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Box R.16

 Container

Contains 264 Results:

Riots - Notes, undated

 File — Box: R.16
Scope and Contents

Typewritten notes covering civil unrest that took place between 1712 and 1986

Dates: undated

Riots - Prison - Kansas, 1927, 1947

 File — Box: R.16
Scope and Contents

Coverage of prison riot between black and white prisoners at Fort Leavenworth Prison.

Dates: 1927; 1947

Riots - Tennessee, 1946

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

Coverage of civil unrest in Lawrenceburg and Columbia, TN in 1946 and the trial that followed. Includes letters from NAACP signed by Walter White with a reports of the incident and aftermath.

Dates: 1946

Riots - Texas, 1923, 1938, 1943

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

Includes coverage of soldiers imprisoned at Leavenworth, Kansas after incident in Houston, TX in 1917, including petition form addressed to the president of the United States to pardon 24th U.S infantry members convicted in connection with the riots.

Dates: 1923; 1938; 1943