From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A tow truck with "We tow anything" on the door and two men in the cab is being driven into a vehicle garage with "Constitutional repairs & service" on the sign above the door....
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 6, 1981 with Dr. W. J. Cunningham at his home in Memphis, Tennessee. William Jefferson Cunningham was born on December 23, 1905 in Iuka, Mississippi. In 1929, he graduated from the University of...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 21, 1999 with Dr. Sandra Adickes (born 1933). In 1963, Dr. Adickes taught African-Americans in freedom school efforts in Prince Edward County, Virginia. In 1964, she was recruited to teach in...
Oral history.; Dr. Sam Spinks was born on March 19, 1921, in Henleyfield, Mississippi. Dr. Spinks attended Henleyfield High School, Pearl River Junior College, The University of Southern Mississippi and The University of Florida. He served in the...
Oral history.; The family of Dr. Isaac Thomas moved to Hattiesburg from Beaumont, Perry County, Mississippi, in 1935. He entered Eureka High School that year, graduating in 1938, one of a class of thirty three. Dr. Thomas stresses how important...
Oral history.; Mr. Roberts Wilson Jr. was born July 6, 1941, in Rosedale, Mississippi. After attending both Vanderbilt University and the University of Mississippi, he went to Washington. D.C., during the mid 1960s where he worked in the office of...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on August 23 and October 30, 1974 with Mr. Joe Reyer at his home in Poplarville, Mississippi. Reyer was born in 1893 in Pearl River County, Mississippi. He attended an agricultural high school, now Pearl...
From Mrs. W's 1901 Diary. Mrs. W.'s diary paints a vivid portrait of the daily life of a middle class homemaker in 1901, and constitutes a daily account of the author's activities from April 1 - August 7, 1901.Very little biographical or historical...
Transcribed copy of affidavits describing incidents of harassment and violence in Mississippi during the summer of 1964, not including statements about events considered widely publicized.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. A uniformed Vietnamese soldier is smoking a missile-shaped pipe, which he holds in one hand. His other hand is held in a fist. The smoke from the pipe forms atomic symbols...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A small girl, walking and holding a schoolbook under one arm, is being followed by a white lamb labeled "Desegregation school days." The girl and lamb are looking back over their...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Two factory workers are talking outside a building with "Agency shop" on the door. A factory is in the background. One man holds a rolled up document reading, "La. Senate vote,"...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled, "Legislature," is shown as if in shadow, running away from the Louisiana capitol building. A rolled up paper labeled, "Sex ed." sticks out of his pocket, and he...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man on a magic carpet flies over the New Orleans Superdome at night with the moon in the background. In his pocket is a rolled up piece of paper labeled, "1974 carpeting...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled "Legislature" is holding under one arm a rolled up piece of paper that is labeled, "Bill to raise legislators' out-of-season expenses." With his other hand, he...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man in colonial dress labeled "N.O." is sitting in a wooden chair in front of a fireplace. His chin is in his hands, and he appears dismayed. Around him on the floor are...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man with a bomb for a head, labeled "Bombings" holds a pipe wrench in one hand. Around him are the words, "Law violations...Racketeering." Behind him is a tourism sign that...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Lyndon Johnson is sitting at the hospital bedside talking to the patient in the bed, a large rolled piece of paper with arms and legs wrapped and attached to traction devices....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled "Legislature," wearing a crown, is standing amid a pile of rolled papers labeled, "Appropriation bills." Other appropriations bills are rolling out of a chute on a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Lyndon Johnson, holding a candle labeled "Cambodia talks" walks with closed eyes through an outdoor scene that includes tall grass and palm trees. On the ground before him is a...
