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Mansa Musa Era Handwritten Arabic
​​The script resembles classical Arabic used for Qur’anic verses, prayers, or Islamic legal or devotional texts.
These writings directly disprove the myth that enslaved Africans were uneducated.
02
Last Lynching Commentary
​This document recounts the Marion lynching of 1930, where Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith were murdered by a white mob. James Cameron, then 16 years old, was nearly lynched but miraculously spared.
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James Cameron survived and later founded America’s Black Holocaust Museum, dedicating his life to documenting racial violence.​
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03
Nigger Hair Tobacco
This is original racist consumer packaging using the term “Nigger Hair” to sell tobacco. The imagery and name weaponized Black physical traits for profit​
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During Jim Crow, American companies routinely used racial slurs, caricatured Black faces and dehumanizing language
to market everyday goods.
04
Alligator Bait Postcards
These postcards were mass-produced, sold as souvenirs, and mailed through the U.S. postal system, primarily in the American South.
After the abolition of slavery, white supremacy relied on new forms of control and intimidation.
