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Photograph Of Frederico Matheas & Biographical Information, University Of Maine Alumni Association

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Photograph of Federico Walter Matheas, one of the first Black graduates of the University of Maine. Matheas was a member of the Class of 1907. There is a photograph of Matheas as well as biographical information curated by the University of Maine Alumni Association.

More information on Matheas can be found in "Remembering Bangor: The Queen City Before the Great Fire" by Wayne E. Reilly and "Black Bangor: African Americans in a Maine Community, 1880-1950 (Revisiting New England)" by Maureen Lee.

Information Regarding The Maine State Prison, Thomaston, Maine 1824-1953, Allan L. Robbins

Maine Bicentennial

Prior to the start of World War II, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI declared dead the criminal networks established by violent career gangsters during the Prohibition Era. By 1950, America’s attention was focused on the Cold War, Communism, and suspected Soviet subversion plots.

As the FBI continually denied the existence of organized crime, a new American mafia was establishing legitimate businesses as covers for racketeering, drug trafficking, and loansharking. Bribes to local police and politicians bought protection from investigation.

In 1949 the American Municipal Association pushed for the U.S. Congress to investigate. Despite Hoover’s continued denials, the resulting Kefauver Committee proceedings …

A Study Of The Causes Of Racial Friction As Represented In The Detroit, Beaumont, And Harlem Outbreaks, Evelyn B. Knight

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study has to do with the causes of racial friction as represented in the Detroit, Beaumont and Harlem outbreaks occurring in 1943. It will be pointed out that the incidental causes of such riots are symptoms leading to the exploratory job of finding the disease of "scapegoatism”. A survey of literature on the problem will bring about some understanding of the importance of racial prejudices and their relation to an international understanding. The opinions of experts in such fields as anthropology, economics, sociology, and psychology will be analyzed in an effort to determine how such friction may be eliminated …

Correspondence Between President Authur A. Hauck And Warren Brown Regarding Information On Race Prejudices, Arthur A. Hauck, Warren Brown

University of Maine Racial Justice Collection

A letter from Arthur A. Hauck, President of the University of Maine, to Evans Clark, Secretary of the Council for Democracy, written on September 30, 1943 in regards to President Hauck's membership with the Committee on the Group Life of Students of the National Association of State Universities and a discussion on 'Racial Problems and Student Attitudes and suggestions to help the conversation. Warren Brown, from the Council of Democracy, responded to President Hauck on November 1, 1943 stating that they sent material in regards to Black lives and to send back a reaction.

Correspondence Between President Arthur A. Hauck And Warren Brown Regarding Information On Race Prejudices, Arthur A. Hauck, Warren Brown

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

A letter from Arthur A. Hauck, President of the University of Maine, to Evans Clark, Secretary of the Council for Democracy, written on September 30, 1943 in regards to President Hauck's membership with the Committee on the Group Life of Students of the National Association of State Universities and a discussion on 'Racial Problems and Student Attitudes and suggestions to help the conversation. Warren Brown, from the Council of Democracy, responded to President Hauck on November 1, 1943 stating that they sent material in regards to Black lives and to send back a reaction.

Editorial Regarding Samuel Courtney, Maine Campus Staff

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Editorial from the University of Maine student newspaper The Maine Campus regarding of what they describe as a "hazing" incident of Black students Roger and Samuel Courtney who were tarred and feathered.

A photograph of the incident is featured in the collection.

Photograph Of Courtney Brothers Tarred And Feathered, Author Unknown

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Photograph of two Black students Samuel and Roger Courtney tarred and feathered While at the time this incident was described as "hazing" incident carried out by University of Maine a modern interpretation, by scholars such as Karen Sieber, Humanities Specialist at the McGillicuddy Humanities Center, was that this was actually a racist attack.

Sieber has featured this incident in her, Visualizing the Red Summer database and archive on the topic of the Red Summer of 1919, a term given to a nationwide wave of violence against African Americans that year.

More information on this incident can be elsewhere in this …

Maine Patriot & State Gazette...Extra. Doctor Rose's Vindication, Daniel Rose

Maine Bicentennial

The broadsheet publication includes text of Dr. Daniel Rose's defense in response to charges of misappropriated funds in the process of constructing the Maine State Prison at Thomaston.

In February 1822, Dr. Daniel Rose, John Chandler, and William Pitt Preble were appointed by the Maine State Legislature to begin researching the construction of the new state prison. In February 1823, Dr. Rose was appointed the agent to oversee construction of the prison.

Among controversies discussed in the newspaper extra, was purchase of the 10 acre tract of land on which the prison was built from former Governor William King for …