From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. The earth is personified with a human face. A bandaged area is labeled "Tensions," and wounded areas are labeled, "Riots; Disagreement on nuclear disarmament; Vietnam; Ambitious...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A dog with the words "Tax bite" for teeth sits in the grass in front of a door labeled, "Overlapping and duplication in state government." A note on the stoop reads, "Need for a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man in an armchair has been reading a book, his feet on the footstool. The book is being tossed to the floor, and the man has put his hands on the chair arms and is lifting...
Transcribed copy of a report by the General Legislative Committee of Mississippi based on findings from an investigation of the occupation of the University of Mississippi in 1962 by the United States Department of Justice. Action was taken in...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan is dressed as a magician, and he is trying to pull a rabbit from the upturned hat on the table before him. In his mind's eye, Reagan is seeing a rabbit and the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man sits at a desk with a "Regional Transit Authority" nameplate. He appears to be rolling up his shirt sleeves. Behind him on the wall is a large poster, the top half of...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man with a bomb for a head, labeled "Bombings" holds a pipe wrench in one hand. Around him are the words, "Law violations...Racketeering." Behind him is a tourism sign that...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. A uniformed soldier labeled "Viet Cong" carrying a rifle stands at the mouth of a large storm drain labeled "South Vietnam." At his feet are five stones. From inside the storm...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Stampone. Lyndon Johnson stands listening to a man labeled "Congress." Johnson holds a piece of paper in one hand with the heading "State of the Union" and on it are the words,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. Uncle Sam kneels on hands and knees next to a genie's lamp labeled "All-volunteer force." From the spout of the lamp comes smoke which forms the words "Cost: billions $$." In one...
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 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. Five men dressed in Santa Claus costumes stand on a street corner under a street sign labeled "Anti-poverty program street." Each is ringing a bell, and four stand beside...
Photograph of Dr. Lucas with members of the University Activities Council. Photo taken in the Union lobby under a banner with the words: "Goodbye Dr. Lucas...we will miss you!" Also found in the 1997 Southerner yearbook on page 201.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A traffic officer is directing traffic. A huge traffic light has words on the red ball: "Stop...Carnival parades are on!" A lamp post near the policeman has a sign that reads,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A donkey wearing suit and tie appears confused, with lines and stars drawn circling its head. The irises of the donkeys eyes are campaign buttons that read, "Johnson '68" and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. New Orleans Mayor Ernest Morial is holding a decorated cake with two lit candles. The cake has "2 yrs. of achievements" written in the icing on its top. Morial appears pleased....
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. A man in colonial dress representing Louisiana leans proudly on a rocket. The rocket has a map of Louisiana that is labeled, "Made in Louisiana at Michoud" and underneath the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man is flying a jet plane labeled, "Constitutional amendments...Grants-in-aid, veterans' taxes, etc." over the Louisiana state house, causing a sonic boom labeled "Ker-boom!"...
