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1916/08/29
Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)
Address of the President of the United States
Regarding rights of railroad workers (8 hour days, overtime pay, etc.). Signed on page 8.
GLC06963
2 May 1912
The National League of Negroes
Taft Denounces Lynching, Tells Afro-American Audience it is Cowardly Murder. President Advocates the Rope for Lynchers
The pamphlet announces that President Taft was endorsed by a conference that convened on the issue of race. The conference marked the inaugural meeting of "The National League of Negroes" and a committee on resolutions was formed. The pamphlet lists...
GLC09588
[1919]
Rules of the House of Warriors Adopted 12-07-1903 [Creek Indians]
Pamphlet containing rules of behavior when in assembly. Printed in English and Creek.
GLC03775.02
1902/05/22
Anthony, Susan B. (1820-1906)
The History of Woman Suffrage... in Four Volumes, Vol. IV. 1883-1900
Inscribed to Emily M. Gross. Edited by Anthony and Ida Husted Harper. Published by Susan B. Anthony.
GLC05175
1919
Stifler, James M. (b. 1875)
The Religion of Benjamin Franklin
Original edition of 1919 address.
GLC05508.236
1915
Matthews, Essie Collins (fl. 1915)
Aunt Phebe, Uncle Tom and others
Title continues, "Character Studies Among the Old Slaves of the South, Fifty Years After." First edition published by Champlin Press. Has photographs of freed slaves after Reconstruction. Contains an advertisement for this book.
GLC05641
January 1923
National Associaton for the Advancement of Colored People
13th annual report NAACP for the year 1922
Contains a list of NAACP officers for 1923, including President Moorfield Storey. Foreword states that the NAACP "has continued to carry out one of its most vital purposes, that of keeping intensely alive among the colored people of America the...
GLC06135.01
January 1924
14th annual report NAACP for the year 1923
Contains a list of NAACP officers for 1924, including President Moorfield Storey. An introductory letter from Storey asks for financial support from readers of the pamphlet. Foreword states that the NAACP "is striving; it is striving to vindicate...
GLC06135.02
January 1927
17th annual report NAACP for the year 1926
Contains a list of NAACP officers for 1927, including President Moorfield Storey. Foreword states "More and more, has it been borne in upon the Association that for the present the avenue to affirmation and defense of the Negro's fundamental rights...
GLC06135.03
January 1929
19th annual report NAACP for the year 1928
Contains a list of NAACP officers for 1929, including President Moorfield Storey. Foreword commemorates twenty years of NAACP activity. Reports on legal cases such as that of Robert Bell and Grady Swain, two boys sentenced to death on a flimsy...
GLC06135.04
January 1930
20th annual report of the NAACP for the year 1929
Contains a list of NAACP officers for 1929. Foreword states "Uncompromising insistence upon full participation by the Negro in all phases of life is coming more and more to be the attitude of thinking and intelligent white and colored people."...
GLC06135.05
January 1932
NAACP 1931 22nd annual report: a year's work for justice to the Negro
Contains a list of NAACP officers for 1932. Foreword declares that the NAACP's aims "are in the path of manifest destiny of the darker races of the world. The world crisis and the social and political experiments that are its accompaniment all...
GLC06135.06
Goldman, Emma (1869-1940)
Deportation, its meaning and menace; last message to the people of America.
Written by Berkman and Emma Goldman. After the author statement, the title continues: "Ellis Island, New York, U.S.A., December 1919." Colophon reads: "Ten cents a copy. Order from M. E. Fitzgerald, 857 Broadway, New York City."
GLC06222
1914
Sanger, Margaret (1879-1966)
Family Limitation
An illustrated leaflet on birth control. No publisher indicated. The instructions and illustrations (diagrams) describe various birth control methods and abortion.
GLC06227
Hornaday, William Temple (1854-1937)
Wild life conservation in theory and practice; lectures delivered before the Forest School of Yale University, 1914, by William T. Hornaday, Sc.D. ...
Title continues, "with a chapter on Private game preserves, by Frederic C. Walcott." With an inscription by Hornaday dated 23 November 1914 to William Edward Coffin, "To my Esteemed Friend." Mentions Coffin's dedication to wild life and forest...
GLC06029
27 November 1919
Grimké, Francis J. (Francis James) (1850-1937)
The race problem, as it respects colored people and the Christian Church, in the light of the developments of the last year.
Signed on title page by C.G. Neall. Reverend Grimke, the son of a wealthy white planter and a slave, delivers a discourse at a Thanksgiving service held at the Plymouth Congregational Church in an unspecified city. Examines the unrest following...
GLC06122
1917
Catt, Carrie C. (1859-1947)
Women Suffrage by Federal Constitutional Amendment [inscribed]
Inscribed to Congressman Robert Crosser. First edition published by National Woman Suffrage Publishing. Inscribed "To Congressman Robert Crosser, Compliments, Carrie Chapman Catt"
GLC06891
1928
Rado, A. (fl. 1928)
Guide-Book to the Soviet Union
One book entitled, "Guide-Book to the Soviet Union" dated 1928 compiled by A. Rado. Contains maps of Russian (then Soviet Union) cities such as Moscow, Leningrad and the rest of the region.
GLC09640.344
January 1914
Lichtenstein Moses, Tinette, (fl. 1914)
The New Citizen [Vol 3 no 3, (January 1914)]
One magazine entitled The New Citizen published January 1914. The magazine is dedicated to the woman's suffrage movement and contains a series of articles that are both political and informational regarding suffrage and general politics. Of...
GLC09960
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