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Photograph of Ellis in the year he published “Mescal: A New Artificial Paradise”, from Havelock Ellis: A Biographical and Critical Survey (1926) by Isaac Goldberg

Jane Addams (left) and Lilian Wald (right)

Great Depression: Unemployed men hop train [ca 1933]

In late summer 1940, as war spread across Europe and as the nation pulled itself out of the Great Depression, an anticommunist hysteria convulsed New York City. Targeting the city’s municipal colleges and public schools, the New York state legislature’s Rapp-Coudert investigation dragged hundreds of suspects before public and private tribunals to root out a perceived communist conspiracy to hijack the city’s teachers unions, subvert public education, and indoctrinate the nation’s youth.

In April this year, South Africa’s government honored Dr. Ray and Mrs. Dora Phillips, with the country’s highest national honor, The Order of the Baobab. The Philips worked in Johannesburg at the height of racial segregation and Apartheid and influenced a whole generation of black liberation figures, especially women.

This cigar box with hinged lid is adorned with an outlined map of France in copper relief. It was possibly a gift from Freud’s friend Marie Bonaparte, who lived in Paris and was known to give Freud many gifts.

Volume 60, Issue 3, June 2019, Page 287-292
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King (Kabaka) Mwanga from Buganda (1868-1903)

On more than thirty occasions between 1776 and 1779, American men and women gathered in crowds to confront hoarding merchants, intimidate “unreasonable” storekeepers, and seize scarce commodities ranging from sugar to tea to bread. A good-sized minority of the crowds we know about consisted largely of women; a few others may have included men and women alike. Each crowd voiced specific local grievances, but it is clear that their participants sometimes knew of actions elsewhere and viewed each episode as part of a wider drama.

At its height, the National Welfare Rights Organization had more than 25,000 dues-paying members. Some people have called it “the largest black feminist organization in American history.”

Four members of the Mattachine Society at a “sip-in” in 1966, demanding to be served at Julius’s Bar in Greenwich Village

Leah Greenberg Postcard Collection, College of Charleston Special Collections

Sumiko Shigematsu, standing at left, looking at row of women seated at sewing machines (1943)

Many 19th-century observers were disturbed by the way young people took the co-ed sport of croquet as an opportunity to flirt.