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Alcatraz: Indians of All Tribes [Volume 1, No.2, February 1970]

One newsletter entitled, "Alcatraz: Indians of All Tribes," dated February 1970. Features articles, opinion pieces, legislation, and correspondence written by indigenous peoples protesting against the use of natural resources for profit, as well as...

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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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[Portrait of Rosa Parks giving fingerprints at police station]

One photograph of Rosa Parks dated February 22, 1956. Image is of Parks at police station being fingerprinted by Sheriff D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Alabama.

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[Portrait of Rosa Parks giving fingerprints at police station]

One photograph of Rosa Parks dated February 22, 1956. Image is of Parks at police station being fingerprinted by Sheriff D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Alabama.

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[Portrait of Rosa Parks giving fingerprints at police station]

One photograph of Rosa Parks dated February 22, 1956. Image is of Parks at police station being fingerprinted by Sheriff D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Alabama.

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The Woman's Tribune [Vol. 5, No. 35 (July 7, 1888)]

One issue of "The Woman's Tribune, Vol. V, No. 35," printed in Beatrice, Nebraska and dated July 7, 1888. This newspaper was established by Clara Belwick Colby. The item contains articles regarding women's suffrage. It includes printed copies of...

GLC09801.01

The Woman's Tribune [Vol. 5, No. 35 (July 7, 1888)]

One issue of "The Woman's Tribune, Vol. V, No. 35," printed in Beatrice, Nebraska and dated July 7, 1888. This newspaper was established by Clara Belwick Colby. The item contains articles regarding women's suffrage. It includes printed copies of...

GLC09801.02

Socialist Commentary [Vol. 4, No. 7, September 1950]

One pamphlet entitled, "Socialist Commentary" dated September 1950. Consists of articles pertaining to international socialist issues; segregation in Georgia; Brazilian presidential elections; a socialist conference in Madras, India; France's...

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Wanted : A Healthy South

One pamphlet entitled, "Wanted: A Healthy South," by Dorothy Dickins dated 1946. Item is an overview of the differences in health between white and black Americans. Study points to sanitation, housing, and income inequality as signifiers of the...

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[Portrait photographs of Rosa Parks] [Decimalized .01-.07]

Collection of seven photographs of activist, Rosa Parks dates range from 1956-1955. Includes Parks speaking at events in the 1990s, press photographs of Parks aboard a bus on Montgomery, Alabam in 1956 prior to her arrest, and Parks in the sheriff's...

GLC09778

The Year of Jubilee, NAACP Annual Report for 1959

One pamphlet entitled, "The Year of Jubilee, NAACP Annual Report for 1959," dated July 1960. Contains chapters on legal cases, convention of 1959, religion and civil rights, program activities, membership campaigns, housing, and voting rights.

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Baker Block the Way

One wirephoto entitled, "Baker Block the Way" taken by the Associated Press dated March 13, 1965. Image is of Wilson Baker stopping demonstrators headed towards a protest for voting rights. Wire transfer information states that protesters led by...

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Another Day, Another Confrontation

One wirephoto entitled, "Another Day, Another Confrontation," taken by Associated Press dated March 15, 1965. Images is of police officers blocking a large crowd of demonstrators with police cars. Wire transfer information states that Sheriff James...

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Her Friends Injured During Racial Violence

One photograph by Associated Press dated July 25, 1966. Image is of a young girl holding a cigarette. Behind her are four men. One man on the left has his head bent forward, hands covered in blood; another injured man, pictured in the middle, is on...

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Portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt

One undated photograph of Eleanor Roosevelt. Accompanies a letter GLC09544.01

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Common Ground [Autumn 1948]

One issue of Common Ground dated Autumn 1948. Features topics and authors of various cultures and backgrounds. Includes material related to prejudice expressed through poetry, essays, photographs of dock workers, segregation, and Puerto Rico's...

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Letters to Jackie Robinson [Decimalized .01-.09]

Collection consists of nine letters to Jackie Robinson dated 1957 to 1963. All correspondents are U.S. politicians and presidents such as Richard Nixon, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy.

Jackie Robinson continued his civil...

GLC09754

to James Allison

One letter from Eben Allison to James Allison dated January 24, 1864. Writes about March to Knoxville and engagements with longstreet's cavalry and North Carolina Indians.

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The Negro Wage-Earner and Apprenticeship Training Programs; A critical analysis with recommendations

One pamphlet entitled, "The Negro Wage-Earner and Apprenticeship Training Programs; A critical analysis with recommendations," dated 1959. Gives an analysis of issues for African Americans in the work place such as segregation, wage, training, and...

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New Threat to Civil Liberties, NAACP Annual Report

One pamphlet entitled, "New Threat to Civil Liberties, NAACP Annual Report," dated 1956. Item highlights the yearly accomplishments of the NAACP in human rights and legal battles; propaganda against the NAACP; the 1956 convention; the workplace; and...

GLC09640.183

NAACP in Action, Report for 1961

One pamphlet entitled, "NAACP in Action, Report for 1961," dated 1961. Annual report for NAACP summaries includes: human rights; legal battles; propaganda against the NAACP; the 1960 convention; the workplace; finances; voting rights and voter...

GLC09640.184

The Official Proceedings of the National Negro Congress

One pamphlet entitled, "The Official Proceedings of the National Negro Congress," dated February 14, 1936. Item gives an account of the first meeting of the National Negro Congress (NNC); delves into its founding; a speech by the the president of the...

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The Official Proceedings of the National Negro Congress

One pamphlet entitled, "The Official Proceedings of the National Negro Congress," dated February 14, 1936. Item gives an account of the first meeting of the National Negro Congress (NNC); delves into its founding; a speech by the the president of the...

GLC09640.189.02

The Power of the Ballot, A Handbook for Black Political Participation

One pamphlet entitled, "The Power of the Ballot, A Handbook for Black Political Participation," dated 1973. Item was published for the purpose of promoting strategies to increase black voter registration. Gives statistics, planning timetables for...

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The Power of the Ballot, A Handbook for Black Political Participation

One pamphlet entitled, "The Power of the Ballot, A Handbook for Black Political Participation," dated 1973. Item was published for the purpose of promoting strategies to increase black voter registration. Gives statistics, planning timetables for...

GLC09640.196.02

Phylon [First Quarter, 1942]

One issue of Phylon dated 1942. Consists of a collection of essays, poetry, and reviews related to race, politics, and history. Features a report on employment trends in the military, and an essay by W.E.B. Du Bois entitlted, "A Chronicle of Race...

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[John E. Jacob's remarks at the 78th Annual NAACP Convention, 1987]

One typed address by John E. Jacob, president of the National Urban League at the 78th Annual NAACP Convention dated July 8, 1987. Addresses a concern that "racism is dead." States that the National Urban League has organized an education initiative...

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The history of the rise, progress and accomplishment of the abolition of the African slave-trade by the British Parliament.

First edition in contemporary blue paper boards with paper spine label. Illustrations fold out, including the infamous woodcut of a slave ship filled with people (volume two, following page 110). Volume one contains 572 pages, volume two contains...

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[One letter and one photograph related to Eleanor Roosevelt] [Decimalized .01-.02]

One letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Addie Frizielle dated May 13, 1944, and one photograph of Eleanor Roosevelt.

GLC09544

to James Thomas Fields

Bryant writes to Fields, editor of the Atlantic Monthly. Transmits a poem, "The Death of Slavery" (GLC 1543.02). Remarks that the poem was "meditated a year since but written out within the last few days. I had a good deal of trouble with some of...

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to Mr. Laighton

Regrets that he is unable to attend a meeting held at Allston Hall the following Friday, in remembrance of Theodore Parker. Emerson claims, "I do not know that I could add any facts of interest to the recollections of the occasion. Yet Theodore...

GLC01549

to Dr. Stone

Writes from "Woodside Cottage." Says she just received his letter and hopes to see him in Boston next week. Asks him "to make no public mention if you have not, of the Uncle Tom project till I have seen you. Don't mention it at any rate till then."...

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United States Constitution. Printed Dunlap & Claypoole edition inscribed to Jonathan Williams

One printing of the United States Constitution by Dunlap & Claypoole dated September 17, 1787. This printing of the Constitution is missing the last two pages cutting off after the second paragraph of the sixth article. It is a members printing of...

GLC03585

to Capt. Winslow

Written as British Colonel. Note that Mascarene shortened his name from John Paul to Paul.

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[Adjutant General's Office general orders no. 1: Emancipation Proclamation]

Includes obliterated property stamp on page one. Possibly the first army printing of the final proclamation. Binding is extremely fragile.

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Vindication of Major General John C. Fremont, against the attacks of the slave power and it's allies, by Hon. John P. C. Shanks, of Indiana, in the House of Representatives, Tuesday, March 4, 1862.

Printed by Scammell & Co.

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New York times [Vol. IX, no. 2541 (11 November 1859)]

News regarding John Brown's raid. Reports on conviction of Brown's fellow raiders, Gerrit Smith going insane, Brown's time in Kansas, his charitable deeds. Also an article urging reconciliation between North and South, and urging Brown be pardoned...

GLC08771

[Pardon of Robert Baker for engaging in the slave trade].

Countersigned by James Buchanan. Baker, 1st mate on the Brig "Montivedio", was convicted of engaging in the slave trade between Africa and Brazil and sentenced to serve 6 months in prison and pay a $500 fine and court costs. Pardoned after serving...

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to Elbridge Gerry

Writes that although he lacks any sympathy for the "philanthropy" of slavery, he will not violate the treaty requiring the enslaved people who sought freedom to be returned to enslavers. One black and white bust engraving of John Adams included.

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[Reconstruction leaflet denouncing the Freedman's Bureau and supporting Andrew Johnson]

One side titled, "ECONOMISE AND PAY YOUR DEBT!: Restore the South and increase your resources." The other side titled, "ONLY SEVEN MILLIONS!" One side denounces the funding Congress passed in the Freedman's Bureau Bill as support for "lazy negros."...

GLC00329

to Simon Newton Dexter

Signed as "A. A. Dexter." Docket reads "Rodney B[illegible]." Mentions his father's memoir. Discusses his "planting business" and a successful crop. Writes, "I have now quite a reputation as a planter having made the best crop in the county... I had...

GLC00330

Acts of Congress, general orders, and instructions for the guidance of boards of Registration, in the third military district, (Georgia, Alabama, and Florida.)

Acts of Congressional reconstruction, centering on the registration of freedmen to vote, beginning with two Acts "to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel states," signed in type by Schuyler Colfax and Lafayette Foster; a second Act...

GLC00349

Andrew Johnson on Negro Suffrage

[Title continued] His letter to Gov. Sharkey of Mississippi. Reconstruction era printing of Johnson's letter commending the governor's convention to amend the state constitution. In the letter, Johnson also attacks the radical Republicans.

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The Rejected stone: or insurrection vs. resurrection in America. By a native of Virginia

Conway's authorship marked as "By a Native of Virginia." Published by Walker, Wise, and Company at 245 Washington Street. Printed by Welch, Bigelow, & Co. First edition. A plea for emancipation divided into 19 chapters. Original red printed...

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[Report accompanying bill no. 23, regarding admission of Kansas to the Union]

36th Congress, 1st session. House of Representatives report no. 255. Opens with the report, submitted by Grow and other members of the Committee on Territories. Contains the Wyandott Constitution of 1859, arguing for the admission of Kansas...

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Roll of honor. Names of soldiers who died in defense of the Union, interred in the national cemeteries

Complete title is: "Roll of Honor (No. XXV.) Names of Soldiers who Died in the Defense of the Union, Interred in the National Cemeteries at Fredericksburg, Virginia; Mobile, Alabama; and Fort Gibson, Indian Territory; and Names Not Heretofore...

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to Thomas Holliday Hicks

He takes it for granted that the new state constitution will be ratified and a new governor will be elected, but doubts that the new governor will be as good as Hicks was. In Annapolis last winter he spoke with Judge Bowie of Montgomery County, one...

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The border ruffian code in Kansas

A pro-Republican, free-soil pamphlet published by Horace Greeley's Tribune. "The character of the Code of pretended Laws enacted by the bogus Territorial Legislature of Kansas- a Legislature notoriously forced upon the people of that Territory, at...

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Modern "Democracy," the ally of slavery. Speech of Hon. M. W. Tappan of New Hampshire, in the House of Representatives, July 29, 1856.

Printed by Greeley & McElrath (the New York Tribune). Tappan, a United States Representative from New Hampshire, declares, "There is... but one hope left for Freedom in Kansas, and that the people of this country are about to avail themselves of....

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National intelligencer. [Vol. 51, no. 77347 (January 22, 1850)]

Includes President Taylor's message regarding the government of California and, should the territory seek admission to the union, the future government of that state. Includes a report on California gold by a Mr. King and a President's message...

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