Unidentified photographers, Industrial High School class photographs and related images, 1911–1936, document African American secondary education in Birmingham, Alabama during the era of legally enforced segregation, supporting research into Black educational institutions, student life, and community formation under Jim Crow. These photographs provide direct visual evidence of organized schooling for.....

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The Lynching of Claude Neal, 1934, documents one of the most widely publicized acts of racial violence in the Jim Crow South and provides direct investigative evidence used in national anti lynching advocacy campaigns. Issued in the immediate aftermath of the October.....

Broadside, 1964, announcing the “Second Giant March Up Market Street” in San Francisco, documenting West Coast civil rights mobilization in advance of the July 12, 1964 Human Rights March and the opening of the Republican National Convention. Issued during a period of national debate over the Civil Rights Act of.....

[Women's Sports] Women’s wrestling photograph archive documenting amateur competitions, gymnasium training, and professional wrestling performers between the 1940s and the 1970s. The images record women participating in a sport historically dominated by men, illustrating the gradual emergence of female wrestling as both an amateur athletic activity and a professional entertainment.....

[African American Education] Tuskegee University felt pennant. Measuring 28' in length. Tuskegee Institute, now known as Tuskegee University, is a private historically Black University, founded by notable Black educator, Booker T. Washington in Alabama. Washington gradually attracted notable scholars to Tuskegee, including the botanist George Washington Carver, would become President.....

The Detroit News. Saturday, April 13, 1963. Measures 23.5 x 14.5 inches. 22 pages. Front page story on the growing civil rights movement in Birmingham titled "Call Negro Students to Join Protest." Story reads in part, "Negro students are being asked to help continue racial demonstrations in this industrial city.....

Seven photographs of Nat King Cole, circa 1950s, document the expansion of African American presence in film and television during the mid twentieth century, including Cole’s role as the first Black host of a nationally broadcast variety program, The Nat King Cole Show. Emerging from the jazz and popular music.....

William E. Anderson. “Thesis Writing: A Guide for the Preparation of the Master’s Thesis”. Montgomery Alabama: The Paragon Press, 1947. Paper wrappers, 56 pages, 9 x 6 in. First edition. Stapled blue wrappers; small name stamp in center and all four corners on front and back wrappers. Pamphlet outlines basic.....

[Cold War] [U.S. Defense] Official U.S. Army intelligence and doctrinal publications on Soviet equipment and artillery produced at key Cold War moments when Soviet conventional forces, missile technology, and weapons systems were undergoing rapid modernization. These publications illustrate how American military institutions trained analysts and officers to identify Warsaw Pact.....

Partially identified Black Airmen photographs and Tuskegee Airmen signatures. African American airmen associated with the United States Army Air Forces during the World War II era document the struggle the struggle of entry into military aviation during a period when the armed forces remained racially segregated. This archive contains sixteen.....