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"The Real Criminals Are Those... "

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Description: Advertisement picturing a white woman and an African American man with the title "The Real Criminals Are Those Who Preach Racial Integration."
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Little Rock Flyer

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Description: "Little Rock's 'Lady' of the Year", a flyer distributed by racists in Little Rock, illustrated by her 1946 police mug shot and arrest record. The text char...
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Little Rock Hate Literature

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Description: Page 2 of a leaflet entitled "The Little Rock Story", apparently intended by its publisher, American Nationalist, to persuade NAACP sympathizers in Little ...
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Martin Luther King Broadside

Date: 1963
Description: "Martin Luther King .... at Communist Training School," a broadside received by Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey, while civil rights legislation was bei...
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Rump Kicking Permit

Date: 1958
Description: Printed card that reads: "Good until May 29, 1958. Bearer may kick rumps of each CHS negro once per day until above expiration date. Last chance, boys. Do ...
Poster

Moo-che-we-in-es. Pale face, my skin is dark but my heart is white. For I also gave to Canadian Patriotic Fund

Date: 1916
Description: Poster depicts First Nations man holding a dollar bill and two coins in one hand and a letter in the other hand written in his language. A paper with the t...

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