Honor His Memory, April 2, 3, 4, Stop the War Now. National Peace Action Coalition. Washington, DC: National Peace Action Coalition, April 2, 1971. Poster invoking the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. to mobilize public opposition to the Vietnam War during the period of intensified antiwar demonstrations in the.....
Civil Rights. NAACP 10th Anuual Freedom Fund Dinner. Wednesday, November 30, 1966, 8:00 P.M.. Atlanta Cabana Hotel, Atlanta, GA. 42 pages. 10.75" x 8.25" inches. Original wrappers. The NAACP Freedom Fund Banquet Dinner of 1966 featured prominent members of Atlanta's African American community and included a contest among 11 young.....
[African American] [Civil Rights] The first African American justice of the Supreme Court and civil rights activist, Thurgood Marshall, press release photo archive. 3 silver gelatin press release photographs from the 1960s-1970s. All measure approximately 8" x 10". Each have their original publisher's article printed on the margins or en.....
Press photograph archive, 1965–1970, documents key moments of civil rights protest, state intervention, and radical political organizing across the United States during a period of sustained social unrest. The group includes images tied to the Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches, the aftermath of urban uprising in Los Angeles, mass.....
Illinois National Guard press photograph archive, 1936–1984, documenting the Guard’s role as both military reserve force and instrument of state authority across mid twentieth century American conflicts and civil crises. The images place the Guard within major domestic flashpoints in Illinois, including deployment during the 1966 Chicago disturbances, the 1968.....
Jailed Until They “Talk.” This broadside denounces the imprisonment of suspected Communists in Los Angeles during the McCarthy era. Los Angeles: Civil Rights Congress. Circa 1950. 12” x 8” inches. This pamphlet demands “The immediate dismissal of the witch-hunt grand jury! Immediate release on bail for those convicted of contempt!.....
Civil rights political pamphlet archive documenting competing national and Southern responses to lynching, racial violence, and federal civil rights intervention during the immediate post–World War II period. Issued between 1946 and 1951, the publications capture a formative moment in the political struggle over civil rights legislation, federal authority, and racial.....
Broadside, 1964, announcing the “Second Giant March Up Market Street” in San Francisco, documenting West Coast civil rights mobilization in advance of the July 12, 1964 Human Rights March and the opening of the Republican National Convention. Issued during a period of national debate over the Civil Rights Act of.....
[Civil Rights] [Counterculture] Original silver gelatin print press photograph of Education-related Civil Rights demonstration in Chicago 1965. The protesters block the street in the heart of the city to protest for better public education for African-American students, who faced overcrowding and segregated schools. 8 x 10 in. Iconic Chicago hotspots.....
[Civil Rights] [Presidents]. This 1959 AP Press photo depicts President Eisenhower shaking hands with the wife of civil rights leader George M. Johnson. Original photo dated June 9, 1959 with inscription on verso. 9” x 7” inches. Johnson was the newest member of the Civil Rights Commission, an organization created.....
Original photo depicting a group of young Black men after having looted a store in downtown Memphis. 8.5" x 7" inches. One man is captured leaping out from the busted down store window, while the others walk down the street covered in debris with what appears to be new jackets.....
Two press photographs, circa 1970, documenting Chicano activism and leadership during the Mexican American civil rights organizing of the period. One photograph records a walkout by Mexican American participants at a national conference; the other shows Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales engaging residents of a Denver housing project. Two silver gelatin press.....
Civil Rights in Piscataway. Piscataway Civil Rights Advisory Commission. [circa early 1970s] This scarce informational pamphlet was distributed by the Piscataway Civil Rights Advisory Commission, a group based in northern New Jersey whose purpose was to: "Make sure that every citizen of our Township has the equal rights he is.....
Civil rights leaders and pioneers press photograph archive, 1960s, documenting African American political leadership and institutional challenges within the Civil Rights Movement. The material documents Black political mobilization through electoral participation, legal advocacy, and party-based organizing, revealing how African American leaders pursued representation within national political structures, and providing primary-source.....
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. The Federal Civil Rights Enforcement Effort Summary. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1971. 10" x 8" inches. 46 pages. This report from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights urges the federal government to take a more activist approach to enforcing civil rights protections. The.....
