Manuscript, on paper, containing al-Suyūṭī's Nuzhat al-ʻumr fī al-tafḍīl bayna al-bīḍ wa-al-sūd wa-al-sumr, an anthology of poetical extracts on the relative charm of white, black, and "ruddy" women
Alternative Title:
Kitāb Nuzhat al-ʻumr fī al-tafḍīl bayna al-bīḍ wa-al-sūd wa-al-sumr and كتاب نزهة العمر في التفضيل بين البيض والسود والسمر
Description:
In Arabic.
Subject (Topic):
Race relations, Race, Race in literature, Arabic poetry, and History and criticism
Photographic postcard of the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, taken by Lawrence Beitler. Shipp and Smith were murdered by a mob in Marion, Indiana on August 7, 1930
Description:
Lawrence Beitler (1885-1960) was an American studio photographer.
Subject (Geographic):
Indiana, Marion., Marion, Grant County, and Marion (Ind.)
Subject (Name):
Beitler, Lawrence., Shipp, Thomas, 1911-1930, and Smith, Abram, -1930
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, African Americans, Violence against, Lynching, Racism, and Race relations
A photograph album, owned at one time by Theodore Guarvarius Cockrill, chief of the San Francisco police, with identification photographs of Chinese and Chinese-American men, circa 1874. Each photograph includes the name of the individual and an ident...
Description:
Theodore Guarvarius Cockrill (1834-1899) of Bowling Green, Kentucky, was chief of the San Francisco Police Department in California from 1873 December to 1875 December.
Subject (Geographic):
California, California., and San Francisco (Calif.)
Subject (Name):
Cockrill, Theodore Guarvarius, 1834-1899. and San Francisco (Calif.). Police Department.
Subject (Topic):
Chinese, Chinese Americans, Identification photographs, Police, Race relations, and Social conditions
Photographic postcard depicting the tree where Scott Burton was lynched on August 14, 1908 during the Springfield, Illinois race riot, taken by an unidentified photographer
Description:
Captions in English.
Subject (Geographic):
Illinois., Illinois, Springfield., and Springfield (Ill.)
Draft, holograph, corrected, of a novel about a young woman from New York who learns of her African-American ancestry while travelling through Florida, Tennesee, and other parts of the southern United States in the mid to late nineteenth century. The ...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
United States, Nashville (Tenn.), and New York (N.Y.)
Subject (Topic):
Race relations, Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877), Slavery, Women's rights, and History
Autograph letter, in Arabic Maghrabi script, conveying a greeting to Major John Owen in Raleigh, and consisting chiefly of quotations from the Qur'an and from treatises on Arabic grammar. Quotations from the Qur'an include: Sūrat al-Najm (21-23); Sūra...
Description:
Omar ibn Said, also known as Moro or Moreau, was a West African Muslim born and educated in the Futa Toro region on the Senegal River. He was sold into slavery in approximately 1807 and transported to the United States. From approximately 1810 until t...
Subject (Geographic):
North Carolina., Africa., North Carolina, Cape Fear River Region., United States., Cape Fear River Region (N.C.), and United States
Subject (Name):
Key, Francis Scott, 1779-1843., Owen, James, 1784-1865., Owen, John, 1787-1841., Said, Omar ibn, 1770?-1863., Taylor, John Louis, 1769-1829., and American Colonization Society.
Subject (Topic):
African American Muslims, African Americans, Colonization, Arabic language, Grammar, Slavery, Enslaved persons, Enslaved persons' writings, American, and Race relations
Manuscript of a detailed description of the geography, population, economy, government, and social organization of Jamaica by John Dalling, who was appointed Lieutenant Governor of the colony in 1767. Topics include agriculture, the sugar trade and th...
Description:
Binding: Contemporary marbled wrappers. Title label on front wrapper: "Observations on Jamaica. Colonel Dalling 1774."
Subject (Geographic):
Jamaica. and Jamaica
Subject (Topic):
Plantation life, Slavery, Slaveholders, Sugar trade, Description and travel, Economic conditions, Race relations, and Social life and customs
N.A.A.C.P. publications and related ephemera, 1915-1978 and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People publications and related ephemera, 1915-1978
Description:
BEIN JWJ Zan N213 +915N: Some of these items are accompanied by articles printed from the World Wide Web.
Publisher:
National Association for the Advancement of Colored people
Subject (Geographic):
Texas, Waco., and United States
Subject (Name):
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
