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Better Babies [suffrage pamphlet]
M9 Box 49 Better Babies p1 rsz.jpg [View Image]National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) pamphlet on how woman suffrage improves children's health. Cover editorial cartoon by Rose O'Neill.…
An Amendment to the Constitution is Needed to Give the United States Power to Safeguard the Child Life of the Nation
HD 6250_U3A5 1920 An Amendment to the Constitution is Needed p1 rsz.jpg [View Image]Pamphlet advocating for theChild Labor Amendment,passed in 1924, but never ratified.Cover cartoon by Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper cartoonist John…
Popular Fallacies About Race Relations
UPSem_Popular Fallacies About Race Relations058 cover rsz.jpg [View Image]A pamphlet addressing resistance from white Americans to racial integration. Written by the Educational Director of the Commission on Interracial…