Content Warning: Materials in this collection contain harmful content, including racist and white supremacist language, graphic descriptions of lynching, and other forms of violence.
Newsletter from the Syria-Mount Lebanon League of Liberation for the consideration of the Hon. Secretary of War. It is an appeal to the Secretary of War to have drafted Syrians transferred to the Legion d'Orient (a volunteer army prepared by the…
A certificate presented to Joseph Ellis Zaytoun by the State of North Carolina reappointing him to the Tryon Palace Commission. The certificate is signed by Governor James B. Hunt, Jr., and Secretary of State Elaine Marshall. The Tryon Palace…
A document from the State of North Carolina Executive Department appointing Joseph Zaytoun a member of the State Board of Elections and signed by Governor Terry Sanford and Secretary of State Thad A. Eure. This was signed on August 17, 1961, for a…
A letter from the National Federation of Syrian Lebanon Societies of the United States to the Honorable Cordell Hull, the United States Secretary of State, and addresses the impaired rights of American citizens of Syrian and Lebanese descent.
Content Warning: Materials in this collection contain harmful content, including racist and white supremacist language, graphic descriptions of lynching, and other forms of violence.
An article written by Kail Ellis on the history of Sami El Solh, Lebanese Sunni Muslim politician and Prime Minister of Lebanon in the 1940s and 1950s.
Diary of Hanna Gaith (Juan Gait) who was from the town of Yabroud, Syria. The diary has 176 pages. In its first 24 pages Hanna wrote about the history of Yabroud and its "Christian inhabitants." (Although at the time he wrote this, two-thirds of the…
Two letters from Franklin D. Roosevelt to M. Mansour and the calling card given to M. Mansour by Franklin D. Roosevelt's campaign. One letter is a campaign letter from to Franklin D. Roosevelt to M. Mansour requesting a meeting
Foreign Policy Association Central Ohio Branch, Dinner Meeting and Discussion information, undated. The document lists as one of the speaker on the subject of "Conflict in Palestine." The meeting was dated to occur on December 6, 1929 at the…
Invitation to a luncheon held in honor of , at the Women's City Club on Tuesday February 19, 1929. The document also gives a brief introduction into and addresses that he will be speaking on "Political Tendencies in Arabia."
