[LGBTQ][Gay Activism][Drag] "Miss Jessie" photo archive chronicling 30 years in the life of San Diego drag performer and gay community activist Edward “Jesse” Taylor. The archive documents 30 years of Taylor’s life, as well as images from his 1987 title as Empress XVI in the California Imperial Court, and his.....

Keller, Helen. Inscribed Color Photograph, mid-twentieth century. This presentation photograph documents Helen Keller in later life, dressed in academic regalia, accompanied by a handwritten manifesto-like inscription articulating her philosophy of collective disability rights. As the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree and an international lecturer on.....

Boston lesbian and gay pride photo negative slides documenting public queer mobilization in Boston in 1980. The sequence shows how Boston Pride was staged in public space: speeches from a podium, crowds gathered in the park, identifiable groups under banners, and marchers moving into the street. Compiled by an attendee.....

[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.....

[LGBTQ] Nine issues of The Ladder, widely recognized as the first nationally distributed lesbian publication in the United States, documenting the evolution of American lesbian print culture during the homophile movement. Across these issues, The Ladder documents the evolution of lesbian self-understanding and community formation from the early 1960s through.....

Archive of Four Honorary Certificates Recognizing the International Disability Advocacy and Literary Contributions of Helen Keller, Including a Certificate Awarded toher teacher Anne Sullivan. 1936–1948. Four printed certificates with manuscript entries and applied seals, each mounted to period cardboard supports. Subjects: Disability rights; Deaf and Blind advocacy; Women reformers; International.....

Tyndall, John. Autograph Letter Signed, 19 July 1872, written in the year he published major work on atmospheric heat absorption that established the physical basis of what is now termed the greenhouse effect. Addressed to poet Matthew Arnold, the letter situates Tyndall within the intellectual networks of Victorian Britain at.....

Steve Rose's photographic coverage of demonstrations, strike activity, broadcast spaces, and police control in New York City and Washington, D.C., circa 1969–1971, with dissent moving through street assembly, underground and movement media, institutional protest, and municipal enforcement. Rose, active in New York documentary photography during the early 1970s, photographed activists.....

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. 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.....

[LGBTQ] The Village Voice. Newspaper reporting one of the earliest journalistic accounts of the Stonewall Uprising and the emergence of organized Gay Liberation activism in New York City. Published July 31, 1969, only weeks after the police raid on the Stonewall Inn sparked several days of street confrontations between LGBTQ.....

Catt, Carrie Chapman. Autograph quotation written in 1945 by the American reformer who led the final national campaign that secured ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote in the United States. Carrie Chapman Catt emerged as a central figure in the American women’s suffrage movement during.....