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Letter from John M. Brooks to Medgar W. Evers, May 20, 1958 [carbon copy]
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Carbon copy of letter from John M. Brooks, Director of Voter Registration, Virginia NAACP to Medgar W. Evers, Field Secretary, Mississippi NAACP. Sent 20 May 1958 in response to Evers' letter of 15 May 1958. Text: Mr. Medgar W. Evers 1072 Lynch…
Letter from Medgar W. Evers to John M. Brooks, May 15, 1958
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Letter from Medgar W. Evers, Field Secretary, Mississippi NAACP to John M. Brooks, Director, Voter Registration, Virginia NAACP. Dated May 15, 1958, the letter is an update on the progress of voter registration efforts in Mississippi. Text: Mr.…
Letter from John M. Brooks, NAACP Registration Director to voter registration activists, Mississippi, July 7, 1958
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Letter of encouragement from John M. Brooks, NAACP Registration Director following a meeting he attended in Mississippi. Text -- Dear Friend: My meeting with you in Mississippi was an inspiration to me. It proved my belief that, "if people are…
Wake Up! Richmond, Va. Crusade for Voters [handbill]
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This handbill was produced during Crusade for Voters campaign in 1976.TheCrusade for Voters in Richmond, Virginia was started by John Mitchell Brooks, Dr. William S. Thornton, Dr. William Ferguson Reid, Ethel T. Overby and Lola Hamilton.Excerpts:WAKE…
State Capitation Tax receipts [poll tax receipts]
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Virginia State Capitation Tax receipts from the various years. Note: Names and addresses have been removed from these receipts. Poll taxes have a long and contentious history in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Payment of the tax first became a…
Socialism--By Federal Amendment / The Red Behind the Black
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Two-sided handbill. One side uses quotations fromThe Messenger(1917-1928) to associate woman suffrage, black voting, and a socialist takeover of the United States government. The handbill argues that Socialists will benefit if a "Force Bill"…
Tags: African Americans, James Watson, New York, prohibition, race, Scott Nearing, socialism, suffrage, Voting
Elihu Root Warns the South [anti-suffrage broadside]
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Broadside publishing an essay by James Callaway, editor of theMacon Telegraph and an ardent anti-suffragist.Callaway quotes Senator William Borah: "The cornerstone of the very fabric of our system is the right of local self-government as to who shall…
Senator John T. Morgan Denounces Woman Suffrage. "He Being Dead, yet Speaketh"
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Anti-suffrage broadside that argues voting will corrupt women, and, more urgently, that increasing the number of black votes will bring about the end of white supremacy in Alabama. The words of Senator John Tyler Morgan, a staunch proponent of white…
Virginia Warns Her People Against Suffrage [broadside]
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Reprint of an editorial from the Richmond Evening Journal, May 4, 1915. "Virginia Warns Her People Against Suffrage ---- Twenty-nine counties would go under Negro Rule Over sixty counties in the State of Georgia The entire State of Mississippi -----…
Equal Suffrage and the Negro Vote [broadside]
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This broadside was issued by the Equal Suffrage League in about 1916. Southern suffragists were forced to respond to anti-suffrage groups who argued that if African American women gained the right to vote, white supremacy would be threatened.…
Votes for Men. [anti-suffrage handbill]
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Anti-suffrage handbill arguing that women have the right to exemption from political duties and to protection, "even against herself, if need be." An advertisement for a weekly journal, The Woman Patriot, is included on this…
Tags: anti-suffrage, hypothes.is, suffrage, Uncle Sam, Voting, women's history
Interracial News Service, vol. 10, no. 5. October, 1939
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A news digest published by the Department of Race Relations, Federal Council of Churches, New York, NY. The Federal Council of Churches was an ecumenical association of Protestant denominations in the United States founded in Philadelphia in 1908. It…
Interracial News Service, vol. 10, no. 1, January 1939
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A news digest published by the Department of Race Relations, Federal Council of Churches, New York, NY. The Federal Council of Churches was an ecumenical association of Protestant denominations in the United States founded in Philadelphia in 1908. It…
The Southern Frontier, vol. 1, no. 11
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Published by Commission on Interracial Cooperation (CIC), The Southern Frontier was a monthly newsletter, first issued in January, 1940. Aiming to share the stories overlooked by traditional newspapers, the newsletter published stories of social…
The Southern Frontier, vol. 1, no. 8
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Published by Commission on Interracial Cooperation (CIC), The Southern Frontier was a monthly newsletter, first issued in January, 1940. Aiming to share the stories overlooked by traditional newspapers, the newsletter published stories of social…
Louisiana Lesbian and Gay Political Action Caucus (LAGPAC) Voter Registration Poster
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Poster published by the Louisiana Lesbian and Gay Political Action Caucus (LAGPAC) announcing extended voter registration hours.The Louisiana Lesbian and Gay Political Action Caucus (LAGPAC) was created on August 8th, 1980, by a group of activists…
Woman Citizen, October 30, 1920
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Woman Citizen published just days before the first presidential election in which women could vote. Shown here: Campaign advertisement for the Democratic party ticket for the 1920 presidential election (James R. Cox and Franklin D. Roosevelt) "Let's…