressed in Santa Claus costumes stand on a street corner under a street sign labeled "Anti-poverty program street." Each is ringing a bell, and four stand beside...
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 Vic Runtz. In the left foreground, a very small soldier labeled "Anti-poverty" stands with arms raised holding a rifle and shouts, "Out of ammo!" Next to the soldier are an empty ammunition box...
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 Vic Runtz. A child sits on the front porch of a shack in a snowy scene during winter. To the left of the shack is an inoperable vehicle half-buried in the snow. A second child and a cat (artist...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Vic Runtz. President Richard Nixon rows a boat down a rapidly moving stream accompanied by an attractive woman whose billowing scarf is labeled "USA." Nixon's eyes are on the woman and not on...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man with a globe for a head is dressed very shabbily with patches on his clothes and holes in his shoes. He shambles along a sidewalk to a corner holding out a cup labeled,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Two graphs are on a wall, and Paul Volcker is on top of them doing a balancing act. One foot is standing on top of a graph labeled, "Pull recovery up," and his hand has hold of...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A tall Queen Elizabeth II and a shorter English man stand with Westminster Palace in the background. The Queen's dress is patched and labeled, "Royalty's finances." The man's...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan and a man labeled "Budget director Stockman" stand near a guillotine. A man labeled "Bureaucracy" is on his knees bound with rope, and his head is under the raised...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A man labeled "State of union" struggles to ice skate while carrying a cannon labeled "Viet as ever" and a box labeled "and butter too." The ice is labeled "Economy" and has cracks....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Richard Locher. A man in tattered clothes and labeled "New York City" is holding his hand out to Gerald Ford, who is walking past him on the street. The man says, "Hey buddy, can you spare a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An apparently naked man labeled "N.O." wears a barrel labeled, "Homestead exemption" and a pair of shoes. He stands on a sidewalk next to a brick building that has a sign...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vance Rodewalt. A panhandler sits at the base of a metal fence with two cups labeled "For me" and "For my friend" on the ground beside him. President Richard Nixon peers through bushes behind...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Ed Valtman. Richard Nixon holds his hat in his right hand, and he stands near a large circle on the ground in front of him. There are a number of hats already in the circle, and Nixon appears...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A malnourished and naked child labeled Cambodia sits with a large bowl in its lap. The outside of the bowl is shown as the Southern hemisphere of Earth. The words "Empty bowls"...
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...
