FDR campaign bumper sticker. Front: Vote for Roosevelt Back: Choose Your Own Candidate, but VOTE -- Compliments of -- LUKE KINGSLEY -- Cigar Stand -- All Kinds of Good Food -- Cotton Exchange Bldg., Memphis, Tenn. 6-9978
Campaign material supporting Roosevelt's Democrats. Outlines improvements the Democrats have brought to the black community, via the Works Progress Administration, the National Youth Administration, housing changes, the Civilian Conservation...
Campaign material supporting Roosevelt's Democrats, both national and local. Outlines improvements the Democrats have brought to the black community, with an emphasis on education. (Note: Item is composed of two separate documents, placed back to...
African Americans; civil rights; Hooks, Benjamin L.; Memphis Area Chamber of Commerce; NAACP; politics; Stockton, Clifford; U.S. Navy; Zech, Lando W., Jr.;
"Politicians who retreat from their support of civil rights and turn their backs on efforts to end discrimination will face an election-day uprising of blacks, civil rights leader Benjamin L. Hooks of Memphis says." (Clipping 1 of 2)
Beale Street; business; Church, Robert R., Jr.; Handy, W. C.; Lee, George W.; music; politics; portraits;
Bob Church, Jr., W. C. Handy and Lieutenant George Lee were among the most influential black men in Memphis and on Beale Street. Church was a political and business leader, Handy was a leading musician and Lee was in politics and business.
