Racism
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Advertising cards and ephemera collection
Collection — Folder S3117
Identifier: S3117
Scope and Contents
This collection includes advertising cards, tickets, calling cards, a postcard, and pamphlets from various businesse enterprises and organizations in Indianapolis, Indiana and New York, New York, ranging from circa 1860 to 1935 regarding products such as tonics and curatives, soap, coffee, and tickets to fairs and sporting, club, and public speaking events. Many of the cards appear to have been removed from a scrapbook.
Dates:
circa 1860-1935
"Communism's Un-American Program" cartoon
Collection — Folder S3437
Identifier: S3437
Scope and Contents
This collection contains one political cartoon created by the Ku Klux Klan Press entitled "Communism's Un-American Program" that shows a character labeled "Communism" throwing bricks labeled "Free Love" and "World Revolution" into buildings labeled as perceived American institutions such as "Marriage", "Land Ownership", "Law", and "White Supremacy".
Dates:
20th century
Eli Lilly collection of Civil War envelopes
Collection — Folder S2609
Identifier: S2609
Scope and Contents
This collection contains 65 envelopes created during the Civil War with unique illustrations. Most of them are blank, but three are addressed to James H. Luther and four are addressed to members of the Waymire family.
Dates:
1861-1865
George Knight Hester collection
Collection — Folder S2185
Identifier: S2185
Scope and Contents
There are four items in this collection: (1) Rev. George Knight Hester's 1851 Diary, which is really a memoir, consisting of 18 typed pages; (2-3) a partial letter from Saguaches, Colorado, written on November 14, no year, to "Sister dear" on brown paper with no signature, accompanied by a transcription of the letter; and (4) "Papers Relating To The Hester Family" compiled by the Indiana State Library, 1926. The 1851 document gives the family history from Germany to America,...
Dates:
1851, 1926
Harold C. Feightner collection
Collection
Identifier: L055
Scope and Contents
This collection includes transcripts, newspapers and correspondence from Harold C. Feightner in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1930 to 1968 regarding Indiana alcohol laws. The transcripts include Feightner's notable works "Politics, Prohibition and Repeal 1938," and "Pulpits and Politics 1850-1908." This collection also includes papers and clippings regarding Ku Klux Klan activity in Indianapolis and the Anti-Saloon League.
Dates:
1850-1968
Henry Clay Duncan speech
Collection — Folder S0388
Identifier: S0388
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of two copies of the speech entitled "White Caps in Southern Indiana," read before the Monroe County Historical Society, by H. C. Duncan. The typed manuscript is 19 pages. A penciled note on the first page of the onion-skin copy states: "Published in the Bloomington World Telegram, May 1945."White Caps were active in Indiana from 1857 until 1905 when Governor Winfield Taylor Durbin cracked down on illegal lynchings. Many former White Caps joined the Ku Klux...
Dates:
1865-1930
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Henry Clay Duncan speech
J. H. Goldman collection
Collection — Folder S0521
Identifier: S0521
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a certificate issued to Reverend J. H. Goldman on August 3, 1929 to certify that he was an approved “Quarterly Conference Preacher of the Gospel of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ.” It also consists of “A Klansman’s Creed" from the Ku Klux Klan. There are notes from a sermon about the role of a “Klans-man.”
Dates:
1929
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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J. H. Goldman collection
The Thunderbolt newspaper
Collection — Folder OB094
Identifier: OB094
Scope and Contents
This collection contains an issue of The Thunderbolt newspapert, published by the National States' Rights Party in March of 1968.
Dates:
1968/03
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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The Thunderbolt newspaper
United Klans of America collection
Collection
Identifier: L208
Scope and Contents
The collection primarily consists of newsletters, announcements, and other printed promotioanl publications from the United Klans of America (KKK), ranging from 1923 to 1977.
Dates:
1923-1977
Vincennes Public Library scrapbook
Collection — Folder SP121
Identifier: SP121
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a scrapbook containing photographs, clippings, and postcards from the Vincennes Public Library in Vincennes, Indiana ranging from 1928 to 1930 regarding local and library events, displays, parade floats, and library programs such as book week and summer reading.One of the photographs shows one of two little girls wearing blackface. They are dressed up as the characters Topsy and Eva from the titular vaudeville play and 1927 film, based loosely on Harriet...
Dates:
1928-1930
