Collection Timeline

1903 to 1984

1903
An excerpt from The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
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1915
Neil O'Brien Minstrels

1921
Collage of newspaper clippings related to African American issues
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1931
"Save the Scottsboro" Boys

1935
A photograph of kids and a new car

1938
Excerpt of The Crime at Scottsboro by Guy Endore
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1939
Re: The Negro Population of Philadelphia and Sub-standard Housing Conditions
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1943
An excerpt from a Chicago commission report
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1944
A photograph of four African American World War II draftees, 1944.

1946
Columbians threatening neighborhood

1952
TQS from Invisible Man
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1959
A scene from the stage production of A Raisin in the Sun
Image of the playbook cover of A Raisin in the Sun

1963
Malcolm X on Birmingham Riots
"Letter from Birmingham Jail"
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1964
A “whites only” restroom sign

1967
Come On In – This Is An Integrated Neighborhood

1969
James Baldwin discusses racism

1982
An excerpt from a 1982 oral history interview with Gloria Jean Howard mentioning Baldwin's 1963 visit to Greensboro, NC.
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1984
Interview with Rosa Jackson
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