Letter from Medgar W. Evers to John M. Brooks, May 15, 1958
Letter from Medgar W. Evers, Field Secretary, Mississippi NAACP to John M. Brooks, Director, Voter Registration, Virginia NAACP. Dated May 15, 1958, the letter is an update on the progress of voter registration efforts in Mississippi. <br /><br />Text: <br />Mr. Johnnie M. Brooks <br />Director, Registration and Voting <br />404 1/2 North Second Street <br />Richmond, Virginia <br /><br />Dear Mr. Brooks:<br /><br />On last night, May 14, I attended the third successful meeting of the "Crusade for Voters" in Meridian, Mississippi. It is amazing how the enthusiasm that was generated in the first two meetings has continued. It is definitely an encouraging sign. At last night's meeting there were represented persons from six of the seven presincts in Meridian, Mississippi, also representatives from two of the county supervisory districts. At this meeting we set up temporary precinct machinery and indications are that within the next two weeks the precinct organizations will be a reality. <br /><br />The list of qualified Negro voters is in the process of being secured, also maps setting forth the boundaries of the various precincts. I do feel personally that in Meridian we are getting off to a very good start. <br /><br />Tonight is Jackson's night. I shall report ot you on its progress later. <br /><br />We had at last night's meeting approximately forty persons, more or less. <br /><br />Sincerely yours, <br />Medgar W. Evers<br />Field Secretary
Evers, Medgar W.
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 1957-1978</a>, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
1958 May 15
Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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Church Women Explore Interracial Paths, Federal Council Bulletin, September-October, 1926
Pages 7-8 (front and back) removed from <em>Federal Council Bulletin</em>, September-October, 1926. The article, "Church Women Explore Interracial Paths," details an interracial conference held on September 21-22, 1926 at Eagles Mere, Pa.<br /><br />The conference was organized by the Commission on the Church and Race Relations of the Federal Council of Churchs, the Council of Women for Home Missions, and the National Board of the Y.W.C.A. It was attended by delegates from numerous denominations and organizations. Adele Clark of Richmond, Va. attended representing the National League of Women Voters. <br /><br />The object of the conference, according to the chair Mrs. Richard W. Westbrook (Mary L. Westbrook), was<br /><br />"(1) To enlarge the scope of interracial thinking and to enlist the women of the churches more actively in plans and programs for improving the relations between the white and colored groups in America; <br />(2) To discuss methods of better interracial organization through churches and their auxiliaries so that women may more effectively act on local interracial conditions; <br />(3) To exchange concrete experiences from groups of women that have already attempted to carry out interracial programs;<br />(4) To study the past experience of organizations that have done such work, to learn both from the sucesses and failures of such efforts how best to proceed in the future;<br />(5) To understand better the present trend of feeling and opinion in race relations that the Churches may more effectively work for interracial goodwill and cooperation."<br /> <br /><br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Interracial+Conference+of+Church+Women" target="_blank" title="Documents related to the Interracial Conference of Church Women" rel="noreferrer noopener">See all documents</a> related to the conference.
Federal Council of Churches
M 9 Box 81, <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
1926 September-October
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Learn more: <br /><br />Adams, B. L. (2016). Black women's Christian activism. Seeking social justice in a northern suburb. New York: New York University Press. <br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Interracial+Conference+of+Church+Women" target="_blank" title="items tagged Interracial Conference of Church Women" rel="noreferrer noopener">Interracial Conference of Church Women</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal
Voice from within: Is he still there? [editorial cartoon by Daniel R. Fitzpatrick]
Editorial cartoon by Pulitzer Prize winner Daniel R. Fitzpatrick of the <em>St. Louis Post-Dispatch</em>. <br /><br />Image Description: <br /><br />A man who appears to be Japanese, labelled "Racial Equality" sits patiently. A shuttered window behind him is marked "Peace Conference." The caption: Voice from within: Is he still there?
Fitzpatrick, Daniel R.
<em>Cartoons Magazine</em><span>, v.16, no. 1, (July 1919), p. 104. Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries</span>
1919
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Learn more: <br /><a href="https://shsmo.org/historicmissourians/name/f/fitzpatrick/index.html" target="_blank" title="Daniel Robert Fitzpatrick biography" rel="noreferrer noopener">Daniel Robert Fitzpatrick (1891 – 1969)</a>, The State Historical Society of Missouri <br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=cartoon">Editorial cartoons</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal
Need of Compulsory Education in the South [NCLC Pamphlet No. 192]
<p>Pamphlet by W.H. Hand, State High School Inspector, Columbia, South Carolina. Reprint from the Child Labor Bulletin, 1/1, June 1912. Includes data from the 1910 U.S. Census.<br /><br />Excerpts:<br /><br />p. 6 "...in a democracy where manhood suffrage practically prevails, institutional life is exposed to tremendous dangers when twelve per cent. of the voting population are unable to read the names printed on the ballots they are supposed to cast intelligently for the government of the State. Ignorance stands for narrowness, bigotry, selfishness and stagnation ; intelligence stands for liberty, liberality, tolerance, sympathy and growth. We must choose between the two."<br /><br />p. 8 "The material prosperity of the present South is one of the marvels of modern times. The faith and courage with which our people rebuilt their ruined homes, reclaimed their neglected fields, bridged the rivers, tunneled the mountains, built factories and constructed railroads challenge the admiration of the civilized world. In that struggle to rise from the ashes the greatest hindrance has been our load of illiteracy, and to-day it is our heaviest burden."<br /><br />p. 8 "Who are these illiterate white children of the South, and why are they not in school?"<br /><br />p. 9 "Argument against the right of the State to send a chld to school is specious and superficial. Those who make such argument would not for one moment deny the right of the State to compel the parent to vaccinate his child, to compel the parent to feed and clothe his child, or to compel him to fight for his country, and to shoot him if he deserted. The State has the right to carry the law-breaking child to the reformatory or to jail to protect society. Has not the State as much right to carry the child to the schoolhouse to save him from the reformatory or the jail and to train him to benefit society?"<br /><br />p. 12 "Temporizing patriots, with one ear listening to the call of duty and the other listening to the hostile rabble, declare for compulsory education when pressed to take a stand, but they usually add that the people are not quite ready for it."<br /><br />p. 12 "The argument against compulsory education on account of the negro has been worn threadbare ; surely the time has come to let it drop....Is it wise or expedient to permit thousands of white boys and girls to grow up in ignorance, lest in forcing them to school we should awaken the aspirations of the negro child? Shall we remain ignorant in order to encourage the negro to remain ignorant? Is it better for white and black to remain ignorant than to have both intelligent? The only logical conclusion to such argument is that the ignorant white man can compete successfully with the ignorant negro, but that the educated white man cannot compete with the educated negro. Then what becomes of the boasted superiority of the white man? Has the white man so nearly reached the zenith of his possibilities that he cannot keep well in advance of the ambitious negro?"<br />(For similar arguments with regard to woman suffrage, see <a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/75" target="_blank" title="The Negro Vote in the South [suffrage flyer]" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Negro Vote in the South</a>.)</p>
Hand, William H.
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National Child Labor Committee
1912
William Smith Morton Library, Union Presbyterian Seminary
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James Farmer's Second March to Montgomery
Group of men, including James Farmer, during his second attempt to march to Montgomery, Alabama from Selma, Alabama. From left to right: Fred Shuttlesworth, Martin Luther King Jr., James Farmer, and James Forman. In the foreground: Andrew Young.
Hollander, Edward S.
<a href="https://umw.access.preservica.com/IO_f00f616e-94da-4459-9498-388b03867b62/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The James L. Farmer Collection</a>, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Mary Washington Libraries.
1965 March 9
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Letter from Rev. John Kirstein to Aubrey Brown, Jr. , August 22, 1963
Letter to Aubrey Brown, Jr., editor of The <em>Presbyterian Outlook</em>, from Rev. John A. Kirstein, associate editor of the <em>Presbyterian Survey</em>, in opposition to the <a href="http://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/252" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">PCUS statement to the National Council of Churches</a>. <br /><br /><br />
Kirstein, John A.
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, Special Collections, William Smith Morton Library, Union Presbyterian Seminary
1963 August 22
Union Presbyterian Seminary Library
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<span>Learn more:</span><br /><span>Hansan, John E., </span><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><span>, Social Welfare History Project</span><br /><a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/eras/march-1963-film/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">The March (1963) [film]</a><span>, Social Welfare History Project</span><br /><a href="http://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/251" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom</a><span> [tri-fold publicity flyer], Social Welfare History Image Portal <br /></span>
Invitation to Virginia Church Conference on Race Relations to Adele Clark from Ben R. Lacy, Jr.
Letter of invitation from Dr. Ben R. Lacy, Jr. Chairman of the Conference Committe and President, Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Va. Addressed to Miss Adele Clark. the letter invites her to attend the Virginia Church Conference on Race Relations, October 28, 1930. The conference was held at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Richmond, Va. The conference theme was "Facing Facts With a Christian Program." <br /><br />Lacy begins, "The South faces no problem more far-reaching and difficult of solution than that caused by the presence in one territory of the white and Negro races. In any serious effor to find a way out, the Churches must take the place of leadership."<br /><br />The letter notes that "Only white people (except as indicated) will be expected to be present, in order that there may be the most freedom of expression in facing our responsibility." <br /><br />Representatives from the various denominations, "Presidents of Denominational Schools and Colleges, Editors of Church Press, Directors of Religious Education, Missionary Secretaries, Church Women's Societies, all white ministers, officials of the Y.W.C.A. and Y.M.C.A. and Special Students" were invited. <br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Virginia+Church+Conference+on+Race+Relations" target="_blank" title="Documents related to this conference" rel="noreferrer noopener">See all documents</a> related to this event. <br /><br />Among the speakers at the conference were Gordon B. Hancock, a professor at Virginia Union University, spoke on living conditions of African Americans in Richmond, and Dr. Robert Russa Moton, Principal of Tuskegee Institute whose address closed the conference.
Lacy, Ben R., Jr.
M 9 Box 34, <a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=oai/vcu/repositories/5/resources/279.oai_ead.xmll" 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
1930 October 21
Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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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>
Here Comes Whiteman [American Nazi Party comic book]
White supremacist comic book created for the American Nazi Party by member John Patler. <br /><br />Born John C. Patsalos, John Patler joined the American Nazi Party in 1960 and changed his name. The ANP had its headquarters in Arlington, Va. <br /><br />In 1967 Patler was expelled from the ANP after disagreeing with founder George Lincoln Rockwell. On August 25, 1967, Patler shot and killed Rockwell at an Arlington, Va. shopping center.<br /><br />"Here Comes Whiteman" was part of the ANP's efforts to spread their ideas to a larger audience. Their promotional campaign included a variety of publications, flyers, and even 45 RPM records of white supremacist music. Supporters of the ANP were expected to read and distribute materials like this comic and The Stormtrooper Magazine. <br /><br />In this comic book, Whiteman is the secret identity of Lew Cor ("Roc Wel" spelled backwards) who makes deliveries for the Arlington Milk Co. Lew Cor speaks the secret words "Lieh Geis" ("Sieg Heil" backwards), and in a flash of lightning is transformed into Whiteman, a costumed superhero with a swastika on his chest. In this issue Whiteman fights an "interplanetary duel" with characters named "The Jew from Outer Space" and "Supercoon."
Patler, John
<a>M 342, Box 13,</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
1965?
Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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Learn more: <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
Eugenics in Relation to the New Family and the Law on Racial Integrity.
Eugenics in Relation to the New Family and the Law on Racial Integrity. Including a paper read before the American Public Health Association.<br /><br />Pamphlet created by <a href="https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Plecker_Walter_Ashby_1861-1947" target="_blank" title="Encyclopedia VIrginia" rel="noreferrer noopener">W. A. Plecker</a>, M.D., <span>Virginia state registrar of vital statistics from 1912 to 1946. Plecker was an advocate of eugenics and white supremacy. He used Virginia's Act to Protect Racial Integrity (1924) to remove legal recognition of Native Americans in the state, instead classifying them as "colored." <br /><br />The Act to Protect Racial Integrity remained in effect until 1967 when it was overturned in the landmark case, <a href="https://www.oyez.org/cases/1966/395" target="_blank" title="Oral argument, facts, and decision of the Court" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>Loving v. Virginia</em></a>.<br /><br />Pamphlet sections: <br /><br />Introduction<br />Eugenics<br />Virginia's Attempt to Adjust the Color Problem (Read before the American Public Health Association, at Detroit, October 23, 1924.) <br />An Act to Preserve Racial Integrity<br />Appendix <br /><br /></span>
Plecker, W. A. (Walter Ashby Plecker)
Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries
Bureau of Vital Statistics, State Board of Health, Richmond, Va.
1925
Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries
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Learn more: <br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=eugenics" target="_blank" title="items tagged "eugenics"" rel="noreferrer noopener">Eugenics</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal<br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=white+supremacy" target="_blank" title="Items tagged "white supremacy"" rel="noreferrer noopener">White supremacy</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal <br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=race" target="_blank" title="items tagged "race"" rel="noreferrer noopener">Race</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal<br /><br />Heim, J. (2015 July, 1). <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/how-a-long-dead-white-supremacist-still-threatens-the-future-of-virginias-indian-tribes/2015/06/30/81be95f8-0fa4-11e5-adec-e82f8395c032_story.html" target="_blank" title="Washington Post article" rel="noreferrer noopener">How a long-dead white supremacist still threatens the future of Virginia’s Indian tribes</a>. <em>The Washington Post. <br /><br /></em><a href="https://www.commonwealth.virginia.gov/virginia-indians/state-recognized-tribes/" target="_blank" title="Commonwealth of Virginia gov. website" rel="noreferrer noopener">State Recognized Tribes</a>, Secretary of the Commonwealth. Virginia Indians. <br /><br />Albiges, M. (2018 October, 4). <a href="https://apnews.com/3d04195b6e7a4a14a3b73e13b674ac97/Virginia's-Indian-tribes-celebrate-federal-recognition" target="_blank" title="Associated Press" rel="noreferrer noopener">Virginia’s Indian tribes celebrate federal recognition</a>. <em>Associated Press.<br /><br /></em>Richmond School of Social Economy, <a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/538" target="_blank" title="School Bulletin. W. A. Plecker is listed as a special lecturer" rel="noreferrer noopener">First Annual Announcement, 1917-1918. Bulletin No. 1</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal<em><br /></em>
Presbyterian Church in the United States (PCUS) press release, August 22, 1963
Press release from the headquarters of the Presbyterian Church in the United States (commonly known as the Southern Presbyterian Church) in Atlanta, GA, dated 22 Aug 1963. <br /><br />It announces the official resistance of the PCUS to participation in the March on Washington. It includes the full text of the statement sent to the National Council of Churches stating that the PCUS is "unable to cooperate" with the NCC's Commission on Religion and Race calling for participation. Includes a memo from Bill Lamkin, who sent this text to Aubrey Brown, Jr. for inclusion in the <em>Presbyterian Outlook, </em>the primary news publication of the PCUS since 1944. Aubrey Brown, Jr. served as manager and editor of <em>Presbyterian Outlook</em> for 35 years.<br /><br /><br /><br />
Presbyterian Church in the United States (PCUS)
<span>Aubrey Brown Jr. personal papers collection.</span> <a href="https://upsem.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/default/?rm=MARCH+ON+WASHI0%7C%7C%7C1%7C%7C%7C0%7C%7C%7Ctrue" title="March on Washington 1963 Digital Collection" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">March on Washington 1963</a> digital collection<span>, Special Collections, William Smith Morton Library, Union Presbyterian Seminary</span>
1963 August 22
Union Presbyterian Seminary Library
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<span>Learn more:</span><br /><span>Hansan, John E., </span><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><span>, Social Welfare History Project</span><br /><a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/eras/march-1963-film/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">The March (1963) [film]</a><span>, Social Welfare History Project</span><br /><a href="http://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/251" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom</a><span> [tri-fold publicity flyer], Social Welfare History Image Portal</span>
Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story
Educational comic book published by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fellowship_of_Reconciliation_(United_States)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Fellowship of Reconciliation</a> following the success of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. <br /><br />The comic book advocates for the principles of nonviolence and teaches methods of nonviolent resistance. It was produced by the studio of artist Al Capp, who admired Dr. King. <br /><br />Civil rights activist and congressman <a href="https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/profiles/article/58354-a-comic-book-for-social-justice-john-lewis.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Comic book for social justice">John Lewis</a> read and was inspired by this work as a teenager.
Resnick, Benton and Hassler, Alfred (writers)
Barry, Sy (artist)
<a href="https://gallery.library.vcu.edu/items/show/84340" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Special Collections and Archives</a>, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
1958
Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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Learn more:<br /><br />Aydin, A. (2013). <a href="https://www.creativeloafing.com/article/13074611/the-comic-book-that-changed-the-world" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Cover Story: The comic book that changed the world.</a> <em>Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story</em>'s vital role in the Civil Rights Movement. <em>Creative Loafing. <br /></em><br />Bello, G. (2012, July 19). <a href="https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/profiles/article/58354-a-comic-book-for-social-justice-john-lewis.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="A Comic Book for Social Justice: John Lewis">A Comic Book for Social Justice: John Lewis</a>. <em>Publishers Weekly<br /><br /></em>Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR-USA). <a href="https://forusa.org/martin-luther-king-and-the-montgomery-story-curriculum-guide/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Martin Luther King and The Montgomery Story</em> Curriculum and Study Guide</a><br /><br /><a href="http://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/291" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Mammy Yokum and the Great Dogpatch Mystery</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal. <br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/exhibits/show/comics/gallery" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Discovery Set: Comics on a Mission">Comics on a Mission: Educational and Public Service Comics</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal
Occasional Newsletter #1 (To State Committee Members in this Area)
A newsletter of the Commission for Interracial Cooperation addressed to the Virginia State Committee members in the area of Richmond, Va. <br /><br />Excerpts: <br /><br />p.1 The one thing important is for the leaders of both races to be close enough to each other to know the needs, and, as far as possible, the thoughts, feelings and attitudes of each race toward the other. I see nothing constructive in saying "We have the best Negroes (or white folks) in the world" unless that is based upon first-hand knowledge of the actual conditions; surface impressions may not be trustworthy. <br /><br />I could recite number of illustrations where trusted leaders of both races are patiently, quietly and courageously facing these situations where there may be injustice and discrimination and are trying to change the attitude out of which unsatisfactory conditions grow, thus producing a by-product of understanding and mutual trust upon which all permanent adjustments must rest.<br /><br />p.2 Have there been any lynchings in your section or in your state thus far in 1928? If so give particulars.<br /><br />During the past few years, the Commission, among many other constructive services, has conducted a vigorous campaign agaist the practice of lynching, all too prevalent in most American states. During three of the past four years, the number of lynchings has reached the low annual mark of 16, against a former forty-year average of more than 100. Certainly the Commission would not lay claim to all the credit for this progress; many factors have contributed, not the least of which is the press, which has created a more enlightened public opinion.
Reynolds, L. R.
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1928
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Mobilizing for Busing Protest, Richmond, Va.
Black and white photograph of people preparing for an anti-busing demonstration. A woman stands holding an American flag, and a man standing with her wears a hand-lettered anti-busing sign, "Forced bussing & consolidation of schools will lead to either [arrow points to a Nazi swastika] or [arrow points to Communist red star and a hammer and sickle.]" <br /><br />Other people wearing anti-busing signs mill about in front of the Richmond Coliseum. One woman's sign reads, "I'm not fussing but I will not bus. No! Merhige No!"
Richmond Newspapers, Inc.
P.74.11.18o, <a href="https://thevalentine.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Valentine</a>
1972 February 10
The Valentine
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Learn more: <br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=busing" target="_blank" title="materials related to school busing" rel="noreferrer noopener">Busing</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal<br /><br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1972/02/18/archives/3300-autos-driven-to-capital-in-protest-3300-cars-in-the-capital.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">3,300 Autos Driven To Capital in Protest</a><span>, </span><em>The New York Times</em><span>, February 18, 1972.<br /></span><br /><span>Pratt, Robert A. </span><em><em>The Color of Their Skin: Education and Race in Richmond, Virginia, 1954-89. <br /><br /><a href="http://lawreview.richmond.edu/2017/09/28/the-conscience-of-virginia-judge-robert-r-merhige-jr-and-the-politics-of-school-desegregation/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Conscience of Virginia: Judge Robert R. Merhige, Jr., and the Politics of School Desegregation</a> <br /></em></em><br /><a href="https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/338/67/2182321/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bradley v. School Board of City of Richmond, Virginia, 338 F. Supp. 67 (E.D. Va. 1972) </a>
Boat Ticket to Africa [American Nazi Party promotional material]
Two-sided handbill in the form of a mock boat ticket on one side and, on the other, an advertisement for a product to turn white liberals into black. <br /><br />A coupon gives an address where one may send away for additional copies of this "ticket" and request an introductory packet to learn more about the aims and ideals of the American Nazi Party.
Rockwell, George Lincoln
<a>M 342, Box 13,</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
1965
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Learn more: <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
S.O.N.S. Newsletter, January 22, 1972
This newsletter is a publication of the anti-busing Save Our Neighborhood Schools, Inc., (SONS) organization. A subscription form listing the Board of Directors for SONS is also shown. <br /><br />In the 1970 case, Bradley v. Richmond School Board, Judge Robert Merhige, Jr., ordered limited citywide busing in order to integrate Richmond, Virginia, schools, resulting in further white flight. Opposition from white parents was fierce and organized, as evidenced by groups such as SONS. <br /><br />Merhige's decision was overturned on June 6, 1972 by the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, which was affirmed a year later in the U.S. Supreme Court. The Court subsequently invalidated most busing across city-county boundaries and, unable to counteract white flight, many city schools again became overwhelmingly black. The trend continued through the late-twentieth century, and Richmond neighborhoods were more racially segregated in 1980 than in 1960. <br /><br />From the Subscription Form: <br /><br />"Dedicated to the preservation of the neighborhood school concept in the education of our young people." <br /><br />Board of Directors<br /><a href="https://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-xpm-20000423-2000-04-23-0004230006-story.html" target="_blank" title=""Haskins Still Remains Consistent" Daily Press article" rel="noreferrer noopener">William F. Haskins</a>, President<br /><br />Board Members<br />J. Hunter Ames<br />James W. Meador, Jr.<br />Jaqueline Gary<br />Kenneth A. Huhn<br />J. Earl Gerringer<br />Ernestine Gilpin<br />Jerome Hake <br />Herbert Thornton
Save Our Neighborhood Schools, Inc.
General collection, Call Number L11 .N5, and General collection, Call Number L11 .S5, Library of the Virginia Museum of History and Culture, Virginia Historical Society
1972 January 22
Virginia Museum of History and Culture, Virginia Historical Society
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Learn more: <br /><br />Hayter, J. (2017). <em>The Dream is Lost: Voting Rights and the Politics of Race in Richmond, Virginia. </em><br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=busing" target="_blank" title="materials related to school busing" rel="noreferrer noopener">Busing</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal<br /><br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1972/02/18/archives/3300-autos-driven-to-capital-in-protest-3300-cars-in-the-capital.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">3,300 Autos Driven To Capital in Protest</a><span>, </span><em>The New York Times</em><span>, February 18, 1972.<br /></span><br /><span>Pratt, Robert A. </span><em><em>The Color of Their Skin: Education and Race in Richmond, Virginia, 1954-89. <br /><br /><a href="http://lawreview.richmond.edu/2017/09/28/the-conscience-of-virginia-judge-robert-r-merhige-jr-and-the-politics-of-school-desegregation/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Conscience of Virginia: Judge Robert R. Merhige, Jr., and the Politics of School Desegregation</a> <br /></em></em><br /><a href="https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/338/67/2182321/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bradley v. School Board of City of Richmond, Virginia, 338 F. Supp. 67 (E.D. Va. 1972) </a>
Southern Christian Leadership Conference Newsletter, (Vol. 1, No. 12), September 1963
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) newsletter published weeks after the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The newsletter reports on the March and also reports on the upcoming 7th Annual conference to take place at Virginia Union University in Richmond, Virginia, September 24 - 27, 1963. As president of the SCLC, Martin Luther King, Jr. attended the conference and spoke on the final evening.<br />
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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1963 September
Union Presbyterian Seminary Library
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Learn more: <br /><span>Hansan, John E., </span><a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/eras/march-on-washington-august-28-1963/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">March on Washington, D.C. for Jobs and Freedom August 28, 1963</a><span>, Social Welfare History Project</span><br /><a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/eras/march-1963-film/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The March (1963) [film]</a><span>, Social Welfare History Project</span><br /><a href="http://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/248" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom</a><span> [publicity flyer], Social Welfare History Image Portal</span>
SCLC Crusade for the Vote: To Double the Negro Vote in the South [Southern Christian Leadership Conference brochure]
Brochure distributed by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) which describes and promotes the "Crusade for the Ballot. To Double the Negro Vote in the South." The campaign aimed to double the number of registered Black voters in the South and to educate and stimulate these citizens to exercise the vote. <br /><br />Page 3 of the brochure states that this goal will be achieved by educating and stimulating Black citizens to vote. Organizing communities, bipartisanship, and non-violence. <br /><br />SCLC leadership at this time included Martin Luther King, Jr. President, Wyatt Tee Walker, Executive Director, and Atty. I. M. Augustine, General Counsel. <br /><br />The pamphlet is from the <a href="https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/item/p16022coll453:11061" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="additional materials ">National Conference of Christians and Jews, Religious Freedom and Public Affairs Project</a>, and is part of a resource file on discrimination in voting. It discusses voter suppression tactics and lists ways to counter them and increase voter registration and participation. <br /><br /><br />Excerpts: <br /><br />p. 2 <br />THE FACTS<br />(1) Over 5 million Negros of voting age live in the South.<br />(2) Only 25% of adult Negroes vote compared with 60% white adults.<br />(3) Purges of voter lists, "slowdowns" by registrars, opening the registration office only one of two days a month and at hours that are not helpful for working people; and<br />(4) Open intimidation by some plantation bosses and many local officials, all play a part in discouraging the Negro Citizen from becoming a registered voter. <br /><br />As a result, "Government by consent of the governed," upon which our nation was founded in 1776, is a goal still to be made a reality in most of the South today. <br /><br />Most of the present crop of Southern Senators and Congressmen will oppose and fillibuster all legislation designed to protect the voting rights of citizens of this region. <br /><br />YOU CAN CHANGE THIS SITUATION <br />Despite these obstacles Negro citizens are struggling daily to double the number of voters and to obtain representation in government. <br />Even the most die-hard segregationist in public office can be made to respect voting power. Furthermore, we know there are many liberal white citizens in the South who count on the Negro votes to increase enough for liberal voice to be heard in the government. <br />The whole nation will benefit from an enlarged Negro vote in the South. This area of our country CAN elect men and women of good will and a sense of justice to Congress and to local state legislatures. <br />Let all who believe in Freedom and Human Dignity join in this great Crusade for The Ballot Now!! <br /><br />p. 3 In Unity There Is Strength. No narrow partisan interest must be allowed to divide us. In reaching a cross section of the Negro community, the Crusade will move across party lines. It is for the good of the local community that all civic, church, fraternal and other organizations <br /><br />p. 4 <br />"The goal of the Freedom Movement in the South can be summed up in 3 words: All, Here, and Now <br />We want all of our rights as citizens (not just some rights); <br />We want them here, in the Deep South, and <br />We want them now" <br /> -Martin Luther King, Jr. <br /><br />When you have finished reading this, please pass it on to a member of the family, a neighbor or a friend.<br /><br /><a href="https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/item/p16022coll453:11061" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="University of Minnesota Libraries collections">Full transcript and other related items</a> via University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
<a href="https://archives.lib.umn.edu/repositories/11/resources/2434" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="finding aid">National Conference of Christians and Jews records (SW0092)</a>. <a href="https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/item/p16022coll453:11061" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/item/p16022coll453:11061?q%3D%2522Voting%2Brights%2522&source=gmail&ust=1596631787427000&usg=AFQjCNE-srMJQt7FYy6BeuKGvSaecsHldQ" rel="noopener" title="Univ. of Minnesota Libraries UMedia site for this document">Special Projects. Religious Freedom and Public Affairs Project. Discrimination in Voting. (Box 18, Folder 19)</a>. Social Welfare History Archives, University of Minnesota Libraries.
1962-1963
Social Welfare History Archives, University of Minnesota 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" rel="noopener" title="Discovery Set. Controlling the Vote">Controlling the Vote -- Rights. Registration. Representation.</a> Social Welfare History Image Portal
Voting Rights Act...the first months
Within the first six weeks after the Voting Rights Act was signed into law, staff attorneys from the Commission on Civil Rights visited 32 Southern counties and parishes to study the implementation of the legislation. This document is their report, transmitted to the President, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives in November 1965. <br /><br />The Commission found widespread compliance, but also a need for further action. Their "Findings and Recommendations," along with the section titled, "Problems in Registration" are presented here. <br /><br />Read the report's <a href="https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/item/p16022coll391:4298/p16022coll391:4185?child_index=9&query=&sidebar_page=4" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="read the report's history of the Voting Rights Act of 1965">Chapter 1: History of the Voting Rights Act of 1965</a>. <br /><br />Excerpts: <br />p.34 Problems in Registration<br /><br />Some country registrars in Mississippi and Alabama have violated the new law by refusing to register illiterates....<br /><br />Delay has created a problem in Alabama and South Carolina, principally because these States have a restricted number of registration days. <br /><br />p. 35 In some counties in North Carolina, registrars conduct all but three days of registration in their own homes or places of business. Social and psychological barriers are likely to deter Negroes from seeking out a registrar in his exclusively white neighborhood.... <br /><br />Racial violence related to civil rights activities is another factor which has limited applications in some counties with examiners. The killing of seminarian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Daniels" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="biographical information on Jonathan Daniels">Jonathan Daniels</a> in Lowndes Country, Alabama, on August 20 and the acquittal of his killer on September 30 appear to have been the single most important factor in reducing Negro applications in that county. It is symbolic of conditions there that a pick-up truck with a rifle visibly displayed has been parked daily immediately outside the examiner's office since the opening of the office. Registration workers in the country have reported increasing threats against their lives and continued efforts to intimidate resident Negro leaders.<br /><br />------<br /><br />This booklet on the Voting Rights Act was part of a resource file on civil rights and voting in the files of the National Federation of Settlements. The Federation was active in community organizing for social justice, voting, and civil rights. The <a href="https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/item/p16022coll391:4298/p16022coll391:4176" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="complete document and transcript">entire document along with a transcript</a> is available via the University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
United States Commission on Civil Rights
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1965
Social Welfare History Archives, University of Minnesota Libraries
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Virginia Commission on Interracial Cooperation. Officers, Executive Committee, and Members
List of members and the organizations they represented in the Virginia Commission on Interracial Cooperation. Dr. R.E. Blackwell was the Virginia Chairman of this group. <br /><br />The parent organization, the <a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Commission+on+Interracial+Cooperation" target="_blank" title="materials related to the CIC" rel="noreferrer noopener">Commission on Interracial Cooperation</a> (CIC), was based in Atlanta, Ga. Founded in 1919 by progressive Southern whites, the CIC sought to improve race relations with an anti-lynching campaign, and by educating the public about issues affecting blacks such as peonage, police brutality, and disparities in educational and health services. The group published a newsletter, <em><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?collection=10" target="_blank" title="issues of The Southern Frontier" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Southern Frontier</a>. <br /><br /><br /></em>
Virginia Commission on Interracial Cooperation
M 9 Box 81, <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
Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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What Rockwell Will Do As Governor [Rockwell for Governor Campaign leaflet]
Two-sided campaign leaflet for George Lincoln Rockwell's 1965 gubernatorial campaign. One side appears to originate from Rockwell's organization, the American Nazi Party, and includes an advertisement for Hatenanny Records.<br /><br />The reverse contains a statement of belief from the Virginia Office of the United Klans of America, Chesapeake, Va.<br /><br />Rockwell's campaign platform promotes white schools, stopping federal bribery and extortion, law and order in Virginia, taxes and welfare, anti-subversive commission, and relocation benefits. His campaign values are supported by those of the Ku Klux Klan, which are enumerated in the pamplet, as well. <br /><br />The Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1866 by former Confederate soliders who sought to continue to intimidate and commit acts of violence against black Americans. Klan support and action surged in the 1920s, when they further adopted anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic, and anti-Semitic agendas. Likewise, there was another revival in the 1940s-1960s in response to the Civil Rights movement, school desegreation, and the pressure to end Jim Crow laws throughout the south. <br /><br />To maintain and garner support, the Klan associated themselves with Christianity, even using a burning cross to represent white Protestant identity.<br /><br />Mills E. Godwin, Jr. won the governorship with 296,526 of the <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>
Virginia Office, United Klans of America, Inc.
M 342 Box 13, <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>, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
1965
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Learn more: <br /><a href="https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Ku_Klux_Klan_in_Virginia" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ku Klux Klan in Virginia</a>, Encyclopedia Virginia<br /><a href="https://labs.library.vcu.edu/klan/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Mapping the Second Ku Klux Klan, 1915-1940</a>, VCU Libraries <br /><a href="https://upsem.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/default/?rm=KU+KLUX+KLAN0%7C%7C%7C1%7C%7C%7C0%7C%7C%7Ctrue" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Ku Klux Klan and Christian Churches</a>, Union Presbyterian Seminary Library <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 /><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>
Letter to Adele Clark from Mary L. Westbrook, Federal Council of Churches, April 23, 1928
Letter from Mary L. Westbrook (Mrs. Richard W. Westbrook), Chairman, Church Women's Committee on Race Relations, Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, Inc. (Federal Council of Churches), sent to Adele Goodman Clark in her capacity as a representative of the National League of Women Voters at the 1926 Interracial Conference of Church Women. <br /><br />The letter describes a second conference planned for September 1928, and requests Clark begin planning to send delegates from the NLWV. <br /><br />Excerpts:<br /><br />"The past year and a half has disclosed problems which cause us to believe that there is need for the leaders of church women's organizations throughout the Nation to meet in conference again to discuss these problems, and to devise further plans and means of carrying forward the effective work begun so auspiciously following the epoch-making Interracial Conference of Church Women at Eagles Mere, Pa., Spetember 21-22, 1926, held by this Commission in cooperatin with the Council of Women for Home Missions and the National Board of the YWCA. <br /><br />This conference requested the Commission to form a Church Women's Committee on Race Relations, and this Committee, including representatives of practically every religious organization affiliated with the Federal Council of Churches, has been actively promoting parts of the program adopted at the Eagles Mere Conference. Correspondence with church women's groups in all parts of the Country has disclosed an unusual activity in race relations among them with a growing consciousness about the need of religion applied to the race problem. In many sections local committees were already in existence or have been formed; regional conferences in the Philadelphia and Chicago areas have been held with fruitful results."<br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Interracial+Conference+of+Church+Women" target="_blank" title="Documents related to the conference" rel="noreferrer noopener">See all documents</a> related to the Interracial Conference of Church Women.
Westbrook, Mary L.
M 9 Box 81, <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
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Learn more: <br /><br />Adams, B. L. (2016). Black women's Christian activism. Seeking social justice in a northern suburb. New York: New York University Press. <br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Interracial+Conference+of+Church+Women" target="_blank" title="items tagged Interracial Conference of Church Women" rel="noreferrer noopener">Interracial Conference of Church Women</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal
Beware! Men of the South [anti-suffrage handbill]
An anti-suffrage handbill which attempted to sway men's opinions by making them fearful. This one asks the reader to recall the American Civil War, which had taken place during their parents' lifetime.<br /><br />Text: <br /><br />"BEWARE! <br />MEN OF THE SOUTH: Heed not the song of the suffrate siren! Seal your ears against her vocal wiles! For, no matter how sweetly she may proclaim the advantage of female franchise, --<br /><br />REMEMBER that Woman Suffrage mean a re-opening of the entire Negro Suffrage question; loss of state rights; and another period of reconstruction horrors, which will introduce a set of female carpetbaggers as bad as their male prototypes of the sixties.<br /><br />DO NOT JEOPARDIZE the present prosperity of your sovereign states, which was so dearly bought by the blood of your fathers and the tears of your mothers, by again raising an issue which has already been adjusted at so great a cost. <br /> <br />NOTHING can be gained by woman suffrage and everything may be lost!
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Learn more: <br /><a href="http://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/woman-suffrage/woman-suffrage-movement/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Women's Suffrage: The Movement</a>, Social Welfare History Project<br /><a href="http://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/issues/suffrage-south-poll-tax/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Suffrage in the South: The Poll Tax</a>, Social Welfare History Project<br /><a href="http://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/issues/suffrage-south-part-ii-one-party-system/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Suffrage in the South Part II: The One Party System</a>, Social Welfare History Project <br /><br />Annotate a <a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/files/original/7a78c211abe897ed6bb39f8f1c758402.pdf" target="_blank" title="PDF of this image" rel="noreferrer noopener">PDF of this image</a> with <a href="https://web.hypothes.is/" target="_blank" title="Learn about web annotation with hypothes.is" rel="noreferrer noopener">hypothes.is</a>
We Will Die For Our Civil Rights [1963 Farmville, Va. protests]
Protesters in front of J.J. Newberry, Main Street, Farmville, Va., July 1963. John Hicks carries sign in foreground; Isaac Dungee stands behind him.<br /><br />From VCU Libraries <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/freedom_now_project/12464882674/in/album-72157640935144155/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Freedom Now Project</a>
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1963 July
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The Closing of "Public Schools" in P. E. County has Disgrace the State of Virginia [1963 Farmville, Va. protests]
Students protest Prince Edward County public school closings, Main Street near courthouse, Farmville, Va., July 1963. <br /><br />Sandra "Sandy" Stokes in foreground. Second person in line is Everett Berryman, Jr. followed by Emerson Hunt.<br /><br />from <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/freedom_now_project/12465651004/in/album-72157640935144155/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">VCU Libraries Freedom Now Project</a>
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1963 July
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