Finding aid for the "Our Colored Citizens" pamphlet 6171

Sue Luftschein
USC Libraries Special Collections
2018 September
Doheny Memorial Library 206
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles, California 90089-0189
specol@usc.edu


Language of Material: English
Contributing Institution: USC Libraries Special Collections
Title: "Our Colored Citizens" pamphlet
Identifier/Call Number: 6171
Physical Description: 1 linear foot. 1 folder
Date: circa1900
Abstract: "Our Colored Citizens: How They Have Been Officially Recognized Both in War and Peace by the Republican Party" is an 8 page pamphlet describing how the Republican Party had been working to enfranchise African-Americans in American government and politics and how the Democratic Party in the South was systematically and purposefully disenfranchising them. Includes a cartoon of Senator Benjamin Ryan Tillman preventing an African-American man from voting.
Container: 1

Scope and Contents

"Our Colored Citizens: How They Have Been Officially Recognized Both in War and Peace by the Republican Party" is an 8 page pamphlet describing how the Republican Party had been working to enfranchise African-Americans in American government and politics and how the Democratic Party in the South was systematically and purposefully disenfranchising them. Includes a cartoon of Senator Benjamin Ryan Tillman preventing an African-American man from voting.

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Preferred Citation

[Box/folder no. or item name], "Our Colored Citizens" pamphlet, Collection no. 6171, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California

Subjects and Indexing Terms

African-Americans -- Politics and government -- Archival resources
African-Americans -- Suffrage -- Archival resources
Pamphlets
Democratic Party (U.S.) -- Archives
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) -- Archives