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Negro Housing by Charles S. Johnson, with photographs

March 6, 2024
Written by Landslide Creative

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...

Simon Estes, Black Diamond yearbook, Centerville, Iowa

Written by Landslide Creative

The 1953 Black Diamond, Centerville High School, Iowa, yearbook Many photographs of Simon Estes in his 1953 yearbook, showing his activities on track and football sports teams. A relative was a freshman at the time. Estes lived in Centerville, Iowa.

An Inquiry into the Character and Tendency of the American Colonization and American Anti-Slavery Societies by William Jay

Written by Landslide Creative

This book, An Inquiry into the Character and Tendency of the American Colonization and American Anti-Slavery Societies, written by William Jay, 3rd edition, contains arguments against slavery.. But even so, some of the arguments are objectionable, while some would be...

“Most eligible Bachelor Mr. Al Williams” a Black student featured in Quax Yearbook Drake University

Written by Landslide Creative

Quax, Drake Yearbook, 1970, vol. 69. Page 164 features two photographs of Mr. Al Williams, a Black student, with the text “Most Eligible Bachelor Mr. Al Williams”

Duke Ellington plays for Drake’s Homecoming Dance, Quax Yearbook Drake University

Written by Landslide Creative

Yearbook, 1958, Quax, Drake University. p. 33 “Drake Dances to Duke.” Duke Ellington and his 16-piece jazz orchestra provided the music for the 1957 Homecoming Dance. Drake turned out in record numbers to hear the Duke. Some of the 1,750...

Dr. Martin Luther King speaks at Central College, Pella, Iowa, in Pelican yearbook

Written by Landslide Creative

Yearbook, 1967, The 1967 Pelican, Central College, Pella, Iowa. page 180 shows two photos of Martin Luther King, jr., speaking to Central students, Pella Iowa. The text states “Christian Action Symposium was initiated by a grant from the Commission on...

Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States, 1889-1918

Written by Landslide Creative

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...

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