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Face of a Monster

One essay written in 1964 by Marjorie Lees Linn regarding the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing. Linn's attempts to voice the incredulity she felt after the attack and insults she received criticizing those who committed the attack. "How can...

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[Donation envelope to SCLC]

One pre-paid piece of mail addressed to Martin Luther King Jr., at SCLC Headquarters. Envelope contains a form to be filled out by the donor. "I am pleased to contribute to $ ____ to advance human dignity in the United States."

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[Press photo of County Manager and Metro Employees Union Strikers]

One press photograph taken by John Walter dated September 6, 1965. Image portrays strikers meeting with the County Manager Porter Homer. Attached to the image is the newsclipping by Miller Davis. Details that "500 and trash collectors staged an...

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Long Live the King

One wirephoto taken by Associated Press dated April 5, 1968. Depicts Reverend Ralph Abernathy raising an arm to the sky and saying "Long Live the King." Picture taken after a short memorial service in Memphis, Tennessee after King's body had been...

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[View through simulated rifle scope aimed at Dr. Martin Luther King's hotel room]

One wirephoto taken by United Press International dated April 6, 1968. Depicts the view through a simulated rifle scope aimed at the spot where Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated on the balcony of the Lorraine Hotel. The shot was taken from an...

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Housing: the Continuing Problem.

One pamphlet entitled, "Housing: the Contuining Problem," dated June 1940. Printed by the National Resources Planning Board. Item reports demand for affordable housing, estimates labor costs, foreclosure laws among other details.

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"Racial Policy in Public Housing"

One pamphlet entitled, "Racial Policy in Public Housing," written by Robert C. Weaver dated 1940. Describes how African-Americans have been neglected by the federal government and the lack of a "racial policy" in America related to public housing.

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"The Housing of Negro Families in Greater New York"

One pamphlet entitled, "The Housing of Negro Families in Greater New York" dated January 15, 1940 written by Warren M. Banner. Pertains to a report on the population of African Americans living in New York City and evidence of low quality housing...

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Hurt in Los Angeles Riots

One wirephoto entitled, "Hurt in Los Angeles Riots," taken by the Associated Press dated August 15, 1965. Image is of two fire fighters holding up a Black man in front of a store. Wire transfer information states the man was in a burning store before...

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Forcible Ejection

One wirephoto entitled, "Forcible Ejection," taken by the Associated Press dated June 16, 1966. Image is of
Reverend Virgil Wood protesting against segregation in Boston public schools. Wire transfer information states that Reverend Wood rushed the...

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Scene of Racial Unrest

One wirephoto entitled, "Scene of Racial Unrest," taken by Associated Press dated March 10, 1965. Image is a map of locations in Selma, Alabama identifying areas of civil rights demonstrations. The identified areas were Browns Chapel A.M.E. Church...

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[Press photograph of Clarence Thomas and George H.W. Bush at a press conference]

One press photograph of Clarence Thomas speaking to the press shortly after being nominated for the Supreme Court. Standing next to him was President George H.W. Bush. There are red markings on the photograph around Thomas's face. Wire transfer...

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to Mary Marbery

One letter addressed to Mary Marbery from her brother, William Marbery dated Summit House Hospital, November 11. He relays financial woes to her as well as expressing happiness that Abraham Lincoln has been elected as president to the United States...

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Just a Neighbor: A Child's Memoir of the Civil Rights Movement

One book entitled Just a Neighbor: A Child's Memoir of the Civil Rights Movement, by Valda Harris Montgomery Published in 2010. The book is signed by the author in 2019. The book contains nine chapters; Centennial Hill and Family beginnings, Richard...

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"Jim Crow, He's Real Tired"

One article entitled, "Jim Crow, He's Real Tired," dated March 3, 1957 written by George Barrett. Article pertains to Martin Luther King Jr., leading the resistance in Montgomery, Alabama. Refers to the NAACP as "communistic," and covers the reaction...

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[James Meredith in Registrar's Office at the University of Mississippi]

One telephoto taken by United Press International dated October 1, 1962. Image is of James Meredith answering questions for journalists in the Registrar's Office. Wire transfer information states that the photograph was taken after Meredith...

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[Pueblo Indian boys sitting on carriage wheel]

One undated hand colored depicting Pueblo Indian boys sitting on an empty carriage.

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[Invitation to the inauguration of President Barack Obama]

One invitation to the inauguration of President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden on behalf of the Presidential Inaugural Committee, dated January 20, 2009. Document is embossed with a gold inaugural seal.

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Feiffer On Civil Rights

One book entitled "Feiffer On Civil Rights" by the Jules Ralph Feiffer dated 1966. Book features a collection of political cartoons concerning Civil Rights and segregation. There is a foreword by Bayard Rustin explaining the collection of cartoons...

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to Alexander Milton Ross

One letter from Ruth Brown Thompson to Alexander Milton Ross dated March 11, 1879. Thanks him for his book "Reflections and Experiences of an Abolitionist" and praises him for living a life of self-sacrifice.

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[Group photograph of Japanese-Americans on a boat]

One undated black-and-white group photograph of Japanese-Americans on a boat.

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[President Lyndon B. Johnson Signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965]

One wirephoto published by Associated Press dated August 6, 1965. Features President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965. A newspaper caption pasted to the back of the photograph identify others in the scene, "(from left) Vice...

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Julius Rosenwald Fund, Review of Two Decades, 1917-1936.

One pamphlet entitled, "Julius Rosenwald Fund, Review of Two Decades, 1917-1936," published in 1936. Includes sketch of Julius Rosenwald. Describes services provided by the fund for African Americans in education, health, and labor. Financial...

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Equality of Opportunity in Housing, A Handbook of Facts

One pamphlet entitled, "Equality of Opportunity in Housing, A Handbook of Facts," dated June 1952. Printed by the National Community Relations Advisory Council. Writing pertains to housing laws cost, racial discrimination, public housing, effects of...

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The Negro Question.

One edition of "The Negro Question," by Moorfield Storey dated June 27, 1918. The item is a reprint of an address delivered before the Wisconsin Bar Association. Discusses the treatment of African Americans utilizing data on lynching, comparing...

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[Portrait of Martin Luther King Jr., and Coretta Scott King]

One photograph of Martin Luther King Jr., with his wife Coretta Scott King reviewing SCLC documents in an office. Stamped with the date September 10, 1962 on reverse side.

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Vows to March

One photograph entitled, "Vows to March," taken by Associated Press dated February 13, 1965. Image is of Hosea Williams encouraging a crowd to prepare for a march. Williams stands on the right side of the scene with his arm stretched out. Others
look...

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1912 Lower Mississippi Flood photo postcards [Decimalized .01-.03]

Three postcards by F.A Rosselle dated 1912. Feature the effects of the Mississippi Flood of 1912, efforts to contain the rising waters, and refugees from the flooding. A late snowfall coupled with heavy spring rain gave way to devastating flooding...

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An Autobiography: The Story of the Lord's Dealings with Mrs. Amanda Smith

One book entitled An Autobiography: The Story of the Lord's Dealings with Mrs. Amanda Smith published 1893. This book is broken into thirty six chapters and details Smith's life as a free woman after her father bought the freedom of his family during...

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Mrs. King Joins March in Husband's Honor

One wirephoto published by Associated Press dated April 8, 1968. Depicts Coretta Scott King at the front of a march held in Memphis in honor of her husband. Accompanying her in the front row are her children Yolanda, Martin III, and Dexter, as well...

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Start of March

One wirephoto published by Associated Press dated April 8, 1968. Depicts people marching arm-in-arm down a street in Memphis, Tennessee.

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[Senator and Mrs. Robert Kennedy meet King's sons]

One telephoto published by United Press International dated April 8, 1968. Depicts Senator Robert Kennedy and his wife Ethel meeting Dr. King's sons, Dexter and Martin III. Mrs. Kennedy shakes the hand of Martin III and Dexter looks on with a smile...

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[Senator Eugene McCarthy arrives at funeral of Dr. King]

One telephoto taken by United Press International dated April 9, 1968. Depicts Eugene McCarthy arriving at the funeral for Dr. King.

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[Senators Robert Kennedy and Eugene Kennedy at Dr. King's memorial service]

One telephoto taken by United Press International dated April 9, 1968. Depicts Senators Robert Kennedy of New York and Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota at the memorial service for Dr. King.

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[Robert Kennedy marches in procession for King]

One telephoto taken by United Press International dated April 9, 1968. Depicts Senator Robert Kennedy marching in the funeral procession of Dr. King. The wirephoto text description points out the movie marquee as Kennedy walks by, "Day of the Evil...

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The Pamphlet Poets

One pamphlet entitled, "The Pamphlet Poets," dated 1927. Contains poems by Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, and Jean Toomer. Includes an introduction by Alain Locke.

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[Photograph of a baby in a stroller]

One undated black-and-white photograph of a child in a stroller by a row of houses. On the reverse side is a note that states her name is Sylvia Joyce and she is 8 months old.

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Times Square Invader Dragged Off

One telephoto entitled, "Times Square Invader Dragged Off," dated April 5, 1968, taken by Associated Press. Image depicts two policemen dragging a Black man on the ground by his arm and the neck of his coat. Attached to the image is a typed note that...

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Waved Away

One telephoto entitled, "Waved Away" dated April 6, 1968 taken by Associated Press. Depicts two armed National Guardsmen wearing gasmasks. One guardsmen is gesturing to a Black woman to move away from the street.

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Chicago

One telephoto entitled, "Chicago" dated April 8, 1968 taken by United Press International. Depicts a Black girl walking past armed National Guardsmen and a street of destroyed buildings.

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to Ebenezer Dole

Signed twice (once struck out) by the famous abolitionist editor Garrison to Dole. Was writing to thank Dole for the 100 dollars he sent. Garrison did not know Dole before he sent the money. Speaks of his prison time for libel in Baltimore a month...

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Keep us flying! Buy War Bonds

This poster features a member of the Tuskegee Airmen wearing flight gear. Above him is written "Keep us Flying!" and across the bottom of the poster it reads "Buy War Bonds." There is a number O-560778 on the bottom left hand corner. This poster is...

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$2,500 Reward! Mississippi Co., Missouri broadside advertising runaway slaves

Broadside advertising four runaway slaves and their characteristics, offering more compensation if captured in a free state. (With losses to text.)

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to Samuel P. Carson

Written to his Secretary of State. Written at Camp West of Brasos

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Harper's Weekly [(February 21, 1863)]

One page of the February 21, 1863 issue of Harper's Weekly. This page features the engraving "The Effects of the Proclamation - Freed Negroes Coming Into Our Lines at Newbern, North Carolina." The reverse side of this page features articles...

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to Priscilla

William Pearce mentions marching south and seeing enslaved people. He describes seeing the Corinth battlefield.

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to Sister

Writes to his sister, likely Selina, about registering Black people in town as free, enslaved, or as employed by White people.

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A plea for Africa, being familiar conversations on the subject of slavery and colonization, [originally published under the title "Yaradee."]

Published by J. Whetham. Discusses African history, slavery, and colonization. Contains reviews following the appendix. Also includes an advertisement for Psalmodia, another book by Freeman. On inner front cover, contains a Henry F. Porter...

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to John H. Hammond

Collateral to Hammond's copy of Sherman's Memoirs (GLC 398.02). Sherman presents Hammond, his former Chief of Staff, with a copy of his Memoirs, and asks him to review the " ... account of the affair at Chickasaw and Arkansas Post" and also to check...

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to unknown

Discusses the origins of the design of the flag of the United States. Encloses something showing what he believes the flag should look like now (not present). Reports that he became Treasurer in 1861 and served under Presidents Lincoln, Johnson, and...

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