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...
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
appropriations; Crump, E. H.; government; immigration; law; legislation; military; pardons; parole; passports; politics; post office; public service; rural routes;
Kenneth McKellar was born in 1869 near Richmond, Alabama. In 1892, after receiving a Bachelor’s, Master’s and law degree from the University of Alabama, he moved to Memphis. He began his extensive political career when he was selected as a...
Edward Hull Crump was born near Holly Springs, Mississippi, in 1874. He was raised by his mother, Mollie Nelms Crump, after his father, a cotton planter and former Confederate officer, died during the yellow fever epidemic of 1878. When he was 19...
agriculture; art; banking; business; Civil War; cotton; education; entertainment; family; farming; floods; land grants; military; schools; social life; women; World War II; yellow fever;
Elizabeth Searcy was born in Memphis in 1877. Her father, Captain Mark W. Searcy, had served as a scout with Nathan Bedford Forrest and was the superintendent of the Memphis Board of Health. Elizabeth attended Miss Higbee’s School and studied...
A sizeable group of African American men, including some Elks supporters, are pictured lined up outside of the Bluff City Lodge No. 96, IBPOEW. Included in the group are Roosevelt H. Chapman, Jr., George W. Lee, Maurice Hulburt, Percy Williams and...
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; Beale Street; cemeteries; Church family; Church Park; civil rights; Elmwood Cemetery; government; NAACP; parks; politics; public service; Republican Party; women;
Sara Roberta Church, daughter of Sara Parody Johnson and Robert Reed Church, Jr., was born in Memphis into one of the nation’s most prominent African American families. Her grandfather, Robert Reed Church, Sr., was acknowledged as the South’s...
The Ernest B. “Tony” Vacarro Collection contains mementos reflecting a career of more than thirty years as a reporter for the Associated Press. Photographs taken from Vaccaro’s scrapbook and from an album given to him when he retired as...
