[Civil Rights] King, Martin Luther Jr. Statement by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. regarding allegations of communist ties, issued July 25, 1963, addresses public accusations that leaders of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference maintained communist affiliations during the height of the Civil Rights Movement and the Cold War. The statement.....
[Martin Luther King Jr.] [Chicago] King Jr., Martin Luther. Western Union telegram sent May 19, 1966, supporting the Independent Union of Public Aid Employees during the Chicago Freedom Movement. The message documents King’s public alignment with labor activism and welfare reform campaigns during his Northern civil rights organizing in Chicago.....
[Civil Rights] National Association for the Advancement of Colored People printed and photographic archive documenting organizational activism, legal strategy, and leadership within the American Civil Rights Movement from the 1940s through the late 1970s. The materials trace the NAACP’s work in litigation, membership organizing, public advocacy, and legislative lobbying during.....
[Civil Rights][MLK Jr.][Vietnam War][Anti-War] King, Martin Luther, Jr. Speeches by The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. About the War in Vietnam (1968) marks a decisive and controversial moment in the Civil Rights Movement when the famed preacher and activist voiced a strong opposition to American military intervention in Vietnam.....
Harlem press photographs dating from the 1940s through the 1960s document social, political, and cultural life in one of the most influential African American urban communities in the United States. During the mid twentieth century Harlem functioned as a major center of Black cultural and political activity, continuing the legacy.....
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.....
King, Martin Luther, Jr., original silver gelatin press photograph taken March 31, 1968 in Washington, D.C., documents his appearance at Washington National Cathedral to deliver the sermon “Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution,” four days before his assassination in Memphis on April 4, 1968. The image shows King on the.....
[Black Panther Party][Black Radicalism] Black Panther Party political communication archive documenting how the Party used its newspaper to coordinate legal defense, circulate political education, publicize local and international struggle, and turn specific cases of police violence, imprisonment, and community survival into a national print program. Across these three issues, the.....
Freedom Train press photographs documenting Tulare, California visit circa 1947 to 1948 visually record a formative moment in the modern Civil Rights era when constitutional language was publicly invoked even as racial inequality remained entrenched. Organized in 1947 under the auspices of the American Heritage Foundation with federal and corporate.....
King, Martin Luther Jr. Speeches by The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. About the War in Vietnam, published 1968, presents a compilation of public addresses delivered during the final year of King’s life in which he articulated his opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War. King had.....
King Jr., Martin Luther. Conscience for Change published in 1968 presents a series of lectures delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Toronto during the final year of his life. The lectures form part of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Massey Lectures series and address several central political and moral.....
The Day They Marched edited by Doris E. Saunders, published in 1963, documents the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and preserves one of the earliest book appearances of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Issued within weeks of the August 1963 demonstration, the volume records.....
King Jr., Martin Luther. Original silver gelatin press photograph, 1965, depicting Dr. King addressing a large crowd of demonstrators at the conclusion of the Selma to Montgomery march, one of the pivotal public actions of the modern Civil Rights Movement. The march formed part of a coordinated campaign to secure.....
Original final studio script for The Great White Hope (September 26, 1969). Adapted from Howard Sackler’s Pulitzer Prize–winning play, the film dramatizes the career of heavyweight champion Jack Johnson through the fictional Jack Jefferson, portrayed by James Earl Jones. The production candidly explored the white supremacist backlash against Black athletic.....
Du Bois, W. E. B. Black Folk Then and Now published in 1939 presents a historical and sociological study of African and African Diaspora history written by one of the leading intellectual figures of the twentieth century Civil Rights movement. Du Bois, historian, sociologist, and co founder of the National.....
King, Martin Luther, Jr. Meet the Press: America’s Press Conference of the Air. Volume 9, Number 11, Sunday March 28, 1965, preserves the printed transcription of King’s nationally broadcast NBC appearance during the climactic phase of the Selma voting rights campaign. Issued only weeks after the violence of “Bloody Sunday”.....
[Civil Rights] [Black Periodical] Johnson, John H. Negro Digest, 1943–1945, documents the emergence of a nationally circulated forum for African American political thought, cultural criticism, and civil rights debate during the Jim Crow era and World War II. Established in 1942, the magazine created a widely accessible platform for Black.....
Chain gang labor photographs from the early twentieth century and mid twentieth century document the continuation of forced penal labor in the American South, a system that disproportionately targeted African American prisoners after the end of Reconstruction. Convict leasing and chain gang labor became central components of Southern penal systems.....
Johnson, John H. (founder). Negro Digest (1947–1969) documents African American political thought, literary production, and cultural criticism across the postwar period, the Civil Rights Movement, and the emergence of the Black Arts Movement. Published as a digest format periodical, the magazine brought together essays, fiction, journalism, and commentary by leading.....
King, Martin Luther, Jr., original silver gelatin photograph by Johnnie R. Crump, Vicksburg, MS, circa 1960s, documents Civil Rights leadership through the lens of an African American Mississippi photographer active under segregation. The image presents Dr. King seated at a desk in suit and tie, hands crossed and resting before.....
King Jr., Martin Luther. Conscience for Change: Massey Lectures, 1968, presents a series of five lectures delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. for broadcast by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1967, offering a concentrated statement of his late career positions on civil rights, war, and social transformation. Delivered in the.....
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.....
King, Martin Luther, Jr. I Have a Dream Speech. 1963 text of Martin Luther King Jr.’s address delivered during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963, signed by Coretta Scott King. The speech articulated the central moral and political demands of the Civil Rights Movement.....
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People photographic archive, 1950s to 1980s, documents organizational leadership, legal advocacy, and political intervention during the mid twentieth century Civil Rights Movement. Founded in 1909, the NAACP operated as a central institutional force in litigation, federal lobbying, and public advocacy aimed at dismantling.....
Woodson, Carter G. The Negro History Bulletin. These mid-twentieth century periodicals document the institutionalization of African American historical scholarship and pedagogy under the leadership of Carter G. Woodson, whose work established Black history as a formal field of study in the United States. Issued between 1941 and 1949, these issues.....
