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This collection contains French-language materials created by the French queer rights organization ADHEOS. Contents include three magazine issues, seven brochures, and a business card.

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Aleine Austin was historian and author born in New York City, July 19, 1922. The papers, dating from 1940 to 1991, consist of student notes, lecture notes, published articles, manuscript notes, recordings, photographs, correspondence, and a selection of papers that document Aleine Austin's interest and work in the American labor movement.

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A collection of French-language materials on LGBTI identity and rights produced by Amnesty International France. Contents include two magazine issues, four brochures, and a sticker.

Scope and Contents This collection contains materials related to Angela Davis’s social and political activism and impact from 1970-1987. The bulk of the collection consists of booklets, posters, flyers, published articles, and petitions produced by Angela Davis legal defense and support committees from 1970-1972 as part of the “Free Angela Davis” campaign. The majority of these items were created in support of Davis following her arrest in October 1970; however, the collection does contain a single pamphlet...

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Anna Melissa Graves (born 1875) was a writer, teacher, and activist with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. This collection consists of typed and hand-written letters, broadsides, and publications dating from 1922-1968.

Scope and Contents Three mailer items produced by the Baltimore 2 Defense Committee which was organized in 1976 in defense of Ray Ceci and Mike Pione, Baltimore activists who were assaulted by Thomas Fannin while putting up flyers for a public meeting on wealth inequality. Ceci and Pione were subsequently arrested and charged with assault, littering, and illegal posting; Fannin was not charged for his assault on Ceci and Pione. In these campaign materials, the organization asks for financial assistance for...

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Edmund Duffy (1899 – 1962), was an American editorial cartoonist who spent the majority of his professional career working for The Baltimore Sun. This collection consists of approximately 1,000 cartoons from 1924 through 1962.

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The Johns Hopkins University collection of African American political activism in the United States consists of broadsides, photographs, and newspaper clippings that were primarily created around the time of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements between the 1950s and 1970s.

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The Johns Hopkins University collection of Maryland African American history and culture is an artificially assembled collection which spans from the 18th to the 20th century. The collection consists of materials selected by the curators of Special Collections.

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Junius Griffin was an African-American journalist born in Stonega, Virginia on January 13th, 1929. The papers contain news clippings, photographs, and documents spanning 1955-1977.

Content Description This vinyl record produced in 1979 is described on the record sleeve as "a sound-quilt made from a total of 18 hours of recording tape. It weaves spoken word with crowd sounds with interviews and music with ambient sound." It was produced by Jok Church and Adam Ciesielski and published by Magnus Records in association with Alternate Publishing. Side A contains the following speakers from the National March on Washignton for Lesbian and Gay Rights: Robin Tyler, Steve Ault, Tom Robinson, Lucia...

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Thomas F. Flannery was born in Carbondale, Pennsylvania in 1919. In 1957, he moved to Baltimore and became the first editorial cartoonist for The Evening Sun in 1957. Topics include: Baltimore and Maryland, sports and personages, national issues and world affairs in the late 1950s through the 1960s, including the Kennedy presidency, the war in Vietnam, and the Cold War.