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The Negro Revolution and the Jewish Community

One pamphlet entitled, "The Negro Revolution and the Jewish Community" dated March 12, 1969. Item is a transcript of remarks made at a conference given at Columbia University on March 12, 1969. Remarks express synagogue's needed participation in the...

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Editorial Reprints from The Petal Paper

One pamphlet entitled, "Editorial Reprints from The Petal Paper," dated 1957. Item was a parody publication reflecting on the racist nature of the South in the fifties. Includes an ad satirizing white supremacy groups.

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The Public Interest [Fall 1967]

One issue of The Public Interest dated Fall 1967. Contains essays related to shootings that took place in Newark, New Jersey and Detroit, Michigan; creation of public broadcasting television; an opinion piece on the office of the president as a...

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The Crisis: 70th Anniversary: Part 1 [November 1980]

One issue of The Crisis dated November 1980. Item is a special issue commemorating the magazine's 70th anniverary. Essays reflect on significant moments in African American history through eras; the presence of white supremacy and response to the...

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Genetics and the Social Order

One pamphlet entitled "Genetics and the Social Order," writen by Mark Graubard dated 1935. Item is a sociological and hereditary study book. Chapter VI, "Evolutonary Formation of Race, Stock and Variety," has been marked for Graubard's comments on...

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Step by Step with Interracial Groups

One pamphlet entitled, "Step by Step with Interracial Groups," by Dorothy I. Height dated 1948. Height analyzes the meaning of "interracial," at that time, a call for for those in power to not see a racial minority rather a person, and outlines...

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Tuskegee Community Council Year Book

One pamphlet entitled, "Tuskegee Community Council Year Book," dated 1941. This item served the purpose of periodically updating the concerns of the community as well as the coucil's efforts to address them. Also included is a history of the Tuskegee...

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Freedom to Serve: Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services

One pamphlet entitled, "Freedom to Serve: Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services," by the President's Committee dated 1950. Following President Harry S. Truman's executive order, mandating that there would be no discrimination in...

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United Asia: The American Negro [Vol. 5, No. 3 (1953)]

One issue of United Asia dated 1953. The periodical is focused on the news related to Asians. This issue highlights the culture of race discrimination in the United States that the magazine states is slowing down their full potential to make...

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The Shameful Blight: The Survival of Racial Discrimination in Voting in the South

One report entitled, "The Shameful Blight: The Survival of Racial Discrimination in Voting in the South," dated October 1972. The item is a report on the violations against the Voting Rights listed by counties in the Southern United States...

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The Communist Party

One report entitled, "The Communist Party" by Pettis Perry, dated April 1953. Item is a transcipt of a speech by Pettis Perry to a jury on January 12, 1953. The case involved Perry, who was accused of involvement with the Communist Party of USA...

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He Sho' Thinks He's Hidin'

One undated tin plaque advertising Cream of Wheat. Image contains minstrel imagery of a Black chef with a small white child hiding. Tag line reads, "He sho' thinks he's hidin.'"

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We Serve Colored, Carry Out Only

One sign dated May 5, 1931. Text says, "We Serve Colored Only, Carry Out Only." Printed by A.A. Signs.

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Colored Seated in Rear

One sign dated August 1, 1929. Text says, "Colored Seated in Rear." Printed by B & B Sign Co.

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Colored Seated in Rear

One sign dated August 1, 1929. Text says, "Colored Seated in Rear." Printed by B & B Sign Co.

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Colored Must Sit in Balcony

One sign dated July 14, 1931. Text says, "Colored Must Sit in Balcony." Printed by Ace Sign Company. According to the text on item, it was likely hung in the Grand Theater in Birmingham, Alabama.

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Drinking Fountain, White, Colored

One sign dated July 14, 1931. Text says, "Drink Fountain, White, Colored." Image includes arrows where white and black people could drink water separately.

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Restrooms, White, Colored

One sign dated 1929. Text says, "Restrooms, White, Colored." Image includes arrows where white and black people could use bathrooms separately at L&N Railroad stations in Louisville, Kentucky.

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[Portrait of Rosa Parks giving fingerprints at police station]

One photograph of Rosa Parks dated February 22, 1956. Image is of Parks at police station being fingerprinted by Sheriff D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Alabama.

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[Portrait of Rosa Parks giving fingerprints at police station]

One photograph of Rosa Parks dated February 22, 1956. Image is of Parks at police station being fingerprinted by Sheriff D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Alabama.

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[Portrait of Rosa Parks giving fingerprints at police station]

One photograph of Rosa Parks dated February 22, 1956. Image is of Parks at police station being fingerprinted by Sheriff D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Alabama.

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50,000 March on Montgomery

One cover of Ebony magazine entitled, "50,000 March on Montgomery," dated May 1965. Image displays marchers of the 1965 March on Montgomery. Notable figures featured are Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King, Rosa Parks, Ralph Abernathy, and...

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Newark: The Predictable Insurrection

One cover of Life magazine entitled, "Newark: The Predictable Insurrection," dated July 28, 1967. Image displays the body of Joe Bass Jr., a 12-year-old boy who was wounded by police gunfire during a riot.

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The Negro and the Cities: The Cry That Will be Heard

One cover of Life magazine entitled, "The Negro and the Cities: The Cry That Will be Heard," dated March 8, 1968. Image consists of a tear-eyed African-American girl, Ellen Fontenelle.

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[James Meredith photographs, 1962-1966][Decimalized .01-.05]

Collection of five photographs related to James Meredith taken by UPI telephoto dated 1962-1966. Pertains to Meredith's enrollment as the first Black student at the University of Mississippi, his campus life and civil rights activism. One photograph...

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