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An Interview with Allende: "You don't get socialism overnight"
Saul Landau conducted this interview with Salvador Allende in Santiago in 1971. The interview was later translated into English and published in the NACLA’s 1973 publication New Chile. Landau and President Allende engaged in conversation surrounding…
Newspaper clipping with poem
An image of a book review of Georgia Nigger (1932) by Spivak John L. (John Louis) 1897-1981 with a poem by L. N. J.
The novel Georgia Nigger (1932) by Spivak John L. (John Louis) 1897-1981
An image of the original cover of the novel and the new edition, re-published in 2012
Letter from Georgia Prison Commissioner, 1931
Signed letter to all prison wardens explaining Spivak's visit and investigation.
Letter from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Signed letter from Walter White of the NAACP to Mr. Forrest Bailey of the American Civil Liberties Union, on Spivak's investigative work.
The "Ghetto" Papers
The Ghetto papers lists the various people who were seen at a location near campus referred to as "The Ghetto." Marginal notes are common and the people range from students to performing artists.
The Rag
Portions of the underground student newspaper The Rag detailing the publication's artistic and editorial style.
Student Activist Events
Records of the different student activist events throughout the years at UT-Austin, the students and people involved, and where/how certain information was obtained.
Surveillance Photographs of professors
Photographs taken for a local police agency of a professor at UT-Austin possibly participating in student activist events. Identifies David Edwards, Peck Young, and possibly Scott Pittman and Joe Kruppa.
Living conditions for black and white convicts in a Georgia prison, 1931
Photo of the inside of a wooden cage that served as living quarters for black and white convicts in a Georgia prison. Notes from Spivak on the back read, "Inside of convict cage at Camp No. 2, Sumter County chain gang - a few miles out of Americus,…