{"value"=>"<p>These scrapbooks (1921-1961) are about civil rights in the United States and contain ephemera and clippings from a variety of both African American and mainstream newspapers. The clippings cover a wide range of topics, including racial discrimination in jury selection and court cases, President Harry Truman's civil rights program, the use of torture-based confessions in court, the Georgia contract labor law, the Negro Freedom Rally of 1944, the 1956 presidential primary and election and the respective candidates' civil rights platforms, the 1956 civil rights rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City, the process of developing civil rights legislation, recommendations for the Kennedy administration on dealing with civil rights, and attempts to pass several pieces of legislation regarding the poll tax, segregation, and suffrage.</p>"}