No Forced Labor Camps for American Youth! [American Student Union pamphlet]
Pamphlet published by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Student_Union" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">American Student Union</a>, a national left-wing organization of college students active in the 1930s. The group consisted of both communists and socialists, who argued over the group's stance on pacificism in the face of Hitler's rise to power and events in Europe. <br /><br />The pamphlet advocates for the American Youth Act, a youth assistance bill proposed by the American Youth Congress as an alternative to the National Youth Administration. The AYA was never able to get out of committee on Capitol Hill, however, as it was too costly. <br /><br />"Foreward: This little pamphlet is published by the American Student Union as a warning to undergraduates to act quickly in defense of democratic education and peace, lest the enemies of our liberties succeed in their plan to regiment youth and precipitate us again into foreign war. The facts it reveals are but a partial presentation, due to space limitations, of available information on the subject. The questions it asks are vital to the welfare of every student. The campaign it proposes to launch deserves the support of every American student."
American Student Union
<span>M 391, Box 6, </span><a href="http://search.vaheritage.org/vivaxtf/view?docId=vcu-cab/vircu00136.xml" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Encampment for Citizenship Collection, 1939 - 2009</a><span>, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries</span>
American Student Union
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Learn more: <br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/299" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Work Camp for Democracy</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal <br /><a href="https://gallery.library.vcu.edu/exhibits/show/encampment-for-citizenship" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Encampment for Citizenship. Education for Democratic Living</a>, VCU Libraries Gallery <br /><a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/eras/great-depression/american-youth-congress/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">American Youth Congress</a>, Social Welfare History Project
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.