White Supremacy & Fascism Collection
Charles Lindbergh
Charles Lindbergh's Unapologetic Bigotry: How He Became the Face of the America First Committee
By Candace Flemming, Salon -29 March 20
Lindbergh's celebrity status gave him a national platform on which to share his racist views
Photograph description: Charles Lindbergh (on right) (1902-1974) the spokesperson for the America First Committee (AFC) is giving the Nazi arm salute during a rally on October 30, 1941-(photo credit: Irving Haberman/IH Images/Getty Images)go to original article
KKK Membership Billboard
From the 1950's through the late 1970's being a Black Person or a Native American In NC meant you would see these billboards as you traveled just about anywhere in the state.
From the research we did, we think that this klan billboard in Smithfield, NC was on hwy 70 cross the Neuse River, and was taken down around 1977 or 1978.
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#OnThisDay, June 7, 1920, a white Ku Klux Klan leader named William Simmons hired publicists to grow membership for the white supremacist organization.
KKK Membership Billboard
From the 1950's through the late 1970's being a Black Person or a Native American In NC meant you would see these billboards as you traveled just about anywhere in the state.
From the research we did we think that this klan billboard was on old Hwy 303 coming into NC by way of Johnston Co.
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#OnThisDay, June 7, 1920, a white Ku Klux Klan leader named William Simmons hired publicists to grow membership for the white supremacist organization.
KKK at UNC Chapel Hill
On this day, November 17, 1937
1,000 White Students and Faculty at the University of North Carolina Host Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan
On November 17, 1937, over 1,000 white students and faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill gathered to attend a speech openly advocating for white supremacy by the Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, Dr. Hiram Evans. The UNC Political Science Department and the Carolina Political Union hosted the event, entitled “America and the Klan.” Amidst the rise of Nazism in Europe, Dr. Evans told students, “What America needs most now to restore the good old days when nations loved each other is a universal dose of the Ku Klux Klan.”
Fascist German American Bund Parade
Photograph description: Fascist German American Bund parade on East 86th St.East 86th St. between First and Second Avenues, New York City, October 30, 1937.
New York World-Telegram and the Sun staff photographer - Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection.
The Somme Minstrels
Hospital Blues And Black Faces At A World War One Concert Party ca 1918.
A vintage social history postcard featuring injured British soldiers, the Somme Minstrels, some with instruments, wearing Hospital Blues in blackface at a concert party during World War One. @IrememberOurHistory®
Source: Photo by Paul Popper/Popperfoto via Getty Images
Amos and Andy
Photograph: Actors Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll in blackface, as radio characters Amos 'n Andy. Life magazine. 1935.
Description with photograph: "Radio may not be a visual medium, but blackface found a home there, too. Amos 'n Andy was the most popular radio program in the nation in the '30 and '40s, with both white and black audiences.
Bing Crosby
Photograph:Bing Crosby in blackface. A still from the movie "Holiday Inn" (1942).
Description with photograph: "The photo above is from 1942. A year later, Crosby again appeared in blackface, starring in the movie Dixie as Dan Emmett, the most popular blackface minstrel of the mid-nineteenth century and the man who was credited with composing the song "Dixie."
Children's Negro Song and Dance
Photograph by Marion Post Wolcott: Second and third grade children being made up for their Negro song and dance at May Day-Health Day festivities. Ashwood Plantations, South Carolina. 1939.
Description with photograph: " It shows a slightly bewildered group of white southern school kids gathering around their teacher to have blackface makeup put on their face and arms, and one little girl, looking in a mirror, scrutinizing her teacher's work. It's shocking and repugnant.
Sheet Music for a Nineteenth-Century Minstrel Song
BlackFace By White People
America in Blackface: Photos from the Farm Security Administration
Image: "Sheet music for a nineteenth-century minstrel song. Blackface minstrelsy was a global phenomenon. This song was published in England. The image is from the Life magazine photo."
