This small but comprehensive pamphlet prepared by the Educational Department, New York State Communist Party, is titled “Negro History Week 1953, Peace, Equality,” and sold for 25 cents. The articles are taken from various places, copied in the original typeface,...
This stereoview shows a large group of Black students posing for their school photograph outside of a large school. The caption reads: “6584. The colored school, vicksburg [sic] Miss., U.S.A.” The right edge states: “Copyright 1891, by B. W. Kilburn”...
This postcard has an unusual calendar list on the front for the Onondaga Tribe and says that “Onondaga Tribe No. 52 Requests your presence.” From the list of all possible days and months and several topics, the items underlined are...
Stereoview image shows two young children: a Black boy sitting in a chair and a White girl with her arm around his shoulder. They look like friends and smile broadly at the camera. The caption reads: “1603 Study in Black...
Trade card advertising cigars. Image shows a newspaper man traveling on a donkey. He holds a broken umbrella, a piece of plumbing, and wears a bib that save “liver pad.” His mule’s saddlebags have three stereotyped figures: a Black man,...
Photo shows four young White men standing under an American flag, each wearing matching shirts with the initials ‘NAAWP’. The caption states: “Dubuque, Iowa, Nov. 4, 1991 — Iowa–Racism–“We’re speaking up for white people,” said Michael Lightfoot, left, of Dubuque,...
During the anti-slavery movement in America, a token depicting a kneeling woman in chains, was struck in the United States. one side shows kneeling woman and text reads “Am I Not A Woman & Sister 1838” The back side reads...
Photo postcard showing a group of Black students sitting in an auditorium-like setting. The title over the top of the postcard says “Martin Luther King at Communist Training School.” An arrow points to one seated man with the word “King”...
collection of 17 snapshot photographs showing the incident “Disturbance in Good Park,” April 13, 1969. “North Side Revolutionaries in the Civil Rights Struggle” by Bruce Fehn and Robert Jefferson The Annals of Iowa 69 (Winter 2010) Excerpt: “During fall 1968...
p. 1 states “Plaintiff vs. Freddie Lee Hughes, Richard Deane Matlock, Erwin Leroy Taylor, Edward Charles Smith, Kenneth Ray Collins, Melvin Dennis Wade, Mary Ann Smith or Rhem, Clive Lisbon De Patten, Evelyn Naomi De Patton, Edward De Patten Jr.,...
A transcript of the document, page 3 states: “Pleadings. The Appellee on April 13, 1969 filed its Information. The defendant is accused of the crime of disturbing the peace and the quiet on the 13th day of April, 1969 at...
a transcript of the trial for an alleged “riot” in Des Moines, Iowa, involving members of the Black Panther Party of Des Moines. Defendants: Freddie Lee Hughes, Richard Deane Matlock, Erwin Leroy Taylor, Edward Charles Smith, Kenneth Ray Collins, Melvin...
“New Challenge, The Magazine for Young Americans,” feature article: “Behind the Murder of Emmett Till” New Challenge Publishers at 673 Broadway, New York, editor Aaron Weissman
New Left Notes: An Internal Newspaper of Students for a Democratic Society, Vol. 1, No. 32. pp. 1-4 motto is “Let the People decide” A main feature of this 32 page newspaper “New Left Notes” is the National Convention to...
A b/w photo showing a completely burnt out area of buildings–no roofs, no windows, nothing inside. The image was published in a Spanish language newspaper. A strip of newsprint stapled to the photograph says: “Detroit Julio (AP)–Totalmente consumidas por el...
“Another Fascist Attempt to Destroy the Party” A photo on p. 1 shows the police forced disrobing of the Black Panthers in Philadelphia. A double page spread describes “The ‘Attacks on the Philadelphia Offices Brought Forth the Staccato of Revolutionary...
The Negro Disenfranchised: The First step into Slavery 15″ x 22″
Des Moines Register, May 27, 1965, pp. 1 & 7 Des Moines Register front page headline: “Negro Voting Bill Passes: Protests by Southerners Go Unheeded, Iowa’s 2 Senators In 77-19 Majority” articles begins: “Amid echoes of a bitter Southern assault,...
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