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Cover and title page for the book Ain't I a woman: Black women and feminism by bell hooks. Title page is inscribed by the author to Gwenda, her sister.

Veodis Watkins' completed application for National Service Life Insurance, Veterans Administration insurance form 350, Rev. Sept. 1942.

Single page flyer printed for the opening of the bell hooks Institute at Berea College.

Group photograph of Company "D", 537th Quartermaster Battalion taken in England in 1943. Included in the group is Veodis Watkins of Hopkinsville, Kentucky.

Photocopy of the death certificate for Gilbert Hooks, great grandfather of donor. The certificate states Hooks was killed by a gunshot wound through the stomach and kidney in 1913.

The entry for bell hooks on page 250 of the 2015 edition of the Kentucky African-American Encyclopedia.

Cover and title pages for the book "Happy to be nappy" by bell hooks. Title page is inscribed to her niece.

Handwritten document outlining Veodis Watkins Army service including basic training, deployment in Europe during World War II and discharge.

Black and white photograph of Veodis Watkins taken overseas during his service in the Army.

A photograph of a painted portrait of Belle Hooks, the donor's great grandmother and wife of Gilbert Hooks. The original painting was destroyed in a fire in the 1990's.