Carrie Meek Hate Mail with Artwork

Original Title: Art Hate Mail to Carrie Meek
Devised Title: Carrie Meek Hate Mail with Artwork
Date: Unknown
Creator: Unknown See all items with this value
Contributor: Carrie Meek
Description: Within the documents Carrie P. Meek held were racist letters sent to her, like this one. This letter made inflammatory, discriminating, and disparaging comments about Black men, calling them “brutes” and comparing them to “thugs.” It also depicted a hand-drawn racist caricature of a tribal African holding a bloody, severed white person’s head.
Primary Subject: c. 1900-1999 See all items with this value; Racism See all items with this value; Politics See all items with this value; Art See all items with this value
Location: Tallahassee; Leon County; Florida; United States of America
Type: Textual document
Medium: Paper; Ink
Additional Techniques: Print
Measurements: L:28cm x W:21.5cm
Format: PDF
HBCU Identifier: MS_0059_03_0001
HCAC Identifier: HCAC.FAMU.0125
Rights: All rights reserved. The use of any part of these objects and photographs transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or stored in a retrieval system without the prior written consent of MEBA is an infringement of the copyright law.
Contributing Institution: Florida A&M University
Collection: Carrie Meek Collection See all items with this value
Language: English