Box U.04

Scope and Contents Includes fragile 1953 clipping with title "Dred Scott-Freedom's Guinea Pig." Includes a copy of The Negro in the Civil War by Herbert Aptheker. Includes National Republic's "The Negro In the Revolution" by Georgiana Lockwood. Includes 1940 correspondence related to Deborah Gannett who served under the name of Robert Shirtliff in the Fourth Massachusetts Regiment of the Continental Army for seventeen months. Includes H.R. 9965, a bill to authorize the construction of a memorial building at or...

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Includes a note titled "Gold Star Mothers" and correspondence with Carl Murphy regarding a group of Black Gold Star Mothers and Widows taking a round trip on a steamer to France

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Includes a copy of S.J. RES. 256, a joint resolution authorizing the President of the United States to undertake negotiations for the purchase of the territories in east, southwest, and west Africa, and in Oceania. Also includes a copy of H.J. RES. 245, a joint resolution to create a commission to secure plans and designs for and to erect a monument or memorial building in Washington, D.C., to the memory of Black soldiers and sailors.