From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man in colonial dress representing New Orleans is sitting at a fortune teller's table. The fortune teller is looking into a crystal ball which has the words, "Start of 250th...
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 AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan and Menachem Begin sit across from each other at a table. Reagan says, "ASTWI," which is translated as "American strategic ties with Israel." Begin says, "What...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Uncle Sam and a Vietnamese man wearing a "coolie" hat with a hammer and sickle on it are sitting at the "Paris conference table." Each has a stack of papers. The world,...
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 Ed Valtman. Zbigniew Brzezinski and Cyrus Vance, dressed as chefs, turn to see a man dressed as a waiter, labeled "Strauss," carrying a soup tureen labeled "U.S. Middle East resolution" back to...
cartoon by Ed Valtman; Senator George McGovern sits at a desk and holds the upper portion of a list of potential Vice Presidential candidates. The list stretches several yards and emanates from a typewriter sitting on a moveable typing table. A...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Uncle Sam and a man labeled "Viet Cong" stand by the "Paris peace table." Uncle Sam offers a chair with large tacks labeled "Truth" in the seat to the other man, who is frowning...
cartoon by John Riedell; A student sits at a desk with a piece of lined paper in front of him. He rests his head on his left hand. He thinks about writing on the paper; in his imagination, this is what he writes:"School is like going to 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 John Stampone. An injured U.S. soldier lies in a bed in a U.S. military hospital. His right leg is broken and in traction. The soldier's purple heart medal is on the bedside table. He is...
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 dove labeled "Peace hopes" carries an olive branch in its beak and stands on a round table in a room while looking up. The table has a sign that reads, "Paris talks" and is...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on March 14, 2007 with Richard Chenoweth, Jr., owner of Scranton's Restaurant in Pascagoula, MS. He describes his preparations for and experiences during Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 16, 2008 with Rod Dickson-Rishel, pastor of the Mississippi City United Methodist Church. Reverend Dickson-Rishel discusses his experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 25, 1971 with Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987). Mr. Caldwell was a prominent American author whose works include Tobacco Road, (1932) and God's Little Acre (1933).
Oral history.; An interview conducted on May 14, 2008 with Robert E. Bass, Jr. (born 1955). Mr. Bass earned degrees from Mississippi State University and the University of Mississippi Law School. He has served in many civic capacities, including...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 4, 2007 with Jeff Bennett, Director of the Gulf Coast Mental Health Center. He describes his experience during and after Hurricane Katrina.
