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Political and Radical Ephemera Collection

  • US TxAM-C C000575
  • Collection

This collection was intentionally developed, pulling together political documentation and radical writings of people of African descent from around the country.

J. B. Rayner Letter

  • US TxAM-C C000572
  • Collection
  • 1900-10

The collection contains a letter written by J. B. Rayner announcing a forthcoming visit to Edna, Texas, dated October 19, 1900 (envelope included), and a handbill announcing Rayner's talk on October 27, 1900.

Rayner, John Baptis

Newsletters, Articles, Clippings, and Writings

1/1: Newspapers and Bulletins
New Left Notes, Students for a Democratic Society, Vol. 4, No. 24, July 8, 1969
The Lumpen: Revolutionary Student News Service, Merritt College Black Student Union, Vol. I, No. 1, Thursday, October 29, 1970
The Black Panther: Black Community News Service, Vol. V, No. 19, Saturday, November 7, 1970 (published weekly)
Bulletin of the Worker's Party: Convention Bulletin #7, Vol 1, No. 13, May 8, 1946
Bulletin of the Worker's Party: Vol 2, No. 1, February 1947
Bulletin of the Worker's Party: Convention Bulletin #12, Vol 4, No 6, March 17, 1949

1/2: Newsletters
The Street Speaker, "In the Interest of the Black Race & Business," Vol. 11, no. 4, August - November 1996
Habari za Ujamaa: Vol 2, No 2, December 8, 1972

1/3: Magazines and Articles
Liberator, September 1921
Liberator, Vol. III, No. 1, January 1963
Malcolm X Interview - Playboy, pg. 53-54, 56-60, 62-63, May 1963
Scanlan's: Suppressed Issue: Guerrilla War in the USA., Vol 1, No 8, January 1971

1/4: Writings
"Scottsboro: Act 3", by Sasha Small, published by International Labor Defense, 1934
"Why we are for Roosevelt," by The Publishers of People's Voice (reprint from the New York People's Voice), July 15, 1944
"Why I Remain a Negro," by Walter White, reprinted from the Saturday Review of Literature, October 11, 1947
"The Strike Explained", by Third World Liberation Front, February 5, 1969
"What do you people want?...," by Third World Liberation Front, February 11, 1969
Invisible City, Numbers 18-20: (poetry collection), October 1976
"Side by Side…," by United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE), Undated
"Un Testimonio Sobre la Esclavitud en Montevideo," by Gallardo, Jorge Emilio, Undated

Imamu Amiri Baraka Collection

  • US TxAM-C C000570
  • Collection

This collection contains over 100 items, primarily books that are cataloged and available via the Libcat system. The manuscript and drawings are also cataloged and available via the Libcat system.

Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014

Black Panther Newspapers

  • Rowberry, John W., ed. Alternate: The Newsmagazine for Today’s Gay America! Vol. 3 no. 20. John H. Embry, 1981.
  • The Black Panther: Black Community News Service. Vol. 5 no. 19, vol. 7 no. 1, vol. 9 no. 6. The Black Panther Party, 1970-1972.
  • de Beauvoir, Simone. Guerre Dans Babylone. Black Panther Solidarity Committee.
  • Baston, Judy, Dick Bierce, Martin Primack, Richard White. The Liberator, vol. 1 no. 2. 1968. The Lumpen: Revolutionary Student News Service, vol. 1 no 1-2? 1970.
  • Right On!: Black Community News Service. Vol. 1 no. 8.
  • Committee to Defend the Panther 21. What do the panthers stand for?

Black Panther Broadsides

  • Davis, Angela Yvonne, "Angela Talks"
  • New Mobilization Committee "The attack on THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY is an attack on YOU!"
  • New Haven Panther Defense Committee
  • Conspiracy to Murder: A Tool of Repression
  • Free Assata Shakur
  • Youth Coalition for Self-Defense, "A Message for Young People"
  • Plainfield Joint Defense Committee (Mailing)
  • Soledad Brothers Legal Committee (Mailing)

Black Panther Monographs

  • Glover, Danny, Kathleen Cleaver, Amiri Baraka, Sam Durant, Bobby Seale. Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas. Rizzoli, New York. 2007. (Dust Jacket only)
  • Hall, Gus. Out of Indo-China! Freedom for Angela Davis! Our Goals for 1971 and How to Win Them. New Outlook Publishers, New Nork. 1971.
  • Huey Newton Talks to the Movement. New England Free Press. Originally published by The Movement, August 1968.

Down in Sunny Dixie Postcards

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Front: "Having A Delightful Time--Down in Sunny Dixie"
Back: "How We Love To Work And Play--Down in Sunny Dixie"

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Front: "Seben Come Leben--Down In Sunny Dixie"
Back: "Race Between the "Natchez" and the "Robert E. Lee"

1/3
Front: "Just a Small Family--Down in Sunny Dixie"
Back: "Home, Sweet Home--Down in Sunny Dixie"

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Front: "Cotton Picking Time--Down in Sunny Dixie"
Back: "Barge Load of Cotton on River Front--Down in Sunny Dixie"

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Front: "Negro Baptism--Down in Sunny Dixie"
Back: "Washington Lincoln Napoleon Alexander Jackson, From Dixie"

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Front: "Enjoying Home Cooking--Down in Sunny Dixie"
Back: "Three Chocolate Drops--Down in Sunny Dixie"

1/7
Front: "Growing Tobacco--Down in Sunny Dixie"
Back: "An Old Plantation Cabin--Down in Sunny Dixie"

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Front: "Telling a Good Story--Down in Sunny Dixie"
Back: "I'se Waitin' Fo' You Here--Down in Sunny Dixie"

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Front: "Sunday Afternoon--Down in Sunny Dixie"
Back: "Yielding to Temptation--Down in Sunny Dixie"

African American Illustrated Postcards (Down in Sunny Dixie) Collection

  • US TxAM-C C000565
  • Collection
  • 1938

This collection consists of an illustrated mailer postmarked New Orleans, and hand-addressed to Toledo OH, containing 18 accordion-folded 6in x 4in color photos purporting to show (stereotypical happy variety) black life in the south, with two songs, "Dixie Land" and "Dixieland for M" printed on the inside of the mailer with a cypress tree on one side of the fold and a photo of a black man and woman next to the address label.

These were reproduced from hand-tinted black and white originals. Postcard-size images, but double-sided without space for messages.

Illustrated European Periodicals of African Military Expeditions

  • US TxAM-C C000564
  • Collection
  • 1821-1906

This collection includes over 11 different groupings of approximately 1 to 10 issues in each grouping. The latter half of the collection includes illustrations of African and African Americans in European periodicals.

Oversize Materials

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Map of the Mirando Oil District of Webb, Zapata and Jim Hogg Counties, Texas, whiteprint.

84/119
Old map of Zapata County showing Spanish Grants and lands slated to be given to railroads, blueprint, 1901.

84/120
Floorplan of a building.

Oversize Materials

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Map of the Dolores Settlement, Zapata County, blueprint.

83/114
Map of San Ygnacio and surrounding lands, blueprint, 1917.

83/115
Map showing partition of lands in the Dolores Subdivision, Zapata County, whiteprint, 1933.

83/116
Map of a partition of the Labores del Palo Blanco Ranch, Zapata County, ink on linen, 1923.

83/117
Genealogical and land sale chart concerning lands in the José Vasquez Borrego Grant, Zapata County, 7 sheets, pencil.

Oversize Materials

82/107
Sketch map showing the length of the Laredo-Zapata Highway in the José Vasquez Borrego Grant, and other information, pencil and ink on tracing paper.

82/108
Plot of the New Town of Zapata, Zapata County, whiteprint, 1953.

82/109
Homemade map showing the 61-acre tract of the Dolores Ranch site and adjacent lands, Zapata County, pencil on tracing paper.

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Map of San Ygnacio, Zapata County, blueprint.

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Map of the Dolores Settlement, Zapata County, whiteprint, 1927.

82/112
Homemade map of Porciónes of the city of Laredo, including parts of Porciónes 51, 52, and 53, ink on tracing paper, 1962.

Oversize Materials

81/102
Sketch map of landownership in the Cuellar Tract, Porciónes 1 and 2, Zapata County.

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Map of Zapata County showing landownership, whiteprint, 1920.

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Map of the Dolores lands owned by the heirs of Cosme Martinez and including the Dolores Settlement, Zapata County, blueprint, 1930.

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Sketch map of land tracts near Dolores Settlement, Zapata County, pencil on tracing paper.

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Map of lands and other natural and man-made features in and around the Dolores Settlement, Zapata County, ink on linen, 1927.

Oversize Materials

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Map showing Rufino López's lands in Webb, Duval, Jim Hogg and Zapata Counties, blueprint, 1922.

80/100
Chart of descendants of José Vasquez Borrego, ink on linen.

80/101
Genealogical chart of the Borrego and Vidaurri families and land transactions, pencil.

Oversize Materials

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Genealogical chart of the heirs of José Vasquez Borrego and land sales to the Cosme Martinez family.

79/96
Map showing subdivision of surveys owned by Rufino López in Zapata County, and the Mirando Oil Field, blueprint, 1921.

79/97
Sketch map of Porción 41, Zapata County, pencil.

79/98
Sketch map of La Selva and Casa Verde pastures, pencil.

Oversize Materials

78/92
Sketch map of Cuellar family lands, porciónes 1 and 2, Zapata County, pencil, 1935.

78/93
Map of Porciónes 36 and 37, Webb County, with developments, blueprint, 1915.

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Map of Aviator Field, Webb County, whiteprint.

Oversize Materials

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Map of Zapata County showing oil wells and landownership, whiteprint.

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Sketch showing lands owned by the heirs of José María Uribe in share 28 of the San Ygnacio Subdivision, Zapata County, blueprint, 1941.

77/90
Map of a portion of the Corralitos and Dolores Subdivisions, Zapata County, pencil on tracing paper, 1960.

Oversize Materials

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Map of Frio County showing landownership, blueprint, 1893.

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Genealogical chart of the Cuellar family and other original settlers of Guerrero, Tamaulipas, Mexico with historical notes, whiteprint.

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Map of Zapata County showing landownership, whiteprint on linen, 1920.

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Map of the Las Lajas Tract, Zapata County, property of heirs of Juan Vidaurri, whiteprint, 1947.

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Genealogical chart and land division and sales, Vidaurri family, pencil.

Oversize Materials

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Fransler's Map of the San Ygnacio Subdivision, Zapata County showing petition of lands, whiteprint.

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Map showing land in the San Ygnacio Subdivision, Zapata County, taken by the U. S. government for Falcon Reservoir, 1954.

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Map of the Dolores Subdivision, Zapata County, showing landownership, ink on tracing paper, 1936.

Oversize Materials

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Map showing the length of the Laredo-Zapata State Highway from San Francisco Hills to the line passing between the two Cerritos de Mendes and dividing the Dolores Ranch in two parts, pencil on tracing paper.

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Plat of part of the tract of land in the Dolores Subdivision conveyed to Cosme Martinez in 1859 as surveyed by Martin von Merrick in 1870, and resurveyed by E. J. Foster, showing landownership, whiteprint, 1956, 1956.

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Map showing the Laredo-Zapata Highway and certain tracts of land in the Dolores Subdivision, pencil on tracing paper.

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Proposed layout for the new Zapata County cemetery, whiteprint with hand coloring and labeling, circa 1951.

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Map representing fences and fields in the vicinity of Dolores Settlement, Zapata County, in 1910, pencil and colored pencil on tracing paper.

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