Original August 7, 1958 issue of “Jet” magazine featuring featuring an article on a 13-year-old Detroit boy abused by Iowa cultists, saved by Waterloo Iowa NAACP president Anna Mae Weems. Anna Mae Weems is a leader in Iowa. She has...
1955 Media Photo Dora Lee Martin wears the “Queen of Queens” crown. This is an original media photo. Dora Lee Martin, University of Iowa, wears the “Queen of Queens” crown after her coronation. The 17 year old Negro student was...
Pamphlet written by Charles Jackson, illustrated by Ruth Wilson, published by Pioneer Publishers, “Charles Jackson’s fighting column featured watch week in ‘The Militant’–the uncompromising champion of the colored people—calls for militant struggle to win full social, economic and political equality...
A pamphlet documenting the Keynote speaker William R. Hood at the opening session of the Founding Convention of the National Negro Labor Council, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 27, 1951. The pamphlet has a photo and brief biography of Hood and a...
Behind the Lynching of Emmett Louis Till,” by Louis Burnham, published by Freedom Associates, Inc., 139 W. 125th St., New York, December 1955, Printed in the USA The pamphlet says “In all the foul record of human oppression, few crimes...
The cover of this paperback mustard-yellow, 148 page directory Information on General Electric Appliances Manager Carrie Buford The first page states: “Introduction. The P.C. Doss & Co., wishes to introduce to the City of Omaha, the 19947-1948 Edition of the...
“Photographer re-creates the emotional crisis of a powerful new novel” the famous photographer Gordon Parks creates images corresponding to Ralph Ellison’s classic 1952 novel “The Invisible Man.” Photo essay by Gordon Parks, “Invisible Man” “Speaking of Pictures, A Man Becomes...
Photo postcard shows the toppled statue of Frederick III with several White men and one Black American soldier at the left. Friedrich III (1831 – 1888) was the German emperor and king of Prussia for 99 days. The sculpture, commissioned...
Large scale photograph postcard Who Radio Des Moines Iowa with “Cowboy Ken” and “Uncle Stan” holding with two prop dolls: a toy Rabbit and a caricatured Black doll that was called “Nappy.”
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