Scope and Contents A racist flyer featuring interviews with three Miss America contestants, two white (Miss Mississippi and Miss Vermont) and one Black (Miss Washington D.C.). The Black Miss America contestant is portrayed as pregnant and has an exaggerated dialect, and speaks of the importance of education so that Black women will know how to put their signature on welfare checks before becoming pregnant. Crude caricatures of all three contestants are featured along the bottom, with Miss Washington, D.C....

Scope and Contents A racist flyer expressing "America first" anti-Semitic ideology produced by the Anti-Communist Advisory Committee of Mt. Rainier, MD, calling on "patriotic, white, red blooded Americans" to fight against Jews and Black people, whom the organization deemed Communist traitors to America. In the flyer, the organization claims that Black people are tools of the "Jew controlled federal government" which supposedly aims to place America under martial law and invite the United Nations to send...

Scope and Contents Two broadsides which describe poet Langston Hughes as un-American Communist traitor. One, produced by the Hicksville Education League of Parents, cites a 1952 House Committee on Un-American Activities report calling Hughes a "traitor to the United States and the rest of the free world," reproduces his poems "Goodbye Christ," "Workers Song," and "Ballad of Lenin," and questions why his poems are recommended reading when John A. Stormer's right-wing,...

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Pictorial herald for the film "Black Gold" from filmmaker Richard Norman, about a rancher who has staked everying on his claim to the oil on his ranch, in his fight to retain his claim against a scheming banker. The flier advertises the film at the "colored theatre" and states that one of the cast members, Steve "Peg" Reynolds, would be performing a vaudeville skit that night before the show.

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A flyer produced by the Black Panther Party featuring art by Douglas Emory, titled "It's All the Same." The image features three identical pigs in uniform carrying assault rifles, napalm, mace, and gas. The pigs are labeled local police, National Guard, and Marines.

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A collection of propaganda and campaign material issued by the Comités de Défense de la République, a right-wing Gaullist coalition that formed in reaction to the protests of May 1968 in France. Many of the items encourage people to vote for Charles de Gaulle and to save France from a Communist dictatorship. Two of the items are critical of François Mitterand of the Fédération de la Gauche Démocrate et Socialiste and his presidential hopes.

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Two flyers and a broadside produced by the Conseil pour le maintien des occupations (CMDO) during the May 1968 protests in France. All three items call for a worker revolution against the existing class structure and bureaucracies, arguing that French labor unions are ineffective and out of touch. They advocate for the creation of a classless society governed by a federated series of Workers' Councils.

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Pictorial herald for "Crimson Skull" and advertising actors Anita Bush and Lawrence Chenault in an all Black cast. The plot is set in the Black cit of Boley, Oklahoma, which has been by a band of outlaws led by "The Skull."

Scope and Contents A flyer titled "Free Political Prisoner Marshall 'Eddie' Conway," which was created by Partnership for Social Justice. The flyer calls for a new trial for Black Panther Party member Eddie Conway and a full and open investigation of COINTELPRO, an FBI operation that targeted political activists in the 1960s. Conway was convicted in 1971 for the murder of a police officer; Conway maintained his innocence and claimed to be a political prisoner.The front of the flyer contains...

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Broadside advertising the official world premiere of Stein and Thomson's Four Saints in Three Acts, which opened on February 8, 1934, at the Wadsworth Atheneum's Avery Memorial Theatre in Hartford, Connecticut. The opera had its private premier the previous night; the public premiere on the 8th was followed by two subsequent performances on the 9th and 10th before the show traveled to Broadway.

Scope and Contents A broadside with the text, "Stone Walls do not a Prison make, Nor iron Bars a Jail; But 'til the E.R.A. is Won, We're only Out On Bail. Support the Equal Rights Amendment for American Womanhood!" The illustration is a reproduction of an engraving titled "Female Convicts at Work during the Silent Hour in Brixton Prison," which was first published in 1862 in The Criminal Prisons of London and Scenes of Prison Life by Henry Mayhew and John Binny. The...

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A flyer from the United Klans of America, Inc. advertising the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Giant Rally at Rising Sun, MD. The event featured country music from noon to 8 pm, followed by a rally.

Scope and Contents This flyer from the Youth International Party, titled "People, Get Ready" advertises an International Youth Festival in Chicago from August 25-30, 1968. It was timed to coincide with the Democratic National Convention. The flyer says that "Johnson and his delegates, locked in their slaughterhouse conventionhall [sp] theatre, will make ugly speeches and play ugly campaign music, while we, the living breathing youth of the world, will make the city a theatre." The flyer claims that the...