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
A letter from Memphis resident Malcolm McAlpin to the Board of Trustees of the Memphis Public Library: "Gentlemen: I am enclosing one vote in favor of making your facilities totally instead of partially Negroid, a consummation which, as far as...
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...