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...
This issue is filled with information about the imprisonment of Huey P. Newton; the creation of a free breakfast program for children; the persecution of Nevada Indians; Slavery in South America, among other issues.
Pamphlet written by Charles Jackson, illustrated by Ruth Wilson, published by Pioneer Publishers, “Charles Jackson’s fighting column featured watch week in ‘The Militant’–the uncompromising champion of the colored people—calls for militant struggle to win full social, economic and political equality...
The Examiner, Louisville KY, Saturday January 27 1849 Negro Improvability. Article discusses that “negro” people become physically more altered–whiter– simply by proximity with whites “without any actual intermixture of races”
The NAACP book, 30 Years of Lynching in the United States, 1889-1918, stands as a measure for our culture, providing rarely presented statistical data pertaining to violence against Black Americans. The frequency of lynchings during the 50-year span of the...
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...
“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...
Photo shows Black soldiers at drill practice. Caption under photo reads: “Colored Infantry, Camp Dodge, Iowa” Back has message to “Sis” and is addressed to “Miss Esther Bains, Rock Island, Illinois” Cancel mark is “Des Moines, Iowa, Dodge Branch” Left...
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...
Photograph shows two children, a standing girl and a seated boy, each holding a toy. The girl holds something that looks like perhaps a ceramic bird. The boy holds the handle of a small two-wheeled toy wagon. In the wagon,...
The photo images shows a rural Black man riding on an ox which is pulling a full two-wheel cart. Back: The caption says “15th Amendment bringing his Crop to Town” Right margin says “Photographed by J. N. Wilson, No. 143...
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 Story of a Lynching: An Exploration of Southern Psychology by Marcet Haldeman-Julius. “A complete report and analysis of the recent lynching of a Negro in Little Rock, Arkansas, illustrated with photographs.”
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...
“Photographer re-creates the emotional crisis of a powerful new novel” the famous photographer Gordon Parks creates images corresponding to Ralph Ellison’s classic 1952 novel “The Invisible Man.” Photo essay by Gordon Parks, “Invisible Man” “Speaking of Pictures, A Man Becomes...
Photograph shows a large group portrait of Black American officers from the 5th Provisional Company seated and standing in front of a building at the Fort Des Moines Provisional Army Officer Training School in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1917. This...
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...
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