Striker in a gas mask, Passaic, New Jersey
description: A Passaic striker wears a gas mask for protection from the effects of tear gas. Police used tear gas, clubs, and firehoses to disperse crowds of strikers. Gus Deak, future president of the United Textile Worker's Local 1603, is in the left foreground of the picture.
source: American Labor Museum / Botto House National Landmark Persistent URL: https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3SQ91XD
date: 1926
contributor: American Labor Museum
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relation: Learn more: Passaic Textile Strike, 1926, Social Welfare History Project Passaic Textile Strike (1926) - film, Social Welfare History Project Labor, Social Welfare History Image Portal

Strikers March, Passaic Textile Strike, 1926
description: Strikers march down a public street during the 1926 Passaic textile strike. A group of strikers in front of the march wear World War I brodie helmets (doughboy helmets) and carry an American flag. A small boy runs along beside them. This work stoppage by more than 15,000 woolen mill workers in and around Passaic, New Jersey, lasted from January 25, 1926 to March 1, 1927. It was the first Communist-led work stoppage in the United States.
source: American Labor Museum / Botto House National Landmark Persistent URL: https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3Z89DZG
date: 1926
contributor: American Labor Museum
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relation: Learn more: Passaic Textile Strike, 1926, Social Welfare History Project Passaic Textile Strike (1926) - film, Social Welfare History Project Labor, Social Welfare History Image Portal

Student Reading Campus Newspaper
description: Liz Vantrease, Class of 1970, reads a copy of the student newspaper, The Bullet, next to a cut out of a Vietnam War soldier who wears a peace sign and a flower. Newspaper headline reads "The Word is 'Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out.'" -- a reference to the countercultural phrase popularized by Timothy Leary. An advertisement may be seen in the newspaper for a Love-In to be held "High Noon," Sunday, September 24th at Grove Park "Bring Blankets, Bubbles...Bananas, Banjos, Bells...."
source: Centennial Image Collection, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Mary Washington
date: 1968
contributor: Special Collections and University Archives, University of Mary Washington Libraries
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Students from Seventeenth Street Mission with Murray Grey, the Rev. John Little, Webster Rhoads, Owsley Sanders
description: Students from Seventeenth Street Mission, Richmond, VA Caption on front: "Taken 4/11/15 X John Little from Louisville" Card addressed to W. G. Somerville and postmarked April 16, 1915 Note on back identifies 1) Murray Grey - Superintendent (misspelled "Gray") 2) Webster Rhoads - Grace St. Church 3) Owsley Sanders - Grace St. Church Note: the Rev. John Little directed especially successful settlement houses serving African Americans in Louisville, KY. In 1911, students from Union Theological Seminary in Virginia (Later, Union Presbyterian Seminary) started an urban ministry outreach program in the most impoverished neighborhood of Richmond, VA. The Seventeenth Street Mission functioned as a settlement house, offering laundry facilities and showers, meals, a clothing closet, classes in sewing, carpentry and other skills. The Sunday School program focused on the memorization of Bible verses, catechisms and the Lord's Prayer. In 1914, students from the General Assembly's Training School (later, the Presbyterian School of Christian Education) joined in as teachers and volunteers, and the effort became largely staffed by women.
source: Seventeenth Street Mission Collection, Special Collections, William Smith Morton Library, Union Presbyterian Seminary
date: 1915 April 11 (photograph) 1915 April 16 (postmark)
contributor: Union Presbyterian Seminary Library
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relation: Learn more: Little, John (1909) The Presbyterian Colored Missions. Louisville. Gaines, Miriam (1933). The John Little Missions of Louisville, Kentucky. Southern Workman, LXII (April), 161-170.

Students sing outside Beulah AME Church Parsonage, Farmville, Va., August 1963
description: Students sing outside Beulah AME Church Parsonage, Farmville, Va., August 1963, in protest of the closing of Prince Edward County Schools. Woman singing at left is Ernestine Land. Tony Reid stands at right.
source: Farmville 1963 Civil Rights Protests, VCU Libraries Digital Collections
contributor: Digital Collections, VCU Libraries
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relation: Learn more: VCU Libraries Freedom Now Project Massive Resistance, Encyclopedia Virginia Program of Action: The Rev. L. Francis Griffin and the Struggle for Racial Equality in Farmville, 1963, VCU Libraries Scholars Compass.

Students washing hands before lunch, old Cary Street School (Madison School).
description: Students from the old Cary Street School (Madison School) in Richmond, Va., demonstrate handwashing before having lunch. Washing hands regularly with soap and water remains one of the most important steps in preventing the spread of many illnesses. The school was located at 219 W. Cary Street, Richmond, Va. The photograph was taken in the early-20th century.
source: V.56.177.03, The Valentine
contributor: The Valentine
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relation: Learn more: Bonis, R. (2010) Madison School, Corner Cary and Madison St. (1872-1973) and Playground Kids, 1940s. The Shockoe Examiner (blog).

Suffrage Rally, May 1, 1915, Richmond, Va. [photographs]
description: These photographs document a suffrage rally held on the south portico of the Virginia Capitol on May 1, 1915. Dr. E. N. Calisch, rabbi of Congregation Beth Ahabah, spoke in favor of woman suffrage at the event. Joy Montgomery Higgins of Nebraska addressed the crowd next. The Equal Suffrage League was denied permission to speak on city streets by Richmond Mayor Ainslie, on the grounds that, while there was no law forbidding them to speak, neither was there one that allowed him to grant them a permit. The women proceeded to give speeches from inside an automobile, and the event was documented and reported by the Richmond Times-Dispatch on May, 2, 1915. According to the paper, Floating suffrage banners, fluttering yellow ribbons, silver-toned bugles, and a brass band proclaimed the fact that yesterday was Equal Suffrage Day in Richmond, as well as in every other town and city of the United States. Throughout the morning forty women, at eleven stands about the city, sold copies of the Woman's Journal, and suffrage flags, buttons, and postcards. The cordial and sympathetic attitude shown by the public was regarded as a striking illustration of the change in public opinion effected during the last few years. By June, ESL members had successfully secured a permit to speak on city streets. Note: Images displayed here are black and white copies of the original photographs. Automobile identified as that of Mrs. W. W. Foster. Occupants of the vehicle are: (back seat) Mrs. Alice Overby Taylor, Mrs. W. Hill Urquhart, Jr., Mrs. G. Harvey Clark; (middle seat) Joy Montgomery Higgins, Mrs. Charles V. Meredith; (front seat) Lila Meade Valentine, Mabel Vernon, Chauffer, James.
source: M 9 Box 239, Adele Goodman Clark papers, 1849 - 1978, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
date: 1915 May 1
contributor: Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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relation: Learn more: Suffrage, Social Welfare History Image Portal Suffrage at 100. A visual history. New York Times. Wheeler, M. (1992). Mary Johnston, Suffragist. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 100(1), 99-118.

Suffrajests [handbill]
description: Anti-suffrage broadside poking fun at the woman suffrage movement. Filled with puns and inside jokes, the source and precise meaning of this publication are uncertain. Notes: The Square Deal was President Theodore Roosevelt's domestic program. The "hatchet" refers to Carrie Nation, the radical temperance activist. The "wets" (and "drys") were the two sides on the issue of prohibition. Some of the puns refer to foods made from corn: grits and hominy. Postum is a coffee substitute made from roasted wheat and molasses. Paradise Lost is an epic poem written by John Milton. The poem is divided into twelve sections known as "books." A "canto" is another word for the sections into which some long poems are divided. The History of Woman Suffrage quotes a line from Paradise Lost, "All is not lost: the unconquerable will is ours." The Masses was a richly illustrated socialist magazine, published monthly from 1911 until 1917. Excerpts: SUFFRAJESTS If our husbands' socks are full of holes, Our holier duty is at the polls.... We didn't need the "hatchet"--we've got the "Club." Hurrah! Put your bets on the suffragettes. If you'll back them up they'll uphold the "wets." That's a stand off. We don't believe in "force"--it isn't what its "cracked up" to be. "Hominy" is better, and somes "grit" is necessary. You see, we "acknowledge the corn." (This isn't a cereal story.); if it were we'd "postum" up and raise some electioneering dough. Our road isn't all "peaches and cream," but we hope to get our desserts some day.... We are truly yours by a large majority, THE SUFFRAJESTS
source: Henry S. Wallerstein and Clara Ullman Wallerstein Collection, Beth Ahabah Museum & Archives
contributor: Beth Ahabah Museum & Archives
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relation: Learn more: Anti-suffrage materials, Social Welfare History Image Portal

Suggestions for Visitors to County Poorhouses and to Other Public Charitable Institutions
description: Cover title: Suggestions for Institution Visitors. A small volume that offers guidelines or suggestions for those undertake the investigaton of county poorhouses, public hospitals, asylums for the insane, children's homes, and industrial schools (homes for wayward girls and boys). A chapter titled "Homely Hints" supplies remedies for typical institutional problems such as bedbugs, roaches, vermin, ringworm, scabes, and sore eyes. The final chapter addresses the need for standards by which such institutions may be evaluated. Throughout, Lathrop encourages the visitor/inspector to keep an open mind while being friendly, knowledgeable, confident and persistent. This advice was very much in keeping with Lathrop's own methods. Excerpts: p. 6 "If you meet superintendents in a candid and friendly spirit, they will probably meet you in the same spirit. They usually want to do their duty and they doubtless have many difficulties you do not see. Like the rest of the world, they will probably welcome the visits of intelligent, good-natured, reasonable persons who want to know them and who through various avenues of influence may be able to help them. Try to understand, then, first of all, the official point of view and the official difficulties. A critical, suspicious bearing will defeat your purpose to learn the facts." p. 7-8 "In many counties the superintendency of the county poorhouse and farm is let annually to the lowest cash bidder. In some counties the care of the poor is contracted for at a set price per head--the contract going to the lowest bidder....It is not Utopian to look forward to a period when the superintendent of such an institution shall be specially trained for such work, appointed on his merits and kept as long as he is a good officer." p.31 "There is a growing feeling that the State should recognize its own profound responsibility toward every child who, because of defect, or neglect, or poverty, or delinquency, cannot be protected and reared by its nat…
creator: Lathrop, Julia C.
source: James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
publisher: Public Charities Committee of the Illinois Federation of Women's Clubs
date: 1905
contributor: James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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relation: Learn more: Julia Clifford Lathrop, Social Welfare History Project Hull House, Social Welfare History Project Children's Bureau, Social Welfare History Project Sheppard-Towner Maternity and Infancy Act of 1921, Social Welfare History Image Portal

Support Rally for Gay & Lesbian Rights [broadside]
description: This broadside advertises a support rally for gay and lesbian civil rights that was held October 8, 1977. Activists organized the rally in Monroe Park to protest a concert given at the University of Richmond by Anita Bryant, the popular entertainer who evolved into a prominent anti-gay rights crusader in the 1970s. The rally’s primary speaker, Karla Jay (b. 1947), is the prominent professor, activist and author who published Out of the Closets: Voices of Gay Liberation (1972), with Allen Young. Image at bottom shows silhouettes and outlined figures with the caption, "We are your children."
creator: Richmond Citizens for Gay and Lesbian Rights
source: Broadside Collection, Call Number 1977:9, Library of the Virginia Museum of History & Culture, Virginia Historical Society
date: 1977
contributor: Virginia Museum of History & Culture, Virginia Historical Society
rights: NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/ Acknowledgement of the Virginia Historical Society as a source is requested.
relation: Learn more: Anita Bryant at UR, 1970s, LGBTQ History at UR, Common Ground, University of Richmond A Guide to the Richmond Gay Documents Collection, 1974-1988, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU

Teachers Need The Vote! Reasons Why Teachers Should Work for Woman Suffrage [suffrage handbill]
description: NWSA handbill listing the reasons why women teachers need the vote. Reasons given include: increased spending on education, improved public health and hygiene, children's well-being and child labor protections. "Teachers need the vote because they train the citizens of the future and must have practical, first hand knowledge of government in order to teach civics with interest and thoroughness."
source: M 9 Box 49, Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
publisher: National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., Inc., New York
contributor: Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
rights: This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is requested.
relation: Learn more: Women's Suffrage: The Movement, Social Welfare History Project Annotate a PDF of this image with hypothes.is

Texas Committee on Migrant Farm Workers. Letter to Congressman W. R. Poage from Betty Jane Whitaker
description: This letter was written to Congressman W. R. Poage by Betty Jane Whitaker, Co-chairman of the Texas Committee on Migrant Farm Workers, asking him to help improve the lives of migrant workers and their children. Whitaker asks for this to be done through better schooling and healthcare. A paper titled "Migrant Children and Youth" by Florence R. Wyckoff was included with this letter.
creator: Whitaker, Betty Jane
source: Box 241, folder 13, W. R. Poage Papers, The W. R. Poage Legislative Library Political Collections, Baylor University Libraries.
date: 1963 November 7
contributor: Baylor University Libraries
rights: http://www.baylor.edu/lib/digitization/digitalrights
relation: Learn more: Cosgrove, B. (2013) Bitter Harvest: LIFE With America's Migrant Workers, 1959. LIFE magazine Mar 10, 2013. (Previously unpublished photographs by Michael Rougier). The Position of Farm Workers in Federal and State Legislation, Social Welfare History Image Portal

Textile Strikers General Relief Store No. 2, Passaic, New Jersey
description: Textile strikers with their children in front of them stand in the doorway of a General Relief store. This was one of the strike relief centers run by International Worker's Aid.
source: American Labor Museum / Botto House National Landmark Persistent URL: https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3RJ4M1V
date: 1926
contributor: American Labor Museum
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relation: Learn more: Passaic Textile Strike, 1926, Social Welfare History Project Passaic Textile Strike (1926) - film, Social Welfare History Project Labor, Social Welfare History Image Portal

Textile Strikers General Relief Store No. 3
description: People stand in the doorway of the Textile Strikers General Relief Store No. 3. This store was run by the International Workers Aid.
source: American Labor Museum / Botto House National Landmark Persistent URL: https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3PR7XHF
date: 1926
contributor: American Labor Museum
relation: Learn more: Passaic Textile Strike, 1926, Social Welfare History Project Passaic Textile Strike (1926) - film, Social Welfare History Project Labor, Social Welfare History Image Portal

Textile worker and her children
description: A textile worker stands beside her three children who are seated. Various cooking implements, a wash basin and wash board are visible.
source: American Labor Museum / Botto House National Landmark Persistent URL: https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T39P335D
date: 1926
contributor: American Labor Museum
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relation: Learn more: Passaic Textile Strike, 1926, Social Welfare History Project Passaic Textile Strike (1926) - film, Social Welfare History Project Labor, Social Welfare History Image Portal

The Equity Star
description: Musical score for voice and piano. Illustrated title page printed in red/black/white with a drawing of the emblem of the Actors' Equity Association; "As staged by Hassard Short at the Equity annual ball, Hotel Astor, November 19th 1921." Complete score available from Baylor University Libraries Digital Collections. The Actors Equity Association (AEA) is an American labor union representing the world of live theatrical performance. Actors' Equity Association was formally recognized on July 18, 1919 by the American Federation of Labor (later to become the AFL-CIO). In 1919 Actors Equity called the first strike in American theater history.
creator: Stewart, Grant (lyrics) Herbert, Victor (music)
source: Frances G. Spencer Collection of American Popular Sheet Music, Crouch Fine Arts Library, Digital Collections, Baylor University Libraries
publisher: New York : Harms, Inc.
date: 1921
contributor: Crouch Fine Arts Library, Baylor University Libraries
rights: http://www.baylor.edu/lib/digitization/digitalrights
relation: Learn more: Labor, Social Welfare History Image Portal Beras, E. (2020 November 20). To survive the pandemic, live theater turns to streaming. Unions are on board. Marketplace.org

The Amazing Spider-Man vs. The Prodigy! [Marvel/Planned Parenthood Federation of America comic book]
description: Informational comic book aimed at teenagers provides basic facts about sex, reproduction and birth control, as well as suggested sources to learn more. Story: The Amazing Spider-Man discovers that the alien villain, the Prodigy, is convincing teenagers to have unprotected sex. Prodigy plans to use the resulting children as child laborers on his home planet, Intellectia. Spider-Man unmasks the villain in front of TV cameras to thwart the plot. From title page: "This comic was produced by Marvel Comics Group in conjunction with Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc." "Stan Lee presents: A special Planet Parenthood issue of The Amazing Spider-Man. Ann Robinson, writer Ross Andru, artist Mike Esposito, inker Jan Cohen, colorist Joe Rosen, letterer" Story dialog: Prodigy: "Remember, all those people who tell you DON'T--'Don't do it'--'Don't get into heavy stuff'--they just try to scare you into thinking it's easy to get pregnant. But I say, how else can you prove you're a man: How else are you going to get a man?" Spider-Man: "My webbed head! I'm no Marcus Welby, but there's gotta be some way these kids can get the RIGHT info.* *(See page 16--Stan.) Spider-Man: "I see it all now!...He wants them to be baby machines! Changing diapers, going nowhere in dead-end jobs...Sitting home every night trying to find the time and money to go to a movie or buzz out to the burger stand."
creator: Robinson, Ann, writer
source: Comic Arts Collection, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
date: 1976
contributor: Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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relation: Learn more: Comics on a Mission: Educational and Public Service Comics, Social Welfare History Image Portal

The Awakening [suffrage postcard]
description: The Awakening. She's awakened, She is answering To the Call of all MANKIND; Then annul the Laws That Bind her, And the Customs That restrict her, Deny Her Not The greater service, For the Child, The Home, The State. Copyright 1912, and Published by The Equal Suffrage League of Virginia
creator: Equal Suffrage League of Virginia
source: M 9 Box 55, Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
publisher: Equal Suffrage League of Virginia
date: 1912
contributor: Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
rights: This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is requested.
relation: Learn more: Women's Suffrage: The Movement, Social Welfare History Project Suffrage in the South: The Poll Tax, Social Welfare History Project Suffrage in the South Part II: The One Party System, Social Welfare History Project

The Best Present of All!
description: Binky in "The Best Present of All!" Comic description: A young boy named Allergy laments that he wasn't able to buy nicer presents for his father and Binky because he doesn't have as much money as they do. His father tells him that because he donated money to charity, sang Christmas carols to the elderly, and fixed up toys for children in the hospital, he gave the best present that anyone can actually give. He gave "real thought for other people's happiness". [Image description: The cover of the comic shows superboy being shot out of a cannon. Two men look on in surprise. One says "What--? That's not a cannonball we shot out! It's Clark kent--No, it's SUPERBOY!".] Public service comic published as a part of the National Social Welfare Assembly Comics Project. The Comics Project lasted from August 1949 - July 1967 and produced over 200 pages promoting citizenship and social values. Publisher's Note: "Published as a public service in cooperation with The National Social Welfare Assembly, coordinating organization for national health, welfare and recreation agencies of the U.S."
creator: Script: Jack Schiff Pencils: Bob Oksner Inks: Bob Oksner Letters: Ira Schnapp
source: Superboy: The Boy Wizard no.46 JAN 1956 James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
publisher: DC Comics
date: 1956 January
contributor: Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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relation: Learn more: National Social Welfare Assembly, Social Welfare History Project Comics on a Mission: Educational and Public Service Comics, Social Welfare History Image Portal

The Big Dance
description: Public service comic published as a part of the National Social Welfare Assembly Comics Project. The Comics Project lasted from August 1949 - July 1967 and produced over 200 pages promoting citizenship and social values. Publisher's Note: "Published as a public service in cooperation with The National Social Welfare Assembly, coordinating organization for national health, welfare and recreation agencies of the U.S." Passage description: Mary Lou and her friend Janie are walking home from school. Mary Lou complains to Janie that her parents insist that she be home from the big school dance by 12. Mary Lou's date to the dance, Muggsie, catches up to the girls walking. He tells the girls that having a curfew really isn't that bad. In fact, he has a curfew and doesn't mind. Janie figures that all of the kids probably have to be home by midnight anyways. [Image description: The comic book cover shows Batman and Robin in the Batcave. They are facing a large caveman holding a stone club above his head and ready to strike them. Robin says to Batman: "Batman, it's the caveman we've been hunting for!". Batman replies: "Yes--and he's discovered our secret Bat-cave!".]
source: Batman: The House of Batman no.102 SEP 1956 James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
publisher: DC Comics
date: 1956 September
contributor: Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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relation: Learn more: National Social Welfare Assembly Comics Project, Social Welfare History Project National Social Welfare Assembly, Social Welfare History Project Comics on a Mission: Educational and Public Service Comics, Social Welfare History Image Portal

The Candle. Vol. I, No. V, December 1957
description: Newsletter published by the Virginia State Conference-NAACP. The Candle's header shows two lighted candles and the motto, "It is Better to Light One Candle Than to Curse the Darkness." This issue includes reporting on the Virginia Political Action convention. Photographs of particiapnts in the Visual Aid Educational Political Action program show young people in costume and with props illustrating the importance of voting. Excerpts: Cover photograph captioned "The Three Presidents. 22 Years of Progressive Leadership. Dr. J. M. Tinsley of Richmond, president emeritus of the Virginia State Conference, congratulates Dr. Philip Y. Wyatt of Fredericksburg the newly elected Conference president as Dr. E. B. Henderson of Falls Church, retiring president looks on. Dr. Tinsley retired in 1955 after servicing as Conference president for 20 years. Dr. Henderson, after serving as president for two years could not stand for re-election because of a constitutional provision (adoped in 1955) prohibiting a third term." p.2 In our PAC work we have to keep going over the same points. In Virginia 26% of the adult population is colored, but we do not have a single Negro among the 100 Delegates in the General Assembly, nor among the 40 Senators. If we could get the majority of Negroes to vote our fight against segregation and discrimination would make real headway. There are three steps in getting Negroes to "count"; payment of poll taxes before the deadline, registration, and voting. Why don't more colored people vote? Some don't think it matters, some lack the education, some are fearful, and some just don't make the effort. We must keep hammering to get the deadlines met, to get older people who have never voted to overcome their shyness, to get citizens to study up on issues and candidates. We must inspire our teachers, ministers, and civic leaders to be voting citizens themselves and to preach the importance of using the ballot to win freedom.
source: M 296 Box 2, John Mitchell Brooks collection of NAACP files, 1957-1960, 1978 James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
date: 1957 December
contributor: Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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The Case Against the Red Light
description: Venereal disease bulletin, no. 54. Public health pamphlet arguing that prostitution spreads venereal disease and cannot be "segregated, licensed, and made sanitary." Excerpt: "But every investigating committee that has reported on conditions in any large American city has condemned the whole buisness, although its members were often in favor of segregation when they began to investigate. The American army has tried all systems. General Pershing writes: Many of us who have experimented with licensed prostitution or kindred measures, hoping thereby to minimize the physical evils, have been forced to the conclusion that they are really ineffective, Abraham Flexner has argued the case so convincingly that on the scientific side it seems to me there is no escape from the conclusion that what he terms 'abolition' as distinguished from 'regulation' is the only effective mode combating this age-long evil. Don't be misled by underworld arguments. The Evidence is all against the red light."
creator: American Social Hygiene Association, New York City
source: M 9 Box 54, Folder "Social Hygiene" Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
publisher: United States Public Health Service cooperating with the State Board of Health, Richmond, Virginia
date: 1920
contributor: Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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relation: Learn more: Some Social Causes of Prostitution (1914), Social Welfare History Project Annotate a PDF of this pamphlet with hypothes.is

The Closing of "Public Schools" in P. E. County has Disgrace the State of Virginia [1963 Farmville, Va. protests]
description: Students protest Prince Edward County public school closings, Main Street near courthouse, Farmville, Va., July 1963. Sandra "Sandy" Stokes in foreground. Second person in line is Everett Berryman, Jr. followed by Emerson Hunt. from VCU Libraries Freedom Now Project
source: Farmville 1963 Civil Rights Protests, VCU Libraries Digital Collections
date: 1963 July
contributor: Digital Collections, VCU Libraries
rights: This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is requested.
relation: Learn more:VCU Libraries Freedom Now Project Massive Resistance, Encyclopedia Virginia Program of Action: The Rev. L. Francis Griffin and the Struggle for Racial Equality in Farmville, 1963, VCU Libraries Scholars Compass.

The Closing of Occupations To Women
description: This leaflet was created by the Woman's Party to describe the important role the Woman's Party in campaigning for industrial equality as evidenced by increasing legislation restricting the industrial opportunities of women. "The effort to bar women from political equality with men was of little consequence compared to the present growing effort to keep them from industrial equality. No part of the Woman's Party equality program is so important, we believe, and so far-reaching in its effect as its demand for economic equality."
creator: Woman's Party
source: M 9 Box 103, Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
publisher: Woman's Party
contributor: Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
rights: This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is requested.
relation: Learn more: Women's Suffrage: The Movement, Social Welfare History Project National Woman's Party, Social Welfare History Project

The Dark and Dangerous Side of Woman Suffrage [Anti-suffrage publication]
description: A large format publication which gathers quotations from feminists and supporters of suffrage. These quotations manifest the "dark and dangerous side of woman suffrage" which is argued to be a desire for social revolution. Subject headings for quotations include: Downfall of the Home, Degradation of Marriage, Fatherless Children, A "Third Sex" in Politics, The Case for Woman Suffrage, The Woman's Bible, Socialism Dovetails Feminism. From the introduction: "Much Feminist literature is scarcely fit for publication. The following authentic quotations are selected as among the least obnoxious, to indicate, in some slight degree, the inescapable "next step" after woman suffrage. If YOU are truly concerned with the welfare of your Family, your Children, your Country, do not make the mistake of ignoring the REAL MEANING of the demand for "Votes for Women."
creator: Women Voters' Anti-Suffrage Party
source: M 71 Women's Suffrage Printed Ephemera Collection, 1860-1917, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
publisher: Women Voters' Anti-Suffrage Party, New York.
contributor: Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
rights: This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is requested.