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to Elizabeth Hamilton Holly

Elizabeth writes to her daughter Eliza, reporting that the trip was easy and she has arrived. She inquires to how Eliza is doing and "hope you are well and not timid if so conquer it my child I heare how distressing it is to your brothers wife."

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Elizabeth Hamilton

A small bust portrait of Elizabeth Hamilton in her later years. On the back of the image it states "Mrs. Alexander Hamilton, 1757-1854, in her ninty-fourth year. From crayon (or charcoal) sketch from life by Charles Martin, dated June 1851. Taken in...

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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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harlem

This pamphlet has an introduction in German, the rest is in English. The pamphlet is a mix of history and poetic verse describing what Harlem is, and who lives there. This pamphlet also focuses on past riots starting in 1935, and including 1943. It...

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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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By the King, A Proclamation. Declaring the Cessation of arms, as well by Sea as Land, agreed upon between his Majesty, the most Christian King, the King of Spain, the States General of the United Provinces, and the United States of America

This was the English announcement of cessation of hostilities; reciprocal proclamation by the American Peace Commissioners was issued on February 20th, and signed in type by John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and John Jay.

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