Case 1: 19th Century Advocacy for Equal Rights

The Emancipator. Vol. V, no. 42 (11 February 1841). Edited by Joshua Leavitt. New York: Published for the New York Anti-Slavery Society by Piercy and Reed.

Prospectus for Voice of the Fugitives. To be published by Henry Bibb at Sandwich, Canada West [Windsor, Ontario], 1851. [Image]

The Violation of a Constitutional Right. New Orleans, LA: Citizens’ Committee, 1893. [Image]

Report of Proceedings for the Annulment of Act 111 of 1890 by the Citizens’ Committee of New Orleans, LA. New Orleans, LA: Citizens’ Committee, 1891. [Image]

Simeon S. Jocelyn, Joshua Leavitt, and Lewis Tappan. Appeal to the Friends of Liberty. New York, 4 September 1839. Printed circular. 1 p.

Case 2: Demonstrations, Marches, and Boycotts

Core-lator. No. 88 (April 1961). New York: Published by the Congress of Racial Equality. [Image]

Photographs of CORE-sponsored pickets of McCrory’s and Woolworth’s on Canal Street, New Orleans, 1961. [

“Please Do Not Patronize The Campus Grill.” Nashville, Tennessee, November 1963. Typescript. 3 p. 

“To All Responsible Citizens of Greater New Orleans.” New Orleans, Louisiana, circa 28 March 1963. Printed flyer. 1 p. [Image]

“Black Power Rally Against Columbia University.” New York, circa 20 April 1968. Photocopied flyer. 1 p.

“Salute and Support the Heroes of the South.” New York, 1965. Printed flyer. 1 p. [Image]

“Rally sponsored by Pan-African Nationalist Association in the Americas.” circa 28 September 1963. Typescript flyer. 1 p.

Case 3: Demonstrations, Marches, and Boycotts

“In Charleston they’re facing bayonets. 1199ers! All Out to Support the Charleston Hospital Strikers!” Charleston, South Carolina, 1969. Printed flyer. 1 p. [Image]

Paper hat for Local 1199 Drug and Hospital Union, circa 1969.

“National Day of Mourning for the Children of Birmingham.” New York, circa 22 September 1963. Printed flyer. 1 p.

Armband. “Birmingham Children.” Produced by The Protestant Council of the City of New York, circa 1963.

“Nashville N.A.A.C.P. Branch Sponsors Civil Rights Mass Meeting.” 5 May 1964. Printed flyer. 1 p.

“Stop the War Madness Now!” New York, circa April 1964. Printed flyer with printed addition on verso. 2 p. [Image]

“An Appeal to You…to March on Washington….” New York, circa August 1963. Printed flyer. 1 p.

March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom Organizing Manual no. 2, New York, circa August 1963. 12 p. [Image]

Photographs of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, 28 August 1963.

Case 4: Civil Rights Organizations

SNCC brochure, circa 1963.

The Student Voice, Vol. 5, no. 21 (19 August 1964). [Image]

Report on Federal Prosecution of Civil Rights Workers in Albany, Georgia. San Francisco: Bay Area Friends of SNCC, February 1964. Mimeograph typescript. 18 p.

“They Need Your Help To – An Appeal to Southern Students.” Printed pamphlet, undated. 4 p.

“Mississippi – Subversion of the Right to Vote.” Printed pamphlet, circa 1964. 20 p.

“Cars for Freedom.”  undated. Printed flyer. 2 p. [Image]

“This is CORE.” Printed brochure, circa 1962. [Image]

“Mississippi Summer Project.” Printed brochure, 1964.

Despite Everything. Vol. 2, no. 1 (July 1964). Mimeograph typescript. 11 p.

Congress of Racial Equality, New Orleans Branch. Information Letter, no. 1 (19 November 1964). Photocopied typescript. 3 p.

Major Johns and Ronnie Moore. It Happened in Baton Rouge, USA: A Real Life Drama of Our Deep South Today. New York: Congress of Racial Equality, 1962.

Southern Christian Leadership Conference. SCLC Newsletter, Vol. 1, no. 11-12; Vol. 2, no. 5-6 (1963-1964).

Case 5: Student and Community Expressions

Bad Niggers for Regression. Black Liberation Express, No. 1 (1969). [Image]

Edwards E. Rucker (ed.) The Black Liberator, Vol. 1, no. 1 (23 November 1970).

Nat Turner Theater. Revolt! Vol. 1, no. 1 (1969).

Black Culture Society. Black Pride (1972-1974). Marion, Illinois.

Case 6: Elections and Campaigns

“Vote for Real! Vote for a Real Man. Dick Gregory for President….” Printed brochure, 1968.

“Dick Gregory for President Rally.” circa October 1968. Printed flyer. 2 p.

“Spock Backs Gregory.” 1968. Printed flyer. 2 p.

Dick Gregory campaign money, 1968. [Image]

“Dick Gregory for President.” 1968. Printed poster.

“Eldridge Cleaver for President.” 1968. Printed pamphlet. 8 p.

“Cleaver for President” campaign button. 1968.

“Freedom Candidates – Aaron Henry for Governor, Rev. Ed King for Lieutenant Governor.” 1963. Printed flyer. 1 p. [Image]

“Election Rally for Clifton DeBerry.” 1964. Printed flyer. 1 p. [Image]

Case 7: Revolutionaries and Radicals

The Black Panther. Vol. VI, no. 23 (3 July 1971).

Flyer for Black Panther Party Rally with Young Patriots Organization and Young Lords Party, [1969?]. 1 p. [Image]

JOMO Uhuru. A Pamphlet of the Junta of Militant Organizations, Its History, Its Beliefs and Its Future. circa 1969. Printed pamphlet. 8 p. [Image]

Charles Kenyatta. “Death – A Rumor in Our Communities.” circa 1971. Photocopied typescript. 5 leaves.

“Yahweh Says Don’t Worship White People.” Miami, FL: Nation of Yahweh, undated. Printed circular. 2 p.

“Yahweh Supports Black Bank.” Miami, FL: Nation of Yahweh, undated. Printed circular. 2 p. [Image]

The Nationalist, Vol. 1, no. 1, New York: The African Nationalist Independence Partition Party, undated.

“Freedom for Angela Davis.” 1970. Printed flyer designed by Elizabeth Catlett. 1 p.

“Kidnapped to California.” 1970. Printed flyer. 1 p.

Case 8: Voter Registration Efforts

Vote Registration and NAACP Membership Questionnaire, undated. [image]

"I Vote Do You? Register Today!” undated. Printed decal.

“If You Are Not Registered – Register to Vote Today!” 1960s. Printed flyer. 1 p.

“A Voteless People is a Hopeless People.” 1958. Typescript. 1 p.

“Facts on the Southern Negro Vote.” 1958. Typescript. 1 p.

“Steps to Full Freedom.” circa 1958. Mimeograph brochure. [Image]

Photographs of voter registration drive in Sumter, South Carolina, September 1965.

“Hands that pick cotton…now can pick our public officials.” 1970. Printed poster.

“Register and Vote Campaign Now On! Goal: To Register 50,000 New Voters!” circa 1957. Newsprint advertisement. 1 p.

Wall: The African American Press

The Louisiana Weekly, Vol. XLVI, no. 20 (29 January 1972).

The [Houston] Informer, Vol. 60, no. 29 (22 May 1954).

The Pittsburgh Courier, Louisiana Edition, Vol. 46, no. 37 (10 September 1955).