League for the Promotion of Public School Education in Virginia letter, January 20, 1930
Informational letter from the League for the Promotion of Public School Education in Virginia signed by the Chairman, <a href="http://aw22.org/pgm/barrett.html" target="_blank" title="biographical sketch of R. S. Barrett" rel="noreferrer noopener">Robert S. Barrett</a>. Barrett was the son of the Rev. Dr. Robert S. Barrett, an Episcopal clergyman, and <a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Kate+Waller+Barrett" target="_blank" title="materials related to Kate Waller Barrett" rel="noreferrer noopener">Kate Waller Barrett</a>, one of the first women medical doctors in the South and co-founder of the National Florence Crittenton Mission.<br /><br />Text --<br /><br />Dear Fellow Virginian:<br /><br />As you have perhaps noted in the newspapers this League has been established for the purpose of promoting public school education in Virginia. It is non-political and non-sectarian. There are no dues or obligations of any kind and its membership is composed of those persons who are interested in this important subject. The simple advice that your are interested will make you a member. <br /><br />Just at the present time the League is interested in the establishment of a Secretary of Education in the Presidents cabinet, believing that it will be of great benefit to Virginia. We agree with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Capper" target="_blank" title="Arthur Capper" rel="noreferrer noopener">Senator Capper</a>, of Kansas, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_M._Robsion" target="_blank" title="John Marshall Robsion" rel="noreferrer noopener">Representative Robsion</a>, of Kentucky, the authors of the bill now pending in Congress, who say: <br /><br />"We seek broader opportunity for the childhood of this Nation, by guaranteeing to every boy and girl under the Stars and Stripes, regardless of race, creed, or color, at least a Grammar School eduation. If we succeed the deplorable illiteracy, now so manifest on every hand, will be abolished and intelligence completely enthroned."<br /><br />We feel that as a friend of education you should be interested in this bill and are therefore sending you a copy together with Congressman Robsion's speech which effectually answers all arguments against it. <br /><br />After you have read this leterature we will greatly appreciate it if you would write to our Virginia Senators, Senators Claude S. Swanson, and Senator Carter Glass, and your representative in Congress letting them know that you approve the bill and asking them to advocate and vote for it. <br /><br />Yours very truly, <br />Robert S. Barrett<br />Chairman
M 9 Box 30, <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
1930 January 20
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The Candle. Vol. I, No. V, December 1957
Newsletter published by the Virginia State Conference-NAACP. The Candle's header shows two lighted candles and the motto, "It is Better to Light One Candle Than to Curse the Darkness."<br /><br />This issue includes reporting on the Virginia Political Action convention. Photographs of particiapnts in the Visual Aid Educational Political Action program show young people in costume and with props illustrating the importance of voting.<br /><br />Excerpts: <br /><br />Cover photograph captioned "The Three Presidents. 22 Years of Progressive Leadership. Dr. J. M. Tinsley of Richmond, president emeritus of the Virginia State Conference, congratulates Dr. Philip Y. Wyatt of Fredericksburg the newly elected Conference president as Dr. E. B. Henderson of Falls Church, retiring president looks on. Dr. Tinsley retired in 1955 after servicing as Conference president for 20 years. Dr. Henderson, after serving as president for two years could not stand for re-election because of a constitutional provision (adoped in 1955) prohibiting a third term."<br /><br />p.2 In our PAC work we have to keep going over the same points. In Virginia 26% of the adult population is colored, but we do not have a single Negro among the 100 Delegates in the General Assembly, nor among the 40 Senators. If we could get the majority of Negroes to vote our fight against segregation and discrimination would make real headway. <br /><br />There are three steps in getting Negroes to "count"; payment of poll taxes before the deadline, registration, and voting. Why don't more colored people vote? Some don't think it matters, some lack the education, some are fearful, and some just don't make the effort. We must keep hammering to get the deadlines met, to get older people who have never voted to overcome their shyness, to get citizens to study up on issues and candidates. We must inspire our teachers, ministers, and civic leaders to be voting citizens themselves and to preach the importance of using the ballot to win freedom.
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
1957 December
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Every Man His Own Law [cover title: In those days there was no king in Israel...]
<span>This booklet was distributed by the Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government (VCCG) . 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. This booklet argues against the Voting Rights Act and describes demonstrations as looting and mobbery. </span><br /><br />Excerpts:<br /><br />EVERY MAN HIS OWN LAW. <br />A commentary by the Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government concerning the unparalleled lawlessness in the streets of the Nation today. The Appendix contains excerpts from the Constitution of the United States; the Virginia Bill of Rights; and excerpts from the Code of Virginia. Specifically covered are several sections of the Code of Virginia dealing with suppression of and punishment for riotous acts.<br /><br /><em>In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes. --JUDGES 21:25</em><br /><br />Forward: It seems necessary and appropriate, however, to devote one pamphlet to a protest against the current unparalleled lawlessness that has plagued many of our cities, and which, if continued, would destroy those very liberties which the rioters profess to cherish but seek to gain through lawless acts.<br /><br />p.6 The ballot box is secret and is made accessible to those who have no property qualifications whatsoever and pay no taxes of any kind; and to those who cannot even read the comics. The most ignorant now has the same voice as the philosopher--often much greater because of the weight of minorities in key states in presidential elections. <br /><br />p.8 The American people are long-suffering and will tolerate repeated abuses; but a time comes when they rise in wrath to stamp them out. When they do, no minority group can resiste them, no matter what means it employs. <br /><br />p.9 They are insurrections against government. And it is no longer a matter of race, because some white hoodlums join in the loot, and the property taken and destroyed belongs to Negroes as well as to whites. It is the attack of the lowest of our citizens against any who may have achieved some measure of economic success.... <br /><br />It is to our shame that police officers have been ordered to shoot only in self-defense while mobs run wild, committing every excess. <br /><br />p.10 If they [police] are inadequate to quell insurrection, and if National Guard units may be too thin to put down several mobs at the same time, then we must organize, arm, and train home guard units in all our cities, composed of law-abiding citizens of both races. <br /><br />Mobbery has no place in free America. It must be destroyed.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Virginia+Commission+on+Constitutional+Government" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Other VCCG publications">Other VCCG publications</a> in the Image Portal
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1967 October
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 /><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 />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 <br /><br /><br /></em>
"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.
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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
Richmond Exchange for Woman's Work members
Members stand outside the Exchange for Woman's Work at 203 East Franklin Street, Richmond, Va.
MSC0037-Photo, <a href="https://thevalentine.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="The Valentine">The Valentine</a>
c. 1930
The Valentine
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Learn more: <br /><br />Sander, K. W. (1998). <em><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=eYzOke6Jpl4C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="preview of this book">The Business of charity: The woman's exchange movement, 1832-1900</a>. </em>Urbana: University of Illinois <br /><br /><a href="http://wefed.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Federation of Woman's Exchanges website">Federation of Woman's Exchanges </a><br /><br />Richmond <a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Exchange+for+Woman%27s+Work" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="materials related to the Exchange">Exchange for Woman's Work</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal
Richmond Exchange for Woman's Work [card]
Card describing the mission of the Richmond Exchange for Woman's Work. <br /><br />The Exchange for Woman’s Work, founded in 1883, was part of the Woman’s Exchange movement started in Philadelphia in 1832. Exchanges were popular places for women in hardship to sell goods on consignment without working publicly, a social taboo at the time. <br /><br />Some Exchanges still operate, and while the Richmond Exchange closed in 1955, it launched several female-owned businesses including Sally Bell’s Kitchen, still in business. Its founders—Elizabeth Lee Milton and Sarah Cabell Jones—met through the Richmond Woman’s Exchange. <br /><br />Card text: <br /><br />This depot for the exhibition and sale of the handiwork of needy women has always on hand an assortment of dainty crochetted and knitted goods, toilet sets, fancy and plain needle-work and painting, besides delicious home-made biscuit, cake, jellies, pickles, beef-tea, and delicacies for the sick. <br /><br />Strangers in the city may here find suitable souvenirs of their visit, and at the same time assist a deserving class of workers.
<p><a href="http://librarycatalog.virginiahistory.org/final/Portal/Default.aspx?component=AAAAIY&record=80b40e9c-921f-438d-96d4-58ee47bb423a">Manuscripts, Call Number Mss1 K2588 a 117-123</a>, Library of the Virginia Museum of History and Culture, Virginia Historical Society</p>
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1880s
Virginia Museum of History and Culture, Virginia Historical Society
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Learn more: <br /><br />Sander, K. W. (1998). <em><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=eYzOke6Jpl4C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="preview of this book">The Business of charity: The woman's exchange movement, 1832-1900</a>. </em>Urbana: University of Illinois <br /><br />Jones, D. G. (2001). A box lunch. Richmond, Va.: D. Jones.<br /><br /><a href="http://wefed.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Federation of Woman's Exchanges website">Federation of Woman's Exchanges </a><br /><br />Richmond <a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Exchange+for+Woman%27s+Work" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="materials related to the Exchange">Exchange for Woman's Work</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal
Richmond Exchange for Woman's Work [correspondence and ephemera]
This correspondence and ephemera pertain to the Richmond Exchange for Woman’s Work, founded in 1883, part of the Woman’s Exchange movement started in Philadelphia in 1832. <br /><br />Exchanges were popular places for women in hardship to sell goods on consignment without working publicly, a social taboo at the time. Some Exchanges still operate, and while the Richmond Exchange closed in 1955, it launched several female-owned businesses including Sally Bell’s Kitchen, still in business. Its founders—Elizabeth Lee Milton and Sarah Cabell Jones—met through the Richmond Woman’s Exchange.
<a href="http://librarycatalog.virginiahistory.org/final/Portal/Default.aspx?component=AAAAIY&record=80b40e9c-921f-438d-96d4-58ee47bb423a">Manuscripts, Call Number Mss1 K2588 a 117-123</a><span> and </span><a href="http://librarycatalog.virginiahistory.org/final/Portal/Default.aspx?component=AAAAIY&record=5fb5c2f9-640e-4075-991d-ee8257ffed15">Manuscripts, Call Number Mss1 M3855 c 4024</a>, Library of the Virginia Museum of History and Culture, Virginia Historical Society
1880s
Virginia Museum of History and Culture, Virginia Historical Society
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Learn more: <br /><br />Sander, K. W. (1998). <em><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=eYzOke6Jpl4C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="preview of this book">The Business of charity: The woman's exchange movement, 1832-1900</a>. </em>Urbana: University of Illinois <br /><br />Jones, D. G. (2001). A box lunch. Richmond, Va.: D. Jones.<br /><br /><a href="http://wefed.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Federation of Woman's Exchanges website">Federation of Woman's Exchanges </a><br /><br />Richmond <a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Exchange+for+Woman%27s+Work" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="materials related to the Exchange">Exchange for Woman's Work</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal
Rules of the Richmond Woman's Work Exchange [broadside]
This broadside pertains to the Richmond Exchange for Woman’s Work, founded in 1883, part of the Woman’s Exchange movement started in Philadelphia in 1832. <br /><br />Exchanges were popular places for women in hardship to sell goods on consignment without working publicly, a social taboo at the time. Some Exchanges still operate, and while the Richmond Exchange closed in 1955, it launched several female-owned businesses including Sally Bell’s Kitchen, still in business. Its founders—Elizabeth Lee Milton and Sarah Cabell Jones—met through the Richmond Woman’s Exchange. <br /><br />Excerpts: <br /><br />1. The annual membership fee is $2. This membership will entitle each subscriber to enter the work of three persons for one year....<br /><br />10. Articles of personal property, which ladies are compelled by necessity to dispose of, are received under the rules applied to all other consignments.<br /><br />11. Work is not received from ladies whose circumstances do not make it necessary for them to dispose of their handiwork, except when the proceeds are to be devoted to charitable purposes.
<a href="http://librarycatalog.virginiahistory.org/final/Portal/Default.aspx?component=AAAAIY&record=80b40e9c-921f-438d-96d4-58ee47bb423a">Manuscripts, Call Number Mss1 K2588 a 117-123</a>, Library of the Virginia Museum of History and Culture, Virginia Historical Society
1880s
Virginia Museum of History and Culture, Virginia Historical Society
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Learn more: <br /><br />Sander, K. W. (1998). <em><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=eYzOke6Jpl4C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="preview of this book">The Business of charity: The woman's exchange movement, 1832-1900</a>. </em>Urbana: University of Illinois <br /><br />Jones, D. G. (2001). A box lunch. Richmond, Va.: D. Jones.<br /><br /><a href="http://wefed.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Federation of Woman's Exchanges website">Federation of Woman's Exchanges </a><br /><br />Richmond <a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Exchange+for+Woman%27s+Work" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="materials related to The Exchange">Exchange for Woman's Work</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal
Richmond Exchange for Woman's Work, 309 East Franklin Street [pamphlet]
This ephemera pertains to the Richmond Exchange for Woman’s Work, founded in 1883, part of the Woman’s Exchange movement started in Philadelphia in 1832. <br /><br />Exchanges were popular places for women in hardship to sell goods on consignment without working publicly, a social taboo at the time. Some Exchanges still operate, and while the Richmond Exchange closed in 1955, it launched several female-owned businesses including Sally Bell’s Kitchen, still in business. Its founders—Elizabeth Lee Milton and Sarah Cabell Jones—met through the Richmond Woman’s Exchange. <br /><br />A handwritten note at the document's end records "From March 1st 1883 <br />to March 1st 1884 <br />$2430.80 was paid <br />to consigners -" <br /><br />Printed text excerpts: <br /><br />The Association has been organized to aid ladies whose pecuniary circumstances require them to make their own handiwork a means of their support, and also to afford an opportunity by which work may be sold for charitable purposes. <br /><br />The rooms of the Exchange are located in a convenient part of the city, and there useful and domestic, fancy and artistic articles are exhibited and sold. Orders for work of all descriptions may be given, and purchasers of tasteful and useful articles may relieve the wants of others while gratifying their own taste.<br />
<a href="http://librarycatalog.virginiahistory.org/final/Portal/Default.aspx?component=AAAAIY&record=5fb5c2f9-640e-4075-991d-ee8257ffed15">Manuscripts, Call Number Mss1 M3855 c 4024</a>, Library of the Virginia Museum of History and Culture, Virginia Historical Society
1880s
Virginia Museum of History and Culture, Virginia Historical Society
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Learn more: <br /><br />Sander, K. W. (1998). <em><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=eYzOke6Jpl4C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="preview of this book">The Business of charity: The woman's exchange movement, 1832-1900</a>. </em>Urbana: University of Illinois <br /><br />Jones, D. G. (2001). A box lunch. Richmond, Va.: D. Jones.<br /><br /><a href="http://wefed.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Federation of Woman's Exchanges website">Federation of Woman's Exchanges </a><br /><br />Richmond <a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Exchange+for+Woman%27s+Work" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="materials related to The Exchange">Exchange for Woman's Work</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal
The Rights of the People -- Women Are People. Suffrage Victory Map [ESL of Virginia / NAWSA broadside]
This broadside has a map at top that shows the extent of woman suffrage across the United States. At this time, women could vote in presidential elections in some states; in municipal elections in others; and only with regard to school bond and tax matters in others. <br /><br />The lower half of the broadside is titled "VIRGINIA WOMEN WANT THE VOTE." The text was created by the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia. It argues that two out of three women across the state, in both rural and urban location, are suffragists. "Virginia women who are asking for enfranchisement are BY NO MEANS A SMALL MINORITY." <br /><br />"The child and the home are the greatest assets of the nation. <br />The Farmer's Wife is his working partner. She helps him to pay taxes on roads and schools. She should have the right on where and how these roads and schools are built; to elect the school trustees who determine what her children shall be taught." <br /><br />"Virginia wives and mothers should vote upon public health laws and moral laws which vitally affect the welfare of the family." <br /><br />The broadside then addresses the argument that a federal amendment permitting women to vote will increase the voting power of African Americans in the south. With the Civil War and Reconstruction only fifty-four years in the past, the southern states were against any federal law reducing their right to control who could vote. The ESL makes the argument that the states' power to levy poll taxes, have residency requirements, and require that voters be able to read and write will be sufficient. <br /><br />"Whte Supremacy. There is now no negro domination under male suffrage in the counties in Virginia where white people are in the minority, and there will be no negro domination with men and women voting." <br /><br />The broadside also argues that women are conservative voters, so woman suffrage will not increase the socialist vote.
M 9 Box 233, <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>, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
c. 1919
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Planks from the Suffrage Platform --as Stated by Mrs. C. C. Catt [anti-suffrage handbill]
Anti-suffrage handbill uses quotations to make its case that woman suffrage supports racial equality and will lead to intermarriage, advances feminist views, is unpatriotic and does not support the war effort or the Constitution of the United States. The Equal Suffrage League of Virginia and the Equal Suffrage League of Richmond are both named. <br /><br />The writer of the handbill asks, "Is our Constitution another scrap of paper? Do YOU endorse these doctrines?"
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Permit granted to Equal Suffrage League of Virginia to hold public meetings in the street, June 23, 1915.
Permit issued by the Mayor of Richmond, Va. allowing the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia to hold public meetings on the streets and in the parks of the city. <br /><br />On May 1, 1915, the ESL were denied permission to speak on city streets by Mayor Ainslie, on the grounds that, while there was no law forbidding them to speak, neither was there one that allowed him to grant them a permit. The women proceeded to give speeches from inside an automobile. The event was documented and reported by the <a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045389/1915-05-02/ed-1/seq-1/" target="_blank" title="Chronicling America, Library of Congress historic newspapers" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>Richmond Times-Dispatch</em> on May, 2, 1915.</a> <br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/562" target="_blank" title="view photographs of the woman suffrage rally" rel="noreferrer noopener">Photographs from the May 1 rally</a> may be found in the Social Welfare History Image Portal.
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1915 June 23
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Miss Margaret Foley The Well Known Suffragist Will Speak [broadside]
Broadside publicizes two presentations by suffragist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Foley_(suffragist)" target="_blank" title="biographical information on Foley" rel="noreferrer noopener">Margaret Foley</a>: Hampton Court House on Wednesday, April 12, 1916 and in Newport News on Thursday, April 13, 1916. <br /><br />"Miss Margaret Foley <br />The Well Known Suffragist <br />Will Speak on Votes for Women...<br /><br />Miss Foley is the only woman who ever spoke in the Harvard Stadium and a most popular speaker. <br /><br />ALL ARE WELCOME<br />Come and Hear What She Has to Say<br /><br />Under the Auspices of the Hampton and Newport News Equal Suffrage Leagues"<br /><br />Handwritten note at top of page, <br />[?] liked Miss Foley "the best yet"<br /><br />Addition handwritten note gives Newport News location as Knights of Columbus Hall.
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1916
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Learn more: <br /><br />Photograph of <a href="https://www.loc.gov/resource/mnwp.150016/" target="_blank" title="LoC photograph of Foley" rel="noreferrer noopener">Margaret Foley distributing the Woman's Journal and Suffage News</a>, Library of Congress <br /><br /><a href="https://hollis.harvard.edu/primo-explore/fulldisplay?context=L&vid=HVD2&search_scope=everything&tab=everything&lang=en_US&docid=01HVD_ALMA211768465180003941" target="_blank" title="archival collection" rel="noreferrer noopener">Papers of Margaret Foley, 1847-1968 (inclusive), 1909-1929 (bulk)</a>, Harvard Library <br /><br />McDaid, J. D. (2019, September 12). <a href="https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Equal_Suffrage_League_of_Virginia_1909-1920#start_entry" target="_blank" title="Article on the ESL" rel="noreferrer noopener">Equal Suffrage League of Virginia (1909-1920)</a>, <em>Encyclopedia Virginia</em>
Suffrajests [handbill]
Anti-suffrage broadside poking fun at the woman suffrage movement. Filled with puns and inside jokes, the source and precise meaning of this publication are uncertain. <br /><br />Notes: The Square Deal was President Theodore Roosevelt's domestic program. <br /><br />The "hatchet" refers to Carrie Nation, the radical temperance activist. The "wets" (and "drys") were the two sides on the issue of prohibition. <br /><br />Some of the puns refer to foods made from corn: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grits" target="_blank" title="How do you make grits and hominy?" rel="noreferrer noopener">grits and hominy</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postum" target="_blank" title="What is postum?" rel="noreferrer noopener">Postum</a> is a coffee substitute made from roasted wheat and molasses. <br /><br /><em>Paradise Lost</em> is an epic poem written by John Milton. The poem is divided into twelve sections known as "books." A "canto" is another word for the sections into which some long poems are divided. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Woman_Suffrage" target="_blank" title="What is this book?" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>The History of Woman Suffrage </em></a>quotes a line from <em>Paradise Lost</em>, "All is not lost: the unconquerable will is ours."<br /><br /><em><a href="http://dlib.nyu.edu/themasses/" target="_blank" title="Read issues of The Masses online" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Masses</a> </em>was a richly illustrated socialist magazine, published monthly from 1911 until 1917. <br /><br />Excerpts: <br />SUFFRAJESTS <br />If our husbands' socks are full of holes, <br />Our holier duty is at the polls....<br /><br />We didn't need the "hatchet"--we've got the "Club." Hurrah! <br /><br />Put your bets on the suffragettes. If you'll back them up they'll uphold the "wets." That's a stand off. <br /><br />We don't believe in "force"--it isn't what its "cracked up" to be. "Hominy" is better, and somes "grit" is necessary. You see, we "acknowledge the corn." (This isn't a cereal story.); if it were we'd "postum" up and raise some electioneering dough. Our road isn't all "peaches and cream," but we hope to get our desserts some day.... <br /><br />We are truly yours by a large majority, <br />THE SUFFRAJESTS<br />
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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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1922 January 28
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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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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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Pilgrimage of Prayer for Public Schools, January 1, 1959 [broadside]
Broadside advertising A Pilgrimage of Prayer for Public Schools, January 1, 1959 in Richmond, Va. At this event, organizers played a seven-minute pre-recorded message from Dr. King. A <a href="The%20Martin%20Luther%20King,%20Jr.%20Research%20and%20Education%20Institute" target="_blank" title="transcription of Walker's letter to Dr. King" rel="noreferrer noopener">description of the event</a> by Wyatt Tee Walker as reported to Dr. King is available online. More than 1,500 people attended. <br /><br />Text: <br />Martin Luther King joins your Religious and Civic Leaders in Urging All Virginians to Come to Richmond in A Pilgrimage For Public Schools on EMANCIPATION DAY January 1, 1959. <br /><br />You will assemble at THE MOSQUE Laurel and Main Streets promptly at 2:30 P.M. <br /><br />"Let us not deceive ourselves! We have among us politicians who will not hesitate to CLOSE ALL PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN VIRGINIA. We must demonstrate to Virginia and the nation by our presence and action that we will not tolerate this crime against Virginia's children." --Dr. Philip Y. Wyatt <br /><br />WHICH WILL IT BE? Free Eduation? or Closed Schools? <br /><br />"Only through the preservation of a free, desegregated public school system can a people be fully emancipated from the shackles of prejudice and inequality. American democracy itself is at stake. This is your pilgrimage." --The Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker
M 306 Box 2, folder 8, <a href="https://archives.library.vcu.edu/repositories/5/resources/145" target="_blank" title="finding aid" rel="noreferrer noopener">Richmond Crusade for Voters collection</a>, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU LIbraries
1959
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Learn more: <br /><br /><a href="https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/wyatt-tee-walker-1#ftnref6" target="_blank" title="Transcription of letter" rel="noreferrer noopener">Text of letter from Wyatt Tee Walker, pastor of Gillfield Baptist Church in Petersburg, to Martin Luther King, Jr.</a> reporting on a 1 January Prayer Pilgrimage to protest the efforts of Virginia officials to block public school integration. Stanford University, The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute. <br /><br /><a href="https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/11237274" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Leaflet. Passive Resisance to Massive Resistance</a>. Leaflet with photographs of the Prayer Pilgrimage. Digital Collections. Yale University Library.<br /><br /><div><a href="http://www.lva.virginia.gov/exhibits/brown/pilgrimage.htm" target="_blank" title="Program for the Pilgrimage of Prayer in Richmond, VA" rel="noreferrer noopener">Program, Pilgrimage of Prayer for Public Schools, January 1, 1959.</a> Library of Virginia.<br /><br /></div>
<a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=massive+resistance" target="_blank" title="Massive resistance materials" rel="noreferrer noopener">Massive resistance</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Massive_Resistance" target="_blank" title="Massive resistance" rel="noreferrer noopener">Massive resistance</a>, <em>Encyclopedia Virginia. <br /></em><br /><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/obituaries/wyatt-tee-walker-dead.html" target="_blank" title="NYT Obituary" rel="noreferrer noopener">Wyatt Tee Walker, Dr. King's Strategist and a Harlem Leader, Dies at 88</a>, <em>The New York Times. <br /></em><br /><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>, Social Welfare History Image Portal.
You've got it...USE IT! [Richmond Crusade for Voters flyer]
Richmond Crusade for Voters flyer. A hand brings down a heavy hammer that says VOTE, and breaks a chain. <br /><br />Text: <br />you've got it...USE IT! <br /><br />Votes mean FREEDOM. Register and vote<br />Votes mean EQUALITY. Register and vote<br />Votes mean first-class citizenship. Register and vote. <br />Votes mean better schools, better jobs, better housing. Register and vote <br />USE YOUR VOTE TO WIN YOUR RIGHTS<br />To Vote in November, you must REGISTER NOW!
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Learn more: <br />Komp, C. (2017, October 26). <a href="https://ideastations.org/radio/news/lasting-legacy-richmond-crusade-voters" target="_blank" title="Richmond Crusade for Voters" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Lasting Legacy of the Richmond Crusade for Voters.</a> Community Idea Stations. <br />Matthews, K. A. (2017). The Richmond Crusade for Voters. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing.
Virginia Federation of Labor Convention Badge. Bristol, Va., April 3, 4, 5, 1922
Virginia Federation of Labor delegate's convention badge. Delegates represented local unions at the state gathering. <br /><br /><span>The Virginia Federation of Labor was aligned with the <a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/228" target="_blank" title="AFL Song" rel="noreferrer noopener">American Federation of Labor</a>, the powerful organization of unions led by Samuel Gompers. Although southern workers struggled to organize successfully in large numbers, unions nonetheless became a force. Between 1885 and 1890, according to one historian, twenty-three national or international unions organized locals in Virginia. Another scholar estimates that by the turn of the twentieth century, about 10% of Richmond’s industrial workers were represented by unions. That success was tempered, however, by the pervasive racism of the period. <br /><br />When the Knights of Labor held a national convention in Richmond in 1886, the New York delegation was refused accommodations because one of their members was an African American. By 1919 progress in racial cooperation had been made at the national level. That progress was reflected at the Virginia State Federation of Labor’s annual convention, in the same year, in Alexandria. W.H. Page, of Newport News, became the first African American to be appointed to the Virginia group’s executive council. Black labor leaders, and black newspapers, praised the move, but it also prompted angry backlash. Some two thousand white unionists, of Richmond, left the Federation of Labor in protest of Page’s appointment. Those episodes evoke the racial tensions of the Jim Crow South.</span><br /><br />Image Description: <br />This round badge has blue lettering on a white background with a multi-color <a href="https://archive.org/details/statearmsofunion00lpra/page/n7" target="_blank" title="State Arms of the Union, L. Prang & Co, 1876" rel="noreferrer noopener">coat of arms of Virginia</a> in the center. <br /><br />Inscribed in blue: "27TH ANNUAL CONVENTION / VA. FEDERATION OF LABOR" above the seal and "APRIL 3.4.5, 1922, BRISTOL, VA." below. <br /><br />Suspended from oval badge inscribed : "DELEGATE". <br />The back of the badge reads "The Whitehead and Hoag Co. Buttons, Badges, Novelties and Signs. Newark, N.J."
<a href="http://museumcatalog.virginiahistory.org/final/portal.aspx?lang=en-US" target="_blank" title="Virginia Historical Society catalog" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span>2002.148.6</span></a>, Virginia Museum of History & Culture, Virginia Historical Society
1922
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Learn more: <br />Love, R. <a href="https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Labor_in_Virginia_During_the_Twentieth_Century#start_entry" target="_blank" title="Labor in Virginia during the twentieth century" rel="noreferrer noopener">Labor in Virginia during the twentieth century.</a> <em>Encyclopedia Virginia <br /></em><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924054330513;view=1up;seq=7" target="_blank" title="Official proceedings of the 27th annual convention" rel="noreferrer noopener">Virginia Federation of Labor proceedings of the 27th annual session held at Bristol, Virginia, April Third and Fourth, 1922.</a> HathiTrust.org <br />Harold, C. N. (2016). New Negro politics in the Jim Crow south. (Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press).<br />Kimball, G. (1991, April). The working people of Richmond: life and labor in an industrial city, 1865-1920. <em>Labor's Heritage,</em> 3(2). <br />Woman's Work. <em>Sixteenth Annual Session of the Virginia Federation of Labor, Richmond, Virginia</em>. <em>June 6-7-8, 1911</em>, 25-26. <br /><a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85038615/1911-06-10/ed-1/seq-5/" target="_blank" title="VFL endorses Equal Suffrage League through Johnston's work" rel="noreferrer noopener">Note of Thanks to Miss Johnston</a>. <em>The Times Dispatch</em>. (Richmond, Va.), 10 June 1911, p. 5. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress.
Virginia Warns Her People Against Suffrage [broadside]
Reprint of an editorial from the <em>Richmond Evening Journal</em>, May 4, 1915. <br /><br />"Virginia Warns Her People Against Suffrage <br />---- <br />Twenty-nine counties would go under Negro Rule Over sixty counties in the State of Georgia <br />The entire State of Mississippi <br />----- <br />What of your state, your country? Isn't it about time for reflecting men and women to think--and act? <br />---- <br />THE THREATENED COUNTIES <br />From the Richmond Evening Journal May 4, 1915--Republished by Request <br /><br />Several times The Richmond Evening Journal has be asked to say which counties of Virginia have more colored than white female inhabitants. The question , of course, is in connection with the somewhat noisy demands we read of in the newspapers for "votes for women." Here is the list, from the United States census of 1910:<br /><br />...It is to be remembered that the literacy test would not work in choking off the colored woman vote. The colored people are decreasing their percentage of illiteracy very fast, especially among their women and girls. The ladies of the suffrage league will hardly come forward with a property test. No safeguard would be left but the poll tax; and if colored women knew they could get votes and rule some very rich and important counties by paying $1.50 apiece, we are inclined to think most of them would be willing to go hungry, if necessary to do it. <br /><br />Probably the ladies engaged in this suffrage movement are not very practical or very logical or very well informed or disposed to bother their heads with the actual facts of politics. Most of them, we surmise, hold the somewhat vague, but firmly established feminine line of reasoning that when they want something , or think they want it, they ought to have it by all principles of wisdom and justice; and are prepared always to fall back on the traditional conclusive feminine argument "because."
M 9 Box 51, <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
1915
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Virginia Suffrage News, vol. 1, no. 1, October 1, 1914
First issue of the Virginia Suffrage News, a monthly newspaper published by the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia. <br /><br />From masthead p. 4<br />Alice Overbey Taylor, Managing Editor<br />Mr.s G. Harvey Clarke (Mary Pollard Clarke), Editor-in-Chief <br />Contributing Editors: <br />Mrs. Kate Waller Barrett<br />Mrs. Kate Langley Bosher<br />Mrs. Emma Speed Sampson<br />Miss Mary Johnston<br />Mr. Carter Wormeley<br />Mrs. Sally Nelson Robins<br />Miss Cally Ryland <br /><br />The lead article is "W. J. Bryan, Secretary of State, Declares for Woman Suffrage" <br /><br />Foreword message from Lila Meade Valentine, President of the ESL of Virginia (p. 1)<br /><br />"The movement for the enfranchisement of woman has become so widespread in Virginia that there is great need for a regular means of communication between workers and sympathizers in all parts of the State....<br /><br />For this is pre-eminently a co-operative movement--one in which good team work is required--one in which we must all pull together with a right good will. <br /><br />To do this effectively, we need the stimulus of the exchange of ideas, we need to inform ourselves of the activities of our local Leagues, as well as of the larger movement outside.<br /><br />To meet these needs, I commend to the suffragists of the State the "<strong>Virginia Suffrage News</strong>," which should bind us together in one harmonious whole, and I bespeak for it a wide circulation amongst all those interested in this next great step in the development of women." <br /><br />p. 8 "Suffragists Chuckle Over 'Etching' That Was Never Made for 'Lack of Space.'" recounts the story of an anti-suffrage essay contest held by the Richmond <em>News-Leader</em>, an "all-white" paper. The newspaper intended to publish an etching (portrait) of the winner until it was discovered that she was an African American.
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The Rockwell Report, May 1965 [American Nazi Party]
<span>Official monthly publication of the American Nazi Party, an organization founded by George Lincoln Rockwell in March 1959.<br /><br /></span><span>Cover title for this issue, "The Real Story: Left vs. Right." Slogan on cover: "White People! Unite & Fight!" <br /><br />Article by George Lincoln Rockwell entitled, "Our 'Fascist' Founding Fathers" argues that the American Nazi Party represents a GOLDEN MEAN between the Tyranny of Total Order on the Right and the Anarchy of Total Freedom on the Left.<br /><br />Rockwell rails against "Rabbit" Welch (Robert W. Welch, Jr.), the founder of the John Birch Society. (Welch promoted conspiracy theories, including the notion that President Dwight D. Eisenhower was secretly a Communist.) Rockwell is incensed that Welch has equated Communism and Nazism. <br /><br />p.7 "If the Founding Fathers were to come to life today, they would NOT BE BIRCHERS....had the Founding Fathers lived today, they would have been 'NAZIS', as the Jews call anyone who sticks up for the White Christain eople and Constitutional Government."<br /><br /></span>
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<span>Learn more: </span><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><span>, Social Welfare History Image Portal</span><br /><span>Miller, M.E. (2017). <br /></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). </span><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><span>, Social Welfare History Image Portal</span>
Ku Klux Klan Rally, Henrico County, Virginia
Black and white photograph showing a Ku Klux Klan rally held near Darbytown Road in eastern Henrico County, Va. The rally, sponsored by the United Klans of America - Realm of Virginia, was held on July 4, 1967. The photograph shows a line of white robed figures walking out of the woods and processing towards the rally. Possibly a police surveillance photograph.
V.2017.83.159, <a href="https://thevalentine.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Valentine</a>
1967 July 4
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Ku Klux Klan Parade, Richmond, Va., 1967
Black and white photograph showing a man wearing a military-style Ku Klux Klan outfit with Klan symbol on sleeve. The man was participating in a parade on Broad Street in Richmond, Va., in support of the Klan and possibly to drum up attendance at an upcoming rally to be held by the United Klans of america in eastern Henrico County, Va. This may be a police surveillance photograph.
V.2017.83.164, <a href="https://thevalentine.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Valentine</a>
1967 July
The Valentine
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