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Chattanooga, Tenn.

One telephoto entitled, "Chattanooga, Tenn.," dated April 9, 1968 taken by Associated Press. Image is of police officer confronting two people walking in Chattonooga. Wire transfer information claims that the two men were looters. Also details that a...

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Rodney King Discovered America

One button with text that reads "Rodney King Discovered America." Pin has a white background with silhouette of three figures on one figure who is on their back.

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Segregation, the Caste System, and Civil Service

One booklet entitled, "Segregation, the Caste System, and Civil Service," dated 1914. Written by Kelly Miller.

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to Horatio Gates

Describes his visions of lava flows, overflowing oceans and ghosts (sounds almost Blakean). Mentions places all over the globe and gives strange account of manufacturing snowshoes from a pattern from Greece. Stephen as Major General in the Revolution...

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to Henry Jackson

Tracy lays out his resume to General Henry Jackson as "the oldest inspecting Officer of the Militia" in Massachusetts as reason to appoint him "Inspector for the District of Massachusetts." He includes his "abilities and character" as well as the...

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to Earl G. Hunt

Graham accepts Bishop Hunt's invitation to preach in Charlotte. He proposes a five day mini-crusade which will be televised nationally. He comments on the success of his Northern California Crusade despite the radicals at Berkeley University, the...

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to Henry Knox

Later copy of a letter to Henry Knox, discussing many issues regarding the military and Congress. Among the issues discussed are compensation from Congress for officers who served during the revolution, his affection for these officers, the division...

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to Thomas Flucker

Admiral Montagu informs Flucker that Admiral Samuel Graves will arrive later that month to assume command from British Governor of Massachusetts Thomas Gage. Orders Flucker to leave his house by midsummer. Flucker was Gage's secretary. Sandwich...

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to William Martin Dickson

Butler, a Union General and Radical Republican, discusses Jacob Dolson Cox's views on creating separate states for former slaves. Informs Dickson, a Republican judge and political figure in Ohio, that "The supposition that the negro can be...

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The Negro and the Army

One booklet entitled, "The Negro and the Army," dated 1941. Written by Eugene Varlin. Published by Pioneer Publishers for the Socialist Workers Party.

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Army Services Manual: Leadership and the Negro Soldier

One booklet entitled, "Army Services Manual: Leadership and the Negro Soldier," dated October 1944.

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to Charles Sumner with Sumner's autograph endorsement signed

Chase, a professor at Atlanta University, updates Sumner on the condition of African Americans in Georgia. States that "[t]he opposition to the elevation of the colored people is becoming more & more intense. 'I don't want a nigger to know more than...

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to Henry Knox

William Knox references Henry's letter from April 6. Says he has sent 13 letters to him, the last from Dublin on June 13 or 20. Says his last letter informed Henry of his "motives for coming here namely to negociate some funds by which I might be...

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A Proclamation.

This document is a proclamation ordering American ships to act according to an honest code and not take up piratical acts while in American waters. It is a printed broadside approved by Henry Laurens and Charles Thomson as President and Secretary...

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Free South. [Vol. 1, no. 35 (September 5, 1863)]

Union occupation newspaper, with content relating to emancipation and African American troops. The arrest and court martial of a soldier who referred to the 3rd USCT as "Nigger Regiment." Using the programs in Delaware and Missouri as examples of...

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The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King-Street Boston on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Reg.

Engraving of the Boston Massacre, hand-colored, first edition. Crispus Attucks is colored in, indicating that he was an African American. The depiction of the event and a poem printed below the engraving vilifies the British Army. The casualties...

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to Jabez Huntington

Hopes to return from London after the conclusion of the Mohegan Case. Reports on the "Temper of the New Parliament" in regard to the Stamp Act and other legislation affecting the American colonies.
Johnson lived in London from 1767 to 1771, while...

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Hospital Deck on Giant Transport "Leviathan".

An American sergeant visits with sick men on a hospital transport ship.

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Captured German Machine Guns on Road from Villers-Cotterets to Soissons.

Two American soldiers man a German captured machine gun, kneeling behind a bush.

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to Morris "Moe" Weiner

Sylvia heard that the American allies and the Russians have met.

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Extract of a dispatch from Mr. Crawford to Lord Clarendon

A manuscript extract from a May 6, 1857 dispatch from British consul at Havana, Joseph T. Crawford, to Lord Clarendon, giving names and tonnage of five American vessels sent to Havana, presumably for the slave trade. The ships are the schooner...

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Soldier's Engagement Waters Pals' Mouths

One newspaper clipping entitled, "Soldier's Engagement Waters Pals' Mouths." Details a romantic relationship between an American staff sergeant and an Australian socialist.

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[Finances]

One document by Omer H. Kelpe dated 1954. A list of checks written by the Disabled American Veterans Chapter 17 in January to February of 1954.

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