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Poster

"Dec. 8th Fast to Save a People" Poster

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Description: Social action poster advertising a fast. The caption reads: "Dec. 8th Fast to save a people." Below is a photograph of a Pakistani family. Text continues: ...
Photograph

Man Standing Next to Sign

Date: 1965
Description: A man stands next to a sign with one hand resting on his hip. The sign next to him says, "I am regist[..] are you[...]." The image was taken inside the Whi...
Photograph

Rosa Parks Interviewed by Anne Braden

Date: 05 31 1960
Description: Rosa Parks being interviewed by Mrs. Anne Braden, editor of the "Southern Patriot," at Braden's home.
Print

The Right To Vote Rally

Date: 10 29 1959
Description: Flyer for a rally "The Right To Vote" "The Fight To Vote" sponsored by the Federation of Negro Civil Service Organizations, Inc. Speakers include Jackie Ro...
Photograph

Father Groppi

Date: 1968
Description: Father Groppi in the midst of a group of people.
Photograph

Amzie Moore in Uniform

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Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Amzie Moore in military uniform.
Print

SNCC Bumper Sticker

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Description: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) bumper sticker reading, "One man, one vote."
Photograph

James Forman

Date: 06 1962
Description: James Forman in a SNCC (Student NonViolent Coordinating Committee) office.
Book or Pamphlet

Security Handbook, Page 1

Date: 1964
Description: A page of a security handbook which served as orientation for Freedom Summer workers.
Photograph

Rosa Parks with Friends

Date: 05 31 1960
Description: Rosa Parks (center) sitting with a group of friends. Anne Braden is standing upper left and Carl Braden is seated lower right.
Poster

I Will Never Turn Back

Date: 1964
Description: A poster with the headline, "I Will Never Turn Back," a quote from a young woman in Mississippi for the Freedom Summer Project in a letter to her mother. B...
Photograph

E. Gordon Young

Date: 01 11 1982
Description: Quarter-length portrait of E. Gordon Young, an attorney and civil rights activist who became the state's first black assistant attorney general in 1965. At...
Photograph

Gloria Ray, One of the Little Rock Nine

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Description: Portrait of Gloria Ray of the Little Rock Nine.
Poster

"2, 3, Many Boston Tea Parties" Poster

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Description: Social action poster depicting the Boston Tea Party. The Caption reads, "Sam Adams never actually said this, but he and his Sons of Liberty (those early Yi...
Photograph

Myles Horton

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Description: Three-quarter length portrait of Myles Horton.
Photograph

Women Seated at Table

Date: 1966
Description: Two women are outdoors seated at a table in front of a building, surrounded by several people. One of the women is holding a document in her hands, showing...
Photograph

Civil Rights Workers Talking to Woman

Date: 1965
Description: A woman and a man stand and talk to a seated woman. The standing woman is showing her papers. In the background, a man sits on a sofa talking to a child se...
Photograph

Governor John Gilligan at Event

Date: 03 1971
Description: Group portrait of one woman and four men posing together. Caption reads: "NY RDD 3/1971. L to R: Marian Wright Edelman [civil rights activist and Yale boar...
Photograph

Lloyd Barbee at Capitol

Date: 08 1964
Description: Lloyd Barbee posing in front of the Wisconsin State Capitol.
Photograph

Daisy Bates

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Description: Portrait of Daisy Bates wearing a dark dress and beaded earrings and necklace.

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