This UPI photo shows 7 people carrying signs in a picket line outside the Des Moines Capital building. The group is almost equally Black and White people. The signs read: “Who runs the City Council?” “Let Realtors Open the Closed...
This newspaper features articles on “Housing Conditions: Capitalism and Our Children;” “The Ideology of the Black Panther Party,” and “Pentagonized Society,” among others. The front page shows children playing in squalid conditions and states “We want decent housing for the...
“3 Bound to Grand Jury in Welfare Dinner Row” — this article discusses that three of the people who solicited money for welfare mothers at a banquet for the Iowa Welfare Association and were arrested are now chatged with interfering...
Titled “Stubborn Refusal to Aid Poor” the article states: “The Fayette County Board of Supervisors has remained firm in its refusal to sanction food programs for the poor. Despite appeals by the Oelwein mayor, Chamber of Commerce, local clergymen and...
Titled “Legal Help for the Poor,” the article describes that “the Iowa House Judiciary Committee has proposed a bill to authorize counties to support local legal aid programs. The measure would enable counties to provide help for the poor with...
This article, “Negro Total on Campuses is only 2%” by William Trombley, was reprinted from the Los Angels Times. It cites a report, titled “State Universities and Black Americans” commissed by the National Association of State Universities and Landgrant Colleges....
The articles “The Dilemma of the Black Businessman: Lack of Customers, Money, Experience, by Stephen Seplow eompiles the data regarding the lack of many Black owned businesses in Des Moines and interviews several Black business owners. [the article only discusses...
The article is titled “The Villains of Society,” written by Donald Kaul. He writes that, to the police, “the villains of American society are Welfare mothers.” His tongue-in-cheek article states that, when the welfare mothers and Charles Knox walked into...
the article is titled: “Maximum Force, Minimum Reason.” It covers the event at a banquet where people were arrested. The opening paragraph begins: “If there is one lesson which should have been learned by everyone in recent years, it is...
The article in full states “Mrs. Katherine Bryson, president of Mothers for Dignity and Justice, a group of welfare mothers, Friday, told how she and Mrs. Pat Auch were arrested at Hotel Savery Thursday night during a welfare banquet. Mrs....
Hand held fan has a painted image of Martin Luther King, jr., with a framed portrait of his mother in the background. Under the portrait of his mother is a book that says “Holy Bible.” A chevron caption says: “Together...
These fans were provided by the church to parishioners to cool off during services prior to the wide adoption of air conditioning. Space on the fans was typically purchased by funeral homes, ambulance services, mortuaries, and insurance companies to advertise...
Harvey B. Gantt, a former student at Iowa State University, petitioned successfully to become the first Black student at Clemson Agricultural College in South Carolina. The United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower courts ruling to allow...
The caption on the front below the photograph reads: “Newark New Jersey July 16 Sunday in riot plagued Newark. A little girl in her Sunday dress passes a National Guard roadblock on her way to church on the edge of...
A photo showing a female student spilling a paper cup, ostensibly of blood, surrounded by a crowd of onlookers. The caption reads :”(DI3) Iowa City, Iowa- Nov. 3–Protest with Blood–About 50 protesters poured paper cups of their own blood on...
Jet Magazine September 15, 1966 featuring articles on “Is ‘Black Power’ killing CORE?’ and a new movie by Sammy Davis Jr, A small article on p. 6 “City’s Only Negro Barred From Iowa County Fair”: “Two concessionaires at the Sac...
“Modeling with Millie” vol.1, #48, August 1966. Published by MALE Publishing Corp, 625 Madison Avenue, New York, NY. Marvel Comics. 12 cents per copy. Edited by Stan Lee. Art by Stan G. Story by Denny-O. Art by Artie Simek. Cover...
Quax, Drake Yearbook, 1970, vol. 69. Page 164 features two photographs of Mr. Al Williams, a Black student, with the text “Most Eligible Bachelor Mr. Al Williams”
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