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Title: 12th Street Poised for Big Things
Description: Article about Ollie Gates' plans to revitalize the area around 12th and the Paseo. His vision includes restoring William T. Fitzgerald Memorial Fountain, erect a memorial to African American soliders and construct housing and retail establishments.
Date: 2006-03-02
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 55 with People and Pets
Description: Scrapbook page containing eleven advertising cards. Four small cards are cut to the shape of their image and show three cats and a dog. The other seven cards show the following:1. A girl picking apples. Card says: "Use Acme Soap .."." Best bar soap made."2. A girl in fancy hat and collar. Card says: "Muzzy's Corn Starch. Purity." Lower left corner has number I 65 and right corner says: "Shober and Carqueville, Chicago."3. A clown running from his shadow. Card says: "Middleboro Skating Rink, Town Hall, Middleboro, Mass..."""4. Ten African American children and babies gathered around an old man in a rocking chair next to a stove. Card says: "What Uncle Obadia says about Dixon's Stove Polish. Dixon's Carburet of Iron Stove Polish. Copyright 1887."5. A short, fat man with cymbals and a tall, thin man with a flute or whistle. Card says: "The Latest Importation, Coney-Island Musicians." Compliments of Bush and Bull, Largest Dry Goods Dealers, 305, 307, 309 and 311 Northampton St. Easton, Pa."6. A British, a Confederate, and a Union soldier holding hands and dancing around an obelisk marked "Bunker Hill." Next to them a grave says "Hatchet." and three dates are marked on card: 1861, 1776, and 1876.7. A woman sitting on a bench under a tree with a man in uniform.
Date: 1887~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: An Interview With Albert O. Bly
Description: Interviewer: Edward Scott. Interview recorded December 2, 1975. 2 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes): analog, stereo.; 5 7/8 x 2 1/2 in., 1/8 in. tape; 2 sound discs; digitial; 4 3/4 in. Has printed guide to contents.
Date: 1975-12-02
Object Type: Archival Material

Title: Request for Information about Pvt. Wayne Miner, 1894-1918
Description: Article requests information about the "descendants/relatives of Pvt. Wayne Miner who was killed in action and is a hero of World War I." The article gives a brief history of Miner and information about his family. Members of the American Legion Wayne Miner Post 149 and Congressman Cleaver are requesting the United State Army to promote him to sargeant and award him the Distinguished Service Cross.
Date: 2011-06-03
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Recruitement and Fighting in the Civil War
Description: This Black History Month article discusses the recruitment and presence of black troops during the American Civil War. The article describes the initial hesitation by President Lincoln and his administration to allow these black volunteers, who "thronged the recruiting stations," to participate.
Date: 2011-02-25
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: African American Soldiers in the Border War
Description: Part one is a series about the role of black troops in the border wars fought along the Kansas, Missouri, and Arkansas borders. This installment focuses on the political obstacles and controversy surrounding the formation of African American units.
Date: 2010
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Black Soldiers Played Key Roles in America's Battles
Description: Article tells the story of James H. Jones who served in the 761st Tank Battalion, 3rd Army under General Patton and fought in the Battle of the Bulge. Sergeant Warren G. H. Crecy who was nominated for a Medal of Honor and received a battlefield commission is also mentioned.
Date: 2009-11-06
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Remington's Buffalo Soldiers
Description: An account of some of Remington's earliest works (photographs and illustrations/drawings) depicting the Buffalo Soldiers, the 10th Cavalry black troopers in Arizona Territory.
Date: 2011-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Black Warriors of the West
Description: This photographic record of the buffalo soldier explores their role in the nineteenth-century army that "evolved into an important presence on the frontier." According to the author, the blacks "typically boasted the lowest desertion rates and the highest re-enlistment rates of any regiments, far exceeding their white counterparts in these important areas."
Date: 2010-11
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Kansas City's African American ''Immunes'' in the Spanish-American War
Description: The ten "Immune" regiments in the Spanish American War were composed of soldiers whom Congress believed would be immune to tropical diseases. African Americans were considered to to be especially adapted to fighting in hot climates and half of the ten Immune regiments were black. One unit of the Seventh Immune regiment came out of Kansas City, recruited at the Colored YMCA. Among their members were Lafayette Tillman and Leon Jordan. Despite the hopes of the volunteers that their service would bring them respect they met with discrimination and prejuedice, both from within the military and at Lexington, Kentucky where they were stationed.
Date: 2006-04-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

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