Civil rights political pamphlet archive documenting competing national and Southern responses to lynching, racial violence, and federal civil rights intervention during the immediate post–World War II period. Issued between 1946 and 1951, the publications capture a formative moment in the political struggle over civil rights legislation, federal authority, and racial.....
Heyward, DuBose and Dorothy. Porgy: A Play in Four Acts, 1927, presenting the first theatrical adaptation of DuBose Heyward’s novel centered on Black life in Charleston, South Carolina, with particular relevance to representations of African American communities, language, and urban experience in early twentieth-century American literature and theater. The play.....
[WWII] Duke University women’s student life photo album depicting Woman’s College dormitory life, sorority culture, Southern travel, wartime campus changes, and nursing training from freshman arrival through graduation, 1938-1944. Duke established the Woman’s College in 1930, with East Campus serving women students while West Campus served men, creating a coordinate.....
[African American] Du Bose, Heyward . Mamba's Daughters, Garden City, NY: Doubleday Doran, 1929. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. 311 pages, illustrated endpapers, Green cloth boards. DuBose is notable for being the author of Porgy and Bess. African American themed novel on three generations of a Charleston, South.....
[African American Literature] Heyward, Du Bose. "Porgy." New York: George H. Doran Company, 1925. First hardcover edition, second printing. Hardcover in original orange cloth binding, No dust jacket. 196 pages, 5.5" x 7.5." Contains black-and-white illustrations by Theodore Nadejen. Novel tells the story of Porgy, a disabled beggar who lives.....
1955–1964 The Hispanic American Historical Review issues documenting the consolidation of Latin American history as a formal academic discipline in the United States. These issues matter as direct evidence of how the field was structured, debated, and standardized within mid-twentieth-century universities during a period of expanding area studies programs and.....
[Civil Rights] Ball, John. In the Heat of the Night. First edition. Harper and Row: New York. 1965. Original purple dust jacket design by Luiz Woods. 184 pages. Measures 8.25" x 6" inches. The story follows Virgil Tibbs, a Black police detective solving a murder case in notoriously racist small.....
35th president of the United States. Original press release issued by the Office of the White House Press Secretary. One page, 8.5" x 11." Dated August 31, 1961. This press release is an announcement of JFK's intention to appoint A. Roy Ashley as United States Marshal for the Western District.....
35th president of the United States. Original press release issued by the Office of the White House Press Secretary. One page, 8.5" x 11." Dated August 31, 1961. This press release is an announcement of JFK's intention to appoint John C. Williams as United States Attorney for the Western District.....
American WWII General and Commander of United Nations (U.N.). Forces in Korea from May 12, 1952, to October 7, 1953. Typed letter signed, 1 pages, 6 x 8.5", dated January 10, 1964 on The Citadel-The Military College of South Carolina letterhead. Mark writes, "I have your letter of January 8.....
Army Air Forces B-25 pilot training at Columbia Army Air Base is documented through 2nd Lt. Floyd J. Good’s flight records, B-25 questionnaire, training papers, base photographs, and an associated TB-25 cockpit checklist marked “Horg, L. M. / 45-B / C-1.” Good’s file places him in the 376th Squadron, 309th.....
[Marginalized Groups] Glazier, Willard W. The Capture, The Prison Pen, And The Escape: A Complete History of Prison Life in the South. New York: The Trow & Smith Book Manufacturing Company, 1868. First edition with original brown cloth boards. 422 pages. Measures 5.5" x 8". Book deals with the history.....
Unidentified compiler. Photograph album, 1917–1920, documents high school life and World War I–era military activity in the United States, capturing both educational environments and wartime training as experienced within local communities. The album provides primary visual evidence of student athletics, teacher involvement, and organized military exercises during the First World.....
