[African American Military] African American servicemen archive spanning the late 1930s through the Second World War, including studio portraits, candid snapshots, and wartime scenes, several with manuscript captions and identifying inscriptions. The group documents Black military service during the era of official segregation in the United States armed forces, when.....
[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. Photo Archive of Six stereoview photographs from the late 19th century depicting the African American experience, mainly in Georgia and the American South. Four of the stereoview photographs are published by Strohmeyer & Wyman, one by B.W. Kilburn, and one by H.C. White Co. 1891-1901. Size 3.5” x......
Damon, Anna. Victory, Decision of the United States Supreme Court in the Case of Angelo Herndon, April 1937. Chicago: State of Illinois, 1937. Measures 8.5" x 6.5". 30 pages. In the introduction, Damon writes "The decision will be a spur to the fight to wipe out the repressive laws against.....
Herndon, Angelo. Let Me Live, 1937, a radical autobiographical account of African American labor organizing and state repression during the Jim Crow era. The work addresses racialized legal control and labor suppression through Herndon’s arrest, prosecution, and legal defense under Georgia’s insurrection law. Herndon’s narrative records his 1932 arrest for.....
Archive of six original black and white sepia tone photographs of Atlanta in 1917, including four photos of the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary. Measuring between 2.25" x 4.25" and 3.5" x 5.25". Four photos taken of the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, within two of which there is visible scaffolding and what looks.....
Bibb Manufacturing Company workers, machinery, and safety campaigns inside the Star Mill and No. 2 Mill complexes in Macon, Georgia, photographed between 1966 and 1969, capturing a Southern textile workforce in the years immediately following the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the federal desegregation orders that opened previously segregated.....
Chain gang labor photographs from the early twentieth century and mid twentieth century document the continuation of forced penal labor in the American South, a system that disproportionately targeted African American prisoners after the end of Reconstruction. Convict leasing and chain gang labor became central components of Southern penal systems.....
[African American] [Photography] [Jim Crow] Strohmeyer & Wyman; Underwood & Underwood; Keystone View Co. Stereoview photographs, 1899 to 1905 document the mass production of racialized imagery of African American life in the post Reconstruction South and provide direct evidence of how Black labor, family, and domestic life were visually constructed.....
[African American] Southern African American life photographic archive, ca. 1930s–1941, documents everyday life and community environments of Black residents across several states of the American South during the Jim Crow era. The photographs depict rural and urban scenes from Tennessee, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Louisiana, presenting visual evidence of.....
[African American][Theatre] Black Theatre Production Archive, ca. 1970s. Three silver gelatin prints. Each approx. 5 x 7 in. Photographer: Paul Buckholdt, Atlanta, Georgia. An evocative photographic archive capturing Black stage performance in mid-century Atlanta, these three images—Circa 1970s—offer a rare and powerful visual document of regional Black theater. Shot by.....
African American vernacular photograph archive, 1928–1960, documents Black family life, social networks, and everyday leisure across the decades spanning late Jim Crow segregation through the early Civil Rights era in Georgia. The archive provides sustained visual evidence of African American domestic stability, mobility, and self-representation during a period marked by.....
Jones, Charles C. Negro Myths from the Georgia Coast, 1888, presenting a late nineteenth-century compilation of African American folklore recorded in the Gullah dialect of the Georgia and South Carolina coastal region, with direct relevance to the study of Black oral traditions, linguistic history, and post-emancipation cultural expression. The volume.....
Civil Rights. NAACP 10th Anuual Freedom Fund Dinner. Wednesday, November 30, 1966, 8:00 P.M.. Atlanta Cabana Hotel, Atlanta, GA. 42 pages. 10.75" x 8.25" inches. Original wrappers. The NAACP Freedom Fund Banquet Dinner of 1966 featured prominent members of Atlanta's African American community and included a contest among 11 young.....
Shaw, Albert Park, United States Army officer correspondence documenting American ground operations in the Pacific theater during World War II and the occupation of Japan. The letters span the period from March 1943, when Shaw was stationed at Fort Benning, Georgia, through the final months of the war and the.....
Atlanta International Raceway. Official Entry Blank for the Grand National Championship, First Annual Atlanta “500” and National Modified–Sportsman Championship. October 29–30, 1960. 11 x 8.5 inches. NASCAR-sanctioned printed entry form/program. Original “Official Entry Blank” issued for the inaugural Atlanta “500,” held at the newly constructed Atlanta International Raceway on October.....
Roosevelt, Franklin D. Typed letter signed discussing public health and development issues in Warm Springs, Georgia, dated September 7, 1929. Written during Roosevelt’s tenure as Governor of New York, the correspondence addresses local concerns in Meriwether County including malaria control, road improvements, and the economic development of Warm Springs as.....
Steel construction photo archive documenting the labor system of midcentury building expansion in Macon, Georgia, depicting how fabrication, delivery, crane work, and frame erection operated within the commercial and industrial growth of the postwar South. An unidentified commercial photographer working for local firms recorded construction as an active process through.....
[African American] [Education] Success of Spelman, Morehouse, and Atlanta’s HBCUs. 1934. “Atlanta’s Negro University System Model for South.” From The City Builder, Official Publication, Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, August, 1934. Large photo-illustrated image of Atlanta University Administrative Building (now Clark Atlanta University).8 fold-out pages. 9 x 4 in. “The Atlanta.....
Editor unknown. Atlanta Journal, August 6, 1945, records the first American newspaper cycle responding to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, a military and political event that introduced nuclear weapons into warfare and reshaped the final phase of World War II. The issue supports research into wartime journalism, anti-Japanese racial language.....
[African American] [Pulp] Demetre, Margaret. Unchained Desire. New York: Comet Press Books, 1959. First edition. Original cloth binding in illustrated red and cream dust jacket featuring a stylized nude female figure. 188 pages. 8vo. A provocative novel published under Comet Press’s “Milestone Book” imprint, Unchained Desire typifies mid-century erotic fiction’s.....
[Civil Rights][African American] Bond, Julian. Black Candidates: Southern Campaign Experiences. Atlanta: Voter Education Project Southern Regional Council, Inc. May, 1969. 8vo. 57 pages. Pictorial wrappers and staple bound spine. Civil rights activist Julian Bond partnered with the Voter Education Project in early 1968 to interview and share the experiences and.....
Hughes, Langston. event ephemera, circa 1930s to 1950s, documents the public literary, musical, and educational activities of one of the central figures of twentieth century African American literature and provides direct evidence of his role as a lecturer, performer, and cultural organizer beyond the printed page. These materials record Hughes’s.....
Smith, Lillian. Strange Fruit (1948) is a major work of mid-20th-century American literature addressing interracial relationships and racial violence in the Jim Crow South, supporting research into Civil Rights–era precursors, antiracist writing, and gendered dimensions of segregation. First published in 1944 and widely censored in multiple U.S. cities, the novel.....
Smith, Lillian. Strange Fruit. Cornwall: Cornwall Publishing, 1944. First edition, sixth printing. 371 pages. Bound in navy blue cloth hardcovers with yellow and white lettering. HOUSED IN ORIGINAL BLACK DUSTJACKET FEATURING A WHITE ILLUSTRATION of a large tree and yellow title letterinG. sTRANGE fRUIT is a 1944 best-seling debut novel.....
[African American] Parraish, Lydia. Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands. New York: Creative Age Press, Inc. 1942, first edition. Quarto, 256 pages. Original black boards with red and white font and pictorial cover. Original pictorial dust jacket in mylar wrapper. Music trabscribed by Creighton Churchill and Robert MacGimsey, with.....
