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Description: | Five women are seated with an ACORN banner over the blackboard behind them. A man is seated behind them on the right. |
Date: | 09 1978 |
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Description: | Wade Rathke seated at an ACORN meeting next to a woman. |
Date: | 09 1978 |
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Description: | Wade Rathke, far right, is seated at an ACORN meeting with two other people. |
Date: | 1972 |
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Description: | Three children stand holding signs along with adults. They're protesting city neglect of the Ninth Ward in New Orleans. In the background are musicians on ... |
Date: | 09 10 1965 |
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Description: | A New Orleans group hold signs as they rally at Mercy Seat Baptist Church for compensation for lives lost and 25,000 homes ruined during a flood. Reverend ... |
Date: | 04 1962 |
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Description: | Civil rights leader Ed Nixon, and his wife, seated on the front porch of their home. |
Date: | 04 1962 |
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Description: | Ezekiel Bell, his wife, and son Frederick posed outside his house. Bell was the chair of the Community Service Committee which was credited with the succe... |
Date: | 04 1962 |
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Description: | Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, (in bow tie) and Rev. J.S. Phifer, congratulate each other after their release from jail. The two men had been imprisoned together... |
Date: | 04 1962 |
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Description: | A voter registration panel at a SCEF (Southern Conference Educational Fund) conference. Seated at the table are Hosea L. Williams, W.P. Mitchell of the Tus... |
Date: | 04 1962 |
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Description: | Bishop Edgar A Love, chairman of SCEF (Southern Conference Educational Fund) listens while Dorthy Vails, a leader of the Talladega College SNCC engages in ... |
Date: | 04 1962 |
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Description: | James Dombrowski, (left), executive director of SCEF, the Southern Conference Educational Fund, and Bishop Edgar A. Love, SCEF chairman, during a meeting. |
Date: | 1962 |
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Description: | SNCC leader Bob Moses. Although this image is not fully captioned, it is believed to be the voter registration office in Jackson, Mississippi. |
Date: | 1963 |
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Description: | Rutledge Pearson (on left), a former baseball player and president of the Jacksonville NAACP, speaking with a woman living on Caroline Lane, the poorest se... |
Date: | 02 08 1879 |
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Description: | A cartoon entitled: "The Latest Illustration of Our Humane Indian Policy" depicting an imprisoned, injured Native American man who has been served "boiled ... |
Date: | 1941 |
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Description: | Poster promoting fair hiring practices. Produced by the National CIO Committee to Abolish Discrimination, 718 Jackson Place, Washington 6, D.C. Prepared by... |
Date: | 04 24 1953 |
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Description: | Youth advisory board, a part of the Governor's Commission on Human Rights. Standing, left to right, are: David Willette, Chippewa Falls; Richard Rosenweig,... |
Date: | 1975 |
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Description: | Holiday card with the figure of a woman, in a blouse and skirt, holding a wreath over her head with her left hand. She is barefoot. The text on the lower r... |
Date: | 1968 |
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Description: | Holiday card from the Committee to Defend the Conspiracy. The front is a picture of seven defendants that were under indictment for criminal conspiracy dur... |
Date: | 1957 |
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Description: | Daisy Bates, who is wearing a fur, poses with other people at an NAACP event. |
Date: | 1965 |
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Description: | Holiday card showing the Civil Rights March on Selma, Alabama, in 1965. The Christmas star shines overhead and has glitter on it. The card has a red border... |
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