In search of by Duke Magazine Staff

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In America, among Americans, “freedom” is a paramount concept. Perhaps that’s why when you plug the word in to Duke’s libraries digital repository search bar, a range of historic photographs, advertisements, and texts pop up. From civil rights to transportation to feminine hygiene, in prose, poetic, and epistolary form, the notion of being unrestricted is prized, hailed, and demanded. Do your own search at repository@duke.edu. n

I was a little bit amazed as to why the selection of the role of black women in the world. I just said to Bernice Reagon that I have never been one to feel great needs in the direction of setting myself apart as a woman. I've always thought first and foremost of people as individuals.

—Ella Baker in a speech, “The Black Woman in the Civil Rights Struggle: The Long View,” given at the Institute of the Black World in Atlanta, 1969