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- Description:
- Flyer for Selective Buying Campaign. Printed on front: "Selective Buying Campaign! Negroes are now buying only from stores & businesses that appreciate their patronage! Don't buy where you can't be hired as clerks and salesmen! Negroes are picketing stores that do not hire Negroes. Preachers are now walking picket lines!! Remember: Our slogan is: More in '64, Alabama Christian Movement For Human Rights, Inc. Rev. F. L. Shuttlesworth, President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., President."
- Date Issued:
- 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Public Library
- Collection:
- Burton Historical Collection
- Description:
- View of Mammoth Show of Negro Business Exhibits flyer presented by the Housewives League of Detroit. Printed on front: "Come to the show! See Negro business in action on the screen. It's new!! It's different!! The Housewives League of Detroit is presenting a Mammoth Show of Negro Business Exhibits, Feb. 9th, 1954, at 275 E. Ferry (formerly Craftsmen Hall). Prizes! Prizes! Prizes! Prizes! See these beautiful prizes on display at Gordy's Printing Shop, 5135 St. Antoine; Avenue Flower Shop, 4215 Hastings; Malloy Shoe Shop Service, 3409 Hastings; Guarantee Electric Co., 5531 W. Warren; Morrison Drug Store, 5559 Beaubien Street. Pick up tickets at these places, which entitle you to these beautiful door prizes to be given away at the show. Come! Bring the whole family. Refreshments! See preview of youth on parade." Includes list of sponsors.
- Date Issued:
- 1954-02-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Public Library
- Collection:
- Burton Historical Collection
- Description:
- Flyer for the poetry recital of Julia Fields. "Julia Fields, poetess and teacher, New York, N.Y. Presented in poetry recital at the National Housewives League annual meeting, Nannie G. Burroughs School, Washington, D.C. Tuesday, July 19, 1966, 2:30 p.m." Includes portrait of Julia Fields.
- Date Issued:
- 1966-07-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Public Library
- Collection:
- Burton Historical Collection
- Notes:
- Letter from John W. Markle written on Charles Magnus broadside ballad of "Nobody Hurt" (Old Abe) by John Ross Dix with images of Columbia holding a pen, the Constitution and a shield; the face of Abraham Lincoln framed by a star and array of U.S. flags; and the U.S. Capitol. Letter includes account of the Battle of Nashville.
- Date Created:
- 1864-12-21T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
