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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…
[Working Woman. Fred O. Seibel editorial cartoon, 1922]

Editorial cartoon created by Fred O. Seibel in 1922, and published in The Knickerbocker Press. Mounted and identified as no. 1503.Image Description: A…
Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story

Educational comic book published by the Fellowship of Reconciliationfollowing the success of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The comic book advocates for…