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Oral history narrated by Mary Kannon DeMolli at her home on February 9, 2014. Mary DeMolli discusses her Lebanese and Catholic upbringing in Fayetteville, North Carolina, in the 1940s and 1950s.

WAAC Recruitment Poster

Landmark legislation that banned discrimination.

William Henry Zoeller operated a studio in Elizabeth City, NC from 1892 into the 1930s using glass plate technology.

This illustration accompanies the fairy tale, "Sleeping Beauty," in Armand Eisen's A Treasury of Children's Literature. It depicts a fairy bestowing the gift of beauty on Aurora at her christening ceremony.

This item is an excerpt of an oral history transcription with Swade Sanders that took place on April 24, 2014. The entire interview was an hour and 15 minutes long, but the excerpt is only 3 pages, (6 minutes and 58 seconds of the interview).

The Declaration of Independence was written by Thomas Jefferson in 1776. Jefferson was a member of a five group committee within Continental Congress tasked with creating a declaration and justification of colonial independence.

Photo of The Irish Memorial which was created by sculptor Glenna Goodacre. The Memorial is located at Penn's Landing in Philadelphia, P.A.

This youtube video is a live recording of Nina Simone's performance of Mississippi Goddamm. This recording was from her concert on April 6, 1968, two days after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Her informal call and response in this…

This is a piece of the Berlin Wall taken from the West German side in 1989. It serves as an important reminder of the political and physical power that separated families and kept people under an authoritarian government.The Berlin Wall remains one…