Black Americana : miscellaneous collection, ca. 1880-1957

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Black Americana : miscellaneous collection, ca. 1880-1957

1880-1957

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Includes 1. trade cards,nd; 2. a fashion show program, 1957; 3. promotional material for the "Wings over Jordan" choir, 1947; 4. Mme Walker's hair preparations bulletins and a manuscript, "The Woman Beautiful," nd; 5-7. nineteen different items from a Ku Klux Klan chapter in Maine, 1920s; 8. a poem printed on newsprint "Dedicated to the slave holders of the United States," nd; and 9. two die-cut dolls, ca. 1890.

.25 linear ft.

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 7561994

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Walker, C. J., Madam, 1867-1919

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Madam C.J. Walker was an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political and social activist. She is recorded as the first female self-made millionaire in America; her fortune came by developing and marketing a line of cosmetics and hair care products for black women through the business she founded, Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company. She was born Sarah Breedlove in Delta, Louisiana; she was the first child in her family born into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation was sign...

Wings over Jordan choir.

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Ku Klux Klan 1915-....

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The Ku Klux Klan was formally incorporated under the laws of the state of Georgia on Dec. 4, 1915. The incorporated organization is a continuance of the earlier post Civil War Reconstruction Era unincorporated Ku Klux Klan and of the Knights of the White Camellia. Women of the Ku Klux Klan was incorporated at a late date as a separate entity. The stated purpose of the KKK was to promote an all White, Protestant United States, excluding all other races and religions. From the descript...