Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. collection, circa 1992-2026 | Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Title: Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. collection, circa 1992-2026

ID: 01/MSS00100

Primary Creator: Kennedy, Amos Paul, Jr.

Extent: 20.0 Cubic Feet

Arrangement:

The Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. collection consists of 15 series arranged by chronologically by year of accession. Series X combines unidentified pre-2011 accessions.

The collection is described at the item level. The contents of each print are transcribed in quotations, following the capitalization and wording of the prints as closely as possible.

Information contained in parentheses within the quotation marks is found at the top or bottom of the print. Often this information refers to the source of the quotation on the print or an organization involved with the event promoted on the print.

Text on the background of the prints is included in brackets within quotations. Any information in brackets outside of the quotations indicates design related characteristics of the given print to distinguish it from other prints with identical text.

Date Acquired: 00/00/1997

Subjects: Artists' Books - United States, Kuba (African people), Smoking -- Folklore, Tales -- Congo (Democratic Republic), Tales -- Nigeria, Yoruba (African people) -- Folklore

Forms of Material: African Americans - Music, American poetry, Christmas music, Miniature Books, Postcards, Proverbs, African, Spirituals (Songs)

Languages: English

This collection consists of letterpress art printed at Kennedy Prints!, Jubilee Press (also Jubalee), or elsewhere by Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. (1948-), an American letterpress printer, papermaker, educator, and social activist. Formats include postcards, posters, state road maps, and hand fans. There is also some additional promotional material for events with which Kennedy was involved. Some items for this collection are individually cataloged and searchable in Primo at the link below. Many are also digitized and available to view online as part of our Digital Collections.

See Administrative/Biographical History and Administrative Information for more information.

Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. was born in Lafayette, Louisiana, in 1948. His father, Amos Paul Kennedy Sr., was a professor of agriculture and chemistry who taught at numerous historically black colleges and universities (HBCU) throughout his professional career. In 1972, Kennedy Jr. earned a BA in mathematics at Grambling University, and went on to pursue an MA in education.

Kennedy spent time in the Peace Corps during graduate school, which gave him the opportunity to teach mathematics in Liberia for 18 months. After contracting and recovering from malaria, he returned to the United States and settled in Gaithersburg, Maryland, taking a position with IBM as a systems programmer. He worked there for three years before moving to Cleveland, Ohio, where he worked for various computer firms and revived his interest in graduate school—this time for library science.

In 1981, Kennedy moved to Chicago, however, which once again put his formal academic plans on hold. While working for AT&T, he studied calligraphy as a hobby and took letterpress courses at Artist's Book Works, a small non-profit papermaking studio that opened in 1983. His initial interest in the printmaking process was peaked during a trip to Colonial Williamsburg, where he saw the town’s 18th century print shop and book bindery. After six months of coursework, Kennedy came into his own press and, being gifted four cabinets of type by a seasoned printer, quickly transformed his basement into a print shop. This private press was called Idiot Press, its name changing to Kennedy and Sons Fine Printing once he shifted his focus to commercial printing, and later to Jubilee Press (also Jubalee).

In 1995, Kennedy began graduate school at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and studied graphic design under Walter Hamady (1940-2019), also taking courses on the history of African art and Vodún. At this time, he moved to Bayside, a suburb of Milwaukee, and worked out of a studio there. He graduated with an MFA in 1997, and in 1998, became the first Black faculty member in the School of Fine Arts at Indiana University.

While living in York, Alabama, in 2002, Kennedy shifted his interest from books to posters and cards. He spent much of the next decade honing his craft in a series of small Alabama towns while traveling to teach, speak, and sell his work. In 2008, he moved to Detroit, Michigan where he established his print shop, Kennedy Prints!.

Using wood type and hand presses, Kennedy produces large editions of wildly colorful, typographically driven posters on inexpensive chipboard stock. His method often involves overprinting multiple layers of text and making constant, subtle alterations to the color of the inks throughout each press run, making each print being subtly unique. He passionately addresses issues of race, freedom, and equality in his work, often incorporating proverbs and tales of the Kuba and Yoruba people of Africa, as well as the work of Black American poets, such as Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906). Kennedy has printed under a number of press names, including York Show Prints, Kennedy & Sons, Fine Printers, and Kennedy Prints!

As more and more artists seek to steer away from computer-generated art, Kennedy is often credited with the revival of the letterpress in contemporary and folk art.

Artists' Books - United States
Kuba (African people)
Smoking -- Folklore
Tales -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
Tales -- Nigeria
Yoruba (African people) -- Folklore

Repository: Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Access Restrictions: Open to researchers.

Use Restrictions:

The RBML reproductions policies can be found here:

http://www.library.illinois.edu/rbx/ReproductionServices.htm

The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted materials.

Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be "used for any purpose other than private study scholarship or research." If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of "fair use," that user may be liable for copyright infringement.

This institution reserves the right to refuse to accept a copying order if, in its judgement, fulfillment of the order would damage materials or involve violation of copyright law.

Related Materials:

Amos Kennedy Digital Collection

Interview with Amos Kennedy (University of Wisconsin, Madison Library)

Amos Kennedy print collection (Library of Congress)

Processing Information: https://wiki.cites.uiuc.edu/wiki/display/librare/Home

Finding Aid Revision History: Revised 03/05/2026.

URL: https://go.library.illinois.edu/AmosPaulKennedyJrCatalog

Box and Folder Listing

Series 3: 2014 Accessions

Sub-series 1: Small prints

Box 3

Folder 1

Item 1: “Put the message in the hands of the people and move on”, 2012

Item 2: “Put the message in the hands of the people and MOVE ON!”, 2012

Schedule of events involving Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. from February 8, 2012-February 9, 2012 on back.

Item 3: “TIRADE: Put the message in the hands of the people and move on: a TIRADE by Amos Paul Kennedy Jr… Smith Reading Room OLIN LIBRARY”, 2012

Item 4: “TIRADE: Put the message in the hands of the people and move on…”, 2012

Schedule of events involving Amos Kennedy from February 8, 2012-February 9, 2012 on back.

Folder 2

Item 1: “CAN YOU WALK AWAY? END SLAVERY”, 2012

“(lincolncottage.org, polarisproject.org)” on back.

Item 2: “CAN YOU WALK AWAY? Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking in the United States, OPENING 17 February 2012 (lincolncottage.org, polarisproject.org)”, 2012

“END SLAVERY” on back.

Item 3: “CAN YOU WALK AWAY?” 2012, 2012

Folder 3

Item 1: “SLAVERY. Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labor of slaves. (James Madison)”, 2012

“CAN YOU WALK AWAY? Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking in the United States OPENING 17 February 2012 (lincolncottage.org, polarisproject.org)” on back.

Item 2: “SLAVERY. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. (Abraham Lincoln)”, 2012

“CAN YOU WALK AWAY? Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking in the United States OPENING 17 February 2012 (lincolncottage.org, polarisproject.org)” on back.

Item 3: “SLAVERY. In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free. (Abraham Lincoln)”, 2012

“CAN YOU WALK AWAY? Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking in the United States OPENING 17 February 2012 (lincolncottage.org, polarisproject.org)” on back.

Item 4: “SLAVERY. People think this is an issue of the exploitation of people, when the real issue is the enslavement of people. (Nosila Eyellit)”, 2012

“CAN YOU WALK AWAY? Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking in the United States OPENING 17 February 2012 (lincolncottage.org, polarisproject.org)” on back.

Item 5: “SLAVERY. People think this is an issue of the transportation of people…the real issue is the exploitation of people. (Bradley Myles)”, 2012

“CAN YOU WALK AWAY? Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking in the United States OPENING 17 February 2012 (lincolncottage.org, polarisproject.org)” on back.

Item 6: “SLAVERY. Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking. (Nina Simone)”, 2012

“CAN YOU WALK AWAY? Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking in the United States OPENING 17 February 2012 (lincolncottage.org, polarisproject.org)” on back.

Folder 4: “CRAFT [kraft] v. / to design or make with care, detail and social responsibility (Rural Studio Pig Roast)”, 2012

Folder 5: “DO MORE THAN VOTE, Organize your neighbors, Know where your money goes, Teach kids to think critically”, 2012

Folder 6: “He plants trees to benefit another generation. (CAECILIUS TATIUS) (R.G. Landscapes, Inc.)”, 2012

Folder 7: “THINK about ending slavery!”, 2012

Folder 8: “VOTE to end slavery”, 2012

Folder 9: “VOTE”, 2012

Folder 10: “$”, 2013

Folder 11: “BE TOO BRAVE TO LIE. (George Washington Carver)”, 2013

Folder 12: “Courtney Becks: Creative Work”, 2013

Folder 13

Item 1: “Downtown Farmers Market” [green], 2013

“FOOD” on back.

Item 2: “Downtown Farmers Market” [red and blue], 2013

“LOCALLy GROWN GrEeNs” on back.

Folder 14

Item 1: “EDUCATION is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom. (GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER)”, 2013

Includes “DETROIT pRINtING PLANT” [green] mailing envelope.

Item 2: “EDUCATION is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom. (George Washington Carver)”, 2013

Folder 15

Item 1: “gd”, 2013

Item 2: “GROW DETROIT GROW”, 2013

Item 3: “GROW DETROIT”, 2013

Folder 16: “Harvest Party of Farnsworth”, 2013

“1 FREE Hayride” on back.

Folder 17: “I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up… (Rosa Louise Parks)”, 2013

Folder 18: “If you don’t know, LEARN. If you know, TEACH. (UNA MULZACK On a sign at the Liberation Bookstore in Harlem)”, 2013

Folder 19: “If you must buy, BUY LOCAL”, 2013

Folder 20: “Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of riding a bike. (John F. Kennedy) (thehubofdetroit.com)”, 2013

Folder 21: “Paul Weertz: Community Farmer”, 2013

Folder 22

Item 1: “PERFECT IS THE ENEMY OF GREAT”, 2013

Item 2: “PERFECT IS THE ENEMY OF GREAT”, 2013

Includes “DETROIT pRINtING PLANT” [blue] mailing envelope

Folder 23

Item 1: “Progressive Dinner by Bicycle JUL 14 (backalleybikes.org)”, 2013

Item 2: “Progressive Dinner by Bicycle MAY 26 (backalleybikes.org)”, 2013

Item 3: “Progressive Dinner by Bicycle SEP 15 (backalleybikes.org)”, 2013

Folder 24: “Ride a (bike) (thehubofdetroit.org)”, 2013

Folder 25

Item 1: “Rising Pheasant Farms. EAT FRESH FOOD Grown in Detroit. (rising pheasantfarms.blogspot.com)”, 2013

National Recovery Administration stamp on bottom.

Item 2: “Rising Pheasant Farms. Farm to Eat. Eat to Live. Live to Bike. Bike to Farm. Grown in Detroit. (rising pheasantfarms.blogspot.com)”, 2013

National Recovery Administration stamp on bottom.

Item 3: “Rising Pheasant Farms. Support Urban Farms, BUY LOCAL (rising pheasantfarms.blogspot.com)”, 2013

National Recovery Administration stamp on bottom.

Folder 26

Item 1: “SUPPORT the DETROIT Public Library”, 2013

Item 2: “SUPPORT the HAMTRAMCK Public Library”, 2013

Folder 27: “The Boggs School Family Fun Day MAY 26”, 2013

Folder 28: “Time to Bike. (thehubofdetroit.org)”, 2013

National Recovery Administration stamp on bottom.

Folder 29: “VOTE but DON’T VOTE IN THE DARK”, 2013

Folder 30: “Whenever I see an adult on a bicycle, I have hope for the human race. (H.G. Wells) (thehubofdetroit.org)”, 2013

Folder 31: “You can’t put old heads on young shoulders”, 2013

Includes “USPS: A National Treasure” mailing envelope.

Folder 32

Item 1: “THE FOUNTAIN Of WISDOM fLOWS THROUGH BOOKS”, 2014

Includes “SUPPORT THE USPS” mailing envelope.

Item 2: “You have to work hard to get what you want, and even harder to protect it. (Mr. Tut)”, 2014

Sub-series 2: Mid-size prints

Box 3

Folder 33: “Green Pea Press Presents: AMOS KENNEDY SPEAKS! Saturday, Feb. 18 6-8pm, FREE & open to the public, at historic Lowe Mill (greenpeapress.com, lowemill.net)”, 2012

Folder 34: “PR!NT BIG! Atlanta printmakers studio”, 2012

Folder 35: “We’ve all been given a gift, the gift of life. What we do with our lives is our gift back (EDO)”, 2012

Sub-series 3: Publications and promotional materials

Box 3

Folder 36: Program for “Road to Equality: The 1961 Freedom Rides” exhibit at the Freedom Rides Museum in Montgomery, 2012

Includes Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. as an exhibiting artist.

Folder 37: Postcard for Amos Kennedy’s woodtype poster exhibit, collaborative printing sessions, Proceed and Be Bold film screening, and artist talk at Dartmouth College, 2013

Sub-series 4: Handheld fans—General

Box 11

Folder 3: “Freedom Freedom, Grow a garden, grow a community. Grown in Detroit. (feedomfreedom.wordpress.com)”, 2013

Folder 4: “Mount Elliott Makerspace…a village workshop where people make, tinker and learn. Grown in Detroit. (mtelliottnmakerspace.com)”, 2013

Folder 5: “The BOGGS SCHOOL, Grown in Detroit (boggsschool.org)”, 2013

Folder 6: “The HOPE DISTRICT, Grown in Detroit (friendsofdetroit.org)”, 2013

Folder 7: “Meredith & Elliott, 17 May 2014”, 2014

Sub-series 5: Handheld fans—Civil Rights Movement

Box 11

Folder 8: “A.C. Hall (MURDERED) 1962, Georgia”, 2013

Folder 9: “Addie Mae Collins (MURDERED) 1963, Alabama”, 2013

Folder 10: “Adlena Hamlett (MURDERED) 1966, Mississippi”, 2013

Folder 11: “Albert Pitts (MURDERED) 1960, Louisiana”, 2013

Folder 12: “Alphonso Harris (MURDERED) 1966, Georgia”, 2013

Folder 13: “Andrew Goodman (MURDERED) 1964, Mississippi”, 2013

Folder 14: “Andrew Lee Anderson (MURDERED) 1963, Arkansas”, 2013

Folder 15: “Ann Thomas (MURDERED) 1969, Texas”, 2013

Folder 16: “Archie Wooden (MURDERED) 1967, Alabama”, 2013

Folder 17: “Arthur James Hill (MURDERED) 1965, Georgia”, 2013

Folder 18: “Ben Chester White (MURDERED) 1966, Mississippi”, 2013

Folder 19: “Benjamin Brown (MURDERED) 1967, Mississippi”, 2013

Folder 20: “Bessie McDowell (MURDERED) 1956, Alabama”, 2013

Folder 21: “Birdie Keglar (MURDERED) 1966, Mississippi”, 2013

Folder 22: “Booker T Mixon (MURDERED) 1959, Mississippi”, 2013

Folder 23: “C.H. Pickett (MURDERED) 1957, Georgia”, 2013

Folder 24: “Carole Robertson (MURDERED) 1963, Alabama”, 2013

Folder 25: “Carrie Brumfield (MURDERED) 1957, Louisiana”, 2013

Folder 26: “Charles Brown (MURDERED) 1957, Mississippi”, 2013

Folder 27: “Charles Eddie Moore (MURDERED) 1964, Mississippi”, 2013

Folder 28: “Clarence Cloninger (MURDERED) 1960, North Carolina”, 2013

Box 12

Folder 1: “Clarence Triggs (MURDERED) 1966, Louisiana”, 2013

Folder 2: “Claude Neal (MURDERED) 1934, Florida”, 2013

Folder 3: “Clifton Walker (MURDERED) 1964, Mississippi”, 2013

Folder 4: “Clinton Melton (MURDERED) 1955, Mississippi”, 2013

Folder 5: “Collie Hampton (MURDERED) 1966, Kentucky”, 2013

Folder 6: “Cynthia Wesley (MURDERED) 1963, Alabama”, 2013

Folder 7: “David Pitts (MURDERED) 1960, Louisiana”, 2013

Folder 8: “Delano Herman Middleton (MURDERED) 1968, South Carolina”, 2013

Folder 9: “Denise McNair (MURDERED) 1963, Alabama”, 2013

Folder 10: “Donald Rasberry (MURDERED) 1965, Mississippi”, 2013

Folder 11: “Dorothy Malcolm (MURDERED) 1946, Georgia”, 2013

Folder 12: “Ed Smith (MURDERED) 1958, Mississippi”, 2013

Folder 13: “Eddie James Stewart (MURDERED) 1966”, 2013

Folder 14: “Eli Brumfield (MURDERED) 1961, Mississippi”, 2013

Folder 15: “Emmett Till (MURDERED) 1955, Mississippi”, 2013

Folder 16: “Ernest Hunter (MURDERED) 1958, Georgia”, 2013

Folder 17: “Ernest Jells (MURDERED) 1964, Mississippi”, 2013

Folder 18: “Ernest McPharland (MURDERED) 1960, Louisiana”, 2013

Folder 19: “Frank Andrews (MURDERED) 1964, Alabama”, 2013

Folder 20: “Frank Morris (MURDERED) 1964, Louisiana”, 2013

Folder 21: “Fred Robinson (MURDERED) 1960, South Carolina”, 2013

Folder 22: “Freddie Lee Thomas (MURDERED) 1965, Mississippi”, 2013

Folder 23: “Gene Brown (MURDERED) 1964, Mississippi”, 2013

Folder 24: “George Dorsey (MURDERED) 1946, Georgia”, 2013

Folder 25: “George Love (MURDERED) 1958, Mississippi”, 2013

Folder 26: “George Metcalfe (MURDERED) 1965, Mississippi”, 2013

Folder 27: “George Singleton (MURDERED) 1957, North Carolina”, 2013

Box 13

Folder 1: “Harriette Moore (MURDERED) 1951, Florida”, 2013

Folder 2: “Henry Hezekiah Dee (MURDERED) 1964, Mississippi”, 2013

Folder 3: “Henry Moore (MURDERED) 1951, Florida”, 2013

Folder 4: “Henry Smith (MURDERED) 1968, South Carolina”, 2013

Folder 5: “Herbert Lee (MURDERED) 1961, Mississippi”, 2013

Folder 6: “Hillard Brooks (MURDERED) 1952, Alabama”, 2013

Folder 7: “Hosie Miller (MURDERED) 1965, Georgia”, 2013

Folder 8: “Hubert Orsby (MURDERED) 1964, Mississippi”, 2013

Folder 9: “Isadore Banks (MURDERED) 1954, Arkansas”, 2013

Folder 10: “Isaiah Taylor (MURDERED) 1964, Mississippi”, 2013

Folder 11: “Izell Henry (MURDERED) 1954, Louisiana”, 2013

Folder 12: “James Andrew Miller (MURDERED) 1964, Georgia”, 2013

Folder 13: “James Brazier (MURDERED) 1958, Georgia”, 2013

Folder 14: “James Earl Chaney (MURDERED) 1964, Mississippi”, 2013

Folder 15: “James Earl Motley (MURDERED) 1967, Alabama”, 2013

Folder 16: “James Evansington (MURDERED) 1955, Mississippi”, 2013

Folder 17: “James Waymers (MURDERED) 1965, South Carolina”, 2013

Folder 18: “Jasper Greenwood (MURDERED) 1964, Mississippi”, 2013

Folder 19: “Jesse Cano (MURDERED) 1965, Florida”, 2013

Folder 20: “Jessie Brown (MURDERED) 1965, Mississippi”, 2013

Folder 21: “Jessie James Shelby (MURDERED) 1956, Mississippi”, 2013

Folder 22: “Jimmie Lee Griffin (MURDERED) 1965, Mississippi”, 2013

Folder 23: “Jimmie Lee Jackson (MURDERED) 1965, Alabama”, 2013

Folder 24: “Jimmy Powell (MURDERED) 1964, New York”, 2013

Folder 25: “Joe Franklin Jeter (MURDERED) 1958, Georgia”, 2013

Folder 26: “John Earl Reese (MURDERED) 1955, Texas”, 2013

Folder 27: “John Larry Bolden (MURDERED) 1958, Tennessee”, 2013

Folder 28: “Johnnie Mae Chappell (MURDERED) 1964, Florida”, 2013

Box 14

Folder 1: “Johnnie Robinson (MURDERED) 1963, Alabama”, 2013

Folder 2: “Johnny Queen (MURDERED) 1965, Mississippi”, 2013

Folder 3: “Jonathan Myrick Daniels (MURDERED) 1965, Alabama”, 2013

Folder 4: “Joseph Edwards (MURDERED) 1964, Mississippi”, 2013

Folder 5: “Joseph Hill Dumas (MURDERED) 1962, Florida”, 2013

Folder 6: “Ladislado Ureste (MURDERED) 1953, Texas”, 2013

Folder 7: “Lamar Smith (MURDERED) 1955, Mississippi”, 2013

Folder 8: “Larry Payne (MURDERED) 1968, Tennessee”, 2013

Folder 9: “Lemuel Penn (MURDERED) 1964, Georgia”, 2013

Folder 10: “Louis Allen (MURDERED) 1964, Mississippi”, 2013

Folder 11: “Luther Jackson (MURDERED) 1959, Mississippi”, 2013

Folder 12: “Maceo Snipes (MURDERED) 1946, Georgia”, 2013

Folder 13: “Mack Charles Parker (MURDERED) 1959, Mississippi”, 2013

Folder 14: “Mae Dorsey (MURDERED) 1946, Georgia”, 2013

Folder 15: “Marshall Johns (MURDERED) 1960, Louisiana”, 2013

Folder 16: “Marshall Scott, Jr. (MURDERED) 1965, Louisiana”, 2013

Folder 17: “Mattie Greene (MURDERED) 1960, Georgia”, 2013

Folder 18: “Maybelle Mahone (MURDERED) 1956, Georgia”, 2013

Folder 19: “Medgar Evers (MURDERED) 1963, Mississippi”, 2013

Folder 20: “Michael Henry Schwerner (MURDERED) 1964, Mississippi”, 2013

Folder 21: “Nathan Johnson (MURDERED) 1966, Alabama”, 2013

Folder 22: “Nehomiah Montgomery (MURDERED) 1964, Mississippi”, 2013

Folder 23: “Ollie Shelby (MURDERED) 1965, Mississippi”, 2013

Folder 24: “Oneal Moore (MURDERED) 1965, Louisiana”, 2013

Folder 25: “Paul Guihard (MURDERED) 1962, Mississippi”, 2013

Folder 26: “Preston Bolden (MURDERED) 1953, Texas”, 2013

Folder 27: “Rev. Bruce Klunder (MURDERED) 1964, Ohio”, 2013

Folder 28: “Rev. George Lee (MURDERED) 1955, Mississippi”, 2013

Folder 29: “Rev. James Reeb (MURDERED) 1965, Alabama”, 2013

Box 15

Folder 1: “Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. (MURDERED) 1968, Tennessee”, 2013

Folder 2: “Richard Lillard (MURDERED) 1958, Tennessee”, 2013

Folder 3: “Robert McNair (MURDERED) 1965, Mississippi”, 2013

Folder 4: “Robert Wilder (MURDERED) 1965, Louisiana”, 2013

Folder 5: “Rodell Williamson (MURDERED) 1967, Alabama”, 2013

Folder 6: “Roger Malcolm (MURDERED) 1946, Georgia, 2013

Folder 7: “Rogers Hamilton (MURDERED) 1957, Alabama”, 2013

Folder 8: “Roman Duckworth, Jr. (MURDERED) 1962, Mississippi”, 2013

Folder 9: “Saleam Triggs (MURDERED) 1965, Mississippi”, 2013

Folder 10: “Sam O’Quinn (MURDERED) 1959, Mississippi”, 2013

Folder 11: “Samuel Hammond, Jr. (MURDERED) 1968, South Carolina”, 2013

Folder 12: “Samuel Leamon Younge, Jr. (MURDERED) 1966, Alabama”, 2013

Folder 13: “Silas Caston (MURDERED) 1964, Mississippi”, 2013

Folder 14: “Sylvester Maxwell (MURDERED) 1963, Mississippi”, 2013

Folder 15: “Thad Christian (MURDERED) 1965, Alabama”, 2013

Folder 16: “Thomas Brewer (MURDERED) 1956, Georgia”, 2013

Folder 17: “Vernon Dahmer (MURDERED) 1966, Mississippi”, 2013

Folder 18: “Vincent Dahmon (MURDERED) 1966, Mississippi”, 2013

Folder 19: “Viola Gregg Liuzzo (MURDERED) 1965, Alabama”, 2013

Folder 20: “Virgil Lamar Ware (MURDERED) 1963, Alabama”, 2013

Folder 21: “Wharlest Jackson (MURDERED) 1967, Mississippi”, 2013

Folder 22: “Will Owens (MURDERED) 1956, North Carolina”, 2013

Folder 23: “William Henry Lee (MURDERED) 1965, Mississippi”, 2013

Folder 24: “William Lewis Moore (MURDERED) 1963, Alabama”, 2013

Folder 25: “William Piercefield (MURDERED) 1965, Louisiana”, 2013

Folder 26: “William Roy Prather (MURDERED) 1959, Mississippi”, 2013

Folder 27: “Willie Brewster (MURDERED) 1965, Alabama”, 2013

Folder 28: “Willie Countryman (MURDERED) 1958, Georgia”, 2013

Folder 29: “Willie Edwards, Jr. (MURDERED) 1957, Alabama”, 2013

Folder 30: “Willie Joe Sanford (MURDERED) 1957, Georgia”, 2013

Folder 31: “Woodrow Daniels (MURDERED) 1958, Mississippi”, 2013

Sub-series 6: Posters

Box 22

Folder 1: “A SISTER IS ONE OF THE NICEST THINGS THAT CAN HAPPEN TO ANYONE, THE 3 SISTERS (Rural Studio Farm)”, 2012

Folder 2: “ALABAMA SILO”, 2012

Folder 3: “AMOS KENNEDY, APRIL 6 & 7, OPEN WORKSHOP”, 2012

Printed at the Book Arts & Letterpress Lab.

Folder 4: “aRt is for everybody, A Printing Fest at the Mary C. with Amos P., aN ALL daY EveNT (TheMaryC.org)”, 2012

Folder 5: “BECAUSE THeRE’s nOthing more POweRFuL than A WOMaN SINGIGN the BLUES (3rd annual JOHNNY SHINES BLUES FESTIVAL)”, 2012

Folder 6: “BLACK FACES, WHITE SPACES: African Americans and the Great Outdoors (CAROLYN FINNEY)”, 2012

Folder 7: “Can You Walk Away? Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking in the United States, OPENING February 17, 2012”, 2012

Folder 8: “E (Andrew Steeves at Kennedy Prints, October 2012)”, 2012

Folder 9: “EVERY WOMAN SHOULD HAVE A BLOWTORCH (Julia Child)”, 2012

Printed at The Food Culture Crossroads Press by Sarah K. Khan (tastingcultures.org).

Folder 10: “FIRE MOON”, 2012

Folder 11: “Flying Monkey Arts, Lowe Mill Cigar Box Guitar FESTIVAL”, 2012

Folder 12: “GET UP, STAND UP, STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHTS! GET UP, STAND UP, DON’T GIVE UP THE FIGHT!”, 2012

Folder 13: “I AM AS SOUTHERN AS COLLARD GREENS”, 2012

Folder 14: “IF YOU LOVE IT ENOUGH, ANYTHING WILL TALK WITH YOU. (George Washington Carver)”, 2012

Folder 15: “I HAVE UPPED MY STANDARDS, SO UP YOURS”, 2012

Folder 16: “I’M JUST STIRRING THE POT”, 2012

Printed at The Food Culture Crossroads Press by Sarah K. Khan (tastingcultures.org).

Folder 17: “IS THE JUICE WORTH THE SQUEEZE?”, 2012

Printed at The Food Culture Crossroads Press by Sarah K. Khan (tastingcultures.org).

Folder 18: “IT is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of IGNORANCE. (Elizabeth Taylor) (whitman-walker.org)”, 2012

Printed for AIDS Walk Washington.

Folder 19: “IT TAKES TWO HANDS TO HOLD TWINS (HENRY JOHN DREWAL, ASHE WORKS)”, 2012

Folder 20: “JINGLE PUNKS RESPECT THE HUSTLE (jinglepunks.com)”, 2012

Folder 21: “LAISSEZ Les BoNtEMPS RoULeZ in Selma!”, 2012

Folder 22: “OKRA LOVERS UNITE!”, 2012

Printed for the 2012 Okra Festival.

Folder 23: “OKRA THE PEOPLE’S VEGETABLE”, 2012

Printed for the 2012 Okra Festival.

Folder 24: “OnE LOVE, ONE HEART, LET’S GET TOGETHER AND FEEL ALL RIGHT”, 2012

Folder 25: “PEACE BEGINS WITH A SMILE. (Mother Theresa) (Kim Ransdell & The Collective Press)”, 2012

Folder 26: “PEACE”, 2012

Printed at CB2(?).

Folder 27: “PERFECT YOU (juSt LIKe THIS POSTER IS)”, 2012

Folder 28: “POWER CONCEDES nothing WITHOUT A DEMAND. IT NEVER DID AND IT NEVER WILL. (Frederick Douglass)”, 2012

Printed at Jack Sinclair Letterpress Studio, University Of Arizona School Of Art.

Folder 29

Item 1: “RACE MATTERS? RACISM MATTERS, POST-RACIAL, MY ASS! CATICH GALLERY presents an exhibition of printed matter celebrating racism… Printed ephemera by Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.” [Mammy], 2012

Item 2: “RACE MATTERS? RACISM MATTERS, POST-RACIAL, MY ASS! CATICH GALLERY presents an exhibition of printed matter celebrating racism… Printed ephemera by Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.” [bowtie], 2012

Item 3: “RACE MATTERS? RACISM MATTERS, POST-RACIAL, MY ASS! CATICH GALLERY presents an exhibition of printed matter celebrating racism… Printed ephemera by Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.” [watermelon], 2012

Item 4: “RACE MATTERS? RACISM MATTERS, POST-RACIAL, MY ASS! CATICH GALLERY presents an exhibition of printed matter celebrating racism… Printed ephemera by Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.” [two figures], 2012

Item 5: “RACE MATTERS? RACISM MATTERS, POST-RACIAL, MY ASS!” [Mammy], 2012

Folder 30: “SEEK NON HOMOGEnIZEd CULTURES (Foodways Bulletin No. 3 from the KITCHEN, The First Scientific Laboratory)”, 2012

Printed at The Food Culture Crossroads Press by Sarah K. Khan (tastingcultures.org).

Folder 31: “SIGNAL-RETURN LOVES THE HUB OF DETROIT (the hubofdetroit.org)”, 2012

Folder 32: “SMARTER EVERY DAY”, 2012

Folder 33: “SPECIAL: POSTERS $15 EACH”, 2012

Folder 34: “TEE’S LOUNGE, LADIES NO FUCKING IN THE BATHROOM (York, Alabama)”, 2012

Folder 35: “The more I learn about politicians, the more I like MULES”, 2012

Folder 36: “THE MoST BEaUTIFUL EXPERIENCE WE CAN HAVE IS THe MYSTERIOUS (EINSTEIN) (Kim Ransdell & The Collective Press)”, 2012

Folder 37: “THE PRESENT WAS AN EGG LAID BY THE PAST THAT HAD THE FUTURE INSIDE ITS SHELL (Zora Neale Hurston)”, 2012

Printed at The Food Culture Crossroads Press by Sarah K. Khan (tastingcultures.org).

Folder 38: “THE TRUTH ALONE TRIUMPHS (UPANISHADS) (Kim Ransdell & The Collective Press)”, 2012

Folder 39: “The TUSCALOOSA GeT UP, The Alabama Shakes, Dexateens, Lee Bains III and the Glory Fires”, 2012

Folder 40: “THINK U R TOO SmaLL To MaKe A DIFFERENCE? TRY SLEEPING In A ROOM W!TH A MOSQU!To! (HENRY JOHN DREWAL, ASHE WORKS)”, 2012

Folder 41: “THREE SISTERS COOKING, FROM THE EARH TO THE TABLE (Rural Studio Farm)”, 2012

Printed by The 3 Sisters.

Folder 42: “TUPELO HONEY CAFE (Knoxville, TN)”, 2012

Folder 43: “VINYL-PHILE (sistersai.com)”, 2012

Folder 44: “VOLUNTEER FOR THE GREENING OF DETROIT (greeningofdetroit.com)”, 2012

Folder 45

Item 1: “WADDLE, 19 January-9 February 2013, Gallery 26, Little Rock, Arkansas” [plain background], 2012

Item 2: “WADDLE, 19 January-9 February 2013, Gallery 26, Little Rock, Arkansas” [yellow and green background], 2012

Folder 46: “WE demand the very best from our clients”, 2012

Folder 47: “WE FIGHT, GET BEAT, RISE & FIGHT AGAIN (General Nathanael Greene)”, 2012

Folder 48: “WE PICK OUR OKRA FROM THE LEFT”, 2012

Printed for the 2012 Okra Festival.

Folder 49: “WE’VE UPPED OUR STANDARDS, SO UP YOURS”, 2012

Folder 50: “WHERE THERE IS NO VISION, THERE IS NO HOPE. (George Washington Carver)”, 2012

Folder 51: “WHiLE THE DAYS AWAY”, 2012

Printed by Kathy Graddy

Folder 52: “YOU CREaTe YouR Own UnivERsE AS You Go ALONG (Winston Churchill) (Kim Ransdell & The Collective Press)”, 2012

Folder 53: “AS220 PRINT SHOP! INK ON PAPER”, 2012

Folder 54: “I SURE AM GLAD YOUR PARENTS HAD SEX”, 2012

Illegible signature in bottom right corner.

Folder 55: “OAR DIN AIRY”, 2012

Printed at Jack Sinclair Letterpress Studio, University Of Arizona School Of Art.

Folder 56: “MONDAY NIGHT MOVIES, Monday Nights at 7:00 PM Giles Hall Auditorium (MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE)”, 2010

“MAKE TANK, DESIGNED BY MARK D. Wise 02.07.2010” on back.

Box 23

Folder 1

Item 1: “ALL I WAS DOING WAS TRYING TO GET HOME FROM WORK. (Rosa Louise Parks)”, 2012

Item 2: “EACH PERSON MUST LIVE THEIR LIFE AS A MODEL FOR OTHERS. (Rosa Louise Parks)”, 2012

Item 3: “I KNEW SOMEONE HAD TO TAKE THE FIRST STEP AND I MADE UP MY MIND NOT TO MOVE. (Rosa Louise Parks)”, 2012

Item 4: “I WAS JUST TRYING TO LET THEM KNOW HOW I FELT ABOUT BEING TREATED AS A HUMAN BEING. (Rosa Louise Parks)”, 2012

Folder 2

Item 1: “I WOULD LIKE TO BE KNOWN AS A PERSON WHO IS CONCERNED ABOUT FREEDOM & EQUALITY & JUSTICE & PROSPERITY FOR ALL PEOPLE. (Rosa Louise Parks)”, 2012

Item 2: “I WOULD LIKE TO BE REMEMBERED AS A PERSON WHO WANTED TO BE FREE AND WANTED OTHER PEOPLE TO BE ALSO FREE (Rosa Louise Parks)”, 2012

Item 3: “MEMORIES OF OUR LIVES, OF OUR WORKS, AND OUR DEEDS WILL CONTINUE IN OTHERS. (Rosa Louise Parks)”, 2012

Item 4: “NO (Rosa Louise Parks)”, 2012

Folder 3

Item 1: “OUR MISTREATMENT WAS JUST NOT RIGHT AND I WAS TIRED OF IT. (Rosa Louise Parks)”, 2012

Item 2: “RACISM IS STILL WITH US, BUT IT IS UP TO USE TO PREPARE OUR CHILDREN FOR WHAT THEY HAVE TO MEET AND HOPEFULLY WE SHALL OVERCOME. (Rosa Louise Parks)”, 2012

Item 3: “THE ONLY TIRED I WAS, WAS TIRED OF GIVING IN. (Rosa Louise Parks)”, 2012

Item 4: “WHATEVER MY INDIVIDUAL DESIRES WERE TO BE FREE, I WAS NOT ALONE. THERE WERE MANY OTHER WHO FELT THE SAME WAY. (Rosa Louise Parks)”, 2012

Folder 4

Item 1: “ROSA PARKS”, 2012

Item 2: “4 February 1913, ROSA LOUISE, SEAMSTRESS, SECRETARY, NAACP, 1 DecemBeR 1955, McCAULEY, SOCIAL ACTIVIST, FREEDOM FIGHTER, PARKS, 24 October 2005”, 2012

Item 3: “COLORED SECTION MoNTGOMERY RACISM, arrest number 7053, BUS 2857, EQUALITY”, 2012

Item 4: “WOMEN’S POLITICAL JUSTICE COUNCIL, FREEDOM, BOYCOTT, KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE PRIZE (FiFTh Row)”, 2012

Folder 5: “20th ANNIVERSARY RS20 (Founded 1993, NEWBERN, ALABAMA), RURAL STUDIO BORN AND RAISED IN HALE COUNTY”, 2013

Folder 6: “A BAD DAY FISHING IS BETTER THAN A GOOD DAY AT WORK!”, 2013

Folder 7: “A GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED”, 2013

“RICHMONd Va, DC, Berryville vA, BRUNSwiCK MD, PHILADELpHIA, POUGHkEEPSie nY, MiDDLTOWn CT, SARaTOGA SPRINGS nY, BUFFALO, CLeVELAND, CANTON Oh, COLUMBUS, GaLAX Va, CARRBORO nC, FLETCHeR nc, Bynum nc” on back.

Folder 8: “BE KIND Always try to be a little kinder than is necessary (J.M. Barrie)”, 2013

Folder 9: “BE KIND for everyone you meet is fighting a HARD BATTLE. (Ian MacLaren)”, 2013

Folder 10: “BE KIND, LISTEN”, 2013

Folder 11: “BE PITIFUL for everyone you meet is fighting a HARD BATTLE. (Ian MacLaren)”, 2013

Folder 12: “BE SILLY. BE HONEST. BE KIND (Ralph Waldo Emerson)”, 2013

Folder 13: “BE TOO BRAVE TO LIE. (George Washington Carver)”, 2013

Folder 14: “BE TOO GENEROUS TO CHEAT. (George Washington Carver)”, 2013

Folder 15: “MAKE HASTE TO BE KIND (Henri Frederic Amiel)”, 2013

Folder 16: “BE YOuRSeLF, EVERYONE ELSE IS TAKEN!”, 2013

Folder 17

Item 1: “BIKE CITY DETROIT”, 2013

Item 2: “DETROIT” [bicycles], 2013

Item 3: “THE HUB OF DETROIT”, 2013

Folder 18: “DOWNTOWN FARMERS MARKET (Lafayette Greens Garden)”, 2013

Folder 19: “EVERYONE Rich and POOR deserves a shelter for the SOUL (SAMBO MOCKBEE)”, 2013

Folder 20: “FALL In LOVE, StaY In LOVE, AND IT WILL DECIDE EVERYTHING. (Pedro Arrupe)”, 2013

Folder 21: “FRIENDS Don’T LeT YOU dO StuPID THInGS… aLoNE”, 2013

Folder 22: “GOSLING RUN (fennvillegoosefestival.com)”, 2013

Folder 23: “I came to the Motorcity…and all I got was this letterpress poster”, 2013

Folder 24: “KINDNESS is a LANGUAGE which the DEAF can HEAR and the BLIND can SEE. (Mark Twain)”, 2013

Folder 25: “NO ACT OF KINDNESS, NO MATTER HOW SMALL, IS EVER WASTED. (Aesop)”, 2013

Folder 26: “OKRA IS PEACE, OKRA FESTIVAL, Burkville, Alabama”, 2013

Folder 27: “PRINTERS UNITE at Columbia College of Chicago Center for Book and Paper”, 2013

Folder 28: “SHORT TIME TO STaY HERE (scbroadcaster.com), The South Carolina Broadcasters”, 2013

Folder 29: “SMARTER EVERY DAY, Celebrating the 100th episode”, 2013

Folder 30: “Tavern FEST 2013 (Montgomery, Alabama)”, 2013

Folder 31: “THE SECOND ANNUAL BIKE THE BLIZZARD 24 hour Bike-a-Thon 26 JANUARY 2014 (BackAlleyBikes.org)”, 2013

Folder 32: “WADDLE 19 January-9 February 2013 (Gallery 26, Little Rock, Arkansas)”, 2013

Contains images of Uncle Sam that appear to be the work of artist Jeff Waddle. Poster likely used to promote a Waddle exhibition at Gallery 26.

Folder 33: “What you see depends on how you view the world… (Doe Zantamata), Celebrate the 60th birthday of Paul Weertz”, 2013

Folder 34: “YOUR LIFE IS BIGGER THAN YOUR BEST DREAM FOR IT. INVISIBLE CHILDREN”, 2013

Folder 35: Untitled half poster, 2013

Folder 36: “FREE SCHOLARSHIP, OPEN ACCESS, 2013

Student work.

Folder 37: “GET ON MY LEVEL”, 2013

Student work.

Folder 38: “IDEAS are more DANGEROUS THAN GUNS”, 2013

Student work.

Folder 39: “IT IS GOOD TO BE DifFERENT”, 2013

Student work.

Folder 40

Item 1: “LET US BE A CONCERNED GENERTION. (Martin Luther King, Jr.), A MONSTROUS OCTOPUS: The Tentacles of Poverty”, 2013

Student work.

Item 2: “POVERTY IS THE WORST FORM OF VIOLENCE. (Mohandas K. Gandhi), A MONSTROUS OCTOPUS: The Tentacles of Poverty”, 2013

Student work.

Folder 41: “WORK IS LOVE MADE VISIBLE (KAHIL GIBRAN)”, 2013

Student work.

Flat File 4

Item 1: “FAIRHOPE FILM FESTIVAL, NOVERMBER 7 8 9 10 2013 (fairhopefilmfestival.org)", 2013

Item 2: “FAIRHOPE FILM FESTIVAL, NOVERMBER 7 8 9 10 2013 (fairhopefilmfestival.org)", 2013