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Items in Archiving Against Censorship and White Supremacy

  • Two people standing in front of a book case. The person on the left is a young Black girl in a dress, looking over to Black Librarian, Augusta Baker, holding a copy of Ellen Tarry's "Janie Belle" open for her.

    Archiving Against Censorship and White Supremacy Introduction

  • Open spread of magazine on article titled: “The Negro Digs Up His Past" and the bottom half of both pages includes three pictures each.

    “The Negro Digs Up His Past,” by Arturo Schomburg, 1925

  • Page of long typed text

    "History of the James Weldon Johnson Collection," 1938 or 1939

  • Black and white image showing a young black girl in a dress looking over an open book next to an older black woman librarian. They are standing in front of library shelves

    Librarian showing Janie Belle, 1941

  • Black and white image showing the reading room of a library with numerous researchers sitting in it

    Reading room of the Schomburg Collection, 1938–1945

  • Cover page of manuscript reading " An oration commemorative of the abolition of the slave trade in the United States: delivered before the Wilberforce Philanthropic Association, in the City of New-York on the second of January, 1809 By Joseph Sidney. New York: Printed for the author. J. Seymour, printer 1809"

    An Oration Commemorative of the Abolition of the Slave Trade in the United States, 1809

  • Two pages from the book. On the left is the title page which includes the drawing of the authors. The image on the right is of a short dedication.

    Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases by Ida B. Wells, 1892

  • Cover of magazine that is made up of an illustration of a woman in a white dress seemingly singing towards a group of people. Behind her there is some writing titled "Lift every voice and sing"

    The Crisis, 1927

  • Cover of Opportunity magazine depicting an African mask illustrated using white, black and purple colors

    Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life, 1925

  • First page of newspaper made up of five columns

    Cherokee Phoenix, 1828

  • Two people standing in front of a book case. The person on the left is a young Black girl in a dress, looking over to Black Librarian, Augusta Baker, holding a copy of Ellen Tarry's "Janie Belle" open for her.

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