Article on Slave Emancipation reprinted from Frederick Douglass’s newspaper
Article on front page reprinted from Douglass’ Monthly “What Shall be done with the Slave if Emancipated?” Worcester Palladium Newspaper began production in 1834.
“John Brown Exhibiting His Hangman,” Jefferson Davis
The front of this 1860’s CDV Political Cartoon depicts John Brown Exhibiting His Hangman” Jefferson Davis who is dressed as a woman and in a bird cage. Here are a few descriptions of the card from dealers: “Northern rejoicing at...
JET magazine, Iowa cultists kidnap Black child, rescued by Anna Mae Weems
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...
Reverend Jesse Jackson at Iowa State University rally
Press Photo shows Rev. Jesse Jackson making a fist. Caption states “( DC 25) Ames, Iowa Feb 8, Jackson Campaigns. The Rev. Jesse Jackson gestures as he addresses a rally at the Iowa State University in Ames Monday prior to...
Protests throughout 2020, Des Moines, Iowa
In protest to the killing of Black men, women and children at the hands of the police throughout 2020, many Black Lives Matter protests occurred in Des Moines. These shapshots show several of the rallies that took place in the...
Vote for Change Barack Obama 2008 Iowa Poster
Barack Obama VOTE Iowa Poster Register and Vote Early 2008 Presidential Campaign – Obama Biden according to Wikipedia “Iowa was won by the Democratic nominee, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, by a 9.54% margin of victory. Obama took 53.93% of...
Black Panther Party Newspaper “Creation of breakfast programs for children”; “need to control police;” “capitalism breeds fascism”
Black Panther Newspaper is Vol III No 8 from Saturday June 14th 1969. Articles on the creation of breakfast programs for children, “Fascist / Capitalist Contradictions,” trial of Fred Hampton, a 2-page spread with graphic photograph on police brutality, and...
John Brown Postal Cover
“His last words.- “I die for the inalienable right of mankind to freedom, whatever hue the skin may be.”” These are printed at the top of this civil war period envelope. On the right it says “John Brown” and beneath...
Martin Luther King allegedly at “Communist Training” School
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...
The Crisis
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;”...
the Dred Scott Decision 1860
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...
Booker T. Washington at Tuskegee Institute
A stereoview depicting African-American educator and Civil Rights figure, Booker T. Washington, at the Tuskegee Institute with several notable figures, including Andrew Carnegie. The caption reads: “11151- Booker T. Washington and distinguished guests, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. Copyright Underwood & Underwood”...
Angela Davis poster
“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...
1860 John Brown’s raid at Harper’s Ferry Samuel J Kirkwood Civil WAR
Special Message of Governor Samuel J. Kirkwood, In Reply to a Resolution of Inquiry, Passed by the House of Representatives, March 2d, 1860, in Relation to the Requisition of the Gov. of Virginia, for One Barclay Coppic Iowa Governor Samuel...