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The Suffolk resolves: Proceedings of the ...

Printed by John Holt. The first printing in New York of the Suffolk Resolves. Evans 13701

GLC02438

The case of Trevett against Weeden: On Information and Complaint,....

Evans 20825, Kress B1355, Sabin 98638. The legal case tested the powers of the Articles of Confederation to the right of Trial by Jury.

GLC02443

Will the American people never cease to oppress and torture the helpless poor?

Begins with an excerpt from the New York "Tribune" indicating that thirty-five black children were ejected from public schools in Brazil, Indiana, by order of local trustees. Smith criticizes the children's ejection and urges the Republican Party to...

GLC02448.20

to Henry Knox

Opens by thanking Knox for his role in obtaining Carrington a presidential appointment [as marshal of Virginia]. He then discusses the French revolution, writing that "[t]he Revolution in France is as singular as it is important to the cause of...

GLC02437.04396

to Marquis de Lafayette

Knox writes that he is thankful to be able to send this letter by Count de Moustier, who was returning from his time as French minister to America. He will enclose the diplomas for the French officers in the Society of the Cincinnati. Says "The...

GLC02437.04391

to Jeremiah Wadsworth

Considers the implications of a recent diplomatic success Colonel [Alexander] McGillivray had negotiating on behalf of the Creek Nation. McGillivray recovered for the Creeks land that the governor of Georgia had given to Georgia citizens. He...

GLC02437.04670

to Alexander McGillivray

Street, representing the Five Nations, poses a list of questions to Creek chief McGillivray regarding the particulars of McGillivray's negotiations and agreements with the United States government. Touches on issues such as whether the U.S...

GLC02437.04683

Proceedings of the Virginia Assembly... re: division of power, constitution

Also concerning constitutional rights and the Alien and Sedition Acts. Evans 38460

GLC02446

to Ulysses S. Grant

Smith, a prominent abolitionist, philanthropist, and political reformer, transmits a circular (not included) which contains an extract from one of President Grant's recent speeches (not included, but possibly on the topic of civil rights).

GLC02448.14

[Portrait of Rosa Parks]

One photograph of Rosa Parks dated December 21, 1956. Image has been edited to feature a closer portrait of Parks riding a bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1956 on the day that segregation in public transportation was banned.

GLC09778.04

Ella's Night, A Tribute to Miss Ella Fitzgerald

One pamphlet entitled, "Ella's Night, A Tribute to Miss Ella Fitzgerald," dated December 1, 1968. This commemorates an evening in the New York Coliseum sponsored by the Tau Omega Chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. Fitzgerald was honored for a...

GLC09640.003

"House divided" speech fragment re: slavery, Dred Scott, Kansas

A single page beginning "Why Kansas is neither the whole, nor a tithe of the real question." Written before the debates with Stephen A. Douglas, apparently in response to that Senator's Dec. 9, 1857 speech in opposition to Buchanan's State of the...

GLC02533

I am a man

Printed by Allied Printing in large black letters on white posterboard. Poster dates from the day of Dr. King's assassination. Refer to GLC05954 for a different printing of this poster.

GLC06124

For the Good of America

NAACP poster listing statistics regarding the 3,436 lynchings that occurred between 1889 and 1922. States "Do you know that the United States is the Only Land on Earth where people are burned at the stake?" Reports that 83 women have been lynched...

GLC06197

A signed and dated one page statement of the current state of her work for equal rights for women

Anthony states: "The one purpose of my life has been the establishment of perfect equality of rights for women...civil and political-industrial and educational."

GLC07337

to Estelle Spero

Diamond writes that, as a result of his position as executive officer, he now gives instructions on Japanese weapons. He also comments that, having "fought and worked…side by side with the negro soldiers", he is "nauseated" by the reports of growing...

GLC09120.408

to Addie Frizielle

In this letter from 1944 Mrs. Roosevelt responded to one of her critics, Addie Frizielle, who worried about the desegregation of restrooms and forced social interaction between the races in the government's movement toward racial equality in some...

GLC09544.01

Portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt

One undated photograph of Eleanor Roosevelt. Accompanies a letter GLC09544.01

GLC09544.02