29 August 1963

Roderick, Dorrance D., fl. 1963

Newspaper

Title: El Paso Times [Vol. 83. No. 241 (August 29, 1963)]

One newspaper entitled El Paso Times dated August 29, 1963. Produced for the city of El Paso and describes itself as "Traditionally it is Democratic but it will support that which it believes to be right and oppose that which it believes to be wrong regardless of political party." The newspaper contains many advertisements and a sports section, comics, investment section and classified advertisements. The Main headline on the front page reads, "Negroes' Cause 'Advanced' Says JFK." The headline is accompanied by two photographs and an article which is continued on page six A. It also…

GLC09976.02

December 1957

Hassler, Alfred, 1910-1991

Comic book

Title: Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story

One comic book entitled, "Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story," written by Alfred Hassler dated December 1957. Illustrations by Sy Barry. The item includes instances of nonviolent resistance. Includes images of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., and Mahatma Gandhi. Published by the Fellowship of Reconciliation.

GLC09962

December 1957

Hassler, Alfred, 1910-1991

Comic book

Title: Martin Luther King y la Historia de Montgomery

One comic book entitled, "Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story," written by Alfred Hassler dated December 1957. Illustrations by Sy Barry. The item includes instances of nonviolent resistance. Includes images of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., and Mahatma Gandhi. Written in Spanish. Same as GLC09962. Published by Fellowship of Reconciliation.

GLC09963

29-30 August 1963

Various

Header Record

Title: Newspapers documenting 1963 March on Washington [Decimalized .01-.02]

Two newspapers documenting the 1963 March on Washington as well as local news. Includes an issue of the Pacific Stars and Stripes with a front page story on the March. It also contains articles on the Vietnam conflict, and the space program. The second newspaper is the El Paso Times with a front page story on the March. It also contains articles on local events and the space program.

GLC09976

11 October 1987

Ranson, Rebecca, fl. 1987

Pamphlet

Title: National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights

One pamphlet entitled National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights October 11, 1987. This pamphlet was produced as a program for the March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay rights which took place on October 11, 1987. It contains many advertisements geared towards the LGBTQ community as well as advertisements supporting the March. Some articles of particular interest are: The Rally Schedule, p. 31: A map of the March route as well as the location for the afternoon rally The March Demands p 32-34: Lists the goals of the March in both broad and minute detail. Related Events p.…

GLC09979

February 1993

Newspaper Project of the Committee for the March on Washington, Inc.

Newspaper

Title: March On Washington April 25, 1993

One newspaper entitled March On Washington April 25, 1993, published February 1993. The headline on the front page reads, "Our Time Has Come. Federal Civil Rights Now!" The newspaper was produced to promote and help participants plan for the March on Washington which took place on April 25, 1993. The March was to promote and ensure rights for the LGBTQ community. It contains many advertisements geared towards the LGBTQ community as well as advertisements supporting the March. Some articles of particular interest are: The March Demands p 3: Lists the goals of the March. March-Related…

GLC09980

June 1992

Pride Events Newspaper Project

Newspaper

Title: March on Washington April 25, 1993!

One newspaper entitled March on Washington April 25, 1993! published June 1992. The front page contains a letter to members of the LGBTQ community reminding them about the 1987 March on Washington. It also highlights the work still needed and the reasons to March again on April 25th. The newspaper highlights the organizing work already done as well as requesting information for any other events being planned so that they are included in the overall offerings. It contains advertisements geared towards the LGBTQ community as well as advertisements supporting the March. Other articles of…

GLC09981

circa 1926

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Broadside

Title: 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 in the United States. Requests that donations are sent to Joel Elias Spingarn, NAACP Treasurer.

GLC06197

17 July 1858

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Pamphlet

Title: Speech of Hon. Abraham Lincoln, delivered in Springfield, Saturday evening, July 17, 1858.

Discusses the upcoming election and the disadvantages the Republican Party faces in it. Traces the development of his attitudes toward slavery and equality. Expresses his conviction that the southern slave power was engaged in a conspiracy to nationalize slavery and strip whites as well as blacks of their civil rights. States that the Kansas-Nebraska bill was the beginning of this. Urges that slavery be placed in the course of "ultimate extinction." Attacks Stephen Douglas and defends himself by stating that he supports the principles of equality put forth in the Declaration of…

GLC06214.01

1845

Child, Lydia Maria Francis, 1802-1880

Book

Title: Letters from New York : Second series.

Second volume of journalism published by author and abolitionist Child. Includes a chapter on the rights of women. First edition. Printed by C.S. Francis (New York) and J. H. France (Boston). BAL 3152.

GLC06218

1860

Dall, Caroline H., fl. 1860

Book

Title: "Woman's right to labor," or, Low wages and hard work : in three lectures, delivered in Boston, November, 1859.

First edition. Published by Walker, Wise and Company.

GLC06220

1851-1854

Book signed

Title: [The Proceedings of the woman's rights conventions].

Compilation of the 1850 through 1854 women's rights conventions. Contents include the 1850 convention held at Worcester; the 1851 convention held at Worcester; the 1852 convention held in Syracuse; the 1853 convention held at the Broadway Tabernacle in New York; and the 1854 convention held in Cleveland. Included in the section on the convention in Cleveland is a printing of the Declaration of Sentiments from the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention. Inscription reads, "Harriet H. Robinson from Paulina Gerry, Nov. 1881." Gerry attended the 1850 convention. Robinson used this volume in writing "…

GLC06228

1849

Wilson, Elizabeth A., fl. 1849

Book

Title: A scriptural view of woman's rights and duties, in all the important relations of life.

First edition. Printed by Wm. S. Young. Title page signed by former owner: L. E. Bowers.

GLC06230

1822

Meredith, William Morris, 1799-1873

Pamphlet

Title: A statement, by James C. Biddle and William M. Meredith, of the Philadelphia Bar.

Covers free press versus fair trial.

GLC06232.02

1865

Claxton, James S., fl. 1865

Pamphlet

Title: The African's right to citizenship.

Printed by James S. Claxton. With original blue wrappers. Stitched as issued. Covers "The right of individuals of any race, subject to a well-defined limitation, to inhabit the country of their choice." and "The inconsistency of a Democracy which excludes them from citizenship for any other cause than their inability to exercise the privilege of the elective franchise with discretion."

GLC06232.14

May 1863

Educational Commission for Freedmen (Boston, Mass.)

Pamphlet

Title: First annual report of the educational commission for freedmen.

Printed by Prentiss & Deland. Discusses the Port Royal Experiment, in which former slaves successfully worked on land abandoned by plantation owners on islands off the coast of South Carolina. Includes a report of the committee of teachers sent to Port Royal: "The instruction most needed by the blacks was not in the knowledge of school books, but in that which should lead them to appreciate the advantages of civilized life, to relinquish many of the habits and customs of slavery, and to learn the duties and responsibilities of free men." John Albion Andrew was chosen as President of…

GLC06232.15

20 April 1873

Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910

Autograph note signed

Title: [Woman's Festival of Universal Peace].

Written on an offprint of a brief essay by Howe from an 1873 issue of the "Woman's Journal." Howe asks for help to achieve the goals outlined in the essay. Includes a prayer by Mary N. [illegible]: "the root of evil of women's position begins in the worship of a male God. [illegible]. Therefore resolved that to worship a male God alone tends to injust[ice], inequality and irreligion." Also included are Howe's comments that the organization is financially sound and her motion that they "commemorate the day by crowning Mrs. E. C. Stanton[,] the originator of the resolution giving women…

GLC06242

circa 1813

Forten, James, 1766-1842

Pamphlet

Title: Letters from a man of colour, on a late bill before the Senate of Pennsylvania.

An eloquent response to a bill in the Pennsylvania senate to stop the emigration of people of color into the state. Forten wrote anonymously, signing his letters "A Man of Colour." Five letters respond to the Pennsylvania bill, arguing that Pennsylvania has been a refuge for emancipated Black people have unalienable rights set forth in the Declaration of Independence, which are protected by the Constitution. Forten writes, "The dog is protected and pampered at the board of his master, while the poor African and his descendant, whether a Saint or a felon, is branded with infamy, registered…

GLC06046

16 April 1883

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

Pamphlet

Title: Address by Hon. Frederick Douglass, delivered in the Congregational Church, Washington, D.C., April 16, 1883 : on the twenty-first anniversary of emancipation, in the District of Columbia.

"What Abraham Lincoln said in respect of the United States is as true of the colored people as of the relations of those States. They cannot remain half slave and half free. You must give them all or take from them all. Until this half-and-half condition is ended, there will be just ground of complaint... Until the colored man's pathway to the American ballot box, North and South, shall be as smooth and safe as the same is for the white citizen, this discussion will go on..." Bound in a light blue cover.

GLC06116

1855

Nell, William C., 1816-1874

Book

Title: The colored patriots of the American Revolution, with sketches of several distinguished colored persons: to which is added a brief survey of the condition and prospects of colored Americans.

Published by Robert F. Wallcut. Includes an introduction by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Contains descriptions of African Americans' meritorious military service. Includes a printed fold-out leaf opposite page 132, which consists of George Washington's discharge for a soldier named Brister Baker. The first illustration depicts Crispus Attucks, a runaway slave and a sailor who died 5 March 1770 in the Boston Massacre. A second section includes information on the state of African American Civil Rights at the time of publication. This work is a duplicate of GLC06176.

GLC06132

1855

Nell, William C., 1816-1874

Book

Title: The colored patriots of the American Revolution, with sketches of several distinguished colored persons: to which is added a brief survey of the condition and prospects of colored Americans.

Signed several times on the inside cover by Mrs. George H. Washington at an unspecified date. Signed 23 December 1978 in blue pen on the inner front cover by William D. Hoyt. Published by Robert F. Wallcut. Includes an introduction by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Nell, the author, describes African Americans' meritorious military service. Contains a printed fold-out leaf opposite page 132, which consists of George Washington's discharge for a soldier named Brister Baker. The first illustration depicts Crispus Attucks, a runaway slave and a sailor who died 5 March 1770 in the Boston Massacre…

GLC06176

1733-1735

Zenger, John P., 1697-1746

Header Record

Title: New-York Weekly journal [decimalized]

GLC06108

1934

Cunard, Nancy, 1896-1965

Book

Title: 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 people." Cunard's thorough and diverse work contains music, poetry, historical studies, discussions on racism, and reports on black culture in other countries, such as Haiti, Jamaica, Cuba, and Africa, among many others. Includes essays by such notables as anthropologist and writer Zora Neale Hurston, philosopher Alain Locke, sociologist W.E.B.…

GLC06115

27 November 1919

Grimké, Francis J., 1850-1937

Pamphlet

Title: The race problem, as it respects colored people and the Christian Church, in the light of the developments of the last year.

Signed on title page by C.G. Neall. Reverend Grimke, the son of a wealthy white planter and a slave, delivers a discourse at a Thanksgiving service held at the Plymouth Congregational Church in an unspecified city. Examines the unrest following World War I. Discusses African Americans' lack of civil rights, stating "we are here also, not only as American citizens, but as colored American citizens- as citizens, and yet not citizens- citizens with rights guaranteed to us in the Constitution, but with those rights but very imperfectly recognized" (p. 3). Argues that African Americans should…

GLC06122

30 September 1962

Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967

Book signed

Title: Fight for freedom: the story of the NAACP

Published by W. W. Norton & Company. Signed on the front flyleaf by Hughes, who inscribed the copy to Raymond Johnson. Signed and inscribed 30 September 1962 on the inner back cover by Evangeline Upshur Truman in Little Rock, Arkansas. Foreword provided by Arthur B. Spingarn, then-President of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, who highlights the longstanding relationship Hughes has had with the organization and its magazine, The Crisis. Hughes discusses the formation of the NAACP, African American organization efforts before the NAACP, the interwar years,…

GLC06123