From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. New Orleans mayor Ernest Morial and William Jefferson are dressed in baseball uniforms. Morial is speaking angrily to Jefferson, saying, "You're minor league!" Jefferson smiles...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Paul Volcker, chair of the Federal Reserve Board, is speaking to a Congressional committee as he sits at a table. Two men at the table lean toward him, their hands behind their...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This flyer advertises a speaking engagement for James Houston, a candidate for the third Congressional district of Mississippi, in 1964. The backside of the flyer explains the Mississippi...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. A Jimmy Carter campaign staffer with folded papers under his arm, in the foreground of the cartoon, speaks to a group of puzzled-looking people at a "Carter for President" rally....
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 Eldon Pletcher. Two men labeled, "City council" are shown. One is speaking to the other, who looks dejected. The man is saying, "We might buy NOPSI and part of LP&L...but we can't afford the...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Local activist and candidate for the U.S. Senate on the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) ticket, Victoria Jackson Gray (Adams) speaks to a meeting of the political party members held...
From the Ben-Ami (Rabbi David Z.) Papers. This is the first page of an issue of The Temple journal, showing an article promoting a speaking engagement of Rabbi Ben-Ami on April 4, [1965]. Ben-Ami's topic was Jews in the Civil Rights Movement. Also...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Nikita Khrushchev is sitting in a chair with crossed legs, speaking into a telephone receiver. He says, "H'lo!! Miss West Germany? Dis is Krushy...How's 'bout a date!" The...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher; Justice Earl Warren is hiding under the Supreme Court with a sign that reads, "Stop and frisk law OK, with limitations." A very tall man labeled, "Growth of U.S. Crime" and ...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A sign on a pole next to the curb reads, "Positively no parkng anytime zone." A truck and several cars are piled up under the sign. A man nearby says, "What about THIS zoning...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled, "Senate Ethics Committee" stands before the bank teller windows. The man's hand is scratching his chin, and he appears uncertain. He holds a paper labeled,...
From the United States Forest Service, Harrison Experimental Forest Station Collection. Photograph of Senator John Stennis speaking at the dedication of the Southern Forest Experiment Station.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. In Oxford, Ohio, African-American minister speaking in park (?) from podium almost obscured by American flag in foreground.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. In Oxford, Ohio, African-American minister speaking in park (?) from podium with American flag in foreground.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Hy Rosen. Leonid Brezhnev stands in the lit doorway of a darkened room, wearing a trench coat and fedora. The window of the room is open. The leader of Czechoslovakia (Dubcek) sits behind a...
From the Mantinband (Rabbi Charles) Papers; Photograph of Rabbi Charles Mantinband speaking to a group of African American students. He is pictured showing a world map as he speaks.
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...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on January 31, 1977 with Jimmy Carter Fairley (born 1921). A native of Greene County, Mississippi, Mr. Fairley was active in the civil rights movement at the local, state, and national levels.
