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Black Panther Party "Message to America", 1970-06-19
Item — Box 3: [Barcode: 31151034443808], Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
This single broadsheet newspaper insert includes an address titled "Message to America" which was delivered in Washington, DC on June 19, 1970 in honor of the 107th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. On the reverse, it includes two full-page addresses, one by Huey P. Newton titled "Towards a New Constitution," and the other by Eldridge Cleaver titled "On the Constitution." These addresses call for a new constitutional convention that would include Black representatives and...
Dates:
1970-06-19
Douglass' Monthly newspaper issue Vol. 3, No. 10, 1861 November
Item — Box 3: [Barcode: 31151034443808], Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
This item is issue Volume III, Number X of Douglass’ Monthly, dated March 1861 and published in Rochester, NY. The issue is focused on slavery and politics, written at a time when several slave states had already seceded but before the Civil War had begun. Topics include the political alignment of pro-slavery and free states in the impending war, the newly elected President Lincoln, emigration to Haiti, and the social power of African Americans. This issue includes the...
Dates:
1861 November