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 Eldon Pletcher. A line of people stand outside a building near a sign that reads "Unemployment office." From three windows on the second floor of the building, two men and a bull can be seen....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The cartoon is divided into two panels. The left side of the cartoon is labeled "Two years ago." A man labeled "Louisiana" is dressed in formal wear with top hat. He is carrying...
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...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 15, 1994 with Bennie Gooden. As one of the founding members of the Southern Education Recreation Association (SERA), Mr. Gooden wrote the grant proposal to fund Coahoma County's first Head Start program...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 11, 1977 with the Honorable Horace Buckley at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Buckley was born on July 14, 1941 in Jackson, Mississippi. He obtained his undergraduate degree from Mississippi Valley...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 26, 1975 with Mr. Charles Johnson at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Johnson was born in 1911 in Amory, Mississippi. After receiving a degree in Science from Mississippi State University, he began...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 1, 1977 with R.B. Layton. Mr. Layton was involved in the Jackson Public Schools as a teacher, a principal, and a curriculum director from the late 1930s to the middle 1970s. Layton was director of...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on November 1, 1995 with Joe Martin (born 1943). Mr. Martin became inspired by Medgar Evers after hearing him in elementary school. Martin and his Burgland High football friends formed an NAACP youth group. Mr....
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 26, 1979 with Mr. William J. Simmons at his office in Jackson, Mississippi. Simmons was born in 1916 in Utica, Mississippi. He attended Millsaps College and Mississippi College, graduating from the...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 30, 1977 with the Reverend Sammie Rash (born 1942). Reverend Rash, the son of sharecroppers, has been very active in both civil rights activities and Mississippi politics, in addition to being a minister...
Transcribed copy of an essay on African-American history from 1900-1964, written by Otis Pease for Mississippi Freedom Project workers. Includes brief biographies of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois, and mentions the Myrdal study.
Twenty-page typescript of the diary of Jinny Glass, dated August 7, 1964, through August 25, 1964. Glass was a Freedom Summer volunteer from California who worked at the Palmer's Crossing Community Center, south of Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
Zoya Zeman's senior thesis was written after her participation in the Mississippi Freedom Project in the summer of 1964. Putting her work into context, she begins with a description of the background history of Mississippi. Zeman then recounts her...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man who delivers singing telegrams is dressed in a frayed and tattered uniform and a beanie cap. He is labeled "Recession." He holds a telegram in his hand and sings to a man...
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 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...
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. The backdrop is a graph with gridlines and two bars rising from the X axis labeled "Debt ceiling" and "New debt ceiling needs." The second bar is much taller than the first....
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...
