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A broadside with the Attention in bold bubble letters at the top of the sheet. The item reads<br /> <br /> Attention citizens of Greenwood and surrounding area<br /> The revolutionary forces at work in this area have begun a boycott of certain business establishments in the city of Greenwood.<br /> <br /> This useless troublemaking agitation is being sponsored by a group of draft card burning disloyal pro communist riffraff known as the Mississippi freedom Democratic Party it’s local prime mover is a nigger preacher who runs a shoe repair business on Johnson Street. JD Collins has prospered in Greenwood and he is repaying this town for its goodness to him by trying to destroy it<br /> <br /> We have the manpower and the willpower to remove the scum from the streets but we do not wish to bring this type of trouble to the good name of our fair city. We will not stoop to the level of the trash who seek to promote chaos in our city.<br /> <br /> There are several things which we ask all good citizens both white and colored to do to counteract these troublemakers.<br /> <br /> They picked the time of the year when business is generally slow so as to impress their gullible followers with the success of their efforts. We should all make a special effort to be on the streets of downtown Greenwood as much as possible so as to put the lie to their claims of success. Law-enforcement officials and responsible private citizens will be on hand to see to it that everyone is protected on our city streets.<br /> <br /> The primary object of this so-called boycott is the liberty cash grocery owned by Mr. Sam Killebrew. Mr. Killebrew has been more tolerant with the colored element of his trade and almost any other businessman in town and some of them are rewarding him by trying to destroy his business. Neither he nor in any other businessman can meet the impossible demands of this nefarious group. We should all make a special effort to do some of our grocery buying at the store.<br /> <br /> Any effort at intimidation by this sorry element against any citizen white or colored should be reported to the law or to any responsible citizen and appropriate action will be taken.<br /> <br /> This is communism in action the end justifies the means and they only succeed where ignorance and timidity prevail.<br /> <br /> We worn this group who is not only our enemy but the enemy of all good citizens of this area not to misinterpret our intentions. We are and will remain equipped and ready for any eventuality.<br /> <br /> You can help bust the boycott written printed distributed by a local Civic group
Flyer accusing Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party of communist behavior.

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Black and White photograph of the 1931 United Daughters of the Confederacy General Convention. <br /> <br /> Chairman and Pages to the General Convention of U.D.C. Mayflower Hotel-Jacksonville, FLa. Nov. 19, 1931.<br /> <br /> Photo By. Fla Ind. Photo News Service. Asner.

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Newspaper clipping from the Hattiesburg American dated December 11, 1945.<br /> <br /> Principal denies weekly is red<br /> <br /> I Hattiesburg Parents complaint that his daughter and other Hattiesburg high school students were being exposed to communistic and socialistic propaganda through the medium of the weekly news review was quietly denied today by J. T. Wallace, principal of the senior high school.<br /> <br /> The weekly news review is subscribe to my students of the 10th grade history class as a supplement to the study of current history.<br /> <br /> <br /> I Hattiesburg father who made the complaint and further stated that he for bid his daughter to read the publication regardless of what instructions she received from her teacher, was not identified.<br /> <br /> He based his complaint, he said on such articles in the review as to biographical sketch is which dealt with Harold Lasky, executive secretary of the British labor party and advocate of gradual so socialism and Senator Robert F Wagner Democrat of New York, veteran champion of the underdog and quarterback for many important pieces of new deal social legislation.<br /> <br /> No objection<br /> <br /> I have seen and read issues of the weekly news review and I have seen nothing in them to object to, Mr. Wallace it.<br /> <br /> Miss Margaret L TrayWick, 10th grade history instructor, in his class the publication issues, was not available for comments she is absent on sick leave.<br /> <br /> John a Beeson, principal of Hattiesburg junior high school, scanned the December 3 issue, in which the articles on Senator Wagner and Mr. Lasky appeared, and said he failed to read into them any attempt to feed school children with communistic or socialistic propaganda.<br /> <br /> “They are brief biographical sketches. The publication itself advocates nothing,“ Mr. Beeson remarked.<br /> <br /> Mr. beast an added that junior high had use the same publication up to 1943 but the junior review is now being used in the junior high school history course. Both publications are edited by the civic education service, 1733 K St., Northwest, Washington DC and J. Hubert Anderson is senior editor of both reviews.<br /> <br /> Junior review<br /> <br /> He added that the weekly news review was dropped in junior high school not because anything was found to be wrong with it, because the history instructor found that Junior review more suitable to class needs.<br /> <br /> Miss Stella Myrick, junior high school social science teacher, who teaches history and civic classes lot of the junior of you as an excellent supplement to the study of current history, so no communistic north socialistic propaganda locate and its columns.<br /> <br /> Bohleen our excerpts from the weekly news review which aroused the Hattiesburg Parents Eire:<br /> <br /> Under a heading socialism in Europe games, the review reported: “the majority of people in nearly all these countries in Europe are agreed on one point – namely they don’t want to go back to conditions as they existed before the war. They favor radical changes in their social and industrial systems.“<br /> <br /> “US basis serious housing crisis quote was the main article on page 1 of the publication. Other items dealt with “Pearl Harbor,“ “Trumans health plan,“ “trouble in Iran,“ “US housing agencies.“<br /> <br /> Included an eight page review were pictures of Senator Wagner, Mr. Thorez,leader a fridge communist party, and a pen and ink sketch of Mr. Lasky.<br /> <br /> Back page of the publication was devoted to a “form in “on “the way to effective citizenship“ consisting of questions to test how much the student had absorbed from reading the review, suggestions for classroom project in which students would make a quote rather thorough investigation of housing conditions in their own town,“ and suggested pamphlets for reading in connections with the housing problem.
Newspaper clipping from the Hattiesburg American about a parent complaining that the Hattiesburg High school was exposing his child to "communistic and socialistic propaganda through the medium of the 'Weekly News Review.'"

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Newspaper clipping from the Washington star that reads:<br /> <br /> Bilbo bless communist and reply to the man’s he quit DC post<br /> <br /> <br /> Senator Bilbo, Democrat, a Mississippi made his mom planned answer on the Senate floor late yesterday to some of those who have demanded his resignation as chairman of the Senate District committee, single out the communist party at Washington for an oratorical blast while engaging in the filibuster against the anti-poll tax bill.<br /> <br /> Scarfing at the “in sane, egotistical and pusillanimous” request that he resign as “ex officio mayor“ of Washington, Senator Bilbo read to the Senate a reply he said he had sent to James L. Branca and others in which he termed that “motley and mongrel“ communist party.<br /> <br /> “The clamoring of a handful of ignorant, un-American trouble breeders that largely make up the leaders and members of your communist party,“ he continued, “Will not be able to create a ripple on the Sea of serenity and unity and determination of the worthwhile American people.“<br /> <br /> Blaming the communist party for having inspired anti-poll tax bill, which he regarded as an interim wedge in a move to break up the dual system of government, the Mississippi and wound up his reply to the group with this:<br /> <br /> “Let me say to you and to every member of your incongruous gang: go straight and jump into the abyss of perdition, and may I add further that you bespatter your muddled, twisted, swiveled, infinitesimal suggestion of brains on the brim stones in the bottomless pits of perpetual hell, and that you’re seared, diseased and ill former carcasses fry and sizzle for trillions of years beyond doomsday in the eternal fires of a damned.“<br /> <br /> After adding “again and again my answer is no, 1000 times no!“ As to resign in his committee post, Senator Bilbo signed his reply to Branca “yours truly.“
This article covers Bilbo's address on the senate floor and the call for him to resign. Bilbo, blaming interference from the Communist Party, states his refusal to step down from his position as a United States senator.

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Brochure cover featuring a photograph of Theodore G. Bilbo with his hand in his pocket in a 3-piece suit and the following text.<br /> Mississippi’s <br /> Senior<br /> United States Senator<br /> Theodore G. Bilbo
Campaign brochure for Theodore G. Bilbo for his run for United States Senate.

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Cover of a vellum book from 1695 about seals, rings, and gems. 
This book, Abrahami Gorlaei Antverpiani Dactyliothecae, seu Annulorum sigillarium quorum apud priscos tam Graecos quam Romanos usus, ex ferro, aere, argento & auro promptuarii, is bound in vellum with engravings throughout of seals, rings, and gems.

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Holy Family with St. Anne and St. Joachim
Woodcut of the Holy Family with St. Anne and St. Joachim.

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A flyer or broadside on blue paper that reads:<br /> <br /> Below is a list of 36 movie stars and/or news commentators whose names are documented in the files of the House committee on un-American activities for their support of communist activities. Many live the Negro march on Washington.<br /> <br /> Steve Allen<br /> Lauren Bacall<br /> Lucille Ball<br /> Joan Bennett <br /> Marlon Brando<br /> Lloyd Bridges<br /> Eddie Cantor<br /> Charlie Chaplin<br /> Lee J Cobb<br /> Joseph Cotten <br /> Bette Davis<br /> Olivia de Havilland<br /> Kirk Douglas<br /> Douglas Fairbanks, Junior.<br /> Jose ferrer <br /> Henry Fonda<br /> Ava Gardner<br /> Paulette Goddard<br /> Rita Hayworth<br /> Van Heflin <br /> Katherine Hepburn<br /> Lena Horne<br /> Chet Huntley<br /> Burl Ives<br /> George Jessel<br /> Danny Kaye<br /> Burt Lancaster<br /> Peter LOre<br /> Frederick March<br /> Burgess Meredith<br /> Edward R Murrow<br /> Gregory Peck<br /> <br /> Vincent price<br /> Edward G Robinson<br /> Frank Sinatra<br /> <br /> A list of over 200 other names may be obtained by writing for tracked in titled “red stars“ (100 copies Dash two dollars)<br /> <br /> Cinema educational guild PO Box 46205, Hollywood 46, California<br /> Don’t forget – don’t buy Gillette!<br /> <br /> Page 2<br /> <br /> Would you support the NAACP? The communist party? Then why support “Huntley Brinkley reports“ with your purchase of the following products:<br /> <br /> Anacin<br /> Dristan<br /> Preparation H<br /> Bisodol<br /> Kolynos Toothpaste<br /> Sleep-Eze<br /> Heet<br /> Freezone<br /> Inf Rub<br /> Neet<br /> J Cur<br /> Heather Rouge<br /> Lip-Gard<br /> Camel<br /> Winston<br /> Salem<br /> Cavalier<br /> Carter Hall<br /> George Washington<br /> Our Advertiser<br /> Prince Albert<br /> Apple Sun Cured<br /> Bown's Mule <br /> Days Work<br /> Reynolds' Natural Leaf<br /> O.C.B.<br /> Aerowax & Aerospray<br /> <br /> How much do you believe in our way of life?<br /> <br /> Distributed by: <br /> Americans for the Preservation of the White Race<br /> Brookhaven, Missisisppi<br /> Don't forget - Don't buy Gillette!

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Portrait of Joseph A. Greene, Founding Dean of the College of Business and Economic Development

Enamel box with three bronze rabbits and miniature letter addressed to Melissa Dora Crane, Manor Farm House, Selham, Petworth.
Box, black with enameled flowers: Contents include a letter from Leslie Linder, Beatrix Potter’s biographer, to Tasha’s doll, Melissa Dora Crane. Gift of Tasha Tudor.
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