"You Gotta Believe It" Your One Vote Does Count. [Crusade for Voters pamphlet]
Front and back covers of a four-page pamphlet created by the Crusade for Voters, Richmond, Va. The circular logo on the front cover shows a family of color with an American flag. Surrounding them is the slogan, "Every member of our family is a voter." Other text on the page says, "'You Gotta Believe It' Your One Vote Does Count. In Unity There is Strength." <br /><br />p.4 excerpts<br /><br />The black vote could be vital in many councilmanic elections, congressional elections, and even in the presidential election.<br /><br />If there is one who has not seen the value of the vote, take him by the hand and get him registered. He could be your next door neighbor, your husband, your wife, a member of your church, club, or organization. Wherever you find him, get him registered! <br /><br />By using your votes wisely -- voting for the right people -- impossible doors will be opened. The power of the people is at the Ballot Box -- Vote. <br /><br />At page bottom: <br />Published by the Crusade for Voters -- a non partisan organization in the interest of increasing the Voter Registration and Education.
M 296, Box 2, <a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=oai/vcu/repositories/5/resources/577.oai_ead.xml" target="_blank" title="finding aid" rel="noreferrer noopener">John Mitchell Brooks collection of NAACP files, 1957-1960, 1978</a>, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
Crusade for Voters, Richmond, Va.
Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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Learn more: <br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/exhibits/show/controlling-the-vote/gallery" target="_blank" title="Discovery set, SWH Image Portal" rel="noreferrer noopener">Controlling the Vote: Rights. Registration. Representation.</a> Social Welfare History Image Portal <br /><br />Hayter, J. M. (2017). <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1p0vjw7" target="_blank" title="jstor" rel="noreferrer noopener">The dream is lost. Voting rights and the politics of race in Richmond, Virginia.</a> Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky <br /><br />Moeser, J. V. & Dennis, R. M. (2020). <a href="https://doi.org/10.21974/02y5-eq41" target="_blank" title="Open Access Edition 2020" rel="noreferrer noopener">The politics of annexation. Oligarchic power in a southern city.</a> Open Access Edition. Digital publisher: VCU Libraries. Original (1982) edition Cambridge, MA: Schenkman Publishing Company<br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=voter+registration" target="_blank" title="items tagged 'voter registration'" rel="noreferrer noopener">Voter registration</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal<br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=voting+rights" target="_blank" title="materials tagged 'voting rights'" rel="noreferrer noopener">Voting rights</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal
A Practical Approach to the Race Problem. Origin and Work of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation.
A pamphlet explaining the origin and mission 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>, an organization founded in January, 1919 in Atlanta. The group sought to further "mutual understanding, peace, and good will" between the white and black communities. The group opposed lynching and mob violence, and sought to improve interracial attitudes, correct injustices and improve conditions affecting African Americans. <br /><br />The CIC was a moderate group that called itself a "movement" instead of an organization. "The philosophy of the movement is not that of 'seeking to solve the race problem,' but simply that of taking the next practicable step in the direction of interracial justice and good will" (p. 4).
Commission on Interracial Cooperation
<a href="https://cdm17236.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p17236coll18" target="_blank" title="Race Relations Pamphlets, UPSem Digital Collections" rel="noreferrer noopener">Race Relations Pamphlets</a>, Special Collections, William Smith Morton Library, Union Presbyterian Seminary
1939 October
Union Presbyterian Seminary Library
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Learn more: <br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Commission+on+Interracial+Cooperation" target="_blank" title="Materials related to the Commission on Interracial Cooperation" rel="noreferrer noopener">Commission on Interracial Cooperation</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal<br /><br />Pullen, Ann Ellis (2013). "<a href="https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/commission-interracial-cooperation" target="_blank" title="Commission on Interracial Cooperation" rel="noreferrer noopener">Commission on Interracial Cooperation</a>" New Georgia Encyclopedia.
America is our JAIL as long as JIM CROW LIVES [1963 Farmville, Va. protests]
Protesters and shoppers outside Southside Sundry, Farmville, Va., July 1963.<br /><br /><span>The Rev. James "Jimmy" Franklin of Sharon Baptist Church in Cumberland carries "America is our Jail..." sign. Catherine Scott is at right.</span><br /><br />From VCU Libraries <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/freedom_now_project/12465520995/in/album-72157640935144155/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Freedom Now Project</a>
<a href="https://digital.library.vcu.edu/islandora/object/vcu%3A4510" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Farmville 1963 Civil Rights Protests</a>, VCU Libraries Digital Collections
1963 July 29
Digital Collections, VCU Libraries
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Learn more:<a href="https://www.library.vcu.edu/research-teaching/special-collections-and-archives/exhibits/freedom-now/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">VCU Libraries Freedom Now Project</a> <br /><a href="https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Massive_Resistance" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Massive Resistance</a>, <em>Encyclopedia Virginia <br /></em><a href="https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/hist_pubs/3/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Program of Action: The Rev. L. Francis Griffin and the Struggle for Racial Equality in Farmville, 1963</a>, VCU Libraries Scholars Compass.
Americans Do Not Practice What They Preach [1963 Farmville, Va. protests]
<span>Protestor outside Safeway, Farmville Shopping Center, August 1963. </span><br /><br />Demonstrators carry signs opposing racial segregation, and encouraging shoppers to boycott businesses that support discriminatory practices.<br /><br />From VCU Libraries <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/freedom_now_project/12465792375/in/album-72157640891758243/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Freedom Now Project</a>
<a href="https://digital.library.vcu.edu/islandora/object/vcu%3A4601" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Farmville 1963 Civil Rights Protests</a><span>,</span><span> VCU Libraries Digital Collections</span>
<span>1963 August 24</span>
Digital Collections, VCU Libraries
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Annie Holland, Age 17, Seventeenth Street Mission, Richmond, VA
Photograph on postcard of a young African American woman named Annie Holland, standing in front of the Seventeenth Street Mission in Richmond, VA. Se wears a long dress with a jacket. Her hands are clasped behind her back. <br /><br />Notes on the front of the card give her age as 17 and note her many accomplishments in a single year of study. They read:<br /><br />"17th St. Mission Richmond, Va.<br />Annie Holland Age - 17.<br />Has recited twice, perfectly, wk. apart.<br />C[hild's] Cat[echism] 145 q[uestions]<br />Sh[orter] Cat[echism] 25 q[uestions]<br />Lords Prayer<br />Beatitudes<br />A[postles] Creed<br />10 Com[mandments]<br />Is 53<br />I Cor 13<br />Eccl 12<br />Matt 5.6.7<br />Ps 1, 15, 19, 23<br />91, 100, 121<br />----------------<br />All within<br /><span style="text-decoration:underline;">12 months"</span>
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<a href="https://upsem.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/default/search/results?qu=Seventeenth+Street+Mission" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Seventeenth Street Mission Collection</a><span>, Special Collections, William Smith Morton Library, Union Presbyterian Seminary</span>
ca. 1914
Union Presbyterian Seminary Library
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Boating Not Busing [National Socialist White Peoples Party flyer]
Anti-busing, anti-integration, anti-government flyer created by the National Socialist White Peoples Party (previously named the American Nazi Party) of Arlington, Va.<br /><br />Using violent antisemitic and racist speech, this flyer paints a dire picture of an integrated America if white people don't "get away from the old two-party windle and get behind a REAL political party that represents THEIR interests!"<br /><br />While undated, this flyer is believed to date to around 1972 during the <a href="https://www.virginiahistory.org/collections-and-resources/virginia-history-explorer/civil-rights-movement-virginia/school-busing" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">school busing</a> conflicts in Virginia.
National Socialist White Peoples Party
Anti-Semitism Collection, <a href="https://www.bethahabah.org/bama/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Beth Ahabah Museum & Archives</a>
1972?
Beth Ahabah Museum & Archives
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<span>Learn more: </span><br /><span>Miller, M.E. (2017). </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/08/21/the-shadow-of-an-assassinated-american-nazi-commander-hangs-over-charlottesville/?utm_term=.51e2a2320be3" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The shadow of an assassinated American Nazi commander hangs over Charlottesville.</a><span> </span><em>The Washington Post</em><span> (August 21, 2017). <br /><a href="http://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/exhibits/show/hate-and-extremism/gallery" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Backlash to Reform: Hatred and Extremism</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal<br /></span>
Bond, Piedmont Sanatorium
Bond, issued in 1917 in return for a donationof $1.00 toward the construction of Piedmont Sanatorium. <br /><br />The Piedmont Sanatorium was established in Burkeville, Virginia, in June, 1918. At that time, tuberculosis was one of the leading causes of death for African Americans, but segregated health care in Virginia dictated that blacks could receive treatment in only two facilities—Central State Hospital (a mental health facility) and the state penitentiary. <br /><br />The <a href="https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/negro_organization_society" target="_blank" title="Negro Organization Society" rel="noreferrer noopener">Negro Organization Society</a> initiated discussions with the State Board of Health, particularly Agnes D. Randolph, the Director of the Bureau of Tuberculosis Education. Randolph was instrumental in convincing the state government to establish a facility for African Americans. <br /><br />The Negro Organization Society continued to be heavily involved with the issue, from raising public awareness to donating funds to improve the facility. Piedmont Sanatorium had closed by 1965, when black patients began to be sent to Blue Ridge Sanatorium, near Charlottesville. <br /><br />Excerpt: <br />"This Bond is issued for the purpose of cooperation with the Negro Organization Society to erect and to equip one Building to be used for the patients and to include rooms for visiting Doctors who shall from time to time be invited for study to the Sanatorium. The purchaser hereby receives a share in the benefit and happiness to be derived."
Piedmont Sanatorium
<a href="http://librarycatalog.virginiahistory.org/final/Portal/Default.aspx?component=AAAAIY&record=029b3095-369e-4ce6-9e5c-7de76f69b6a1" target="_blank" title="Manuscripts, Mss4 P5957 a 1" rel="noreferrer noopener">Manuscripts, Call Number Mss4 P5957 a 1</a>, Library of the Virginia Museum of History & Culture, Virginia Historical Society
1917
Virginia Museum of History & Culture, Virginia Historical Society
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Learn more: <br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/exhibits/show/white-plague--tuberculosis/gallery" target="_blank" title="The White Plague: Tuberculosis" rel="noreferrer noopener">The White Plague: Tuberculosis</a>, Discovery Set, Social Welfare History Image Portal<br /><a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/issues/poverty/tuberculosis/" target="_blank" title="Tuberculosis" rel="noreferrer noopener">Tuberculosis</a>, Social Welfare History Project<br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=tuberculosis" target="_blank" title="Materials related to Tuberculosis" rel="noreferrer noopener">Tuberculosis</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal <br /><a href="http://exhibits.hsl.virginia.edu/alav/virginia/" target="_blank" title="Tuberculosis Sanatoriums in Virginia" rel="noreferrer noopener">Tuberculosis Sanatoriums in Virginia: Catawba, Piedmont, and Blue Ridge</a>, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia <br />France J. J. (1920). <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2622470/pdf/jnma00821-0024.pdf" target="_blank" title="PDF of this article" rel="noreferrer noopener">A Post-Graduate Course in Tuberculosis at the Piedmont Sanatorium, Burkeville, Va.</a> Journal of the National Medical Association, 12(2), 16–21. (link to PDF) <br /><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015067921224&view=2up&seq=348&size=125" target="_blank" title="Clean-Up Week informational publication" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Rules of Good Health and Directions for Spring Cleaning.</a> Prepared and Issued at the Request of the Negro Organization Society of Virginia (1917 April 5). Virginia Public Health Bulletin, <em>IX</em>(2) Extra.
Burnt Cork and Crime
Pamphlet published by the Commission on Interracial Cooperation, an organization which opposed lynching and promoted interracial dialogue and cooperation.<br /><br />Described on the cover as "stories summarized from press reports," the pamphlets relates incidents in which crimes were committed by persons posing as African Americans. These imposters blackened their faces and hands with burnt cork. <br /><br />Other stories describe false accusations by whites, and often white women, against black men. <br /><br />Excerpt from p.1<br />"In St. Louis some time ago a robber caught with blackened face stated that there was an organized group of white bandits who always operated under the mask of color. In this way, he said, it was easy to fool the officers, and in some cases even to assist in the search for the suspected Negro and 'identify' him when caught."<br /><br />p. 6 "The meaning is obvious, however, as it relates to hasty judgment, hysteria, mob violence, and the assumption that every Negro is guilty who anybody seeks to accuse. It suggests also that the statistics of Negro crime, now happily changing for the better, might be further lightened if all the facts were known and the mask of color torn away."
Commission on Interracial Cooperation
<a href="https://cdm17236.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p17236coll18" target="_blank" title="Race Relations Pamphlets, UPSem Digital Collections" rel="noreferrer noopener">Race Relations Pamphlets</a>, Special Collections, William Smith Morton Library, Union Presbyterian Seminary
Union Presbyterian Seminary Library
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Learn more: <br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Commission+on+Interracial+Cooperation" target="_blank" title="Materials related to the Commission on Interracial Cooperation" rel="noreferrer noopener">Commission on Interracial Cooperation</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal<br /><br />Pullen, Ann Ellis (2013). "<a href="https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/commission-interracial-cooperation" target="_blank" title="Commission on Interracial Cooperation" rel="noreferrer noopener">Commission on Interracial Cooperation</a>" New Georgia Encyclopedia.
Classroom Desegregation Will Never Work [broadside]
This broadside asserts “there is a basic, inherent mental difference between the races,” citing IQ tests and a booklet by Henry E. Garrett, <em>How Classroom Desegregation Will Work</em> (1966). <br /><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Garrett_(psychologist)" target="_blank" title="biographical information on Wikipedia" rel="noreferrer noopener">Henry Garrett</a> was at the forefront of a resurgence of racial pseudoscience in the mid-twentieth century. He argued for segregation in <em>Davis v. County School Board</em> (one of the cases in Brown v. Board), compiled a pamphlet of his essays for the white supremacist <a href="http://www.citizenscouncils.com/" target="_blank" title="About Citizens' Council" rel="noreferrer noopener">Citizens’ Council</a>, and his views were used to forward the work of other eugenicists. <br /><br />Excerpts:<br /><br />That is why Classroom Desegregation will <em>never</em> work: There is a basic, inherent mental difference between the races. If you mix the classrooms and gear the standards to Negroes, you deny White children their optimum chance. If you gear the standards to White mentality, you develop frustrations on the part of Negroes, with subsequent antagonisms, drop-outs, and "delinquencies...."<br /><br />Race differences, as an issue, is the overriding problem of our time. These differences are something too few of us know about. Now is the time to learn, before it is too late. If you <em>know</em> what you are talking about, you can help defeat Black Power. Only the truth will keep us free.
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<a href="http://librarycatalog.virginiahistory.org/final/Portal/Default.aspx?component=AAAAIY&record=c231aee4-2016-4cb4-94cf-363c83f66aff">General collection, Call Number LC214.2 .C614 196-?</a>, Library of the Virginia Museum of History and Culture, Virginia Historical Society
The Patrick Henry Press, Richmond, Virginia
1960s
Virginia Museum of History and Culture, Virginia Historical Society
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Learn more: <br /><br />Door, Gregory Michael (2008). <em>Segregation’s Science: Eugenics and Society in Virginia <br /><br /></em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_M._Shuey" target="_blank" title="biographical information on Audrey Shuey, student of Henry Garrett" rel="noreferrer noopener">Shuey, Audrey M</a>. (1966). <em><a href="https://archive.org/details/1966ShueyThetestingofnegrointelligencevol1/page/n1" target="_blank" title="The Testing of Negro Intelligence" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Testing of Negro Intelligence</a>, </em>second edition. <br /><br />Campbell, A. W. (2018). <a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/issues/discrimination/influence-controversy-races-mankind-brotherhood-man/" target="_blank" title="The Races of Mankind" rel="noreferrer noopener">Influence and Controversy. The Races of Mankind and The Brotherhood of Man</a>. Social Welfare History Project.
Closed Schools Constitute Catastrophe!!! [1963 Farmville, Va. protests]
Demonstration in front of Prince Edward County Courthouse, Main Street, Farmville, Va., July 1963, protesting the four-year long closure of the public schools <br /><br />Clara Gibson is closest to camera. Third person in line is Sandra "Sandy" Stokes. Second protester carries sign reading, "Ask Mr. Vaughn Why The Schools Are Closed. He will 'Him' and 'Haw' and Decline to Disclose!"<br /><br />From VCU Libraries <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/freedom_now_project/12464900743/in/album-72157640935144155/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Freedom Now Project</a>
<a href="https://digital.library.vcu.edu/islandora/object/vcu%3A4252" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Farmville 1963 Civil Rights Protests</a><span>,</span><span> VCU Libraries Digital Collections</span>
1963 July
Digital Collections, VCU Libraries
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Learn more:<a href="https://www.library.vcu.edu/research-teaching/special-collections-and-archives/exhibits/freedom-now/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">VCU Libraries Freedom Now Project</a> <br /><a href="https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Massive_Resistance" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Massive Resistance</a>, <em>Encyclopedia Virginia <br /></em><a href="https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/hist_pubs/3/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Program of Action: The Rev. L. Francis Griffin and the Struggle for Racial Equality in Farmville, 1963</a>, VCU Libraries Scholars Compass.
Constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act of 1965; a response to the Attorney General of the United States...
This booklet was distributed by the Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government (VCCG) in opposition to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The Commission began in 1958 and existed until the late 1960s. <br /><br />Led by David J. Mays, a prominent lawyer and advisor to Virginia’s commission on the response to the <em>Brown v. Board of Education</em> decision, it advocated nationally for states’ rights and conservatism, and eventually distributed over 2 million published pamphlets, brochures and speeches. <em>The Constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act of 1965</em> argues against the Voting Rights Act. Robert Y. Button (Virginia’s Attorney General at the time) made a typical VCCG argument in stating that the Act “attempted to erode the basic concepts of constitutional government in which the individual States are acknowledged to be sovereign” and is “patently unconstitutional.” <br /><br />Excerpts: <br /><br />pp. 8-9 "the Supreme Court of the United States has repeatedly declared that a State is free to conduct its elections and limit its electorate as it may deem wise, except as its actions may be affected by the prohibitions of the Federal Constitution, and that the power of Congress to legistlate at all the subject of racial discrimination in voting rests upon the Fifteenth Amendment and extends only to the prevention by appropriate legistlation of the discriminatiion forbidden by that Amendment..."<br /><br />p. 14 "I do believe, however, -- as Mr. Justice Harlan made clear...that the Framers of the Constitution:<br /><br />'staked their faith that liberty would proper in the new Nation not primarily upon declarations of individual rights <em>but upon the kind of government the Union was to have. </em>And they determined that in <em>a government of divided powers</em> lay the best promise for realizing the free society it was their object to achieve.' (Italics supplied [by Button]. <br /><br />One aspect of this governmental edifice which the Framers sought to erect, and which H. R. 6400 would manifestly subvert, was the distribution of power between the Nation and the States, each supreme within its sphere, thus forming an indestructible Union of indestructible States." <br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Virginia+Commission+on+Constitutional+Government" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Other publications by the VCCG">Other VCCG publications</a> in the Image Portal
Button, Robert Y.
<a href="http://librarycatalog.virginiahistory.org/final/Portal/Default.aspx?component=AAAAIY&amp;record=76257a97-9be4-4971-b1b5-351eec5dcce9" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Search for this item in the Library Catalog">General collection, Call Number JK1861.V82 B8</a>, Library of the Virginia Museum of History and Culture, Virginia Historical Society
Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government
1965
Virginia Museum of History and Culture, Virginia Historical Society
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Learn more: <br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/exhibits/show/controlling-the-vote/gallery" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Discovery Set: Controlling the Vote">Controlling the Vote -- Rights. Registration. Representation.</a> Social Welfare History Image Portal<br /><a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/uncategorized/voting-rights-act-of-1965/" target="_blank" title="Introduction to the Voting Rights Act" rel="noreferrer noopener">Voting Rights Act of 1965. An Introduction</a>. <em>Social Welfare History Project </em> <br /><br />Hayter, J. M. (2017). <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1p0vjw7" target="_blank" title="The Dream is lost." rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>The dream is lost. Voting rights and the politics of race in Richmond, Virginia</em>.</a> Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky <br /><br />Moeser, J. V. & Dennis, R. M. (2020). <a href="https://doi.org/10.21974/02y5-eq41" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Open Access edition 2020"><em>The politics of annexation. Oligarchic power in a southern city.</em></a> Open Access Edition. Digital publisher: VCU Libraries. Original (1982) edition Cambridge, MA: Schenkman Publishing Company <br /><br />Hershman, J. H. Jr. <a href="https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Massive_Resistance" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Massive Resistance">Massive Resistance</a>. (2011, June 29). <em>Encyclopedia Virginia</em>
Don't Buy Segregation [1963 Farmville, Va. protests]
<span><span>Protesters near Southside Sundry and Southside Business Machines, Main Street, Farmville, Va., July 1963.<br /><br /><span>Irene Williams carries "Don't Buy Segregation." Kenneth Johnson stands at left in dark pants.</span></span><br /><br />Protesters carry signs opposing racial segregation, and encouraging shoppers to boycott businesses that support discriminatory practices.</span>
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1963 July
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Learn more:<a href="https://www.library.vcu.edu/research-teaching/special-collections-and-archives/exhibits/freedom-now/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">VCU Libraries Freedom Now Project</a> <br /><a href="https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Massive_Resistance" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Massive Resistance</a>, <em>Encyclopedia Virginia <br /></em><a href="https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/hist_pubs/3/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Program of Action: The Rev. L. Francis Griffin and the Struggle for Racial Equality in Farmville, 1963</a>, VCU Libraries Scholars Compass.
Education by Radio. Vol. II, No. 1. First Quarter 1941.
From header, "A Bulletin to Promote the Use of Radio for Educational, Cultural, and Civic Purposes" <br /><br />A quarterly publication by The National Committee on Education in Radio. <br />Committee members: <br />Arthur G. Crane, Chairman <br />James E. Cummings <br />Harold G. Ingham <br />Bruce E. Mahan <br />C. S. Marsh <br />Charles A. Robinson, S. J. <br />Willis A. Sutton <br />H. J. Umberger, Vicechairman <br />L. S. Woods <br /><br />The Committee was a member of the Educational Press Association of America. <br /><br />The lead article is titled, "Radio Builds Democracy."<br /><br />p. 23 "Radio has peculiar responsibilities to its listeners. The license of the local radio station gives it monolpoly rights to the air which belongs ot all of us, the people. In return, we expect the station to serve the public faithfully in 'public interest, convenience, and necessity,' as the law demands. <br />...radio has made the nation one great town meeting...We listen to news, to information, to opinion. We hear America's best speakers and thinkers argue for their views just as the city Fathers did in historic New England. The spoken word carries the warmth of the speaker's personality, conveys his sincerity and his enthusiasm which the printed page cannot convey. Radio listening insures correct reporting, because so many of us hear the broadcast. Radio with its nationwide audiences helps make democracy work." <br /><br />An article C.A. Siepman titled, "<a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/2262534?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents" target="_blank" title="original article "Can Radio Educate?"" rel="noreferrer noopener">Can Radio Educate</a>?" is excerpted from a piece in <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/i313653?refreqid=excelsior%3A9a613651bae2e4f279d107434588a9aa" target="_blank" title="radio education issue" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>The Journal of Educational Sociology</em></a> "devoted exclusively to radio problems." (p. 25-26)<br /><br />A notice is included about The Library of Congress <a href="https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchArg=radio+research+project&searchCode=GKEY%5E*&searchType=0&recCount=25&sk=en_US" target="_blank" title="Library of Congress audio recordings Radio Research Project" rel="noreferrer noopener">Radio Research Project</a> begun on January 1, 1941 "to investigate possible uses of radio as a medium to make available to the American public parts of the record of American culture maintained in the Library of Congress." (p. 24)<br /><br />Another note (p. 25) describes a series of radio programs about African Americans that is being prepared by the U. S. Office of Education. This almost certainly refers to the work of Ambrose Caliver, Senior Specialist in the Education of Negroes. Caliver published numerous articles and pamphlets about African American education. He also created a nine-part radio series, broadcast on NBC, called “Freedom Peoples.” "Freedom Peoples" broke new ground as the first substantial program in mass media that focused on African American life and history. The program featured guest appearances from Paul Robeson, Joe Louis, and A. Philip Randolph.
National Committee on Education by Radio
M 172, Box 5, <a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=oai/vcu/repositories/5/resources/384.oai_ead.xml" target="_blank" title="finding aid" rel="noreferrer noopener">Calvin T. Lucy papers 1914-1978</a>, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
1941
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Learn more: <br /><a href="https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22National+Committee+on+Education+by+Radio%22" target="_blank" title="publications by the National Committee on Education by Radio" rel="noreferrer noopener">National Committee on Education by Radio</a>, Internet Archive.<br />"<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=3dXw6gR2GgkC&pg=PA134&lpg=PA134&dq=united+states+office+of+education+negro+contributions+to+american+life&source=bl&ots=00aTT-uumK&sig=4M3ATHdEy6VkDwRrNqQ6skYY4t4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj67Kn08o3dAhXSneAKHWl0A3MQ6AEwA3oECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q=united%20states%20office%20of%20education%20negro%20contributions%20to%20american%20life&f=false" target="_blank" title="Ambrose Caliver biography" rel="noreferrer noopener">Caliver, Ambrose</a>" (2004). <em>African American Lives </em>(pp. 133-134). Edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr., Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. New York: Oxford University Press. <br />Smith, S. <a href="http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/jim_crow/freedomspeople.html" target="_blank" title="Radio Fights Jim Crow" rel="noreferrer noopener">Radio Fights Jim Crow</a> (2001). American Public Media. <br /><em><a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/i313653?refreqid=excelsior%3A9a613651bae2e4f279d107434588a9aa" target="_blank" title="radio education issue" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Journal of Educational Sociology</a>. </em>Education Turns the Dial. Vol. 14, No. 6, Feb., 1941. <br /><a href="https://www.whitehousehistory.org/the-fireside-chats-roosevelts-radio-talks" target="_blank" title="FDR's "Fireside Chats"" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Fireside Chats: Roosevelt's Radio Talks</a>. The White House Historical Association.<br /><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/can-radio-really-educate/">Can Radio Really Educate?</a> JSTOR Daily.
Elihu Root Warns the South [anti-suffrage broadside]
Broadside publishing an essay by James Callaway, editor of the <em>Macon Telegraph</em> and an ardent anti-suffragist. <br /><br />Callaway quotes Senator William Borah: <br /><br />"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. <br /><br />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." <br /><br />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 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_primaries" target="_blank" title="white primaries" rel="noreferrer noopener">white primary</a> was important for protecting white rural women in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Belt_(U.S._region)" target="_blank" title="definition of "black belt" region of the U.S." rel="noreferrer noopener">black belt</a> and making it safe for them to leave their homes without escort. <br /><br />"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."
M 9 Box 51, <a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=oai/vcu/repositories/5/resources/279.oai_ead.xml" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978</a>, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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Embroidery Class, Seventeenth Street Mission, Richmond, VA
Photograph of girls and young women from an embroidery class taught at the Seventeenth Street Mission, Richmond, VA.<br /><br />Caption on card: "An embroidery class taught by wife of a Pres[byterian] minister. All have recited C.Cat[echism] 145 q[uestions]. except 2 mk'd X - 75 q[uestions].<br /><br /><span>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. </span><br /><br /><span>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.</span>
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c. 1914
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Equal Suffrage and the Negro Vote [broadside]
This broadside was issued by the Equal Suffrage League in about 1916. <br /><br />Southern suffragists were forced to respond to anti-suffrage groups who argued that if African American women gained the right to vote, white supremacy would be threatened. Although some prominent suffragists claimed that their response was borne only out of expedience, and not principle, they nonetheless employed Jim Crow arguments by emphasizing the power of the literacy test and the poll tax.
Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia
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c. 1916
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Learn more: <br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/75" target="_blank" title="The Negro Vote in the South." rel="noreferrer noopener">The Negro Vote in the South. A Southern Woman's Viewpoint</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal
Father Forgive them for they know not what they do / Educate Don't Segregate [1963 Farmville, Va. protests]
Protesters in front of Prince Edward County Courthouse, Main St., Farmville, Va., July 1963. <br /><br /><span>The Rev. Goodwin Douglas, pastor of Beulah AME, with "Father forgive them..." sign. <span>Fourth person in line behind the Rev. Douglas is Clara Gibson. Visible behind her is Sandra "Sandy" Stokes.</span></span>
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1963 July
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Learn more:<a href="https://www.library.vcu.edu/research-teaching/special-collections-and-archives/exhibits/freedom-now/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">VCU Libraries Freedom Now Project</a> <br /><a href="https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Massive_Resistance" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Massive Resistance</a>, <em>Encyclopedia Virginia <br /></em><a href="https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/hist_pubs/3/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Program of Action: The Rev. L. Francis Griffin and the Struggle for Racial Equality in Farmville, 1963</a>, VCU Libraries Scholars Compass.
Friends Asylum for Colored Orphans, St. Paul and Charity streets, Richmond, Virginia
<a href="https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/brooks-lucy-goode-1818-1900/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Lucy Goode Brooks</a> (1818–1900) and members of the Ladies Sewing Circle for Charitable Work established the Friends Asylum for Colored Orphans in 1871. These formerly enslaved women enlisted the support of the Cedar Creek Meeting Society of Friends (Quakers) to found a home for orphaned and abandoned African-American children. Brooks’s activism came from her experience losing one of her children, who was sold before the Civil War. <br /><br />The Friends Asylum opened an orphanage at St. Paul and Charity streets in Jackson Ward. Today, the organization is known as FRIENDS Association for Children. It provides childcare, enrichment programs, support and educational services to low-income families.
Gray, W. Palmer, photographer
<a href="https://thevalentine.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Valentine</a>
c. 1920
The Valentine
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Learn more:<br /><a href="http://edu.lva.virginia.gov/online_classroom/union_or_secession/people/lucy_brooks" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louise Goode Brooks (1818 - 1900)</a>, John T. Kneebone, <span>The Library of Virginia.<br /><a href="https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/exhibit/wQxaWRIE" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Richmond Comes Together: Images of Community Outreach</a><span>, The Valentine <br /></span><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=tpBCAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA454#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank" title="Acts of Assembly, 1871-72" rel="noreferrer noopener">Acts and Joint Resolutions Passed by the General Assembly of the State of Virginia</a> at its Session of 1871-'72, Chap. 362, p.454. <br /><a href="http://www.virginiamemory.com/online-exhibitions/exhibits/show/remaking-virginia/item/524" target="_blank" title="Charter and By-laws" rel="noreferrer noopener">Charter and By-laws of the Friends' Asylum for Colored Orphans, in the City of Richmond, Va.</a> <em>Remaking Virginia: Transformation Through Emancipation,</em> Library of Virginia.<br /></span>
George Lincoln Rockwell, Richmond, Va., July 4, 1963 [publicity flyer]
A flyer promoting an appearance by George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party, in Richmond, Virginia on July 4, 1963. The rally was to intended to motivate opposition to the March on Washington that would take place on August 28, 1963. Rockwell spoke in front of City Hall in Richmond. <br /><br />Rockwell's white supremacist activism was influenced by Senator Joseph McCarthy. Rockwell equated "race-mixing" with Communism. He was also anti-semitic.<br /><br /><span>Rockwell ran an unsuccessful campaign for Governor of Virginia in 1965. Mills E. Godwin, Jr. won the governorship with 296,526 of the </span><span>562,789 votes cast. Rockwell received <span>5,730 votes, coming in fourth behind Godwin, A. Linwood Holton, Jr. and William J. Story Jr.</span></span><br /><br />Rockwell was murdered in 1967 by a recently expelled member of the American Nazi Party.<br /><br />This flyer was folded in half for distribution. The two half-sized images appeared on the outside. Once opened, there were three full-sized pages of text inside.<br /><br />
Aubrey Brown Jr. personal papers collection. <a href="https://upsem.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/default/?rm=MARCH+ON+WASHI0%7C%7C%7C1%7C%7C%7C0%7C%7C%7Ctrue" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">March on Washington 1963</a> digital collection. <span>Special Collections, William Smith Morton Library, Union Presbyterian Seminary</span>
1963
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Learn more: <br /><a href="http://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/exhibits/show/hate-and-extremism/gallery" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Backlash to Reform: Hatred and Extremism</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal<br />Miller, M.E. (2017). <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/08/21/the-shadow-of-an-assassinated-american-nazi-commander-hangs-over-charlottesville/?utm_term=.51e2a2320be3" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">The shadow of an assassinated American Nazi commander hangs over Charlottesville.</a> <em>The Washington Post</em> (August 21, 2017).<br />Roosevelt, E. (1939). <a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/eras/great-depression/keepers-democracy/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Keepers of Democracy</a>, from <em>The Virginia Quarterly Review</em> (Winter 1939), Social Welfare History Project<br />Hansan, John E., <a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/eras/march-on-washington-august-28-1963/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">March on Washington, D.C. for Jobs and Freedom August 28, 1963</a>, Social Welfare History Project<br /><a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/eras/march-1963-film/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">The March (1963) [film]</a>, Social Welfare History Project<br /><a href="http://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/248" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom</a> [publicity flyer], Social Welfare History Image Portal
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
Hatenanny Records [American Nazi Party]
During the 1960s, George Lincoln Rockwell attempted to draw attention to the American Nazi Party (which he founded) by starting a small record label, named Hatenanny Records. The label released several 45 RPM singles, including recordings by a group credited as Odis Cochran and the Three Bigots, that were sold mostly through mail order and at party rallies. (<a href="http://www.savethevinyl.org/hatenanny-records-the-record-label-of-the-american-nazi-party.html" target="_blank" title="More information at Savethevinyl.org" rel="noreferrer noopener">SaveTheVinyl.org</a>) <br /><br />The name "Hatenanny" comes from the word "hootenanny" which referred to folk music gatherings. Rockwell regarded folk musicians as communist sympathizers, race-mixers and "peace creeps." <br /><br />Bob Dylan mentions George Lincoln Rockwell in his <a href="http://bobdylan.com/songs/talkin-john-birch-paranoid-blues/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">"Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues."</a><br /><br />Side 1: "Ship Those Niggers Back" credited to Odis Cochran & Guitar with "The 3 Bigots" <br />copyright 1964 By G.L Rockwell Pary, Inc. #6409191<br /><br />Side 2: "We Is Non-Violent Niggers" credited to Odis Cochran & Guitar with "The 3 Bigots" copyright 1964 By G.L Rockwell Pary, Inc. #6409192
<a>M 342, Box 24,</a> <a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=oai/vcu/repositories/5/resources/158.oai_ead.xml" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Edward H. Peeples, Jr. Papers</a>, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library
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Learn more: <br /><span></span><a href="http://www.savethevinyl.org/hatenanny-records-the-record-label-of-the-american-nazi-party.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Hatenanny Records. The Record Label of the American Nazi Party.</a> <span>SaveTheVinyl.org </span><br /><a href="https://archive.org/details/OdisCochranTheThreeBigotsRecordSleeve" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Otis Cochran & the Three Bigots record sleeve</a><span>, Internet Archive <br /><a href="http://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/search?query=rockwell&query_type=keyword&record_types%5B%5D=Item&record_types%5B%5D=File&record_types%5B%5D=Collection&submit_search=Search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">George Lincoln Rockwell</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal<br />Miller, M.E. (2017). <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/08/21/the-shadow-of-an-assassinated-american-nazi-commander-hangs-over-charlottesville/?utm_term=.51e2a2320be3" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The shadow of an assassinated American Nazi commander hangs over Charlottesville.</a> <em>The Washington Post</em> (August 21, 2017). <br /><a href="http://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/exhibits/show/hate-and-extremism/gallery" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Backlash to Reform: Hatred and Extremism</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal</span>
High school seniors embark by bus to voter registration, Atlanta, Ga., 1959
Photograph of students from <a href="https://www.atlantapublicschools.us/Page/52771" target="_blank" title="Luther Judson Price High School" rel="noreferrer noopener">Luther Judson Price High School</a> of Atlanta, Ga., prepare to register to vote. <br /><br />Caption attached to photograph: <br />"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."<br /><br />Handwritten on back of photograph: <br />"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 <a href="https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/business-economy/jesse-hill-1927-2012" target="_blank" title="Jesse Hill (1927-2012), New Georgia Encyclopedi" rel="noreferrer noopener">Jesse Hill, Jr.</a> Actuary of the <a href="https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/business-economy/atlanta-life-insurance-company" target="_blank" title="Atlanta Life Insurance Co. history, New Georgia Encyclopedia" rel="noreferrer noopener">Atlanta Life Insurance Co.</a> 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, <a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=oai/vcu/repositories/5/resources/577.oai_ead.xml" target="_blank" title="John Mitchell Brooks Collection finding aid" rel="noreferrer noopener">John Mitchell Brooks Collection of NAACP Files 1957-1978</a>, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
1959
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Learn more: <br />Holmes, R. A. (2005). <a href="https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/government-politics/black-suffrage-twentieth-century" target="_blank" title="Black suffrage in the twentieth century" rel="noreferrer noopener">Black suffrage in the twentieth century</a>. <em>New Georgia Encyclopedia</em> <br />Myers, B. (2006). <a href="https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/business-economy/jesse-hill-1927-2012" target="_blank" title="Jesse Hill" rel="noreferrer noopener">Jesse Hill (1927-2012)</a>. <em>New Georgia Encyclopedia <br /></em><a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/uncategorized/voting-rights-act-of-1965/" target="_blank" title="Voting Rights Act of 1965, introduction" rel="noreferrer noopener">Voting Rights Act of 1965: An Introduction</a>, Social Welfare History Project <br /><a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/federal/the-voting-rights-act-of-1965/" target="_blank" title="Voting Rights Act of 1965" rel="noreferrer noopener">Voting Rights Act of 1965</a>, Social Welfare History Project
Imperial Palace, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Atlanta, GA [postcard]
Postcard showing Imperial Palace, Stone Mountain, GA surrounded by seven Klansmen brandishing torches, mounted on horseback. A portrait of William Joseph Simmons, founder and leader of the second Ku Klux Klan, appears at upper right corner. <br /><br />Portrait caption: "Col. W. J. Simmons, Founder and Imperial Wizard."<br /><br />Text: <br />"Imperial Palace, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Atlanta, GA. <br /><br />Stone Mountain, Largest Solid Stone in the World, one mile from Base to Summit. On its highest pinnacle the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Oranized at Midnight, Nov. 25th, 1915."<br /><br />On reverse: "Published by a Klansman"<br />
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<br />The birth of the <a href="https://labs.library.vcu.edu/klan/" target="_blank" title="Mapping the Second Ku Klux Klan, 1915 - 1940" rel="noreferrer noopener">second Ku Klux Klan</a> was partly inspired by D. W. Griffith's 1915 film, <a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Birth+of+a+Nation" target="_blank" title="materials related to the film's re-release as a "talkie"" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>The Birth of a Nation</em></a>.<br /><br />The face of Stone Mountain became the site of the Confederate Memorial Carving, the largest bas-relief sculpture in the world. This bas-relief depicts the three Confederate leaders of the Civil War: President Jefferson Davis and Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson. The sculptor was Gutzon Borglum, whose next major project was Mount Rushmore. <br /><br />In his <a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/250" target="_blank" title="SCLC Newsletter" rel="noreferrer noopener">"I Have A Dream" speech</a> (28 August 1963), <a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Martin+Luther+King+Jr." target="_blank" title="Items related to MLK, Jr." rel="noreferrer noopener">Martin Luther King, Jr.</a> invoked the imagery of "My Country 'Tis of Thee" saying, <br />
<blockquote>Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.<br />Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.<br />Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.<br />From every mountainside, let freedom ring. <br /><br /></blockquote>
M 172 Box 1, <a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=oai/VCU/repositories_5_resources_384.xml" target="_blank" title="finding aid" rel="noreferrer noopener">Calvin T. Lucy papers</a>, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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Learn more: <br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/exhibits/show/hate-and-extremism/gallery" target="_blank" title="Discovery Set: Backlash to Reform" rel="noreferrer noopener">Backlash to Reform: Hatred and Extremism</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal <br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Martin+Luther+King+Jr." target="_blank" title="materials related to Martin Luther King, Jr." rel="noreferrer noopener">Martin Luther King, Jr.</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal <br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Ku+Klux+Klan" target="_blank" title="materials related to the KKK" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ku Klux Klan</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal<br /><br /><a href="https://labs.library.vcu.edu/klan/learn" target="_blank" title="Learn about the spread of the second KKK" rel="noreferrer noopener">Mapping the Second Ku Klux Klan, 1915-1940</a>, Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries <br /><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_World_Expos%C3%A9_of_the_Ku_Klux_Klan" target="_blank" title="Wikipedia entry" rel="noreferrer noopener">New York World Expose of the Ku Klux Klan</a>, Wikipedia <br /><br /><a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/pages/results/?date1=1921&index=1&date2=1921&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=New+York&rows=20&proxtext=Ku+Klux+Klan&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1&sort=relevance" target="_blank" title="search historic newspapers from 1921" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ku Klux Klan, New York 1921</a>. Chronicling America. Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress <br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=white+supremacy" target="_blank" title="materials related to white supremacy" rel="noreferrer noopener">White supremacy</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal
In Defense of Prince Edward County of Virginia. Speech of Hon. Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia in the Senate of the United States, Wednesday, May 17, 1961
Reprint of Senator Harry F. Byrd's speech as recorded in the United States of America, Congressional Record, Proceedings and Debates of the 87th Congress, First Session.
Byrd, Harry Flood
M 172 Box 1, f2, <a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=oai/vcu/repositories/5/resources/384.oai_ead.xml" target="_blank" title="Calvin T. Lucy Papers, 1914 - 1978" rel="noreferrer noopener">Calvin T. Lucy Papers, 1914 - 1978</a>. James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
1961 May 17
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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. <br /><br />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. <br /><br />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.'<br />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." <br /><br />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. <br /><br />Other topics and articles include:<br /><br />"K.U. Medical School Opens Doors to Negro Students" <br />"Ask American Bar to Admit Negro Lawyers" <br />"Ga. Governor Removes Shakles in Prison Reform" (also removed from Georgia prisions were the sweat-box, and whippings with cat-o-nine tails) <br />"Blue and Gray Vets Gather at Gettysburg" (75th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg) <br />"Cotton Picker May Displace Negro Workers" (regarding the Rust Brothers cotton picker)<br />"Italians 'Aryan' Race Purity Urged" (regarding the purge of Jews from Italy)<br />"Vassar Pact Pledges Aid to Minorities" (World Youth Congress at Vassar College)
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1938 February
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Learn more: <br /><em><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Southern+Frontier" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Issues of The Southern Frontier">The Southern Frontier</a>,</em> Social Welfare History Image Portal <br /><a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/eras/civil-war-reconstruction/jim-crow-laws-andracial-segregation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Jim Crow Laws">Jim Crow Laws and Racial Segregation</a>, Social Welfare History Project <br /><a href="https://newspaperarchives.vassar.edu/cgi-bin/vassar?a=d&d=vq19381001-01.2.6" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Vassar Peace Pact">Vassar Peace Pact</a> (1938). <em>Vassar Quarterly</em>, Volume XXIV, Number 1, 1 October 1938, Vassar newspaper archives.