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.....
[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.....
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.....
[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.....
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.....
[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.....
[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.....
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.....
[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.....
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.....
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.....
