Commissioned by the President’s Conference on Home Building and Home Ownership. Edited by John M. Gries and James Ford. This is one of the series of eleven books written for “Publications of the Presidents Conference on Home Building and Home...
The Communicator Newspaper, a Central Iowa Weekly founded in 1985, by line: “A New Multicultural Experience” This is a Black American newspaper. This is volume 4, no. 10. May 1-15, 1990 front page article: “Five Point Plan to Deal With...
The image names each of the enslaved people depicted. The caption states: “Emancipated slaves, white and colored— the children are from the schools established in New Orleans, by Order of Major-General Banks.” An article follows on p. 71 The images...
Harper’s Weekly article and illustration, Harper’s Weekly Journal of Civilization, August 28, 1869, Vol. XIII, no. 661, p.548 The caption reads “Steamboat Riot on the “Dubuque, Above Davenport, Iowa, July 29, 1863 — sketched by H.H. Henderson.” The article in full:...
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...
Harper’s Weekly A Journal of Civilization, June 9, 1866, vol. X, no. 493 This issue of Harper’s Weekly has a full-page spread on images of “Freedmen” in North Carolina after the Civil War. The images include “Trent River Settlement, opposite...
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...
An advertisement for Italian Paste Blacking, a paste for boots, has an image of a Black child holding a boot. The image is framed, it appears within an oval. The image is about 2.5″ x 2″, an illustration of a...
Headline in the middle of the first page reads: “All 28 Defendants in Lynching Case Given Acquittals: Carolinians Charged with Slaying Colored Man Freed by Jury”
Headline on page 4 states: “Law Segregating Negroes Invalid Says High Court: Federal Supreme Judges Declare Louisville Ordinance is Unconstitutional” The article begins: “In a unanimous opinion handed down on Monday today the United States Supreme Court held invalid the...
The article on the front page of this newspaper titled “The War in Kansas” contains a long and detained account of the “sacking of Lawrence, furnished to the Missouri Democrat by an eye-witness… It is graphic and reliable.” What follows...
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 images shows Black Union soldiers liberating Black enslaved people of all ages who greet them joyously. The text accompanying the image, found in the third column on a subsequent page says: “An expedition under Colonel M’Chesney, of the First...
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...
A pinkish backing for this stereoview that shows a young black man standing by a path amidst a grove of trees. He looks directly at the camera and seems to be holding an implement in his left hand. The caption...
A rare photograph because it not only shows the Black workers but also the overseer with his two dogs. The contrast between the overseer in his crisp hat and jacket with the workers in their worn clothing, is pronounced. Caption...
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