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African Americans -- Southern States -- Social conditions

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Creole Social Club records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0374
Abstract

Insurance policies on the club house, an account book from a Mobile, Alabama, apothecary with the club, and tickets for social events sponsored by this African-American social club.

Dates: 1878-1902

Lillian Graves Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4316
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of twelve letters written by governess Lillian Graves from October 1885 through February 1886 as Graves cared for the Woodward family children in post-Civil War Alabama. Graves describes daily and holiday activities in late nineteenth-century Alabama, visiting the Woodward Iron Company mine, and makes extensive and problematic remarks about African Americans living in the Woodward home and in the area.

Dates: October 1885-February 1886

Solomon and Lucinda Perteet Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1129
Abstract

Includes receipts and legal papers of this prominent Tuscaloosa, Alabama, free black man and his wife.

Dates: 1829 - 1872

Southern Rural Women's Network Records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3395
Abstract

Records of the Southern Rural Women's Network (SRWN) containing materials about the operation and mission of the SRWN.

Dates: 1977 - 2002

What the South Means to the Nation Report

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4735
Scope and Contents

A Communist Party report on the South, which describes its natural resources, the poverty and exploitation of its farmers, sharecroppers and tenants, and the root if its "backwardness": the "national oppression of the Negro people in the Black Belt." The report concludes with the Communist Party's commitment to fighting white chauvinism and in uniting mass organizations in the struggle against the oppression of African Americans.

Dates: 1949

White Man Or Mulatto?: Beyond Human Belief Pamphlet

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4403
Scope and Contents

One pamphlet containing speeches from The Clansman andThe Leopard's Spots, which were two Thomas Dixon Jr. novels popularized by Southern segregationists. Dixon's raisonneurs expound on the "inability of Blacks to rise above primitiveness" and their increasing "threat" to White civilization following their emancipation.

Dates: 1956