Partners! [editorial cartoon by William Kemp Starrett]
Editorial cartoon by William Kemp Starrett published in <em>The</em> <em>Knickerbocker Press. <br /><br /></em>Image Description: An anthropomorphized can of Impure Milk shakes hand with a grinning undertaker and says, "Hello, Old Man! How's business?" Beneath the cartoon is the caption, "Partners!" <br /><br />In New York during the 1850s the Swill Milk scandal was a major adulterated food catastophe. An estimated 8,000 infants were killed in a single year. In 1858, <em>Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper</em> exposed the sale of adulterated milk to unsuspecting consumers. These revelations would lead to the creation of city park dairies and milk stations. Eventually, the problem of contaminated milk throughout the nation would be recognized and food safety regulations enacted.
Starrett, William Kemp
<a href="https://vcu-alma-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=VCU_ALMA21361748570001101&context=L&vid=VCUL&search_scope=all_scope&tab=all&lang=en_US" target="_blank" title="Cartoons Magazine" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>Cartoons Magazine</em></a>, vol. 3, no. 4 (April 1913), p.238. Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
1913 April
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Learn more: <br /><br /><a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030193/1913-07-03/ed-1/seq-3/" target="_blank" title="Bad Milk Poison to Babies (1913)" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bad Milk Poison to Babies, Expert Warns Mothers</a>. <i>The evening world. </i><span> (New York, N.Y.), 03 July 1913. </span><i>Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers</i><span>. Lib. of Congress.</span><br /><br />Ehrlich, K. and Johnson C. (2018). <a href="http://www.archives.nyc/blog/2018/2/8/got-milk-regulations" target="_blank" title="Got Milk (Regulations)?" rel="noreferrer noopener">Got Milk (Regulations)?</a> NYC Department of Records & Information Services.<br /><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swill_milk_scandal" target="_blank" title="Swill Milk Scandal" rel="noreferrer noopener">Swill Milk Scandal</a>, Wikipedia.<br /><br />The Man Who Learned. Educational film about impure milk produced in cooperation with the New York Milk Committee. <br /><br /><a href="https://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/4474" target="_blank" title="History Engine post" rel="noreferrer noopener">The New York Milk Committee Preaches Pure Milk by Moving Pictures</a>. History Engine. <br /><br />The Y.M.C.A. Now Gives Instruction in English. Many Institutions Are Recognizing the Educational Value of the Movie Picture Film. <a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030272/1913-06-01/ed-1/seq-44/" target="_blank" title="Newspaper article on teaching immigrants" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>The sun.</em> (New York [N.Y.]), 01 June 1913</a>. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress. <br /><br />Paynter, L. (1930 August 31). <a href="http://strippersguide.blogspot.com/2012/03/news-of-yore-kemp-and-henrietta.html" target="_blank" title="Artists Who Wed Upset Popular Ideas" rel="noreferrer noopener">Artists Who Wed Upset Popular Ideas</a>. <em>Brooklyn Daily Eagle </em>republished in <a href="http://strippersguide.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" title="History of American Newspaper Comic Strip" rel="noreferrer noopener">Stripper's Guilde</a> (2012 March 9).
The Food Adulterator [editorial cartoon by Ding Darling]
Editorial cartoon by Jay Norwood "Ding" Darling published in the New York <em>Globe. <br /><br /></em>Image Description: A wealthy businessman sits counting his money among the gravestones of children who died from the impure, tainted food that he sold.
Darling, Jay Norwood
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1913
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Fall In! [editorial cartoon by Fred O. Seibel]
Editorial cartoon by Fred O. Seibel for The <em>Knickerbocker Press. </em>Mounted and identified as no. 1312.<br /><br />The cartoon relates to the War Adjusted Compensation Act (Bonus Act) of May 19, 1924. This act granted a benefit (bonus) to veterans of military service during World War I. President Calvin Coolidge vetoed the act, but his veto was overridden by Congress. <br /><br />The Act provided for deferred payments in the form of certificates to most veterans. The certificates were to be redeemed in 1945. With the advent of the Great Depression, a large number of veterans would seek immediate cash redemption of these certificates. A group of these veterans and supporters, known as the Bonus Army, would gather in Washington, D.C. in 1932. <br /><br />Image Description: An "Ex-service man" holding an empty mess kit stands outside a Bonus Mess Tent where other veterans are lining up. The Ex-service man says, "There's that mess call again! Wonder if they will fool us <span style="text-decoration:underline;">this</span> time? I'm getting pretty blamed hungry!" <br /><br />Seibel's "Moses Crow," dressed in uniform says, "When do we eat?"
Seibel, Fred O.
M 23, Box 3, cartoon No. 1312, <a href="https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vcu-cab/vircu00068.xml" target="_blank" title="finding aid" rel="noreferrer noopener">Frederick Otto Seibel papers, 1882-1968</a>. James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries.
1924
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A 100 Per Cent Opinion! [editorial cartoon by Fred O. Seibel]
Editorial cartoon by Fred O. Seibel for <em>The Knickerbocker Press.</em> Mounted and identified as no. 929. <br /><br />The cartoon was created in April 1920 after duly-elected assemblymen were expelled from the New York State Assembly. The Speaker of the Senate at the time was Republican Thaddeus C. Sweet. The socialist lawmakers were August Claessens and Louis Waldman of Manhattan; Charles Solomon of Brooklyn; and Samuel Orr and Samuel A. DeWitt of the Bronx. <br /><br />Image Description: <br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thaddeus_C._Sweet" target="_blank" title="Thaddeus C. Sweet - Wikipedia article" rel="noreferrer noopener">Thaddeus C. Sweet</a> sits at a desk covered in papers. <br /><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Evans_Hughes" target="_blank" title="Who was Charles E. Hughes?" rel="noreferrer noopener">Charles E. Hughes</a> addresses Speaker Sweet saying, "I deeply regret the action of the Assembly in suspending five members of the Socialist Party who were duly elected. Are Socialists, unconvicted of crime, to be denied the ballot? If Socialists are permitted to vote, are they not permitted to vote for their own candidates?"<br /><br />In the lower left corner "Moses Crow" says, "The people still believe in the ballot box!"
M 23, Box 3, cartoon no. 929, <a target="_blank" title="finding aid" href="https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vcu-cab/vircu00068.xml" rel="noreferrer noopener">Frederick Otto Seibel papers, 1882-1968</a>. James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries.
1920
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Learn more: <br /><br />Confessore, Nicholas (2009 October 21) <a href="https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/21/when-the-assembly-expelled-socialists-for-disloyalty/" target="_blank" title="New York Times archives" rel="noreferrer noopener">When the Assembly Expelled Socialists For Disloyalty</a> <em>The New York Times. </em>
The Tertium Quid! [editorial cartoon by Fred O. Seibel]
Editorial cartoon by Fred O. Seibel for <em>The Knickerbocker Press. </em>Mounted and identified as no. 843.<br /><br />Image Description: Capital, Labor, and The Public sit at a table as Uncle Sam raises his eyebrows and appears worried. Labor is big and brawny. Capital wears a suit and spats. The public is presented as a child in a tall chair. A sign on the wall reads "Conference of Capital, Labor and the <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Public</span>." <br /><br />A "tertium quid" is a third thing that is undefined but is related to two definite or known things.
Seibel, Fred O.
M 23, Box 3, cartoon no. 843, <a href="https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vcu-cab/vircu00068.xml" target="_blank" title="finding aid" rel="noreferrer noopener">Frederick Otto Seibel papers, 1882-1968.</a> James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries.
1919 - 1922
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Occupations for Women. A Study Made for the Southern Woman's Educational Alliance.
Orie Latham Hatcher, Ph.D. was head of the Bureau of Vocations in Virginia, a group founded in 1915. <br /><br />Dr. Hatcher and the work of the Bureau of Vocations was described in <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c2572263&view=2up&seq=150" target="_blank" title="read "The Virginia Teacher" through HathiTrust.org" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>The Virginia Teacher </em>(vol. 2, no. 5, p. 128)</a>:<br /><br />"She is the head of a unique institution, the Bureau of Vocation of Virginia, which was founded six years ago in Richmond, under her inspiration. This institution exerts a strong educational influence. It inspires women first, to the best general education possible, then to adequate special training in some one field of work wisely chosen."<br /><br /><em>Occupations for Women</em> contains a preliminary essay written by Hatcher entitled "Women Who Work," in which Hatcher presents the various points of view related to women working outside the home at different stages of life. Towards the end of the essay, Hatcher describes "Signs of Progress" and "Handicaps to Progress."<br /><br /> Excerpts from that essay, and the introduction to the section of the book dealing with Social Work, are presented here.
Hatcher, Orie Latham, editor
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Southern Woman's Educational Alliance
1927
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Learn more: <br /><br /><a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/programs/education/bureau-of-vocations-for-women-september-1915-womans-occupational-bureau/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Richmond Times-Dispatch article 1915">Bureau of Vocations for Women, September 1915. (Woman’s Occupational Bureau)</a>, Social Welfare History Project <br /><br />War Open Up New Fields For Women's Endeavor...Vocations Bureau is Active. <a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045389/1917-07-01/ed-1/seq-8/" target="_blank" title=""War Opens Up New Fields for Women's Endeavor...Vocations Bureau Is Active"" rel="noreferrer noopener">Richmond times-dispatch. (Richmond, Va.), 01 July 1917</a>. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress. <br /><br />Professional Building for Women is Unique. <a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045389/1918-08-11/ed-1/seq-33/" target="_blank" title="read the article" rel="noreferrer noopener">Richmond times-dispatch. (Richmond, Va.), 11 August 1918</a>. Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress. See also the location <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/@37.5435093,-77.4406527,3a,90y,40.05h,93t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sBJP5i_05WhawrG2khb9veQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656" target="_blank" title="Site of Bureau of Vocations for Women" rel="noreferrer noopener">210 E. Grace St</a>., Richmond, Va.<br /><br />Willard, Frances E. (1897). <a href="https://archive.org/details/occupationsforwo00will/page/n5" target="_blank" title="read this book through HathiTrust.org" rel="noreferrer noopener">Occupations for Women</a>.
[Working Woman. Fred O. Seibel editorial cartoon, 1922]
Editorial cartoon created by Fred O. Seibel in 1922, and published in<em> The Knickerbocker Press</em>. Mounted and identified as no. 1503.<br /><br />Image Description: A smiling woman sits at her office typewriter, grateful that she is not doing manual labor on the farm.
Seibel, Fred O.
M 23, Box 3, cartoon no. 1503, <a target="_blank" title="finding aid" href="https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vcu-cab/vircu00068.xml" rel="noreferrer noopener">Frederick Otto Seibel papers, 1882-1968</a>. James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries.
1922
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Dig In! [editorial cartoon by Fred O. Seibel]
Editorial cartoon in support of the Salvation Army Home Service Fund by Fred O. Seibel, published in <em>The Knickerbocker Press</em>, May 1919. Mounted and identified as no. 741.<br /><br />This Salvation Army campaign was conducted between May 19-26, 1919 to raise money to rebuild the Salvation Army after its service in World War I, and to provide for the needs of soldiers returning from war. National Doughnut Day, celebrated the first Friday of June, honors the Salvation Army members who served soldiers in World War I. <br /><br />In 1917, over two hundred-fifty Salvation Army volunteers went overseas to France to provide supplies and baked goods, including donuts, to American soldiers. <br /><br />A woman from the Salvation Army stands behind an upturned tambourine filled with coins.<br /><br />Text: <br /><br />"Dig In! <br /><br />Veteran: "<span style="text-decoration:underline;">Believe Me</span>, If you want to come across for a worthy cause, get in on this toot sweet!" <br /><br />Moses Crow: "Ask the man who <span style="text-decoration:underline;">knows!</span>" <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><br /><br /><br /></span>
M 23, Box 2 <a href="https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vcu-cab/vircu00068.xml" target="_blank" title="finding aid" rel="noreferrer noopener">Frederick Otto Seibel papers, 1882-1968</a>, James Branch Cabell Libraries, VCU Libraries
1919 May
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Learn more: <br /><br />"<a href="https://www.loc.gov/resource/cph.3g10026/" target="_blank" title="Color transparency" rel="noreferrer noopener">A man may be down but he's never out!</a>" Home Service Fund Campaign - Salvation Army - May 19-26, 1919 / / Frederick Duncan. Library of Congress<br /><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Salvation_Army" target="_blank" title="The Salvation Army" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Salvation Army</a>. Wikipedia<br /><br /><a href="https://www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/history-of-the-salvation-army/" target="_blank" title="Salvation Army website" rel="noreferrer noopener">Our history</a>. Salvation Army website <br /><br /><a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/pages/results/?state=&date1=1919&date2=1919&proxtext=Home+Service+Fund&x=16&y=11&dateFilterType=yearRange&rows=20&searchType=basic" target="_blank" title="historic newspapers from across America" rel="noreferrer noopener">Home Service Fund (1919)</a>. Chronicling America, Library of Congress <br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Salvation+Army" target="_blank" title="materials tagged "Salvation Army"" rel="noreferrer noopener">Salvation Army</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal
Headquarters News Letter, Vol. II, No. V, May 15, 1916. National American Woman Suffrage Association
Newsletter published by the National American Woman Suffrage Association. <br /><br />Editorial cartoon on cover by <a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=C.+D.+Batchelor" target="_blank" title="Materials related to C.D. Batchelor" rel="noreferrer noopener">C. D. Batchelor</a> is captioned, "IF YOU WOULD HAVE A FRIEND, <span style="text-decoration:underline;">BE ONE!</span>" It shows a woman (suffrage) standing with her arms draped over a donkey (at left) and an elephant (at right). Two banners are crossed behind her: "St. Louis (walk less) Suffrage Parade" and "Chicago Suffrage Parade." <br /><br />The article on pp. 6-7 "All aboard for Chicago!" begins "Chicago will be the suffrage center of the United States on June 7th." The article continues, "In the parade, which promises to be the biggest ever held in the Middle West, will be delegations of women from all parts of the country, bouyantly marching behind bands of martial music and keeping step to the beat of a single thought--that of impressing upon the masculine voters of this country the necessity of having the National Republican Convention insert an equal suffrage plank in its national party platform."
National American Woman Suffrage Association
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1916 May 15
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Girls Home, 502 W. Clay Street, Richmond, Va. [brochure]
<p>This informational brochure describes "interesting facts about the object, origin and progress" of a working-girls' home for self-supporting African American women in Richmond, Va. The project, described as a technical training school, was established in 1919 as a project of the National Protective League for Negro Girls and the Richmond Neighborhood Association. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ora_Brown_Stokes_Perry#cite_note-VCU-4" target="_blank" title="Ora Brown Stokes Perry" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ora Brown Stokes</a> (Perry), a social activist, was a leader in both organizations. <br /><br />p.1 "Our Club Home. An 'Inspiration Point' for Self-Supporting Women and Girls for 'These are they that maintain the fabric of the world, and without them is no city builded.'"<br /><br />From p. 2 "The object of the Girls' Home is to provide and maintain a home which will solve the problem of the colored woman and girl of good character who comes to Richmond for the purpose of advancement, often without relatives, friends, or money; to surround them with Christian influences, to elevate the standard of employment, to provide a social center for women and girls."<br /><br />"The Home is managed by a splendid board with Mrs. Artena J. Miller as the efficient chairman. Mrs. Alice Holmes Watkins is the splendid House mother." <br /><br />"Our President, who is the Probation officer for women and girls, investigated the cause for the downfall of so many girls and women who came to the city. The cause was found to be that upon entereing the city they ofttimes found no one to direct them rightly and they were often sent by strangers to questionable places for room and board and the path downward was entered before they even knew it." <br /><br />"It is the only one of its kind which is being carried on by women of the race. The white friends has assisted largely by financial contributions and words of encouragement....Mrs. Ora Brown Stokes, President." <br /><br />The song "The Clarion Call" composed by Ora B. Stokes (September 5, 1915) and dedicated to Pocahontas Camp Fire Girls, Richmond, Va. is printed on the back of this brochure. The song was to be sung to <a href="https://youtu.be/k88PSXys6uc" target="_blank" title="hear the tune" rel="noreferrer noopener">the tune of "Loyalty to Christ"</a> [From Over Hill and Plain] composed by Flora Hamilton Cassel. <br /><br />Along with Ora Brown Stokes (President), other officers of the Richmond Neighborhood Association included Mrs. Harriet E. Thompson, Mrs. Maggie M. Hill, Mrs. Rosa Sutton Caffee, Miss Lucy, A. Peters, Mrs. Alice H. Kersey, Mrs. T. Everett Johnson. <br /><br />Officers of the National Protective League for Negro Girls include Mrs. Ora Brown Stokes (Richmond), Mrs. W. T. B. Williams (Hampton), Miss Lillian Coleman (Fredericksburg), Miss Martha Fowlkes (Richmond), Miss Ruth Morris (Richmond), and Mrs. Theresa J. Diamond (Fredericksburg). <br /><br />This home is sometimes referred to as the Home for Working Girls. </p>
Perry, Ora Brown Stokes
M 9 Box 37, <a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=oai/vcu/repositories/5/resources/279.oai_ead.xml" target="_blank" title="finding aid" rel="noreferrer noopener">Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978</a>, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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Learn more: <br /><br /><span>Bonis, Ray (2019). <a href="https://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/dvb/bio.asp?b=Stokes_Ora_Brown">Ora E. Brown Stokes (1882–1957)</a>. In </span><i><span>Dictionary of Virginia Biography</span></i><span>.<br /></span>Lehman, Angela (2023). <a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/social-work/ora-brown-stokes-and-the-richmond-neighborhood-association/">Ora Brown Stokes and the Richmond Neighborhood Association,</a> Social Welfare History Project<br /><a href="https://gallery.library.vcu.edu/exhibits/show/making-vcu/early-social-work-history" target="_blank" title="Early social work history at Virginia Commonwealth University" rel="noreferrer noopener">Early social work history</a>, Making VCU, VCU Libraries Gallery<br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Ora+Brown+Stokes" target="_blank" title="materials related to Ora Brown Stokes" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ora Brown Stokes</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal
Why Should Women Vote? An Appeal to Gallant Men. [suffrage pamphlet]
Pro-suffrage pamphlet containing editorial cartoons by <a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Lou+Rogers" target="_blank" title="cartoons by Lou Rogers" rel="noreferrer noopener">Lou Rogers</a>, Phil Porter, and <a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=John+T.+McCutcheon" target="_blank" title="cartoons by John T. McCutcheon" rel="noreferrer noopener">John T. McCutcheon</a>, along with a map showing where women can vote.<br /><br />Excerpts: <br /><br />p.1 (cover) "WHY SHOULD WOMEN VOTE? <br />This booklet contains all the OBJECTIONS to woman suffrage, their ANSWERS, and the CREAM of all that has been said or written on this subject from Moses and Plato down to Saint Paul and the year of our Lord, 1915. <br /><br />The map that's more than half woman suffrage already -- what's the matter with making it ALL woman suffrage?<br /><br />In the LIGHT States, women enjoy full suffrage. In the shaded States, women have taxation, bond, or school suffrage. In Illinois, women have Presidential, partial county and State, and municipal suffrage. In the DARK States, women have NO vote at all. <br /><br />AN APPEAL TO GALLANT MEN."<br /><br />p. 4 "Which side will get YOUR vote?...<br /><br />Chief Justice Green said, 'The opponents of woman suffrage in Washington find themselves allied with a solid phalanx of gamblers, pimps, prostitutes, drunkards and drunkard-makers.' <br /><br />When respectable people find themselves in alliance with scoundreldom, is it not worth while to stop and consider whether they have not taken their stand in the wrong company?"
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Southern Women and the South's Race Problem
Pamphlet published by the Commission on Interracial Cooperation, written by Robert B. Eleazer, Educational Director. The pamphlet describes commission meetings in Memphis, Tn. and Atlanta, Ga., and the responsibility felt by southern white women (primarily church women), study and then improve the lives of black women and children in their cities. <br /><br />The need for day nurseries, kindergartens, clinics, playgrounds, better schools, improved housing and sanitation, safer conditions of travel, and especially the "unmeasured condemnation of lynching" are all noted. <br /><br />p. 2 "The purpose of this organization and its affiliated state and local committees is to bring about better understanding, justice and fair dealing between the white and colored races. The Commission believes that the white race, as the more fortunate group and the one responsible for the Negro's presence in America, is under obligation to be both just and generous toward the latter. It believes further that the welfare and even the racial integrity of the two groups can be effectively preserved in no other way."
Eleazer, Robert B.
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Meet Death [public safety pamphlet]
1950 public safety pamphlet containing "actual scenes photographed by Cincinnati Police Department." The images of automobile accidents resulting in death, remind the reader of the serious consequences of careless driving.<br /><br />Text inside back cover:<br /><br />"These pictures are the end result of minor traffic violations by selfish drivers and pedestrians. The daily slaughter of humans is unnecessary. Stamp out this killing. <br />REMEMBER<br />The life you save -- may be your own."
Greater Cincinnati Safety Council
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Virginia Anti-Saloon League State Law-Enforcement Convention. February 1-2, 1922. Program and Invitation
Program for the Virginia Anti-Saloon League State Law-Enforcement Convention held February 1-2, 1922, and the letter that accompanied it. Letter (dated January 28, 1922) is from <a href="https://vagenweb.org/scott/HSpubl28.html" target="_blank" title="J. P. McConnell biographical information" rel="noreferrer noopener">J. P. McConnell</a> (James Preson McConnell), President of the Anti-Saloon League of Virginia, 1921-1928. <br /><br />The conference presents a mix of religious, patriotic, and legislative strategy. The governor of Virgina, E. Lee Trinkle, was scheduled to speak very briefly on the final evening.
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Virginia Conference on Race Relations, The Southern Workman, January 1931
This article reports on the Virginia Church Conference on Race Relations held October 28, 1930 at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Richmond, Va. The theme of the conference was "Facing the Facts with a Christian Program." Dr. Ben Lacy, Jr. President of Union Theological Seminary, presided over the gathering of leaders of white church groups in Virginia, and representative of Virginia schools and colleges. <br /><br />Speakers presented findings of "The Negro in Richmond, Virgina" a study completed by the Negro Welfare Suvey Committee in 1929. Topics such as housing, education, community health and infant mortality were discussed. Other matters covered included the possible re-release of "Birth of a Nation" as a sound film, lynchings, and interracial cooperation. The Hon. John Pollard, Governor of the Commonwealth and Dr. Robert R. Moton , principal of Tuskegee Institute addressed "a great interracial mass meeting attended by a thousand prominent citizens in addition to members of the conference." (p. 7)<br /><br />See <a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Virginia+Church+Conference+on+Race+Relations" target="_blank" title="conference materials in the Image Portal" rel="noreferrer noopener">all the materials</a> related to this conference.
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Our Genius for Self-Government [editorial cartoon by Ding Darling]
Editorial cartoon by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ding_Darling" target="_blank" title="Jay Norwood "Ding" Darling" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ding Darling</a>, reprinted from the <em>New York Tribune</em> by the New York League of Women Voters to encourage voter turnout for the 1924 presidential election. <br /><br />Image Description: In the top panel throngs of people line a city street. The caption reads, "The crowd that gathers when some 'human fly' announces that he will climb a skyscraper." Below two caucus leaders address a nearly empty room. The caption reads, "The crowd that gathers at the caucus which is to express the community's wish on the selection of a Presidential candidate."
Darling, Jay Norwood
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New York League of Women Voters
1924
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Register! Vote!
Poster reprinted from <em>Collier's </em>encouraging qualified citizens to register and vote in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1924_United_States_presidential_election" target="_blank" title="1924 presidential election" rel="noreferrer noopener">1924 presidential election</a>. Voter turnout that year would fall short of the <a href="https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/data/voter-turnout-in-presidential-elections" target="_blank" title="voter turnout statistics for U.S. presidential elections" rel="noreferrer noopener">1920</a> count. <br /><br />Text: <br /><br />Register! Vote!<br />Don't be a parlor patriot. Don't be a rocking-chair Paul Revere. <br />How Qualified Citizens Voted: <br />1896......80%<br />1900......73% <br />1912......62% <br />1920......49% <br />Let's Make 1924 the Year of the Big Vote <br /><br />Reprinted from Collier's, The National Weekly
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Virginia Commission on Interracial Cooperation. Officers, Executive Committee, and Members
List of members and the organizations they represented in the Virginia Commission on Interracial Cooperation. Dr. R.E. Blackwell was the Virginia Chairman of this group. <br /><br />The parent organization, the <a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Commission+on+Interracial+Cooperation" target="_blank" title="materials related to the CIC" rel="noreferrer noopener">Commission on Interracial Cooperation</a> (CIC), was based in Atlanta, Ga. Founded in 1919 by progressive Southern whites, the CIC sought to improve race relations with an anti-lynching campaign, and by educating the public about issues affecting blacks such as peonage, police brutality, and disparities in educational and health services. The group published a newsletter, <em><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?collection=10" target="_blank" title="issues of The Southern Frontier" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Southern Frontier</a>. <br /><br /><br /></em>
Virginia Commission on Interracial Cooperation
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Letter to Adele Clark from Mary L. Westbrook, Federal Council of Churches, April 23, 1928
Letter from Mary L. Westbrook (Mrs. Richard W. Westbrook), Chairman, Church Women's Committee on Race Relations, Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, Inc. (Federal Council of Churches), sent to Adele Goodman Clark in her capacity as a representative of the National League of Women Voters at the 1926 Interracial Conference of Church Women. <br /><br />The letter describes a second conference planned for September 1928, and requests Clark begin planning to send delegates from the NLWV. <br /><br />Excerpts:<br /><br />"The past year and a half has disclosed problems which cause us to believe that there is need for the leaders of church women's organizations throughout the Nation to meet in conference again to discuss these problems, and to devise further plans and means of carrying forward the effective work begun so auspiciously following the epoch-making Interracial Conference of Church Women at Eagles Mere, Pa., Spetember 21-22, 1926, held by this Commission in cooperatin with the Council of Women for Home Missions and the National Board of the YWCA. <br /><br />This conference requested the Commission to form a Church Women's Committee on Race Relations, and this Committee, including representatives of practically every religious organization affiliated with the Federal Council of Churches, has been actively promoting parts of the program adopted at the Eagles Mere Conference. Correspondence with church women's groups in all parts of the Country has disclosed an unusual activity in race relations among them with a growing consciousness about the need of religion applied to the race problem. In many sections local committees were already in existence or have been formed; regional conferences in the Philadelphia and Chicago areas have been held with fruitful results."<br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Interracial+Conference+of+Church+Women" target="_blank" title="Documents related to the conference" rel="noreferrer noopener">See all documents</a> related to the Interracial Conference of Church Women.
Westbrook, Mary L.
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Church Women Explore Interracial Paths, Federal Council Bulletin, September-October, 1926
Pages 7-8 (front and back) removed from <em>Federal Council Bulletin</em>, September-October, 1926. The article, "Church Women Explore Interracial Paths," details an interracial conference held on September 21-22, 1926 at Eagles Mere, Pa.<br /><br />The conference was organized by the Commission on the Church and Race Relations of the Federal Council of Churchs, the Council of Women for Home Missions, and the National Board of the Y.W.C.A. It was attended by delegates from numerous denominations and organizations. Adele Clark of Richmond, Va. attended representing the National League of Women Voters. <br /><br />The object of the conference, according to the chair Mrs. Richard W. Westbrook (Mary L. Westbrook), was<br /><br />"(1) To enlarge the scope of interracial thinking and to enlist the women of the churches more actively in plans and programs for improving the relations between the white and colored groups in America; <br />(2) To discuss methods of better interracial organization through churches and their auxiliaries so that women may more effectively act on local interracial conditions; <br />(3) To exchange concrete experiences from groups of women that have already attempted to carry out interracial programs;<br />(4) To study the past experience of organizations that have done such work, to learn both from the sucesses and failures of such efforts how best to proceed in the future;<br />(5) To understand better the present trend of feeling and opinion in race relations that the Churches may more effectively work for interracial goodwill and cooperation."<br /> <br /><br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Interracial+Conference+of+Church+Women" target="_blank" title="Documents related to the Interracial Conference of Church Women" rel="noreferrer noopener">See all documents</a> related to the conference.
Federal Council of Churches
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Interracial Conference of Church Women, Eagles Mere, Pa., September 21-22, 1926
Group portrait of attendees at the Interracial Conference of Church Women, Eagles Mere, Pa., September 21-22, 1926. <br /><br />The conference was held by the Commission on the Church and Race Relations of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, Inc. (the Federal Council of Churches), the Council of Women for Home Missions, and the National Board of the YWCA. <br /><br />Mrs. Richard W. Westbrook (Mary L. Westbrook) of Brooklyn, NY, was the conference chairman. She stands in the front row (fifth from right) next to <a href="https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/brown-charlotte-hawkins0" target="_blank" title="NCpedia article on Charlotte Hawkins Brown" rel="noreferrer noopener">Charlotte Hawkins Brown</a>, founder of Palmer Memorial Center, who stands in the front row center. <br /><br />Delegates identified: <br />First row: <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006944501&view=2up&seq=616" target="_blank" title="article by Brown. See page 587 for photo" rel="noreferrer noopener">Dr. Sara W. Brown</a> (YWCA), second from left. <br />Mrs. L. W. Kyles (A.M.E. Zion Church, Winston Salem, NC), third from left.<br /><a href="https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/brown-charlotte-hawkins0" target="_blank" title="NCpedia article on Charlotte Hawkins Brown" rel="noreferrer noopener">Charlotte Hawkins Brown</a> (founder Palmer Memorial Center), center. <br />Mary L. Westbrook (conference chair), fifth from right.<br />Miss <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_del_Vakia_Bowles" target="_blank" title="biographical information" rel="noreferrer noopener">Eva del Vakia Bowles</a> (YWCA), second from right.<br /><br />Second row: <a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/organizations/labor/anderson-mary/" target="_blank" title="Mary Anderson, Social Welfare History Project" rel="noreferrer noopener">Mary Anderson</a> (first director U.S. Women's Bureau) third from left. <br />Mrs. John Ferguson (Council of Women for Home Missions), fourth from right.<br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Edmund_Haynes" target="_blank" title="biographical information on George Edmund Haynes" rel="noreferrer noopener">George Edmund Haynes</a> (sociologist, National Urban League), fourth row center.<br /><br />Third row: Adele Clark (League of Women Voters), left at end.<br /><br />Top row: <a href="https://findingaids.library.uic.edu/sc/MSDiec74.xml" target="_blank" title="finding aid to Dieckmann papers at UIC" rel="noreferrer noopener">Annetta M. Dieckmann</a> (YWCA, Industrial Dept.), third from left.<br /><br />The Eagles Mere conference was noteworthy because it brought together white and black women leaders to study the possibilities of larger cooperation. Also of significance, delegates to the conference represented both the North and the South, giving the discussions a nationwide scope (<em>Federal Council Bulletin</em>, September-October, 1926, p.7).<br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Interracial+Conference+of+Church+Women" target="_blank" title="documents related to Interracial Conference of Church Women" rel="noreferrer noopener">See all documents</a> related to this conference.
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Learn more: <br /><br />Adams, B. L. (2016). Black women's Christian activism. Seeking social justice in a northern suburb. New York: New York University Press. <br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Interracial+Conference+of+Church+Women" target="_blank" title="items tagged Interracial Conference of Church Women" rel="noreferrer noopener">Interracial Conference of Church Women</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal
Invitation to Virginia Church Conference on Race Relations to Adele Clark from Ben R. Lacy, Jr.
Letter of invitation from Dr. Ben R. Lacy, Jr. Chairman of the Conference Committe and President, Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Va. Addressed to Miss Adele Clark. the letter invites her to attend the Virginia Church Conference on Race Relations, October 28, 1930. The conference was held at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Richmond, Va. The conference theme was "Facing Facts With a Christian Program." <br /><br />Lacy begins, "The South faces no problem more far-reaching and difficult of solution than that caused by the presence in one territory of the white and Negro races. In any serious effor to find a way out, the Churches must take the place of leadership."<br /><br />The letter notes that "Only white people (except as indicated) will be expected to be present, in order that there may be the most freedom of expression in facing our responsibility." <br /><br />Representatives from the various denominations, "Presidents of Denominational Schools and Colleges, Editors of Church Press, Directors of Religious Education, Missionary Secretaries, Church Women's Societies, all white ministers, officials of the Y.W.C.A. and Y.M.C.A. and Special Students" were invited. <br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Virginia+Church+Conference+on+Race+Relations" target="_blank" title="Documents related to this conference" rel="noreferrer noopener">See all documents</a> related to this event. <br /><br />Among the speakers at the conference were Gordon B. Hancock, a professor at Virginia Union University, spoke on living conditions of African Americans in Richmond, and Dr. Robert Russa Moton, Principal of Tuskegee Institute whose address closed the conference.
Lacy, Ben R., Jr.
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1930 October 21
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Occasional Newsletter #1 (To State Committee Members in this Area)
A newsletter of the Commission for Interracial Cooperation addressed to the Virginia State Committee members in the area of Richmond, Va. <br /><br />Excerpts: <br /><br />p.1 The one thing important is for the leaders of both races to be close enough to each other to know the needs, and, as far as possible, the thoughts, feelings and attitudes of each race toward the other. I see nothing constructive in saying "We have the best Negroes (or white folks) in the world" unless that is based upon first-hand knowledge of the actual conditions; surface impressions may not be trustworthy. <br /><br />I could recite number of illustrations where trusted leaders of both races are patiently, quietly and courageously facing these situations where there may be injustice and discrimination and are trying to change the attitude out of which unsatisfactory conditions grow, thus producing a by-product of understanding and mutual trust upon which all permanent adjustments must rest.<br /><br />p.2 Have there been any lynchings in your section or in your state thus far in 1928? If so give particulars.<br /><br />During the past few years, the Commission, among many other constructive services, has conducted a vigorous campaign agaist the practice of lynching, all too prevalent in most American states. During three of the past four years, the number of lynchings has reached the low annual mark of 16, against a former forty-year average of more than 100. Certainly the Commission would not lay claim to all the credit for this progress; many factors have contributed, not the least of which is the press, which has created a more enlightened public opinion.
Reynolds, L. R.
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1928
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Virginia (white) Denominational Conference on Race Relations, October 28, 1930. Program and Resolution on "The Birth of a Nation."
Alternate name: Virginia Church Conference on Race Relations. <br /><br />A meeting of white religious leaders convened to discuss how churches might take a leadership role in race relations. <br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Virginia+Church+Conference+on+Race+Relations" target="_blank" title="materials related to this conference" rel="noreferrer noopener">See all documents</a> related to this event.
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1930 October 28
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Learn more: <br /><br /><a href="https://www.ncdcr.gov/blog/2017/10/09/profiles-archives-benjamin-r-lacy-jr" target="_blank" title="biographical profile" rel="noreferrer noopener">Profiles from the Archives: Benjamin R. Lacy, Jr.</a> North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources
National Health Circle for Colored People, Inc. Hiking the Health Road for Others
Informational pamphlet about the National Health Circle for Colored People, Inc. <br /><br />The National Health Circle for Colored People developed out of the Circle for Negro Relief, an organization that helped meet the needs for black soldiers and their families during World War I. In 1919 the Circle was reorganized as a peace time program for the promotion of public health work in African American communities. <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012320084&view=2up&seq=238" target="_blank" title="photograph of Belle Davis" rel="noreferrer noopener">Belle Davis</a>, a graduate of Fisk University, served as the Circle's executive secretary. Davis made over <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012320084&view=2up&seq=236" target="_blank" title="Pathfinders, by Adah B Thoms" rel="noreferrer noopener">25,000 visits</a> in nine years to promote public health and welfare and raise awareness of the needs of black communities. <br /><br />The National Health Circle for Colored People also worked to recruit, educate and place African American public health nurses. They raised money for scholarship loans and at one time provided office space for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Association_of_Colored_Graduate_Nurses" target="_blank" title="NACGN in Wikipedia" rel="noreferrer noopener">National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses</a>. <br /><br />This pamphlet list six "Objects of the Organization" and speaks to public health conditions, their causes, and the remedy. An appeal to both white and black citizens for membership is followed by endorsements from Theodore Roosevelt, R. R. Moton, Haven Emerson, M.D., and C. Everit Macy. <br /><br />Dr. Will W. Alexander of the <a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Commission+on+Interracial+Cooperation" target="_blank" title="materials related to the CIC" rel="noreferrer noopener">Commission on Interracial Cooperation</a> is listed as a member of the Board of Directors. <br /><br />The Circle notes that "tuberculosis kills eleven times as many Negro boys between the ages of ten and fourteen as white boys, and about eight times as many colored girls as white girls." Life expectancy of blacks was less than that of whites, and as many as 96 out of every 1,000 African American babies died before their first birthday. <br /><br />Pictured on the front cover are two Scholarship Nurses of the Circle, Alice Alvenia Sightler, R.N., graduate of Mercy Hospital, Philadelphia (left) and Agnes Boozer, R.N., graduate of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem_Hospital_School_of_Nursing" target="_blank" title="Harlem Hospital School of Nursing" rel="noreferrer noopener">Harlem Hospital School of Nursing</a> (right).
National Health Circle for Colored People, Inc.
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between 1926 - 1929
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Learn more: <br /><br />Organizing Black America: an encyclopedia of African American associations (2001). New York: Garland.<br /><br />Thoms, A. B. (1929). <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012320084&view=2up&seq=234" target="_blank" title="See p. 191 for info on the National Health Circle for Colored People, Inc." rel="noreferrer noopener">Pathfinders: a history of the progress of colored graduate nurses</a>. New York: Kay Print House.<br /><br />Hine, D.C. (1989). Black women in white: racial conflict and cooperation in the nursing profession, 1890-1950. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.<br /><br /><a href="http://archives.nypl.org/scm/20744" target="_blank" title="Finding aid" rel="noreferrer noopener">National Association of Colored Nurses records, 1908-1958</a>. New York Public Library.<br /><br />Hodson, Jane (1911). <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c029406304&view=2up&seq=10" target="_blank" title="How to become a trained nurse" rel="noreferrer noopener">How to become a trained nurse</a>. 3rd ed. New York, W. Abbatt. See p. 255, "Schools for Colored Nurses (Exclusively)."