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Date: June 29, 1915
A pamphlet from the Commission, a group appointed to represent the State of Kansas at the Half Century Exposition of Negro Progress in Chicago. The Commission asks fellow Kansans for…
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Date: 1911
A small pamphlet noting the injustice and lawlessness that blacks endured. Inside the pamphlet is a picture of a black man who had been killed by a group of white…
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Date: April 25, 1936
In this address, given on April 25, 1936 at the Forum of the City Club of Cleveland, Ohio, Charles W. Taussig, Chairman of the National Advisory Committee of the National…
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Date: 1918
A pamphlet containing Camp Funston photographs. Included is a brief list of all the amenities Camp Funston has, including a Zone of Camp Activities. This Zone was “financed and built…
Medium: Text
Date: April 23, 1942
In this letter to Senator Arthur Capper, W.E. Dannefer, Public Relations Director for Irrigation District Number One (Republic, Jewell, and Cloud Counties), argues that the National Youth Administration projects in…
Medium: Text
Date: January 26, 1942
In this letter to Sen. Arthur Capper, Frank Durler, Chairman of Ford County Commissioners, reports on his visit to the National Youth Administration farm project in Ford County and cheese…
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Date: 1932
This item, printed and issued by Biggers Printing Company of Houston, Texas, lists the many different agencies created under President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. In addition to well-known programs such…
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Date: 1934
This draft of a speech by Senator Arthur Capper contains his views on President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. In the draft, Capper insists that the Republican Party must serve as…
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Date: October 29, 1938
This copy of a speech given by Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas at Hutchinson, Kansas, details the reasons why he believes the U.S. must move away from President Roosevelt’s New…
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Date: Between 1909
Enacted by the Kansas state legislature in 1909, this law prohibited the sale of cigarettes or cigarette papers in Kansas.
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Date: Unknown
This postcard, probably part of the Anti Tobacco campaign, asks juveniles to pledge they will not use tobacco.
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Date: February 22, 1947
In this letter, Senator Capper responds to an earlier letter sent to him by Milton Tabor, the managing editor of The Topeka Daily Capital. In response to Tabor’s comments regarding…
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Date: February 11, 1947
In this letter to Senator Capper, Milton Tabor, managing editor of The Topeka Daily Capital, addresses the on-going race relations problems in Topeka in the years immediately after World War…
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Date: March 21, 1939
This letter, sent to Senator Arthur Capper by Reverend C.E. Krehbiel, President of The General Conference of the Mennonite Church of North America, addresses Capper’s work to keep the U.S.…
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Date: 1947
This testimony given by Reginald A. Johnson, Director of Field Services for the National Urban League, addresses the League’s effort to help African Americans obtain housing, and its support for…
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Date: September 13, 1947
In this letter to John H. Johnson, editor of the Negro Digest, Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas addresses the fact that African Americans living in Washington D.C. had “no voice…
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Date: 1909
In this training pamphlet, William McKeever, Professor of Philosophy for the Kansas State Agricultural College, discusses harmful aspects of smoking and its influence upon boys.
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Date: Between Unknown and Unknown
In this plan to enlist the boys of Kansas in a non smoking campaign, John Edwards, author of the Kansas anti-cigarette law has agrees to pay $100 dollars to the…
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Date: July 6, 1946
In this letter to Senator Capper, T.W. Bell, a lawyer from Leavnworth, Kansas, addresses the treatment of African American soldiers by white officers during World War II. In fact, Bell…
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Date: October 09, 1943
This letter from Kansas Senator Cylde Reed to Dr. D.L. Stewart concerns the segregation of blood based on race. Reed states, “It may well be true that there is no…
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Date: May 06, 1942-June 18, 1942
This correspondence concerns the efforts of Senator Arthur Capper to get William T. Bradshaw a job with the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. As an African American lawyer from…
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Date: January 12, 1942
In this letter to Senator Capper, Judge William A. Smith of the Kansas Supreme Court informs Capper that Miss Majorie Bradshaw of Topeka, Kansas, was offered a job with the…
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Date: October 06, 1938
In this letter to Senator Capper, Walter White, Secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), thanks Capper for his support of African Americans via the…
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Date: March 17, 1922
In this letter to Senator Arthur Capper, J. Silas Harris, President of the Negro National Educational Congress, thanks Capper for the letter that he wrote to President Harding on his…
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Date: November 27, 1918
In this letter to Secretary of War Newton Baker, Governor Arthur Capper explains that “every American soldier not urgently needed abroad” should be sent back to the U.S. as soon…
