[RECONSTRUCTION]. -- [JIM CROW]. Four items of ephemera related to anti-Black activity and Democratic politics, comprising:  

A Message from the South! To Ex-President Cleveland and the National Democratic Convention. [Alabama]: N.p., ca 1890s. 6 5/16 x 9 3/4 in. broadside (toned, upper edge soiled and chipped). Explicitly anti-Black, and signed "Alabama," the broadside pleads with the Democratic party and Grover Cleveland specifically to "save to the South her white supremacy." RARE, no known copies.

North Carolina's Sweet Womanhood Appeals to the Ballot for Protection. N.p.: N.p., [1898]. 8 x 9 3/4 in. illustrated broadside (toned, old creases and small tears at edges, tape repairs to verso). A white woman in distress clings to a white man who stands in opposition to an incoming storm cloud labeled "Negro Domination." A copy was printed in the 9 October 1898 issue of The Atlanta Constitution, however, no known copies of this separate issue.  

TILLMAN, Benjamin (1847-1918). The Struggles of '76. Address Delivered at the Red Shirt Reunion, Anderson, S.C., August 25th, 1909. N.p.: N.p., 1909. 8vo. (Occasional spotting, toning.) Original red wrappers (creasing, small tears at extremities). Tillman was an ardent white supremacist who used his offices as Governor of South Carolina (1890-1894) and Senator (1895-1918) to oppose civil rights and impose disenfranchisement. RARE, OCLC locates 7 copies.    

Women of Louisville!...Register in October and to Vote in November...Help Us Bring Out the Vote! Lexington, KY: Spotswood Spec. co., [1921?]. 3 3/16 x 4 5/8 in. handbill and needlecase (light soiling, especially at hinge). A Democratic party handbill directed at white women voters in the wake of the 19th Amendment, urging them to use their new rights to pointedly counteract the votes of Black women.


Collection of Tom Charles Huston