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"THE SOME PEOPLE OF THAT PLACE" Exhibit at Georgetown University

Black and white photo of an exhibit in an indoor atrium about 1960s Holmes County, Mississippi and the civil rights movement, taken by Susan Sojourner. There are people gathering around a table in the background.<br />
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There is a hanging banner that reads "The Some People Of That Place. 1960s Holmes County, Mississippi: The Local Black People and Their Civil Rights Movement."

Black and white photo of an exhibit about 1960s Holmes County, Mississippi and the civil rights movement, taken by Susan Sojourner.

Tags: Civil Rights Activists, exhibit, Holmes County

The Fifth Column Conspiracy in America authentic map and directory

Cover of a folded map with white and black lettering on a red background. Symbols for Nazism, Fascism, and Communism are found in addition to the following text. <br />
The Fifth<br />
Column<br />
Conspiracy<br />
in<br />
America<br />
Authentic<br />
Map and <br />
Directory<br />
Price twenty-five cents

The fifth column conspiracy in America authentic map and directory. A map of communist, Nazi, and Fascist headquarters in the United States, compiled and edited by Joseph P. Kamp and A. Cloyd Gill in 1941.

Tags: anti-communism, communism, fascism, map, nazi

Weekly News Review, December 3, 1945

Tags: Europe, high school, newspaper, Reader, Socialism

1975 Youth Times of India Article "We Never Burned A Bra" by Sheila Michaels

Image: A large group of women are locked in arms and chanting in the streets of a large city<br />
WE’VE NEVER BURNT A BRA<br />
by SHEILA MICHAELS<br />
Sisterhood is the basis of the American Women’s Movement. It is women helping women, listening, finding trust and support from each other, talking openly about their own lives. Women are still, everywhere, the single poorest group in any society. Society rests on the unpaid and underpaid labour of women. When people see themselves whole, not as “the others”—not certainly as half of humanity—they resist their exploitation. We must succeed in no longer defining ourselves by the criteria men have set for us, because in fact men define themselves positively—in contrast to these very standards. We have stopped consenting to our own oppression. We have built and are building a changing vital, simple movement which cannot be stopped. We have done it all ourselves as we have learned to share our strength.<br />
I was surprised to find what Indians have heard about America and the Women’s Movement. I’m told that “Americans are suffering a total breakdown of their personalities and society, chaos, sexual license, bursting mental hospitals, violence and divorce.” Surely it must be raining fire back home. I am told the Women’s Movement wants to destroy all beauty and is destroying the authority of family (Who is the family? Are men the family?), causing social dislocation in the West and neglecting the care of <br />
16 Youth Times March 7, 1975

1975 Article in the Youth Times of India, "We Never Burned a Bra" written by Sheila Michaels

Tags: feminism, India, Periodical, Sheila Michaels

A 19th century reproduction of a Renaissance king's throne.

A 19th century reproduction of a Renaissance king's throne. The seat back features armorial elements with flowers. The arms and feet of the chair are scrolled. The seat is covered with red velvet.