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Underground Newspaper Cover: Berkeley Barb

Date: 07 19 1968
Description: Cover of "Berkeley Barb," an underground newspaper, featuring a photomontage of politically charged images, mostly relating to the Civil Rights movement. C...
Photograph

Myles Horton and Rosa Parks

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Description: Myles Horton and Rosa Parks, among others.
Print

We Shall Overcome... (Selma '65)

Date: 1965
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...
Photograph

Living Room of Thompson House

Date: 07 1965
Description: Interior of a home taken by a civil rights volunteer. "The living room at the Thompson's. Actually, the room was somewhat misleading since the other roo...
Photograph

Freedom School Students Singing

Date: 1965
Description: Students in a Freedom School singing and clapping in an image taken by a civil rights volunteer. "Freedom School - Freedom singing led by youngsters and...
Photograph

Freedom School Students

Date: 07 1965
Description: A group of Freedom School students walk along a road in an image taken by a civil rights volunteer. "Freedom School students on way to see the superinte...
Photograph

Grave in a Segregated Cemetery

Date: 07 1965
Description: A grave in a segregated cemetery photographed by a civil rights volunteer, who notes that these grounds are cared for "without the benefit of the town's fu...
Photograph

Billboard Near Highway

Date: 07 1965
Description: Image of a billboard near a road taken by a civil rights volunteer. A man stands in front of the billboard across the road.

"'Martin Luther King at Comm...

Poster

"National March Against Death" Poster

Date: 1979
Description: Social action poster advertising a march against executions. The headline at top reads, "National March Against Death," and at the bottom "Stop Executions....
Poster

Stuggle for Justice: The Leavenworth Brothers Poster

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Description: Social action poster advertising a forum titled: "Forum, 'Stuggle for Justice' the Leavenworth Brothers." Held at Wichita State University CAC Theater on S...
Poster

"Let Them Eat Cake" Poster

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Description: Social action poster advertising a sale to raise money for citizen groups. The poster reads, "Monday October 3rd 11am-2pm Madison Civic Center. Let Them Ea...
Photograph

Father Groppi and Demonstrators

Date: 1968
Description: Father James Groppi (1930-) and school desegregation demonstrators marching in. Milwaukee holding signs that read "Stop School Segregation"
Photograph

Voting Rights Protesters

Date: 1964
Description: View towards sidewalk of a line of demonstrators carrying signs during a Freedom Summer civil rights demonstration. A man walking along the sidewalk holds ...
Photograph

Freedom Summer Training Session

Date: 06 1964
Description: A role-playing activity during a Freedom Summer training session. Andrew Goodman, the figure in a black t-shirt near the center of the image, was a civil ...
Photograph

Sit-in at Lunch Counter

Date: 05 28 1963
Description: Civil rights sit-in at Woolworth's lunch counter. Seated at the counter from left to right are by John Salter, Joan Trumpauer, and Anne Moody. People pour ...
Photograph

NAACP March with Police Escort

Date: 1967
Description: Father James Groppi (center) and the NAACP participate in a civil rights march. Police are armed and escorting the protestors. The marchers are passing an ...
Photograph

Trunk of Car and House

Date: 07 1965
Description: A car trunk in the foreground frames a house in the background in this image taken by a civil rights volunteer.

"House in background is used by twenty-fi...

Photograph

Union Leaders in Selma

Date: 03 1965
Description: Ralph Helstein (second from the left), the president of the United Packinghouse Workers of America, with other union leaders on the first day of the civil ...
Photograph

Building the Movement

Date: 08 1963
Description: John McFerren, a leader of the civil rights movement in Somerville, working on the construction of a new building for the organization.
Photograph

Group on a Sofa

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Description: Group of people sitting on a sofa, with one man standing on the right. The man sitting on the far right holding papers in his hands is Amzie Moore, noted c...

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