A photograph of the Pentecostal Temple Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ on Kane St. in the Historic Farish Street District. The church bus is parked in front of the entrance. Notation on the photograph indicates the church was built ca. 1935.
A white button with a picture of Dr. Martin Luther King. The text says "Peace for King-Not War for Bush: Bring my father, mother, sister, brother, daughter, cousin, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, grandfather, grandmother, fiancee, friend & lover home from the Middle East now!"
An interview with six unnamed Black Panther Women about the women's liberation movement and their experience with women's liberation within the Black Panther Party itself. The interviews were conducted at the Black Panther Party Headquarters on September 17, 1969 and circulated as a 4 page leaflet.
In this report on supplemental appropriations by the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) for Child Development Group of Mississippi (CDGM), the OEO outlines the decision not to fund CDGM because an investigation showed discrepancies in finances and operating procedures. OEO suggests funding can be regained if CDGM makes operational changes.
Case Data and Exhibits for Brown III, a relitigation of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (1954) that corrected resegregation issues caused by open enrollment school choice in 1992. A court order dismissing a plaintiff (name is redacted because they are a minor) and affirming a $19,500 plus costs settlement for the plaintiff.
Materials from an oral history workshop held at Jackson State University in conjunction with the Clinton Project Oral History Collection. Includes staff handbook, reading assignments, and schedules.
A List of interviews conducted as part of the "Good Old Days" Oral History Project. Each entry in the bibliography includes the name of the interviewee as well as biographical information, interview date, interviewer name, length of interview, and catalog number.
Nuh Abdul Qaiyum, who is imprisoned, is writing to reassure Frankye Adams-Johnson (Malika) of his love for her regardless of her pregnancy. He goes on to explain the things people tell him and the evil that comes for them. He tells her that they will remain strong in faith and in public.
The artwork and advertisement in the newspaper The Black Panther for a series of articles titled “On the Ideology of the Black Panther Party” by Eldridge Cleaver. At the time, Cleaver was serving as Minister of Information for the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California.
A short essay about the revolutionary killing of cops. The author gives two recent examples of revolutionaries killing cops, saying the killers are urban guerillas who constitute the military arm of the Black Liberation Army (BLA). The tagline of the essay is “All Power to the New Urban Guerilla, War to the End.”
A journal article originally published in The Black Scholar in 1972. In the article, former Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver writes about Black liberation and the lumpenproletariat. Marx and Engels identified the lumpen as the underclass devoid of class consciousness. Cleaver, however, argues that the class can be organized and used in the movement.
A newspaper article from The Black Panther by Kathleen Cleaver about her relationship with her then-husband Eldridge Cleaver and the legal issues he faced after an April 6, 1968, shootout with the police in Oakland, California. It is noted at the end of the article that it was reprinted from Ramparts Magazine.
Case Data and Exhibits for Brown III, a relitigation of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (1954) that corrected resegregation issues caused by open enrollment school choice in 1992. The map includes hand drawn markings by William Lamson that mark different schools, homes, and sections of neighborhoods.
Case Data and Exhibits for Brown III, a relitigation of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (1954) that corrected resegregation issues caused by open enrollment school choice in 1992. The map includes hand drawn neighborhood and school district boundary markers by William Lamson.
Case Data and Exhibits for Brown III, a relitigation of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (1954) that corrected resegregation issues caused by open enrollment school choice in 1992. William Lamson used circle-shaped stickers to mark the locations of several schools on the map.
Case Data and Exhibits for Brown III, a relitigation of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (1954) that corrected resegregation issues caused by open enrollment school choice in 1992. The map shows Proposed Junior High School Attendance Areas for Topeka Public Schools for 1974-1975. William Lamson colored each area with pens and marked the schools.
Case Data and Exhibits for Brown III, a relitigation of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (1954) that corrected resegregation issues caused by open enrollment school choice in 1992. The legend marks all boundaries and schools in Topeka and surrounding vicinity.
Case Data and Exhibits for Brown III, a relitigation of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (1954) that corrected resegregation issues caused by open enrollment school choice in 1992. Overhead projector transparency of a map City of the city of Topeka, Kansas, and Vicinity.
Case Data and Exhibits for Brown III, a relitigation of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (1954) that corrected resegregation issues caused by open enrollment school choice in 1992. The legend marks all elementary schools, trade schools, junior high schools, and high schools, as well as corporate limits in Topeka and the surrounding vicinity.
Case Data and Exhibits for Brown III, a relitigation of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (1954) that corrected resegregation issues caused by open enrollment school choice in 1992. The map legend marks trade schools, junior high schools, and high schools as well as railroads, streams, and several boundaries and section lines.
Case Data and Exhibits for Brown III, a relitigation of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (1954) that corrected resegregation issues caused by open enrollment school choice in 1992. The legend marks all trade schools, junior high schools, and high schools in Topeka and the surrounding vicinity.
Case Data and Exhibits for Brown III, a relitigation of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (1954) that corrected resegregation issues caused by open enrollment school choice in 1992. The legend marks all elementary schools, trade schools, junior high schools, and high schools, as well as block boundaries in Topeka and the surrounding vicinity.
A copy of the Black Panther Party Ten Point Program. The Ten Point Program was created in 1966 by the founders of the Black Panther Party, Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. It serves as both the ideological underpinning of the Party as well as a day-to-day guide to living for members.
A newspaper article from the Clarion Ledger (Jackson, Mississippi) providing historical context to the Clinton Project Oral History Collection. The article pinpoints the location of the former POW camp and talks about the treatment of prisoners there.
Notes and a draft of a speech by Frankye Adams-Johnson (Malika) reflecting on the Black Panther Movement. Page one outlines an opening to the speech and its purpose. The second page explores the use of education in the fight for liberation. The last pages cover government agencies and the decline of the Party.
Three pages of notes about internal and external factors that led to the development of the Black Panther Party. Some of those factors included indecent housing, poor healthcare, and police brutality and harassment.
A note from Frankye Adams-Johnson (Malika) to her husband, Nuh Abdul Qaiyum, who was sentenced to prison in 1975 for a 1971 Black Liberation Army (BLA) connected shooting of police officers in New York. The note outlines some points to a conversation she wants to have with him about their life, their love, their beliefs, and the struggle.
A newspaper article from the Asbury Park Press about Attorney General William F. Hyland ruling that the Executive Commission on Ethical Standards can close its meetings to the public on certain occasions. This article pertains to hearings in the trial of Assata Shakur (JoAnne Chesimard) for the 1973 killing of a state trooper.
Nolan Tate began his involvement with Head Start in 1964 when he was recruited by Charles Mosley to the Child Development Group of Mississippi (CDGM). He started out as head of supplies and transportation. He talks about his work during the Civil Rights Movement including working with Medgar Evers in getting people registered to vote.
An article from an unknown newspaper about the closing of the dilapidated Pierce School building and the end of the Pierce Common School district after its unification with the Topeka Public School System.
