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Signed typescript of "Goin' Home to Freedom," McConachie's adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin (Acc. 1986.013). Correspondence, student references, teaching evaluations, a draft and offprints of "Goin' Home to Freedom" (Acc. 1999.016).

This scrapbook contains newspaper articles and clippings that primarily relate to African Americans and race relations in the United States. Subjects include government, politics, art, culture, and locals. The scrapbook ranges in date from circa 1917-1946.

This collection contains three photographs with captions on the verso, "Black children and men taken in or near New Orleans." These images were taken "en route" to New Orleans, possibly from a train, in the 1930s. One photograph shows a group of young boys on a street with an inscription on the reverse that says "New Orleans." Another depicts three boys and one older man singing on train tracks with an inscription that reads "En Route to New Orleans/ Kids singing." The last is a photograph of three boys tumbling on train tracks, with the inscription "En route to New Orleans/ scrambling for money." The photographs are black and white gelatin silver measuring 3 x 5.5 inches

This collection contains thirty-one photographs of young Black women in Chicago in 1940s-1950s.

The collection contains one photograph album and one real photograph postcard.