In 1965 King was accused of allegedly attending a Communist workshop because of his association with Tennessee’s Highlander Folk School. The school had been maligned as a “Communist training school” on billboards put up throughout Alabama during the Selma to...
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...
The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races. February 1920, vol. 19, n0. 4. Whole no. 112. Cover art by Frank Walts Conducted by W.E. Burghardt Du Bois, opinion written by W.E. Burghardt Du Bois Articles include “Lynching Map, 1919;”...
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...
New York Daily Tribune, August 10, 1860 Article titled “Mr. Douglas, The Republicans, and the Dred Scott Decision.” Contains the report on the Dred Scott Decision, and ways to eventually overturn it. “The People of the United States, acting through...
“Free Angela’ she is quoted in poster. June 27th 1970 “I think that if we look around us we see that somehow or another a very small minority of people in this country have all of the wealth in their...