United States -- Race relations

Scope and Contents The Address to the People of Hinds County, authored by John D. Freeman in 1865, is a broadside that explores the legal and social status of freedmen in Mississippi during the Reconstruction era. In the address, Freeman acknowledges the constitutional amendments granting formerly enslaved individuals personal liberty and property rights while emphasizing the state’s role in protecting these rights. He particularly focuses on the legal implications of these...

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This collection includes meeting minutes, 1913-1940, copies of the organization's newsletter, 1958-1972, miscellaneous newspaper and magazine articles, photographs, and correspondence, a few rosters, and papers relating to admitting African Americans to the association, 1949-1950.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of a rare printed broadside advertising a June 2, 1849, concert by the Hutchinson Family Singers in Portland, Maine, and includes a handwritten note on the verso by an unnamed concert attendee. The broadside announces a “Vocal Entertainment” by Judson, Abby, John, and Asa Hutchinson at City Hall and highlights two reform-oriented songs: "Glide on My Light Canoe (The Indian's Lament)" and "Uncle Sam’s Farm." These songs address themes of American Indian displacement,...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of a broadside announcing a speech by Congressman Oscar DePriest at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church in Charleston, South Carolina, on March 6, 1931, at 8 PM. The broadside highlights DePriest’s historic significance as the only African American in Congress at the time, the first African American elected to Congress outside the South, and the first African American Congressman of the twentieth century.The text of the broadside praises...

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On February 8, 1850, Sarah Williams, a Methodist from Liverpool, England, wrote a letter to her brother-in-law, William Ingram, a British immigrant and committed abolitionist residing in Petersburg, Virginia. This letter provides a rare personal glimpse into the life of a man who would become one of the most daring figures in the Underground Railroad movement in the Southern United States.

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This collection consists of five photographs depicting African American's picking cotton in Mississippi.

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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.