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My Case [poem]

Faded ink. "For Saturday's Star." A poem justifying his assassination of President Garfield. "I executed / the Divine command. And Garfield did remove / to save my party / and my country / from the bitter fate of war...." The fifth page has had...

GLC06319

Negro anthology made by Nancy Cunard 1931-1933

Published by Cunard at Wishart & Company in London, England. In the foreword, Cunard states "It was necessary to make this book ... for the recording of the struggles and achievements, the persecutions and the revolts against them, of the Negro...

GLC06115

How God Fix Jonah

Published by Reynal & Hitchcock. Illustrated with prints from wood engravings by Letterio Calapai, an American painter, muralist, and printmaker. Signed by Graham on the dedication page; dedicated to Graham's sister Shirley Graham Du Bois, an...

GLC06121

[Statement of belief].

Condemns those who defend the perpetuation of slavery on the grounds that it was not proscribed by the Constitution and who wish for a return to the Union as it was. Includes poem lamenting the failure of the Founders to address slavery.

GLC06142

Proceedings of the Pennsylvania convention, assembled to organize a state anti-slavery society, at Harrisburg, on the 31st of January and 1st, 2d and 3d of February 1837.

Printed by Merrihew and Gunn. Cites participants, including Lewis Tappan from the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society, and John Greenleaf Whittier from Massachusetts.

GLC06146