[African American][Literature] Hughes, Langston. Simple Stakes a Claim (1957) is the author’s fourth work rendering midcentury Black life through the voice of Jesse B. Semple, known as “Simple,” a working class Harlem everyman whose humor and indignation frame questions of race, labor, housing discrimination, and democracy in the early Cold.....
[Japanese American] [WWII] [Internment] Japanese American photograph archive, circa 1930s to 1940s, records civilian identity and interpersonal life across the World War II era, including one photograph with a note on verso tied directly to incarceration at the Rohwer Relocation Center in Arkansas. Named individuals, preserved through handwritten inscriptions, establish.....
Logan, Miles. Volunteer Descriptive List and Account of Pay and Clothing, 1865, documents the military service, labor assignment, and compensation of an African American soldier in the 11th Regiment United States Colored Infantry during the Civil War. Enlisted at Fort Smith, Arkansas on 28 December 1863 at approximately eighteen years.....
