From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. On a giant pig, a large man is relaxing in an arm chair smoking a cigar. His shirt reads, "Unfunded liability of retirement systems." Two men, one labeled, "Par" [PAR?], and the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. Newly elected President Jimmy Carter has made a visit to Plains, Georgia. The sign on a building reads, "Jimmy Carter, Plains, Georgia." He prepares to get into a car as Plains...
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...
cartoon by John Riedell; A couple on a picnic sit on a hill that is littered with trash. A squirrel tugs on the man's shirt, points to the trash, and asks,"Well, how would you like this on your living room rug?" The trees in the background of the...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. This cartoon is in two panels. A man wearing shirt and tie is reading the newspaper in his living room, and he appears displeased. He says, "Executive privilege...missing computer...
State football championship T-shirt from 1979. Pictured on the shirt is USM's eagle mascot carrying the mascots of the University of Mississippi and Mississippi State University, one in each hand down by his side. Below each opposing mascot is the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Richard Nixon stands outside the open door of the "GOP dressing room." With one hand, he points toward the dressing room while he holds a suit coat and slacks in the other. The...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Richard Nixon is shown as a schoolboy wearing a uniform of short pants, short sleeved shirt, and necktie. He is in a school room looking at a chalk board with the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Riedell. Michigan Governor George Romney, dressed in suit, shirt, and tie, stands with his hands behind his back. Romney's abdomen bulges over his slacks, and the bottons of the shirt are...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An elephant poses as a motion picture director, wearing sunglasses, beret, polka dot shirt. The elephant has a cigarette on a long holder in his mouth. He is holding a clapboard...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Against the backdrop of space, "Flag Day" is spelled out in stars under an American flag, which is at the top of a flagpole. The flagpole is set above a globe that has marked...
cartoon by John Knudsen; A runner carries a torch labeled "Communist Propaganda" The runner's shirt is labeled "International Sports Events" The torch is giving off a thick billow of smoke, which streams back from the torch past the runner's head.
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...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A group of young African Americans of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, stand and sing in front of the headquarters of local civil rights leader Victoria Jackson Gray's campaign for the U.S. Senate on...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan is dressed as a baseball player with a shirt labeled "Balanced budget team." He is looking upward at a baseball overhead, labeled, "Senate's tax cuts tied to...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. SNCC Field Secretary Sandy Leigh, Director of the COFO-Hattiesburg Project, lectures on the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) to Freedom School students and their teachers at True...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. SNCC Field Secretary Sandy Leigh, Director of the COFO-Hattiesburg Project, lectures on the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) to Freedom School students and their teachers at True...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. SNCC staff member Marion Davidson serving hot dogs to local children during a party celebrating the opening of the Palmers Crossing Community Center in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on July 18,...
From the Emilie and Marie Stapp Collection. Amelia Siedler was 10 years when she created this diary documenting her family's move from Iowa to Arkansas in a covered wagon from 28 December 1895 - 27 February 1896.