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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 or culturally blank. ​
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.
