Tough To Be Free. A Message About Sniffing From SAFE
Educational comic book sponsored and distributed by Solvent Abuse Foundation for Education (SAFE). Created and produced by Custom Comic Services. Artwork by Mike Roy. A message from The Solvent Abuse Foundation for Education (SAFE) is printed inside the front cover. "Boys and Girls, Every day you make choices. Some choices are easy -- like choosing what to wear or eat. Other choices are more difficult -- like choosing your friends or how to spend your time. At some point in your life, someone may try to get you to make a choice you know is wrong. Saying no to them can be tough. But you must be tough, if you want to stay free. Sometimes choices are easier to make when you know how they will affect your life. We hope the facts in this book will help you choose to use chemicals safelyt and correctly."
Comic Arts Collection, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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Spider-Man and Power Pack [National Committee for Prevention of Child Abuse comic book]
Marvel giveaway comic book produced in cooperation with the National Committee for Prevention of Child Abuse. Children are urged to tell a trusted adult if something has happened, and to know that there are phone numbers to call if you need help. While speaking to one young boy whose babysitter has abused him, Spider-Man reveals that he too was abused as a child. Letter inside front cover is signed by Anne H. Cohn, D.P.H., Executive Director National Committee for Prevention of Child Abuse: "The purpose of this book is to teach you how to protect yourself from sexual abuse and what to do if it happens to you. I shows you that even people you know and trust can touch you in ways or in places that feel uncomfortable or yukky or just not right. Or, they can make you touch them in private places. And this book tells you that if this happens, it's not your fault--you can say no--and there is help out there." Back cover: "The National Education Association recognizes this publication as a viable attempt to education children about the problem of child sexual abuse."
Interracial News Service, vol. 9, no. 2, February 1938
A news digest published by the Department of Race Relations, Federal Council of Churches, New York, NY. The Federal Council of Churches was an ecumenical association of Protestant denominations in the United States founded in Philadelphia in 1908. It merged with other ecumenical bodies in 1950 to form the present day National Council of Churches. Masthead: "Gleanings from press releases and other sources to inform busy but sincere people of some of the things affecting the lives of racial minorities. Let's do away with walls ! 'We are all one in Christ Jesus.' The Material in the News Service is given for information and is not to be construed as declarations of official attitudes or policies of the Department of Race Relations or the Federal Council of Churches." Articles summarized include: p. 1 "The Struggle is Not Over" about a filibuster by Southern Senators against a federal anti-lynching bill. p. 2 "Red Caps of Three Races Form National Brotherhood" discusses the formation of the International Brotherhood of Red Caps in Chicago. p. 2 "White Student Group Defies Jim Crow" by inviting African American students to share their special coach "as other white passengers looked on in speechless amazement." p. 3 "Solid Ranks Against Fascism" regarding an editorial about the Nanking Massacre. p. 3 "Film Studios Distort Facts About Race, Insists Robeson" includes a quotation from Paul Robeson about his decision to join a work-class theatre group instead of making films. p. 3 "White Students Aid Boycott of Theaters" reports on a student boycott of theatre owners who oppose the appearance of African American actors in scenes with white people on equal basis.
E 185.5.I68, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Libraries, VCU Libraries
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Details from a brochure, Jewish Children’s Home Tell-A-Vision, highlighting the founding of the Isidore Newman School for the children of the Jewish Children’s Home and of New Orleans. In the 1840s and 1850s a series of yellow fever epidemics in New Orleans brought forth a need for homes for destitute widows and children. During this period, private and religious groups established a number of orphanages and asylums. In 1855 the Jewish community of New Orleans organized the “Jewish Orphans’ Home,” as a part of the Hebrew Benevolent Society, and on March 14, 1855, the state granted a charter to the institution. The original Home was on Chippewah Street, but in 1887 it moved to a new building at 5342 St. Charles Avenue. The name of the organization has changed several times: from April 6, 1880 to February 28, 1905, it was “The Association for the Relief of Jewish Widows & Orphans,” from February 28, 1905, to February 4, 1924, “The Association for the Relief of Jewish Widows & Orphans of New Orleans,” and after February 4, 1924, the “Jewish Children’s Home.” While the legal name remains the Jewish Children’s Home, the organization has operated as the Jewish Children’s Home Service since April 1958.
Jewish Children's Home records, 1870-1981, Collection 180, Box 35, Folder 3, Louisiana Research Collection, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University
Louisiana Research Collection, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University
Interracial News Service, vol.9 no.3, April 1938
A news digest published by the Department of Race Relations, Federal Council of Churches, New York, NY. The Federal Council of Churches was an ecumenical association of Protestant denominations in the United States founded in Philadelphia in 1908. It merged with other ecumenical bodies in 1950 to form the present day National Council of Churches. Masthead: "Gleanings from press releases and other sources to inform busy but sincere people of some of the things affecting the lives of racial minorities. Let's do away with walls ! 'We are all one in Christ Jesus.' The Material in the News Service is given for information and is not to be construed as declarations of official attitudes or policies of the Department of Race Relations or the Federal Council of Churches." Articles and topics include: "War Preparations Bring Up Race Issues" "Bill May Open Army Units to Race" "The Anti-Lynching Bill" "Residential Segregation" "Connecticut Whites Fight to Oust Doctor" "Md. Cafe Jim Crows Girl" "Alabama Planter Indicted for Peonage" "Singer Barred from Hotel" (regarding Marian Anderson) "Wins National Novel Contest" (regarding Richard Wright) "Girl, 6, Wins Again at N.Y. Philharmonic" (regarding child prodigy Philippa Schuyler) "School Inequalities" "Close Colored Schools in Mississippi" "Upsetting the Stereotypes"
Interracial News Service vol. 9, no. 5, February 1938
A news digest published by the Department of Race Relations, Federal Council of Churches, New York, NY. The Federal Council of Churches was an ecumenical association of Protestant denominations in the United States founded in Philadelphia in 1908. It merged with other ecumenical bodies in 1950 to form the present day National Council of Churches. Masthead: "Gleanings from press releases and other sources to inform busy but sincere people of some of the things affecting the lives of racial minorities. Let's do away with walls ! 'We are all one in Christ Jesus.' The Material in the News Service is given for information and is not to be construed as declarations of official attitudes or policies of the Department of Race Relations or the Federal Council of Churches." This issue contains tributes to James Weldon Johnson following his death in an automobile accident. Also marked is the death of Arthur A. Schomburg, America's foremost collector of books on African Americans and curator of the largest and rarest collection of its type in the United States. Other topics and articles include: "K.U. Medical School Opens Doors to Negro Students" "Ask American Bar to Admit Negro Lawyers" "Ga. Governor Removes Shakles in Prison Reform" (also removed from Georgia prisions were the sweat-box, and whippings with cat-o-nine tails) "Blue and Gray Vets Gather at Gettysburg" (75th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg) "Cotton Picker May Displace Negro Workers" (regarding the Rust Brothers cotton picker) "Italians 'Aryan' Race Purity Urged" (regarding the purge of Jews from Italy) "Vassar Pact Pledges Aid to Minorities" (World Youth Congress at Vassar College)
Learn more: The Southern Frontier, Social Welfare History Image Portal Jim Crow Laws and Racial Segregation, Social Welfare History Project Vassar Peace Pact (1938). Vassar Quarterly, Volume XXIV, Number 1, 1 October 1938, Vassar newspaper archives.
Interracial News Service, vol. 10, no. 1, January 1939
A news digest published by the Department of Race Relations, Federal Council of Churches, New York, NY. The Federal Council of Churches was an ecumenical association of Protestant denominations in the United States founded in Philadelphia in 1908. It merged with other ecumenical bodies in 1950 to form the present day National Council of Churches. Masthead: "Gleanings from press releases and other sources to inform busy but sincere people of some of the things affecting the lives of racial minorities. Let's do away with walls ! 'We are all one in Christ Jesus.' The Material in the News Service is given for information and is not to be construed as declarations of official attitudes or policies of the Department of Race Relations or the Federal Council of Churches." Articles and topics in this issue include: p. 1 "Editor Fears Results of Educational Equality" discusses a statement made by Virginius Dabney, editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch that admitting African Americans to institutions of higher education would be harmful to racial relations in Virginia. p. 2 "Birmingham is Scene of Liberal Conference" about the Southern Conference for Human Welfare, held Nov. 20-23, 1938. "Negroes Denied Ballot Indians Vote Freely" a case from Clinton, NC p. 3 "Truck Driver Lynched for Asking Favor" regarding the death of Wilder McGowan in Mississippi "White Women of South Condemn Lynch Evil" the Mississippi Council of the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching condemned McGowan's lunching. The article relates, "One-fourth of Wiggins [Mississippi] took part in the lynching party. 'It was very orderly,' contends Sheriff S. C. Hinton." "Negroes and Anti-Semitism" "What About Lynching?" "Negroes Pray for Jews" "Shall We Hate the Jews?" p.4 "The German press has retaliated to American protests as quoted by the N.Y Herald-Tribune for Nov. 16th and 20th... 'The "Voelkischer Beobachter" said that 'the Americans, who continue to treat their Negroes as second class citizens and in whose country lynch justice is, so to speak, good manners, are the least warranted to take upon themselves the role of moral sympathizers'" "F.D.R. Told of Ban on Skilled Negro Workers" "Steps Toward Solving the Negro Problem" discusses the increasing poverty, incarceration, and tuberculosis of African Americans in Washington, DC. "Working Condition, Wages Large Factors in Life Expectancy" regarding the disparity between the life expectancy of blacks and whites as reported by the Surgeon General of the United States.
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Interracial News Service, vol. 9, no. 4, June 1938
A news digest published by the Department of Race Relations, Federal Council of Churches, New York, NY. The Federal Council of Churches was an ecumenical association of Protestant denominations in the United States founded in Philadelphia in 1908. It merged with other ecumenical bodies in 1950 to form the present day National Council of Churches. Masthead: "Gleanings from press releases and other sources to inform busy but sincere people of some of the things affecting the lives of racial minorities. Let's do away with walls ! 'We are all one in Christ Jesus.' The Material in the News Service is given for information and is not to be construed as declarations of official attitudes or policies of the Department of Race Relations or the Federal Council of Churches." Articles and topics in this issue include: "New Contracts Will Protect Sharecroppers" describing provisions under the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938. (p. 1) "Ethiopia's Farewell" about the defeat of Haile Selassie and the conquest of Ethiopia by Italian fascists. (p. 1ff) "Submits After 15 Days of Picketing" The Kroger Stores, Inc. hire the first African American clerk in the city of Dayton, OH (p. 2) "Yale U. Awards Fellowship to Young Teacher" recounts the awarding of a fellowship to Miss Lucille Sarah Baker, the first fellowship in general studies given to an African American. (p. 3) "34 Are Awarded Rosenwald Fellowships" (p. 3) "Uses Wife as Model; Wins Art Institute Award" about Thurmand Townsend's sculpture of his wife made in mud. (p. 4) The section, Race Issues in Church Circles, includes "Church Vs. Christianity," "Brave White Friends Need of Our Race," and "Negro and White Churches Must Unify." (p. 4)
New York State Woman Suffrage Party handbill that seeks to persuade men to vote for woman suffrage in November 1917. Text: "Your Vote Was handed to you when you became twenty-one years old. You didn't have to ask for it. You didn't have to prove that you were qualified for it. Our Government considers you are a thinking being and therefore can judge better than others what laws will be best for your welfare. Why shouldn't women be given this right too? Why shouldn't women be given this right too? Should not their opinions count when it comes to framing laws concerning them? Can YOU possibly imagine any one objecting to YOUR being allowed to vote? Yet fifty chances to one you would not have been permitted to vote if you had lived about a hundred and fifty years ago. You had to own a required amount of land and be a church-going Protestant. Only one of every fifty men could meet this requirement. In the early Colonial days men had no voice in the Government. Laws were made by the Governor and his council. Today practically every man may vote. YOU didn't have to work to bring about this change. The men before you, who believed in democracy, secured you YOUR vote. Will you in turn, further democracy and give woman the political freedom which you yourself have received? Vote for Woman Suffrage in November, 1917!"
M 71 The Women's Suffrage Printed Ephemera Collection Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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Don't Forget to Vote For WOMAN SUFFRAGE [suffrage handbill]
Suffrage handbill published by the New York State Woman Suffrage Party. Printed by the National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co. Text: Don't Forget to Vote For WOMAN SUFFRAGE First Your President asks you to vote for it. Your Governor is for it. Your party has endorsed it. Woman suffrage is coming the world around; don't let New York lag behind.
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Suffrage postcard "Endorsed and Approved by the National American Woman Suffrage Association." No. 107, Published by the Cargille Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan (text from reverse). An seal on the face of the postcard shows a shield with a black spot on which is written "The Ballot is Denied to Woman." Underneath is printed, "The Blot on the Escutcheon." A purple ribbon frames the card. On the ribbon is printed "Think It Over" and "An ounce of persuasion precedes a pound of coercion." The ribbon frames this message: "Woman, if granted the right of Equal Suffrage, would not endeavor to pass new laws for the benefit of WOMAN only. She would work and vote with MAN on all legislation. For references apply to WYOMING, COLORADO, UTAH, and IDAHO."
M 71 The Women's Suffrage Printed Ephemera Collection, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
Virginia Suffrage News, vol. 1, no. 1, October 1, 1914
First issue of the Virginia Suffrage News, a monthly newspaper published by the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia. From masthead p. 4 Alice Overbey Taylor, Managing Editor Mr.s G. Harvey Clarke (Mary Pollard Clarke), Editor-in-Chief Contributing Editors: Mrs. Kate Waller Barrett Mrs. Kate Langley Bosher Mrs. Emma Speed Sampson Miss Mary Johnston Mr. Carter Wormeley Mrs. Sally Nelson Robins Miss Cally Ryland The lead article is "W. J. Bryan, Secretary of State, Declares for Woman Suffrage" Foreword message from Lila Meade Valentine, President of the ESL of Virginia (p. 1) "The movement for the enfranchisement of woman has become so widespread in Virginia that there is great need for a regular means of communication between workers and sympathizers in all parts of the State.... For this is pre-eminently a co-operative movement--one in which good team work is required--one in which we must all pull together with a right good will. To do this effectively, we need the stimulus of the exchange of ideas, we need to inform ourselves of the activities of our local Leagues, as well as of the larger movement outside. To meet these needs, I commend to the suffragists of the State the "Virginia Suffrage News," which should bind us together in one harmonious whole, and I bespeak for it a wide circulation amongst all those interested in this next great step in the development of women." p. 8 "Suffragists Chuckle Over 'Etching' That Was Never Made for 'Lack of Space.'" recounts the story of an anti-suffrage essay contest held by the Richmond News-Leader, an "all-white" paper. The newspaper intended to publish an etching (portrait) of the winner until it was discovered that she was an African American.
M 9, Box 56, Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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Don't You Want to Reduce the High Cost of Living? [suffrage tri-fold]
Publication of the National Woman Suffrage Publishing Company, Inc. 171 Madison Avenue, New York City. Cover illustration by Rose O'Neill. This pamphlet tells women that, without the vote, all they can do is manage their own households. With the vote, they can bring about governmental protection of the food supply. Women are reminded to be careful housekeepers. "Don't Throw Away a Scrap of Food." Some recipes for careful housekeeping are printed on the final page. At the time this publication was printed, the United States was entering World War I. Rising food prices and limited supplies affected American citizens as food was shipped to soldiers and allies in Europe. Slogans and promotions such as "Food will win the war" and "Wheatless Wednesdays" urged Americans to eat less and eliminate waste.
M 9, Box 49 Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., Inc.
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Shoulder to Shoulder. March for ERA [handbill]
Handbill advertising a march in support of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). The rally was held on Saturday, May 2, 1981 in Raleigh, North Carolina. The deadline for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment was 1982; however, Congress has the power to extend that deadline. The states that have not ratified the amendment as of January 2019 are Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah, and Virginia. This handbill shows silhouettes of people walking with their arms around each other. Beneath the image is a quote from Susan B. Anthony, "There will never be another season of silence until women have the same rights as men have on this green earth." Text: March for ERA Noon Saturday May 2 Raleigh Carolinians and friends will be marching to the grounds of the State Capitol in Raleigh to celebrate eight years of working "shoulder to shoulder" for E.R.A. ratification and the basic justice which E.R.A. represents. s [sic] Those participating in the "rally in Raleigh" will be making a statement of E.R.A. support in North Carolina and other states. They will be delivering the message that "The dream still lives. The hope will never die." If you wish to participate, call the Virginia Council office for details and directions. (804) 643-1593
M 425, Box 13 Elizabeth Smith collection of Virginia ERA Ratification Council Records, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library
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Shoulder to Shoulder [The March of the Women]
Music and lyrics taken from "The March of Women" composed by Ethel Smyth in 1910, to words by Cicely Hamilton. This copy was posted on the bulletin board of Muriel Smith's ERA office in Virginia. "The March of the Women" became the official anthem of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in the United Kingdom and, more widely, the anthem of the women's suffrage movement. A version of this anthem performed by the Rainbow Chorus (UK) in 2009 may be heard on YouTube.
M 304, Box 3, Jean D. Hellmuth papers, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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Front and back covers of Social Justice, February 13, 1939. Social Justice was a national weekly periodical published by Father Charles Coughlin during the late 1930s and early 1940s. Couglin was a Canadian-American Roman Catholic priest based near Detroit, Michigan. Coughlin hosted a weekly radio show that reached an estimated 30 million listeners. Social Justice was controversial for publishing anti-Semitic polemics. Eventually, the periodical's mailing permit was revoked and Father Coughlin's radio show was forced off the air. Excerpts: Front cover: "Make Your Choices" [Image Description: A man stands stroking his beard as he contemplates two statues, one of Abraham Lincoln and the other of Lenin.] "Today, this nation makes a mental pilgrimage to Springfield, Illinois, there to pay memorial tribute at the tomb of Abraham Lincoln. The rough, honest frontiersman lawyer who became a wartime President of the United States, has become a symbol of the Typical American. He is the Poor Man's President, the Great Emancipator, the Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, and a martyr because he opposed dis-union and the international bankers. Across the world, another tomb--that of Lenin in the Red Square of Moscow--is also a center of pilgrimage and the symbol of internationalism. Disciples of Lenin and followers of Lincoln are today in conflice in this country. And no American can be a 'neutral.' Which hero, Lenin or Lincoln? On which side are YOU--Americanism or Communism?" Back cover: "The 'Smut' Vendor" [Image Description: A man stands before a newsstand, smoking a cigarette and holding out a salacious magazine to the viewer. Behind him the shelves are filled with periodicals with titles such as "Smut," "Scandal," "Slime," "Passion," and "Scum."] "Our Man of the Week is a merchandiser of sensation, of propaganda disguised as entertainment, and of outright subversion of morality. The artist has sought to catch the evil spirit of his menace. Readers of Social Justice were introduced last week to the 'Mystical Body of Satan'--on the racks of any modern newstand on may survey his work. Confident that America is a 'Christian' country, we have permitted to thrive and prosper off our indifference, a progressively flagrant affronting of common decency, to say nothing of Christian morals. Encouraged by our tolerance, the Smut Vendors have grown bolder: from off-color joke illustrated by daring cartoons, the magazines have retrograded rapidly into deliberate filth. Feminine nudity and bad taste in 'candid camera reporting' is a commonplace for the nation's children. The remedy is in YOUR hands. Tell your newsstand dealer what magazines offend and why. Tell the advertisers who support these magazines why you think their editorial contents ought not to be supported. A Legion of Decency some years ago cleaned up Hollywood's rotten films; let's clean up the newsstands!"
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Interracial News Service, vol. 10, no. 6, December, 1939
A news digest published by the Department of Race Relations, Federal Council of Churches, New York, NY. The Federal Council of Churches was an ecumenical association of Protestant denominations in the United States founded in Philadelphia in 1908. It merged with other ecumenical bodies in 1950 to form the present day National Council of Churches. Masthead: "Gleanings from press releases and other sources to inform busy but sincere people of some of the things affecting the lives of racial minorities. Let's do away with walls ! 'We are all one in Christ Jesus.' The Material in the News Service is given for information and is not to be construed as declarations of official attitudes or policies of the Department of Race Relations or the Federal Council of Churches." This issue contains numerous stories regarding efforts by African Americans to secure equal treatment in educational opportunity. One item reports the removal of "Little Black Sambo" from San Diego, Ca. kindergartens. There are also notices regarding issues of race and various Christian denominations. Other stories concern relief sent to Native Americans in areas hit by drought, the hiring of M. Leo Bohanon to the position of Director of Social Work in Minneapolis, Mn., and a story about the adoption of black children evacuated from London [in "Operation Pied Piper"] and the surprise they carried.
Learn more: The Southern Frontier, Social Welfare History Image Portal Jim Crow Laws and Racial Segregation, Social Welfare History Project M. Leo Bohanon, Department of Special Collections, Washington University Libraries What World War II’s ‘Operation Pied Piper’ taught us about the trauma of family separations, The Washington Post Annotate a PDF of this document with hypothes.is
Interracial News Service, vol. 10, no. 5. October, 1939
A news digest published by the Department of Race Relations, Federal Council of Churches, New York, NY. The Federal Council of Churches was an ecumenical association of Protestant denominations in the United States founded in Philadelphia in 1908. It merged with other ecumenical bodies in 1950 to form the present day National Council of Churches. Masthead: "Gleanings from press releases and other sources to inform busy but sincere people of some of the things affecting the lives of racial minorities. Let's do away with walls ! 'We are all one in Christ Jesus.' The Material in the News Service is given for information and is not to be construed as declarations of official attitudes or policies of the Department of Race Relations or the Federal Council of Churches." This issue begins with the section "Negroes and the War." "The outbreak of war in Europt has brought penetrating comments from Negroes. We quote from editorials in various papers--all published by Negroes." The use of black troops by colonial powers is denounced. Other items include a notice that Booker T. Washington is to be the first black American honored by the U. S. Government with his face on a postage stamp; the appointment of Jane Bolin as the first African American woman judge; and the significant bequest of John W. Underhill to Mays Landing, N.J.
Interracial News Service, vol. 11, no. 1. January 1940
A news digest published by the Department of Race Relations, Federal Council of Churches, New York, NY. The Federal Council of Churches was an ecumenical association of Protestant denominations in the United States founded in Philadelphia in 1908. It merged with other ecumenical bodies in 1950 to form the present day National Council of Churches. Masthead: "Gleanings from press releases and other sources to inform busy but sincere people of some of the things affecting the lives of racial minorities. Let's do away with walls ! 'We are all one in Christ Jesus.' The Material in the News Service is given for information and is not to be construed as declarations of official attitudes or policies of the Department of Race Relations or the Federal Council of Churches." This issue takes a look back at 1939, noting important stories and trends. Topics include lynchings, jobs and organized labor, peonage, housing, civil rights, health, law, spots, arts, religion, literature, World War 2, and science. Selected notices: p. 1 "The Department of Records of Tuskegee Institute lists only three lynchings for the year 1939, a sharp decrease from former years. In eighteen instances law enforcement officers were credited with preventing lynchings, saving twenty-five persons from 'the hands of mobs,'" p. 2 "The right to vote has been sought with new vigor by Negroes in Southern states. The Klan was revived in an effort to terrify Negroes and keep them from registering in Florida and South Carolina...." "The refusal of library service was dramatized in Alexandria, Va., where the public librarian called the police to remove five colored youths who sought service in this public institution. Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, Director of Negro Affairs for the NYA reported at a meeting of the Southern Education Foundation that only 14 per cent of 509 public libraries in 13 Southern stataes provided service for Negroes." "Health facilities for Negroes are notably lacking. A study in Mississippi made by the American Medical Association showed that there was only one Negro physician for each 14,221 colored persons and only 731 beds in general hospitals for the entire Negro population of more than a million in the state. It is estimated that 75 per cent of the deaths from tuberculosis are Negroes but only 40 beds are available for their care. This represents the worst type of situation." p. 3 "Joe Louis world's heavyweight champion, defended his title four times in 1939." "Marian Anderson, internationally known contralto, soared to new heights when she sang to 75,000 and a nationwide radio audience from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, after exclusion by the D. A. R. from using Constitution Hall." "The threatened growth of anti-Semitism has intensified the study of race relations and many church groups have broadened their consideration of race to include this problem." "The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues issued a statement declaring that experiments showed no characteristic inherent psychological differences to distinguish so-called 'races.'" "From the American Jewish Committee, New York... Stimulated by the meeting between representatives of the Jewish press and Negro organizations held at the end of September, the Jewish press in the United States has undertaken a systemic campaign to improve relations between Negroes and Jews."
Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, Suffrage Procession, Saturday, May 9, 1914 [handbill]
Handbill advertising the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage procession, May 9, 1914. The women were demanding a United States Constitutional Amendment Enfranchising Women. The march gathered at the Belasco Theatre and processed to the Capitol in Washington, D.C. Nation-wide demonstrations were held on May 2, 1914 in support of Amendment. Envoys from these demonstrations brought petitions to Washington on May 9th and carried them in procession to Congress from Lafayette Square. Five thousand women massed on and about the East Steps of the Capitol singing "The March of the Women" composed by Ethel Smyth in 1910, to words by Cicely Hamilton.
M 9 Box 49, Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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Learn more: Nation-wide demonstrations were held on May 2nd in support of Federal Amendment. Envoys from these demonstrations brought petitions to Washington on May 9th and carried them in procession to Congress from Lafayette Square. Five thousand women massed on and about the East Steps of the Capitol singing (photograph). Library of Congress Shoulder to Shoulder [The March of the Women], Social Welfare History Image Portal Utah Woman Suffrage Song Book, Internet Archive Suffrage Song Book, Kansas Historical Society Votes for Women. Suffrage Rallying Song, Social Welfare History Image Portal
Virginia Warns Her People Against Suffrage [broadside]
Reprint of an editorial from the Richmond Evening Journal, May 4, 1915. "Virginia Warns Her People Against Suffrage ---- Twenty-nine counties would go under Negro Rule Over sixty counties in the State of Georgia The entire State of Mississippi ----- What of your state, your country? Isn't it about time for reflecting men and women to think--and act? ---- THE THREATENED COUNTIES From the Richmond Evening Journal May 4, 1915--Republished by Request Several times The Richmond Evening Journal has be asked to say which counties of Virginia have more colored than white female inhabitants. The question , of course, is in connection with the somewhat noisy demands we read of in the newspapers for "votes for women." Here is the list, from the United States census of 1910: ...It is to be remembered that the literacy test would not work in choking off the colored woman vote. The colored people are decreasing their percentage of illiteracy very fast, especially among their women and girls. The ladies of the suffrage league will hardly come forward with a property test. No safeguard would be left but the poll tax; and if colored women knew they could get votes and rule some very rich and important counties by paying $1.50 apiece, we are inclined to think most of them would be willing to go hungry, if necessary to do it. Probably the ladies engaged in this suffrage movement are not very practical or very logical or very well informed or disposed to bother their heads with the actual facts of politics. Most of them, we surmise, hold the somewhat vague, but firmly established feminine line of reasoning that when they want something , or think they want it, they ought to have it by all principles of wisdom and justice; and are prepared always to fall back on the traditional conclusive feminine argument "because."
M 9 Box 51, Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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Senator John T. Morgan Denounces Woman Suffrage. "He Being Dead, yet Speaketh"
Anti-suffrage broadside that argues voting will corrupt women, and, more urgently, that increasing the number of black votes will bring about the end of white supremacy in Alabama. The words of Senator John Tyler Morgan, a staunch proponent of white supremacist ideology, and Judge William Henry Tayloe, a wealthy plantation owner, are quoted. Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper are mentioned. Excerpts: "White Supremacy Totters in Alabama. Men of the South, Shall It Fall? Woe Be Unto That Man who Would Betray Us. Judge W. H. Tayloe, one of Alabama's Ablest and Informed Statesmen, adds this Warning, Backed by Facts, Figures and Personal Experience." "It is not the moral influence of woman upon the ballot that I am objecting to, and it is not to get rid of that, or to silence or destroy such influence that I oppose it, but it is the IMMORAL influence of the ballot upon woman, that I depreciate and would avoid. I do not want to see her drawn into contact with the rude things of this world, where the delicacy of her senses and sensibilities would be constantly wounded by the attrition with bad and desperate and foul politicians and men. Such is not her function and is not her office; and if we degrade her from the high station that God has place her in to put her at the ballot-box, at political or other elections, we UNMAN ourselves and refuse to do the duties that God as assigned to us." "Though the Supreme Court of the Nation has held that the 14th and 15th amendments were not grants of power to Congress but limitations upon the power of the States; yet it found a way to declare void the provisions of the Constitution of Oklahoma that eliminated the negro in that State as a voter. How soon will it find a way to require the States to let the negro vote? Who can tell?" "Men of the South, the 15th Amendment but sleeps. Write your State Legislators TO-DAY to VOTE AGAINST WOMAN SUFFRAGE."
Elihu Root Warns the South [anti-suffrage broadside]
Broadside publishing an essay by James Callaway, editor of the Macon Telegraph and an ardent anti-suffragist. Callaway quotes Senator William Borah: "The cornerstone of the very fabric of our system is the right of local self-government as to who shall vote in the State, or who shall own property and lands or attend schools in a State. These are prerogatives of the State, not of the Federal government. What I am contending for is this--that which is local in its nature as I conceive this suffrage matter to be, should be permitted to remain local. The right to vote can never, in the nature of things, under our system be other than a local question, for upon it rests the very integrity and the sovereignty of the State." Callaway discusses "complications" with the Federal government (including the Supreme Court that had decided against disenfranchisement laws) brought about when States cannot decide who gets to vote. He declares that the white primary was important for protecting white rural women in the black belt and making it safe for them to leave their homes without escort. "Talk about emancipation of women--of freedom and a war for humanity--when the Susan B. Anthony amendment will close the public highways to our women of the rural districts, and again make them the victims of the 'terrorism,' that frightfulness which superinduced nervous debility."
Socialism--By Federal Amendment / The Red Behind the Black
Two-sided handbill. One side uses quotations from The Messenger (1917-1928) to associate woman suffrage, black voting, and a socialist takeover of the United States government. The handbill argues that Socialists will benefit if a "Force Bill" introduced by Senator James E. Watson of Indiana were to be passed to enforce the 19th Amendment. The text raises the issues of interracial marriage and desegregation as threats. On the reverse, Scott Nearing is quoted as having replied to the question, "How do you propose to take property away from its owners?" "By CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT--in the same way that the property of the brewers and distillers was taken by Constitutional Amendment. The Prohibitionists have shown us the way in which property can be taken for public purposes without compensation to the owners," etc. --From The Review, Feb. 7, 1920, Page 130
High school seniors embark by bus to voter registration, Atlanta, Ga., 1959
Photograph of students from Luther Judson Price High School of Atlanta, Ga., prepare to register to vote. Caption attached to photograph: "18 year old high school students of Atlanta, Georgia as they embark by bus to register in the 1959 Voter Registration Campaign of the All Citizens Registration Committee headed by Mr. Jesse Hill, Jr., Actuary of the Atlanta Life Insurance Co." Handwritten on back of photograph: "R.E. Cureton, Principal of Price High School, Atlanta, Ga., confers with members of the Senior Class as they embark by bus to register in the 1959 Voter-Registration Campaign of the All Citizens Registration Committee headed by Jesse Hill, Jr. Actuary of the Atlanta Life Insurance Co. All six Atlanta High Schools participated in this program and registered 18 year old students (eligible to vote under Georgia law) nearly 100%."
M 296, Box 2, John Mitchell Brooks Collection of NAACP Files 1957-1978, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
Learn more: Holmes, R. A. (2005). Black suffrage in the twentieth century. New Georgia Encyclopedia Myers, B. (2006). Jesse Hill (1927-2012). New Georgia Encyclopedia Voting Rights Act of 1965: An Introduction, Social Welfare History Project Voting Rights Act of 1965, Social Welfare History Project