{"value"=>"<p>These scrapbooks (1926-1936) are about orator, educator, and journalist William Pickens and contain clippings from a variety of both African American and mainstream newspapers. The clippings are primarily recurring columns written by Pickens in several different African American newspapers about topics pertaining to the African American community, including segregation, Communism, lynching, Cuba, Haiti, Russia, the future of African Americans, the effect of the Great Depression, Marcus Garvey, and Langston Hughes.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>For more information about William Pickens, see the William Pickens papers (SC Micro R-993) and William Pickens papers (Additions) (SC Micro R-4463).</p>"}