Scope and Contents A racist flyer featuring interviews with three Miss America contestants, two white (Miss Mississippi and Miss Vermont) and one Black (Miss Washington D.C.). The Black Miss America contestant is portrayed as pregnant and has an exaggerated dialect, and speaks of the importance of education so that Black women will know how to put their signature on welfare checks before becoming pregnant. Crude caricatures of all three contestants are featured along the bottom, with Miss Washington, D.C....

Scope and Contents A racist flyer expressing "America first" anti-Semitic ideology produced by the Anti-Communist Advisory Committee of Mt. Rainier, MD, calling on "patriotic, white, red blooded Americans" to fight against Jews and Black people, whom the organization deemed Communist traitors to America. In the flyer, the organization claims that Black people are tools of the "Jew controlled federal government" which supposedly aims to place America under martial law and invite the United Nations to send...

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Materials associated with membership in the Women of the Ku Klux Klan, including five pamphlets with rules, oaths, ceremonies, and music for group meetings, as well as six ephemeral pieces that include a triplicate application form for the "Second Degree" level of the Women's Klan, a notice of admission to the Klan, examples of payable and receivable receipts, a piece of "Tri-K-Klub" letterhead, and an "Imperial Passport" allowing the bearer to attend the meetings of other Klaverns.

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One small pamphlet produced by the KKK on December 15, 1920 titled "Americans, take Heed!" containing a reprinted editorial by Herbert Kaufman from the April 1920 issue of McClure's Magazine titled "Scum o' the Melting-Pot," as well as three pieces of ephemera related to KKK membership: two forms for ordering KKK paraphernalia and a Knights Kamelia certificate from the Atlanta, GA chapter of the KKK.

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A flyer from the United Klans of America, Inc. advertising the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Giant Rally at Rising Sun, MD. The event featured country music from noon to 8 pm, followed by a rally.

Scope and Contents Six pamphlets from far-right propagandist Joseph P. Kamp, containing conspiracy theories that Communists have infiltrated American government, Southern integration is a Communist plot to impose Black supremacy and Communism on America, and that Jewish organizations are instigating racist vandalism to generate publicity. Pamphlet titles include: “The Fifth Column in Washington,” “Native Nazi Purge Plot,” “How to Win the War…and Lose What We’re Fighting For?,” “Who Tells Your Congressman How...

Scope and Contents A pamphlet written by William Loeb and John J. Synon and published by the Coordinating Committee for Fundamental American Freedoms, titled "Unmasking the Civil Rights Bill: The Dissenting Views of Hon. E. E. Willis, M.C., Hon. E. L. Forrester, M.C., Hon. Wm. M. Tuck, M.C., Hon. Robert T. Ashmore, M.C., Hon. John Dowdy, M.C., Hon. Basil L. Whitener, M.C., Members of the House Committee on the Judiciary." The pamphlet indicates that it was written as a series of questions and answers, and that...

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An anti-integration pamphlet produced by the Educational Fund of the Citizens' Councils. It claims that white flight is the outcome of school integration and that integration required schools to lower educational standards and introduced problems with crime, delinquency, sexual activity, and "the curtailment of normal social activities." The authors include racist stereotypes that claim Black students are hypersexual and have lower intelligence than white students.

Scope and Contents Two broadsides which describe poet Langston Hughes as un-American Communist traitor. One, produced by the Hicksville Education League of Parents, cites a 1952 House Committee on Un-American Activities report calling Hughes a "traitor to the United States and the rest of the free world," reproduces his poems "Goodbye Christ," "Workers Song," and "Ballad of Lenin," and questions why his poems are recommended reading when John A. Stormer's right-wing,...

Content Warning This item contains many graphic descriptions of rape and other assault, as well as racial caricatures and images of blood. Scope and Contents This issue of Integration News, produced by Eustace Mullins under the alias of George Thomas Adams for the fictitious Southern States Press Association, is a virulently racist publication full of reports of Black men and boys assaulting white women and girls, and painting Black men as violent and...

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This file contains a graphic photograph of racial violence: a postcard featuring a black and white photograph of the murder of a man identified as "Smith," who was killed by a lynch mob in Greenville, Texas in July 1908. Please take care when viewing the item, and contact Special Collections with feedback or questions.

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This collection of clippings, letters, and newsletters was assembled by donor Roy Thomas. It exemplifies white supremicist propaganda in the form of serial clippings, as well as newsletters and advertising mail (letters) from Nazi and white supremacist organizations. The materials span 1937 to 2007.

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Letters, clippings, report, and autographed photograph from the office of Arkansas governor Orval Faubus, who defied the Supreme Court of the United States on integration. The two letters were written by constituents and the photograph inscribed by Faubus himself. The report concerns programs for the blind, and the clippings center on the integration actions in Little Rock. The materials date to 1957.

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This collection includes printed materials created and distributed by the Ku Klux Klan between 1990 and 1993, primarily in southern Pennsylvania. The files contain handwritten and typed letters, organizational publications such as applications and notices, and legal documents concerning the activities of the group.

Content Warning From the Collection: The items in this collection contain racially violent content, images, and language that may be difficult to view. Please take care when using the collection, and contact Special Collections with feedback or questions about the materials. Scope and Contents The Johns Hopkins University collection of white supremacist and anti-integartion materials is an artificial collection which spans from the 18th to the 21st century. The collection...

Content Warning From the Collection: The items in this collection contain racially violent content, images, and language that may be difficult to view. Please take care when using the collection, and contact Special Collections with feedback or questions about the materials. Scope and Contents The Johns Hopkins University collection of white supremacist and anti-integartion materials is an artificial collection which spans from the 18th to the 21st century. The collection...