King, Martin Luther, Jr., original silver gelatin photograph by Johnnie R. Crump, Vicksburg, MS, circa 1960s, documents Civil Rights leadership through the lens of an African American Mississippi photographer active under segregation. The image presents Dr. King seated at a desk in suit and tie, hands crossed and resting before.....
Albumen photographs of slavery-related sites, circa 1890s, document physical locations tied to the sale and habitation of enslaved people in the United States and the persistence of those sites in post-Emancipation visual culture. The images include a pavilion in St. Augustine, Florida identified in contemporary sources as a site where.....
Student Mobilization Committee (issuer), antiwar broadside, 1970, documenting student-led protest organizing against the Vietnam War and domestic state violence. The broadside advocates grassroots political mobilization, revealing how activist networks coordinated mass demonstrations through printed messaging, and providing primary-source evidence for the study of antiwar movements and student activism during the.....
Steamboat Dictator photograph, circa 1870s, documenting Mississippi River transportation during the late nineteenth century, when paddlewheel steamboats formed the central infrastructure of inland American commerce and travel. The image records the sidewheel steamboat Dictator at a river landing with passengers, workers, and horse drawn vehicles gathered nearby, illustrating the role.....
Two original photographs documenting African American sharecropping labor in the rural South during the Jim Crow era, when cotton agriculture remained central to the racial and economic order of the post-Reconstruction United States. The images capture Black agricultural workers engaged in cotton harvesting under the tenant farming and sharecropping systems.....
Civil rights leaders and pioneers press photograph archive, 1960s, documenting African American political leadership and institutional challenges within the Civil Rights Movement. The material documents Black political mobilization through electoral participation, legal advocacy, and party-based organizing, revealing how African American leaders pursued representation within national political structures, and providing primary-source.....
[Early African American PHOTOGRAPHY] -- [RELIGION]. silver gelatin photograph of a river baptism featuring a large group of African American subjects. [Mississippi], ca early 1900s. Photograph size is 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 in. Original silver gelatin photograph on cardstock mount ).A young African American man wearing a hat and.....
[CIVIL RIGHTS]. CRUMP, Johnnie R. (1905-1975), photographer. Photograph of African American civil right activist posed in front of Civil War monument. Vicksburg, MS: ca 1950s. Original silver gelatin photograph 5 x 4 in. With the photographer stamp "Johnnie Crump's Vicksburg, MS," ink stamp on verso. The photograph shows 4 African.....
[Women's History] [Cookbook] Warren, Mildred Evans. The Art of Southern Cooking: A Collection of New, Traditional, and Old Family Recipes. Garden City, New York: Double Day and Company, 1969. First edition. Illustrated with drawings by Rocco Negri. Bound in publisher’s mustard-yellow cloth with gilt lettering to spine, in original pictorial.....
Stockett, Kathryn. The Help: A Novel. New York: Putnam, 2009. Octavo. 453 pages. Original illustrated wrappers. Rare advanced reading copy preceding the first edition of Stockett’s #1 New York Times bestselling novel and basis for the Academy Award-winning film about a young journalist in the 1960s who interviews the domestic.....
[African American][Literature] Wright, Richard. The Long Dream. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1958. First edition. 384 pages. Original black cloth binding with white lettering on spine, in publisher’s dust jacket. 8vo. Published during Richard Wright’s later years in exile, The Long Dream is a searing examination of race, power.....
