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An issue of the Massachusetts Spy: Or, The Worcester Gazette published Thursday, July 28, 1791. The newspaper is a single folded page. On the back page, at top center, is a call for subscriptions that begins [Proposal for Republishing by Subscription, Poems by Phillis Wheatley. Two Which will be Added (Never Before Published) Works, Consisting of Poems, on Various Subjects and Letters to Eminent P

Newspaper clipping entitled, [A Decatur County Farmer Replies]. The introduction of the clipping refers to a satirical poem that was put into circulation by the Republican Party in reference to an upcoming Presidential election. The brief introduction states that a response poem written by a Decatur County farmer. Both the Republican Party poem, [The Poem] and the response poem, [The Answer], are

This edition of Africa News discusses Henry Kissinger's policies, Ethiopia, and South African and Rhodesian responses to activism. The publication is square shaped and is printed on brown paper with black text. The title reads [Africa News / A WEEKLY DIGEST OF AFRICAN AFFAIRS]. The back of the paper has the continuation of a story and publication information.

A copy of the Alexandria Daily Gazette, Commercial and Political, Vol. XII, No. 3595, from Saturday, March 14, 1812.These four (4) pages printed on both sides of a bi-folded sheet. The front and back pages are exclusively advertisements. The interior pages contain mostly columns with politically-related subjects, with some advertisements mixed in on the third page far right column. Much of the pol

The last item in the paper, at bottom right of fourth page, is a notice that an enslaved woman named Nancy has run away from her enslaver: [Ran-away from me the Subscriber, / on Tuesday the 13th of May last, a NEGRO Woman SLAVE / named Nancy : She is a tall Woman, aged about 22 Years, and had / on when she went away, a blue and white loose Gown ; and did / about two Years ago belong to Mr. Samuel

Issue of Daily National Inelligencer, Vol. XXVI No. 7908, published June 18, 1838. On front page, third column at center is a small article titled [Capture of Slavers on the Coast of Africa] describing the work of the British brigantine Buzzard. During a nearly four year deployment, the ship captured 13 Spanish and Portuguese ships carrying a total of 4,483 enslaved Africans.

A newspaper published by the Design as Protest (DAP) Collective featuring the title graphic “YOU ARE A(NTI) RACIST.” The top half of the newspaper’s front page features a large black block with large white text that reads [YOU / ARE / A / RACIST] in white text with the letters “NTI” added in dark grey to turn the “A” into the word “ANTI.” In the upper right corner of the black block, in small whit

A newspaper published by the Design as Protest (DAP) Collective featuring the title graphic “YOU ARE A(NTI) RACIST.” The top half of the newspaper’s front page features a large black block with large white text that reads [YOU / ARE / A / RACIST] in white text with the letters “NTI” added in dark grey to turn the “A” into the word “ANTI.” In the upper right corner of the black block, in small whit

El Young Lord newspaper, volume 1, number 5 from July 2, 1971. The front cover of the newspaper has a dark plum colored, central rectangle covering the whole of the page. In the lower two-thirds of the cover is a drawn graphic of a profile portrait of Pedro Albizu Campos. The profile is stylized with dark areas and negative spaces creating the contours of the face. In the lower right corner is the

The July 28, 1854 issue of Frederick Douglass' Paper, a Rochester-based weekly newspaper published and edited by Frederick Douglass that centered on antislavery efforts and other social reform causes. The title [Frederick Douglass' Paper] is printed in large text across the top, just underneath the title are the issue details printed between two horizontal black lines: [Vol. VII, No. 32, ROCHESTER

December 11, 1892, issue of the Parisian newspaper "Le Journal Illustré." The front page features a black and white print of four (4) African American men hanging by their necks from nooses tied to a tree in the woods. The image was drawn by Henri Meyer and engraved by Fortuné Méaulle. A caption is printed under the image, in black [QUATRE NEGRES 'LYNCHES' POUR AVOIR ASSASSINÉ UN CHEF DE TRAVAUX /

The image of W.D. Muhammad is bordered in red. The border has a pattern of white Arabic script with a crescent moon and star running around the whole border. At the top of the image is large block text in black ["I WAS BORN FOR THE MISSION"]. Below the image, within the border, is additional black text [The Honorable Wallace D. Muhammad/Supreme Minister, of the Nation of Islam/See Page 3]. Above t