Box OSS.08

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N.C. class trip to Washington, 1951

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Includes an advance proof of a June 1942 Fortune Magazine article "The Negro's War" with a full color illustrations by Romare Bearden and Charles Alston.

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Coverage of Baltimore's Flower Mart from the 1920s through the 1970s. Material from 1970 and 1971 includes coverage of demonstrations, police actions, and unrest that took place during the event.

Scope and Contents Coverage includes writing and photography by Herbert M. Frisby while writing for the AFRO during World War II, covering the arctic front. Additional photographs, clippings, correspondence, and printed material document his own career as an arctic explorer and a teacher as well as his decades-long efforts to have Matthew Henson recognized for his achievement as the first African American man to reach the North Pole with Admiral Peary in 1909. Photographs of family include his wife and child,...