"How Blacks Have Died for the Right to Vote." Leaflet issued by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Inside is a list of African Americans who were killed from 1955 to 1968: Lamar Smith, George W. Lee, Herbert Lee, Medgar...
Letter from L. W. Garrott and Robert H. Smith of Alabama, to the governor and legislature of North Carolina. Garrott and Smith explain that because of the recent election of a Republican president, the governor of Alabama has called for a...
Members of the New York National Guard at Camp Smith. This unit was mobilized in late 1940 and became the 27th U.S. Infantry Division. The men were then sent to Fort McClellan, Alabama.
This poem, written by nineteenth century poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox, deals with love and death. Boykin autographed this copy and gave it to his daughter and son-in-law.
Members of the New York National Guard preparing for a gas demonstration at Camp Smith. This unit was mobilized in late 1940 and became the 27th U.S. Infantry Division. The men were then sent to Fort McClellan, Alabama.
"Maj. Gen. Thomas J. Gent, USAF (left), commander of the 32nd North American Air Defense Region, found time for relaxation last night between a visit to the Dauphin Island radar warning station yesterday and a scheduled trip to the Thomasville,...
All the freedman are listed, with the amount of the wages due them. In the original contract Smith agreed to provide the laborers $60 ("for Negro men of first class"), two suits of clothes, and one acre planted in cotton; the freedmen agreed to pay...