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.; Interview conducted on November 16, 1977 with George Rogers (born 1927). Mr. Rogers, a Rhodes Scholar, was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives, where he served for more than twenty years. He became well known for his...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by William Sandeson. In the foreground, two rustlers in cowboy clothing with bandanas over their faces have roped a cow and thrown it to the ground. A campfire is lit nearby, and the rustlers are...
cartoon by Jim Ivey; In the "Bicameral Legislature," the House thinks "Leave It To The Senate" and the Senate thinks, "Let The House Do It." In a "Unicameral Legislature," a single legislator sits under a sign that reads "The Buck Stops Here."
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...
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...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 7, 1993 with Ken Fairly, a Mississippi law enforcement officer and journalist. Fairly was born on February 18, 1928 in Hazlehurst, Mississippi. Now retired, he had two careers: one as a journalist and...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 26, 1977 with William Joel Blass (born 1917). As a lawyer in 1952, he successfully prosecuted the Boyce Holleman case by proving that voter fraud had kept Holleman from winning. Beginning in 1953, he...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Hubert H. Humphrey, dressed in cowboy attire, rides a snorting, bucking donkey, with its hind legs and hindquarters in the air. Beneath the donkey's suspended hind legs is a cloud...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Jimmy Carter is dressed in a long nightshirt labeled "1980" and holds a scythe (a la grim reaper). He is packing boxes in the Oval Office. In the center of the cartoon is a file cabinet...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. George Shultz and Andrei Gromyko, from opposite directions, walk toward a door labeled "Stockholm meeting." A large thermometer on the building beside the door is labeled...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Jimmy Carter is holding a long list in one hand and an open sack in the other. The list has at the top, "Instructions for resolving hostage issue," then lines indicating other...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana governor Dave Treen is behind the counter of a candy store. Inside and outside the display case are madeleines, lollipops, and other candies or cookies. On top of the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Newly elected Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards (portrayed as a child in shirt, bow tie, short pants and top hat) stands in a doorway labeled "Entrance." Father Time, in a long...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Jimmy Carter, dressed as a gas station attendant, leans against gas pumps at a station named "Jimmy's Service." A sign on the pump reads, "Help balance the budget and fill 'er...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan, dressed as a chef, is stirring a large pot on a hot stove. The pot is labeled "Reagan environmental policy." In the steam above the pot are the words, "Cry of the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An man with an elephant head sits at a desk in an office in Washington, D.C. The U.S. Capitol dome can be seen through the window in the background. The elephant is reading a...
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. Jesse Jackson stands next to a huge fish hanging by its tail above a pier. The fish is labeled "Goodman release." Ronald Reagan walks away with a fishing pole and thinks, "Talk...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana state Senator Nat Kiefer, dressed as a runner, pauses between two traffic signs. One reads, "Yield" and the other, "Resume speed." Nearby is a sign in the shape of a...
