Skip to main content

Racism

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

Americans Take Heed Pamphlet by the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4812
Scope and Contents This item is a small, four-paneled propaganda pamphlet published in 1920 by the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, reprinting an article titled "Scum o’ the Melting-Pot" originally written by journalist Herbert Kaufman. The pamphlet, designed for mass distribution, presents a nativist, anti-immigrant narrative warning of the alleged cultural and racial “subversion” of the United States by immigrants deemed non-Anglo-Saxon.Kaufman’s article invokes early twentieth-century eugenicist and...
Dates: 1920-12-15

Bobalition of Slavery 1822 Broadside

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4323
Scope and Contents

One broadside from an 1816-1837 contemporary Bobalition series that satirized the annual July 14th Abolition Day celebrations for African Americans. This broadside has an imprint from "The Flying Booksellers," a woodcut image, and text in three columns.

Dates: 1822-07-15

John Crommelin to William F. Knowland Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4736
Scope and Contents This typed letter, sent by retired Admiral John G. Crommelin in his role as trustee of the Elmore County White Citizens' Council (Wetumpka, Alabama), is addressed to Senator William Knowland regarding the Civil Rights Bill that Knowland had sponsored. In the letter, Crommelin accuses Jewish individuals of promoting the bill and claims that Knowland was influenced to sponsor it. He protests the construction of National Guard armories in Alabama, asserting that they could be staffed by federal...
Dates: 1957 March 8

Joseph J. France and A. Sims Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4300
Abstract

Two letters from Jos. (Joseph?) J. France, a nineteenth-century medical school student from Ghana at the University of Pennsylvania, to his benefactor Dr. Sims in Leopoldville in the Congo. There is also one letter from A. Sims to a Dr. Beckley that discusses France.

Dates: 1892

Ku Klux Klan, Sylacauga, Alabama, Seal

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0831
Abstract

Impression of seal used by the Klan in, Alabama Sylacauga during the 1910s and 1920s.

Dates: 1915

MARK's Boycott Coors Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4733
Scope and Contents This collection consists of three items related to the long-running boycott of Coors beer, a campaign that spanned nearly twenty years and was supported by anti-racist activists, feminists, union organizers, and the LGBT community. The boycott targeted Coors for its alleged discriminatory labor practices, conservative political ties, and anti-union stance.Included in the collection are:An unused bumper sticker (3 x 12 inches) promoting the boycott; an 8.5 x 11-inch...
Dates: ca 1981

Robert Edward Edmondson Pamphlet

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4390

Robert M. Shelton Political Poster

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4815
Scope and Contents This item is a small propaganda poster titled "This Man is a Political Prisoner," issued by the United Klans of America (UKA) in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in 1969. Measuring 8.5 x 11 inches, the poster is printed in blue, red, and black ink on card stock. The design promotes UKA Imperial Wizard Robert M. Shelton as a victim of government persecution following his 1969 imprisonment for contempt of Congress, after he refused to surrender Klan membership rolls to federal investigators. The poster...
Dates: 1969

Save Our Land Join the Klan Broadside

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4813
Scope and Contents This item is a broadside titled "Save Our Land Join the Klan," created by the United Klans of America, circa 1960s. Measuring 8.5 x 11 inches and printed in black ink on thick stock paper, the broadside features a stylized image of a robed Klansman atop a rearing horse, holding a flaming cross. The slogan "For God and Country" is printed across a grass-covered landscape, accompanied by the recruitment address: "Join the Klan, P.O. Box 2369, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35401." The item is notable...
Dates: ca 1960s

United Klans of America Brochure

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4816
Scope and Contents This item is a tri-fold recruitment brochure titled "An Introduction to the United Klans of America," published circa 1970 by the organization’s national office in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Printed on green cardstock, the brochure outlines the UKA’s ideological and organizational mission, and serves as a primer for prospective members. It includes a stylized history of the Ku Klux Klan following the Civil War, a summary of the group’s core values (“Americanism First,” “Benevolence,” and...
Dates: ca 1970s

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

White Supremacy Now and Forever Broadside by E.C. Barnard

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4754
Scope and Contents This broadside contains excerpts from a 1957 speech by E.C. Barnard, a Mobile City Commission candidate and a leader in the local Ku Klux Klan. The document reflects the segregationist rhetoric of the period and serves as a historical artifact of the mid-twentieth-century struggle for civil rights in the American South.The 1957 local election in Mobile was a pivotal moment, with Joseph Langan, a moderate with progressive views on race, running against Barnard. The election also...
Dates: 1957