From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled "Juvenile crime" looks at watches in the glass case at a shop (pawn shop?). The merchant stands on the other side of the glass case. Behind the merchant on the...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on June 12, 2007 and February 20, 2008 with Robert Gavagnie. A descendent of some of the first settlers on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Mr. Gavagnie discusses his experiences as Chief of the Bay St. Louis...
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 John Stampone. Uncle Sam watches with dismay as George McGovern and Eugene McCarthy, both with feathered wings strapped to their shoulders, stand poised to jump off the edge of a high cliff...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Merle Cunnington. A crowd of people stand just outside the large, open entryway of a building that is labeled "The wonderful world of tomorrow (super technology)." A sign just inside the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A family watches a large vulture labeled "Interest rates" as it flies away with their house and car.
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. "Tip" O'Neill, dressed as a baseball player and labeled "Demos," stands on the pitcher's mound in an otherwise empty field. He watches as a baseball sails over his head toward the back...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Richard Nixon works hard to pump air into the front tire of a car with a license plate that reads "Asia." The tire is labeled "Vietnam." At the same time the other front tire,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Jimmy Hoffa sits in the sear of a cart labeled "Teamsters" and holds a horse whip. The cart seat is labeled with dollar signs. Uncle Sam, wearing a police uniform and holding a paper...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A woman rummages through her purse and is placing the contents on a desk. Her purse is labeled, "The case for ERA." A man labeled "La. Senate" watches her. She says, "I just...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An arm labeled, "Jeff teacher strike," holds a pocket watch suspended from a chain. The pocket watch, with hands showing a minute before 12:00, is being swung from left to right...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan, representing Snow White, is dressed in a white dress that is labeled, "Workfare," and has a bow in his hair. He watches as a line of men, representing the elves,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A croupier with "Allen" on a name badge watches a roulette wheel covered in water spin around under a spotlight. Some of the water is spilling out. A sign reads, "'Round and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Leonid Brezhnev and Fidel Castro sit at a theater dressing room mirror. Brezhnev holds a pot of grease paint and an applicator, and his face is covered with the paint which...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Jimmy Carter, as the Statue of Liberty, smiles and watches as a Soviet ship labeled, "Red star," steams by in New York harbor. The ship has a flag with a hammer and sickle...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards is playing a guitar and singing while he watches cash and coins drop from a large pipe into an open truck that is labeled "1983 election kitty."...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Two men labeled "Arkansas" and "Louisiana" are planning tennis with a ball labeled "Creationism." The man labeled Arkansas slams the ball, standing close to the net, and the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Supreme Court Associate Justice Abe Fortas is running on a long trail that goes back and forth across the cartoon. The trail is labeled, "Road toward Supreme Court Chief Justice...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled, "A special tax raising legislative session" watches the pressure gauge on a boiler rise. The boiler is labeled, "Pressures for new revenues...$." Louisiana...
