Box LGL.04

Scope and Contents

Coverage of Baltimore's Flower Mart from the 1920s through the 1970s. Material from 1970 and 1971 includes coverage of demonstrations, police actions, and unrest that took place during the event.

Scope and Contents

Includes a series of photographs of demonstrations at the 1970 Baltimore Flower Mart.

Scope and Contents

A.M.E. Minister and military chaplain; note on original folder reads "See also U.S. Army Chaplain picture file; See Afro 5/31/41 p. 5, 4/3/43, 4/10/43 4x"

Scope and Contents Coverage includes writing and photography by Herbert M. Frisby while writing for the AFRO during World War II, covering the arctic front. Additional photographs, clippings, correspondence, and printed material document his own career as an arctic explorer and a teacher as well as his decades-long efforts to have Matthew Henson recognized for his achievement as the first African American man to reach the North Pole with Admiral Peary in 1909. Photographs of family include his wife and child,...

Scope and Contents

Photographs taken by Frisby during expeditions aboard the S.S. Kyle to Greenland and Labrador. See also "Frisby, Herbert M. - Writing, "Stories and Reports from the Top of the World" for photographs from a 1954 expedition to Greenland.

Scope and Contents

Coverage of Herbert Frisby's efforts to recognize Matthew Henson's achievement as the first Black man to reach the North Pole. Includes an original illustration by Thomas Stockett.

Scope and Contents

note on folder reads "Died 10/75"