N.A.A.C.P. publications and related ephemera, 1915-1978 and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People publications and related ephemera, 1915-1978
Description:
BEIN JWJ Zan N213 +915N: Some of these items are accompanied by articles printed from the World Wide Web., A collection of NAACP items. Most were published by the organization itself, one was published by a sympathizer, and two, emblematic of racial prejudice, were produced anonymously., The sympathetic publication is a broadside with the title "Strong man!" It was distributed by Hollywood Beauty Secrets Company, owned by Mr. & Mrs. Homer Goodwin, Hollywood, California, and it urged people to join the NAACP., The anonymous items, probably from 1963, are a dollar bill with a message stamped on it and a contribution card, one or both of which were likely produced by the Ku Klux Klan., and Included in the collection are two letters to individuals on NAACP stationery, not listed among the titles of the printed works.
Publisher:
National Association for the Advancement of Colored people
Subject (Geographic):
Texas, Waco., and United States
Subject (Name):
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Photographic postcard of the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, taken by Lawrence Beitler. Shipp and Smith were murdered by a mob in Marion, Indiana on August 7, 1930
Description:
Lawrence Beitler (1885-1960) was an American studio photographer., Caption in English., Title devised by cataloger., Place and date of creation supplied by cataloger., and Printed caption on verso.
Subject (Geographic):
Indiana, Marion., Marion, Grant County, and Marion (Ind.)
Subject (Name):
Beitler, Lawrence., Shipp, Thomas, 1911-1930, and Smith, Abram, -1930
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, African Americans, Violence against, Lynching, Racism, and Race relations
