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[Demonstrators cross Edmund Pettus Bridge during a march for voting rights in Selma, Alabama]

One photograph taken by the Associated Press dated March 22, 1965. Image is an aerial view of a dense crowd of marchers crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March 21, 1965.

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Steel Store Front Guard Ripped Off By Rioters

One photograph entitled, "Steel Store Front Guard Ripped Off by Rioters," taken by Associated Press dated July 19, 1964. Image is of a steel fence ripped off during a riot. Wire transfer information states that fence was in front of a pawnshop in...

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New York

One photograph entitled, "New York" taken by United Press International dated July 19, 1964. Image is of a police officer looking at a brocken store front window of a furniture store, damaged during the Harlem riots. Wire transfer information claims...

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Civil Rights Marchers Swarm On the Capitol

One wirephoto entitled, "Civil Rights Marchers Swarm On the Capitol," taken by Associated Press dated March 26, 1965. Image is of a crowd in front of the Alabama State Capitol on the final day of the Selma to Montgomery march. Wire transfer...

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Clean-Up After Harlem Riot

One photograph entitled, "Clean-Up After Harlem Riot" taken by Associated Press dated July 19, 1964. Image is of three residents and police officers surveying the damage of a pawn shop, Isaac Leon Corp. Wire transfer information states that damages...

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[Brigadier General Henry V. Graham supervises the voting rights march to Selma]

One photograph taken by the Ledger Enquirer dated March 25, 1965. Image is of Brigadier General Henry V. Graham walking towards demonstrators gathered in the plaza of the State Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.

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New York

One wirephoto entitled, "New York" by United Press International dated July 20, 1964. Image is of police removing ammunition and weapons from truck. On the sidewalk, two people watch the police. Wire transfer information states that people threw...

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Beefed-Up Police Force Near the Funeral of Negro Boy

One photograph entitled, "Beefed-Up Police Force Near the Funeral of Negro Boy" dated July 20, 1964. Image is of people behind a barricade. A group of police officers stands on the other side of the barricade. A newspaper clipping is pasted on the...

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Captured in Harlem Battle

One photograph entitled "Captured in Harlem Battle" dated August 2, 1943. Image is of two Black men being led into a police station by two officers in Harlem, New York. Wire transfer information states that the men's arrest were tied to neighborhood...

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Harlem Street Scene

One wirephoto entitled, "Harlem Street Scene" taken by Associated Press dated July 20, 1964. Image is of armed police officers surrounding Black residents in front of a flower shop in Harlem. Wire transfer information states that residents and police...

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Injured in Harlem Rioting

One wirephoto entitled, "Injured in Harlem Rioting," taken by Associated Press dated July 20, 1964. Image is of four Black men carrying one injured man. Wire transfer information states that violence broke out during the Harlem riots.

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New York

One photograph by United Press International dated July 20, 1964. Image is of police officers pushing back a crowd of Black mourners. Wire transfer information states that the officers were restraining people outside the funeral of James Powell.

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Taking Cover

One wirephoto entitled, "Taking Cover" taken by Associated Press dated July 20, 1964. Image is of a police officer crouching behind a car. He is pointing a gun. Wire transfer information states that debris was thrown at officers from tenement houses...

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[Collection of materials belonging to Henry Lee Moon, 1917-1987][Decimalized .001-.346]

Collection of 410 items belonging to Henry Lee Moon, Director of Public Relations at the NAACP. Items consist of political and sociological pamphlets, booklets, flyers, and books.

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Intellectual Freedom, Vol. 6, No. 4

One newsletter dated December 1957. Edited by Donald E. Strout from the Intellectual Freedom Committee of the American Library Association. Articles related to censorship and other racial insensitivities in media. Other articles include a ban lifted...

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The Vine City Project Paper on "Whites in the Movement"

Vine City is a large section of Atlanta. This paper concerns white people's participation in the struggle for equal rights, which has always been a significant issue among African American leadership. The author of this "white paper" cites "The...

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[Group of 22 pamphlets on the Black Panthers, Angela Davis, African American Communist Party, and the Civil Rights movement] [Decimalized .01- .22]

Group of 22 pamphlets on the Black Panthers, Angela Davis, African American Communist Party, and the Civil Rights movement.

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The Road to Negro Liberation: Report to the Eighth Convention of the Communist Party of the U.S.A.

This pamphlet is broken down into three sections, Negro reformism, agent of U.S. imperialism, The growth of petty-bourgeois nationalism, and the struggle for proletarian leadership of the negro liberation movement. Each section is further split into...

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The Negroes in a Soviet America

This pamphlet seeks to answer two questions, "What is the relation of the Negroes in the United States to this rapidly changing world? They are now living through one of the most trying times in their history. What is the way out?" The forward goes...

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Negro Liberation: the American Negroes as an oppressed nation; the struggle for equal rights and the right of self-determination

The purpose of this pamphlet is to "indicate the road, pointed out by historical and socio-economic facts, to Negro liberation." This pamphlet argues that liberation will be found using Soviet methods. This pamphlet is part of a series published by...

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Jim-Crow in Uniform

This pamphlet was produced to support communism in America, and urge youth to promote not entering World War II. It argues that, "We support no dreams of war abroad. We go to the wars at home. For jobs and civil liberties. For democracy and freedom!"...

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Sikeston Hitlerite Crime Against America

Text of a speech concerning the Missouri lynching of Cleo Wright at Sikeston, Missouri. William L. Patterson, his middle initial is misprinted on the cover, is a prominent African-American CPUSA official and Vice-President of International Labor...

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The Struggle for Negro Equality

This pamphlet provides a program and plan for gaining civil rights through the socialist agenda. It also reprints three articles from The Militant, two of which concern riots in Detroit and Harlem. The third is an article on Trotsky, and his beliefs...

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What Do The People Of Africa Want?

An informational pamphlet about Africa, it's history and culture. It also highlights what the people want going forward which is democracy and the "Four Freedoms."

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The Path of Negro Liberation

This pamphlet is the main report on the question of self-determination and self-government of African Americans in the "Black Belt" of the south. The pamphlet approaches "the question of self determination from the point of view thinking and trends...

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Freedom is Everybody's Job!

A portion of Crockett's summation to the jury in a trial of 11 leaders of the communist party. The pamphlet contains the introduction, and discussion of the prosecution's attempt to discredit the defendants and their party's position and activities.

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The Negro People and the Soviet Union

This pamphlet contains the text of a speech given by Robeson at a banquet sponsered by the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on November 10, 1949, for the 32nd anniversary of the Soviet Union.

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Riding to Freedom

This pamphlet contains two small essays by the authors. The first essay is titled "Riding to freedom" by Aptheker. This essay is a response to the crackdown on protesters in Alabama. The second essay by Jackson, is titled "What Must be Done," and is...

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Negro Freedom is in the Interest of Every American

This pamphlet outlines the civil rights movement, through the struggle so far, as well as what steps need to be taken further along. There is a symbol drawn on the inside of the cover which is a circle, half black, half red. Around the circle on the...

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For a Meaningful Alternative

This pamphlet contains the text of Gus Hall's report to a meeting of The National Committee of the CPUSA. It has 9 sections consisting of; The War in Vietnam, The Crisis in the Middle East, War Dominates U.S. Life, The Struggle for Peace, The Working...

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War, Racism, The Movement: As We See It

This pamphlet is the speech given by Jarvis Tyner, National Chairman of the W. E. B. Du Boise Clubs of America. The speech was given on the opening night of the 3rd national convention. The speech is broken up into two main sections the first is...

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International Socialist Review Volume 30 Number 3 Whole number 192

This journal contains two main essays, The Debate on Workers Control by Ernest Mandel, and The Financial Empires of America's Ruling Class, by Dick Roberts. It also contains three smaller pieces; "Otto Bauer: A Representative Theoretician of Austro...

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Black America and The World Revolution

This pamphlet is the publication of five speeches given from 1966-1970 by Lightfoot. These speeches are; "The American Peace Movement: A Vital Force for World Peace," delivered at a conference on the thirtieth anniversary of the Seventh World...

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John Abt: on the defense of Angela Davis

A speech delivered at the Unitarian church in Los Angeles. Angela Davis's lawyer made this speech detailing the case up to that point. He lays out the time line of her arrest, as well as actions taken since, including where she resided in jail. Abt...

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Revolution in the Congo

This pamphlet has 7 chapters; After Brother Malcom, The number one problem in Africa: Neo-colonialism, Congo (Brazzaville): a political history, Interview with Ernest Ndalla and Pierre Nze, Message to Afro-Americans, Interview with Ange Diawara, Afro...

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On Trial: Angela Davis or America?

This pamphlet is a collection of two speeches and one essay. The speeches were given by John Abt, and Reverand Ralph Abernathy, on Davis's 27th birthday on February 2nd 1921. The Essay was written to explain the actions of a panel of 12 African...

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The Fight to Free Angela Davis: It's importance for the working class

Spanning this pamphlet is the report given by Charlene Mitchell at the 20th National Convention of the Communist Party held in New York February 18-21 1972. This report discusses the court battle for Angela Davis's freedom. At the end of this...

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The Negro in the South: Brothers Beneath the Load, Working Together We Can Lift The World Toward God

This pamphlet does not have a publication date but mentions events from 1942. The pamphlet also discusses the relationship between church and African Americans and the place spirituality plays in their lives.

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Dear Children

Cordelia writes to her children, saying that the weather is rainy and storms are expected. There was snow earlier, but it has melted. She notes she is very excited for Christmas, when she will be able to see her family. She has recently gotten over a...

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to Children

Letter from Cordelia Williams. She says she's been wondering about Geri and asks if she's beaten the flu. She updates them on the weather and says the only news lately is sickness. She says that Reverend Martin Luther King was in town for a church...

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to Children

Letter from Cordelia Williams. She asks Geri how her mouth is doing. She talks about her garden and says she is doing well. There is lots of sickness and death around. She says Carter will have a hard time with the Civil Rights programs. On the news...

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Depression Intensifies the Race Problem

Details racial conflict during the Great Depression. The pamphlet sites the shortage of jobs and migration as a primary aggravators of increased tension to which the Commission dedicates their legal work. The Commission solicits donations and...

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to Mrs. Webster Knight

The letter is soliciting a donation from Mrs. Knight of Providence, Rhode Island. The letter is meant to accompany the pamphlet on lynching, insinuating that the statistics published are shocking. The letter is typed with a letterhead of the...

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[Photograph of Little Rock Nine students and Little Rock Central High School]

One black-and-white photograph taken by the Associated Press dated December 11, 1957. Image is a collage of seven images that consist of the Little Rock Nine students and Little Rock Central High School. Reverse side contains a typed caption that...

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[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.

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