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Peace [editorial cartoon by Nelson Harding]
Editorial cartoon by Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Nelson Harding. Peace, shown as an angel with a tiarra, slams her fist on a table, scattering…
Voting Status of Negroes in Virginia and Procedures and Requirements for Voting in Virginia
This 1944 booklet is the Virginia Voters League’s fifth annual report. The League began in 1941 and worked with the NAACP in advocating for increased…
Popular Fallacies About Race Relations
A pamphlet addressing resistance from white Americans to racial integration. Written by the Educational Director of the Commission on Interracial…