Box LGL.04
Container
Contains 81 Results:
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano - Death and Funeral, 1945
File — Multiple Containers
Dates:
1945
Found in:
AFRO American Newspapers Archives
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AFRO Morgue Files
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General File
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R
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R - part 2
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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano - Writings About Roosevelt, 1930s, 1948
File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents
Includes a manuscript called "A New Deal" by William J. Thompkins, press releases and typescript articles with reporting and research on Roosevelt, and an eyewitness testimony by Mrs. Van Lear Black of an incident involving Roosevelt.
Dates:
1930s; 1948
Found in:
AFRO American Newspapers Archives
/
AFRO Morgue Files
/
General File
/
R
/
R - part 2
/
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
Robinson, Eric Stanley
File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents
Includes clipping with headline that reads "Youth jailed 287 days by mistake goes free"
Riots, 1923-1977
Sub-Group — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents
Riot files mostly contain reporting and documentation on riots related to race in the United States between the 1930’s-1970’s. Reporting is on specific events like the Martin Luther King Jr. assassination, as well as general incidents that are state and city specific. Files mainly contain reporting in the form of clippings,writings and photographs depicting the aftermath of riots. Some reporting on incidents like prison and military base riots contains documentation in the form of legal...
Dates:
1923-1977
Riots - Illinois, 1943-1945, 1951-1952
File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents
Chicago and Cicero. Coverage of the legal case that occurred after the Cicero riots that happened in response to a black couple moving into a white neighborhood. Includes correspondence with the NAACP.
Dates:
1943-1945; 1951-1952