Keep 'em Smiling! Help War Camp Community Service
World War I poster created by M. Leone Bracker for the United War War Campaign. Image of three smiling servicemen from the Army, Marines, and Navy. Text reads: "keep'em smiling! help War Camp Community Service. 'morale is winning the war' United War Work Campaign" Compare this illustration to the cover of What the Employers of America Can Do for the Disabled Soldiers & Sailors, issued by the Federal Board for Vocational Education in 1918.
Series I, World War I and World War II Propaganda Posters, 1908-1944. Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections Department, Brandeis University
United States. Government Printing Office
Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections Department, Brandeis University
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Learn more: "Keep'em smiling" United War Work Campaign pamphlet, National World War I Museum and Memorial "World War I and World War II Propaganda Posters" Brandeis University Libraries digital collection The United War Work Campaign. What It Is and What It Means. November 11-18, 1918, Internet Archive Lee, J. (1918). War Camp Community Service. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 79 (September) War Relief Work. United War Work Campaign, Committee on Public Information. Division of Four Minute Men. University of Colorado, Boulder.
Pamphlet promoting state legislation to include kindergartens for children aged four to six years in public schools. "LOOK FOR YOUR STATE IN THE FOLLLOWING LIST... If there IS legislative activity in your state, write to the National Kindergarten Association for names of organizations sponsoring it, and give them your support. If there is NO legislative activity in your state, will you not initiate it?"
M 9 Box 103, Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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Klan members wave, Ku Klux Klan parade, Richmond, Va., July 1967
Black and white photograph showing a woman wearing a Ku Klux Klan robe and hood and a man wearing a military-style Klan outfit; the pair wave while riding in back of a vehicle in downtown Richmond, Va. Taken during a parade on Broad Street in support of the Klan and possibily to drum up attendance for an upcoming rally to be held by the United Klans of America in eastern Henrico County, Va.
V.2017.83.161, The Valentine
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Know Your Own Foreign Policy: Five Sets of Twenty Questions. Series No. 1
A packet and five covers of pamphlets "designed to make possible intelligent discussion for study groups, clubs, high school classes, etc." Each pamphlet focuses on a different topic: World Court, League of Nations, Disarmament and Reparations, Monroe Doctrine, and The State Department. These educational documents were published by the Department of International Cooperation to Prevent War, National League of Women Voters.
Department of International Cooperation to Prevent War, National League of Women Voters.
M 86 Box 1, Roberta Wellford Collection of Women's Rights Ephemera 1915-1956, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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Wearing white robes and hoods, members of the Ku Klux Klan, a right-wing extremist organization, parade on Grace Street in Richmond circa 1925. This photograph was taken at the intersection of Grace and Fifth streets, just a few blocks from the Virginia State Capitol.
Dementi Studio, Richmond
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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, The Valentine
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, The Valentine
Labor Laws in War Time. Special Bulletin, No. 1, April, 1917
Publication discussing the importance of protections for the civilian labor force during wartime. Discusses efficiencey Includes concerns for safety, sanitation, hours, wages, child labor, woman's work, social insurance, labor market and administration of labor laws. Along with other minimum requirements, argues for a three-shift system in continuous industries, one day's rest in seven for all workers, equal pay for equal work without discrimination as to sex, and the prohibition of specially hazardous employment for children under sixteen.
American Association for Labor Legislation
M 9 Box 98, Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
American Association for Labor Legistlation, New York.
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Labor meeting, Passaic Textile Strike, 1926
A woman holds a gas mask at a labor meeting.
American Labor Museum / Botto House National Landmark Persistent URL: https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3SX6FHX
Learn more: Passaic Textile Strike, 1926, Social Welfare History Project Passaic Textile Strike (1926) - film, Social Welfare History Project Labor, Social Welfare History Image Portal
Broadside published by the National Council for Prevention of War (previous name, National Council for Reduction of Armaments)
Laws of Virginia with Regard to Women Contrasted with Laws Where Women Vote [Equal Suffrage League handbill]
This sheet compares Virginia laws pertaining to women with those of states where female suffrage already had been approved. Arranged in two contrasting columns, the sheet presents twelve points and includes an Equal Suffrage League of Virginia enrollment form on the second page. Laws covered include those relating to property rights, inheritance, and parental guardianship. The League was founded in 1909 and included prominent women such as Adèle Clark, Ellen Glasgow, Mary Johnston, Mary-Cooke Munford, Nora Houston, and Lila Meade Valentine (the league’s first president). After a decade of failure to convince Virginia’s representatives that women should have the vote, the League switched focus to winning Congressional passage of the Nineteenth Amendment.
Rare Books, Call Number JK1901 .L42 1910z, Library of the Virginia Museum of History and Culture, Virginia Historical Society
Virginia Museum of History and Culture, Virginia Historical Society
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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, Robert S. Barrett. Barrett was the son of the Rev. Dr. Robert S. Barrett, an Episcopal clergyman, and Kate Waller Barrett, one of the first women medical doctors in the South and co-founder of the National Florence Crittenton Mission. Text -- Dear Fellow Virginian: 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. 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 Senator Capper, of Kansas, and Representative Robsion, of Kentucky, the authors of the bill now pending in Congress, who say: "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." 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. 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. Yours very truly, Robert S. Barrett Chairman
M 9 Box 30, Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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Let Me Help, Uncle [editorial cartoon by Morris H. Pancoast]
Editorial cartoon by Morris H. Pancoast, "Courtesy Philadelphia North American." From the Woman's Journal and Suffrage News, Vol. 46, No. 27, October 23, 1915. Image Description: Woman wearing a "Votes for Women" sash offters to help a weary Uncle Sam who sits at a desk pouring over papers titled "Industrial Unrest," "International Law," "Threatened Foreigh Entanglements," "Mexican Situation," "Crooked Politics," "Unemployment," "Hard Times," and "Special Interests."
M 9 Box 229 Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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Let the people VOTE to end gerrymandering. [bumper sticker]
Bumper sticker created by OneVirginia2021, an American civic non-profit organization founded to advocate for a non-partisan redistricting of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Formed in 2014, OneVirginia2021 is made up of people from across the political spectrum, including Republicans, Democrats, and TEA party members. Sticker text: Let the People VOTE to END GERRYMANDERING. OneVirginia2021.org
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Learn more: Miller, G. (2018). The map that popularised the word 'Gerrymander.' National Geographic (November 6, 2018). Ingraham, C. (2015, March 1). This is the best explanation of gerrymandering you will ever see. The Washington Post. Baker v. Carr, 1962. Reynolds v. Sims, 1964. Redistricting guru's hard drives could mean legal, political woes for GOP (2019, June 6), National Public Radio. One Virginia 2021, organization website
Informational comic book "created as an educational component of the American Psychiatric Association 'Let's Talk About Mental Illness' public awareness campaign, produced through an educational grant from The Upjohn Company, Kalamazoo, MI." (from back cover) As the reader follows the story of Sara, a high school student suffering from depression, this comic book discusses mental and emotional health as important components of our overall health.
Deschaine, Scott, writer Benton, Mike, writer
Comic Arts Collection, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
American Psychiatric Association/Custom Comic Services
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Letter from John M. Brooks to Medgar W. Evers, May 20, 1958 [carbon copy]
Carbon copy of letter from John M. Brooks, Director of Voter Registration, Virginia NAACP to Medgar W. Evers, Field Secretary, Mississippi NAACP. Sent 20 May 1958 in response to Evers' letter of 15 May 1958. Text: Mr. Medgar W. Evers 1072 Lynch Street Jackson, Mississippi Dear Medgar: Your letter was a real pick up for me...keep up the good work. I am sending a letter of congratulations to the Meridian group from this office. I hope your Jackson meeting will be as good as the one in Meridian. Don't fail to call on me for any help needed. Sincerely yours, John M. Brooks NAACP Registration Director JMB/eww
M 296, Box 2, John Mitchell Brooks Collection of NAACP Files 1957-1978, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
Learn more: Medgar Evers, SNCC Digital Gateway
Letter from John M. Brooks, NAACP Registration Director to voter registration activists, Mississippi, July 7, 1958
Letter of encouragement from John M. Brooks, NAACP Registration Director following a meeting he attended in Mississippi. Text -- Dear Friend: My meeting with you in Mississippi was an inspiration to me. It proved my belief that, "if people are given a clear picture of the voting situation, they will cooperate". The people in Meridian and Jackson are well on their way toward increasing their voting strength and becoming first-class citizens. Your future activities will tell what Y O U are going to do in your city. Talk to your neighbors and invite them to join your group. A large attendance will be an inspiration to all concerned. It is my sincere hope that your organization will be a guiding light for other communities all over Mississippi to follow. IT CAN BE DONE would be the wrong words to us, IT WILL BE DONE because of Y O U. Sincerely yours, John M. Brooks NAACP Registration Director
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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. Text: Mr. Johnnie M. Brooks Director, Registration and Voting 404 1/2 North Second Street Richmond, Virginia Dear Mr. Brooks: 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. 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. Tonight is Jackson's night. I shall report ot you on its progress later. We had at last night's meeting approximately forty persons, more or less. Sincerely yours, Medgar W. Evers Field Secretary
Letter from Owen R. Lovejoy to Dr. Samuel McCuns Lindsay, January 27, 1925
Letter to Dr. Samuel McCuns Lindsay, Chairman, National Child Labor Committee from Owen R. Lovejoy, General Secretary, National Child Labor Committee Dated January 27, 1925. In the letter Lovejoy reflects on the campaign against child labor and discusses his reasons for resigning his post.
Survey Associates records. Lovejoy, Owen R., 1921-1949. Box: 95, Folder: 714-715. Social Welfare History Archives, University of Minnesota Libraries.
Social Welfare History Archives, University of Minnesota Libraries
Learn more: National Child Labor Committee, Social Welfare History Project Owen Reed Lovejoy, Michigan Biographical Dictionary 2008-2009, by Caryn Hannan. Owen R. Lovejoy, Library of Congress Prints & Photographs
Letter from Rev. John Kirstein to Aubrey Brown, Jr. , August 22, 1963
Letter to Aubrey Brown, Jr., editor of The Presbyterian Outlook, from Rev. John A. Kirstein, associate editor of the Presbyterian Survey, in opposition to the PCUS statement to the National Council of Churches.
Aubrey Brown Jr. personal papers collection. March on Washington 1963 digital collection, Special Collections, William Smith Morton Library, Union Presbyterian Seminary
Learn more: Hansan, John E., March on Washington, D.C. for Jobs and Freedom August 28, 1963, Social Welfare History Project The March (1963) [film], Social Welfare History Project March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom [tri-fold publicity flyer], Social Welfare History Image Portal
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. The letter describes a second conference planned for September 1928, and requests Clark begin planning to send delegates from the NLWV. Excerpts: "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. 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." See all documents related to the Interracial Conference of Church Women.
M 9 Box 81, Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
Learn more: Adams, B. L. (2016). Black women's Christian activism. Seeking social justice in a northern suburb. New York: New York University Press. Interracial Conference of Church Women, Social Welfare History Image Portal
Letter to Eleanor P. Sheppard from Lyndon B. Johnson, February 10, 1964
Letter to the Honorable Eleanor P. Sheppard, Mayor of Richmond, Virginia from President Lyndon Baines Johnson. February 10, 1964. This letter accompanied the President's Commission on Registration and Voting Participation "Report on Registration and Voting Participation." Text: The White House Washington February 10, 1964 Dear Mayor Sheppard: Less than two thirds of Americans of voting age cast ballots in Presidential elections. Less than one half vote in Congressional elections. This is a serious void in our free society. Last March President Kennedy appointed a bipartisan Commission on Registration and Voting Particpation. Its task was to study the causes of nonvoting and to recommend remedies. After careful study this Commission has presented its report and I send one to you. More interest in voting can be stressed by local efforts. May I suggest that you might want to consider the appointment of a citizens committee to investigate possible restrictions to reistration and voting -- and to promote greater voter participation in the 1964 elections. At a time when people all over the world cry out for the right to vote, too many of our citizens neglect to use this most precious of all citizen privileges. Our states and our cities, by improving voting laws and voting practices, can help produce increased voting interest by all the people. Kindly give me a report on the situation in your city. Sincerely, Lyndon B. Johnson
M 277, Box 11, Eleanor P. Sheppard papers, 1924 - 1978, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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Learn more: Voting, Social Welfare History Image Portal Discovery Set: Controlling the Vote, Social Welfare History Image Portal Visit of the Commission on Registration & Voting Participation, 12:25PM, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Lee C. White. General File, 1954-1964. Commission on Registration and Voting Participation, 23 April 1963-30 March 1964 Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Lee C. White. General File, 1954-1964. Commission on Registration and Voting Participation, 21 December 1962–30 March 1963
Letter to H. D. Dillard from Martin L. Calhoun, Alabama Male Association Opposed to Woman's Suffrage [typed letter, signed]
Letter from Martin L. Calhoun, Secretary Treasurer of the Alabama Male Association Opposed to Woman's Suffrage dated 15 August 1919. The letter was sent to the Hon. H. D. Dillard (of Franklin County, Va.), General Assembly, Richmond, Va. Calhoun is opposed to the Fifteenth Amendment (which prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude") and the ratification of the proposed "Anthony Amendment" (which would become the Nineteenth Amendment). The letter associates woman suffrage, African American suffrage, and socialism. The organization's platform is printed on this letterhead near the top of the page. "Platform:--The Alabama Male Association Opposed to Woman's Suffrage-- Stands for HOME and NATIONAL DEFENSE aggainst Woman's Suffrage, Feminismand Socialism. For MAN-POWER in Government, believing that Democracy must be STRONG to be SAFE. For the PRESERVATION of the established foundations of the American Republic as a Model for the World. For the RECOGNITION and ENFORCEMENT of the INHERENT RIGHT of EACH STATE to control the question of Woman's Suffrage for ITSELF. For EFFICIENCY and PROGRESS without Waste and Duplication in Government. For the CONSERVATION of the BEST WOMANHOOD of all conditions and stations in life, along NON-PARTISAN lines, so that the interests of Womanhood, Childhood and Civilization may be advanced FREE from the strife and division of politics, factions and parties. For the retention of the BEST IDEALS of the past, adapted to the advantages and opportunities given women under modern conditions, so that the FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES of Morality, of Patriotism and of World Progress may be more firmly established in the present and future generations." Excerpt of letter text: "Susan B. Anthony was instrumental in securing the Fifteenth Article to the Federal Constitution, the adoption of which has always stood as a blot on the escutchen of our Country. Her purpose and intent was to further humiliate and oppress the then down trodden South. This in itself should condemn her namesake in the heart of every true Southerner. We are calling upon all the Southern States to REJECT [handwritten in margin "(it now)"] her namesake and if we can get the twelve Southern States to the two which have rejected - Georgia and Alabama - we can bury Old Susan where she belongs. If we, of the South, surrender our control of suffrage to the Federal Government we should not complain of the Fifteenth Amendment or what may follow under the adoption of the Anthony Amendment, for we would be traitors to that grand martyr of your State- Robert E. Lee and we are not worthy of our sires."
M 9 Box 51, Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
Learn more: Letter from the Alabama Male Association Opposed to Woman's Suffrage, DocsTeach, National Archives
Letter to Kate Waller Barrett from Calvin Coolidge
Letter from President Coolidge to Kate Waller Barrett regarding the Florence Crittenton Mission which managed homes for unwed mothers and prostitutes. Transcription: The White House Washington October 23, 1924. My dear Mrs. Barrett: It is not easy to imagine a single reason why the work of the Florence Crittenton Mission should not have the most unqualified endorsement from every good citizen. I can think of a long list of the most persuasive reasons why that endorsement should be given, and for myself I gladly extend it. I wish you the fullest encouragement and cooperation in the splendid work you are carrying on. Very truly yours, Calvin Coolidge
M 9 Box 111, Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
Learn more: Kate Waller Barrett, Social Welfare History Project Florence Crittenton Homes: A History, Social Welfare History Project
Letter, Ora Brown Stokes to Adèle Goodman Clark, June 1, 1922 regarding fundraising for National Federation of Colored Women's Clubs
Letterhead: Commission on Inter-Racial Co-operation, Atlanta, Ga. 210 W. Leigh St. Richmond Va. June 1st 1922 Dear Miss Clark: The National Federation of Colored Women's Clubs will meet in this city during the first week in August and I am asked to raise$50.00 towards the $1500 that the local committee must raise to meet the demands that will be required of us. I am writing to 25 of our white friends asking them to help me raise my $50.00. As Chairman of the local committee I am anxious to get the required amount. Won't you please help us and help me to make my report? Very truly yours, Ora Brown Stokes ----- The NACWC biennial meeting was held at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Richmond, Va., August 6 - 11, 1922. Ida B. Wells Barnett, the prominent journalist and civil rights activist, traveled from Chicago with her daughter Alfreda to attend. Speakers included Hallie J. Brown, Mary Church Terrell, Margaret Murray Washington (Mrs. Booker T. Washington), Mary Bethune, and others.
M 9 Box 81, Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
Learn more: Great Women's Convention Here. Richmond Planet, 1922, July 29. Bonis, R. (2019). Ora E. Brown Stokes (1882–1957), Dictionary of Virginia Biography. Ora Brown Stokes, Social Welfare History Image Portal