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. 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...
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 Eddie Germano; Czech is represented by Goldilocks, and Russia is symbolized as an angry bear. The cartoon plays on the fairy tale "Goldilocks and the Three Bears." Goldilocks/Czech is startled by the large unfriendly bear/Russia. As...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. President Lyndon Johnson pedals in the first seat of a bicycle built for two. Behind him sits Robert F. Kennedy. Johnson apparently thinks Hubert Humphrey sits in the second...
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. 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. 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 Eddie Germano. Richard Nixon is in his bathroom, standing at the sink before the mirror, preparing to shave his face. He has a full cup of shaving foam and has applied a large coat of foam,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Karl Hubenthal. A cartoonist shows a huge, wide cartoon to his managing editor. One end of the cartoon shows Richard Nixon's face; at the other end is Charles de Gaulle's face. Each drawing has...
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...
Typewritten letter from Matthew Zwerling to his parents, Israel and Florence Zwerling, and Sara, dated June 30, 1964. Discusses civil rights work in the community of Riverton, near Clarksdale, Mississippi, and describes the dedication required to...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A man in a darkened movie theater rises from his seat and steps into the aisle to leave, hat in hand. On the screen is a film or newsreel titled, "Thailand involvement" showing a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A man is sitting up in bed, having just awakened from a nightmare. He is sweating and afraid. He sees a menacing cloud of smoke outside his window that reads, "Revolution 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...
A collection of six 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...
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 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...
cartoon by Eddie Germano;"On the threshold of miracles" is represented by a door that leads to "Man's Advancement in Heart Transplants." The step leading to the door is labeled "Medical Science." A man stops and sees the door, and thinks to...
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."
