US 1960s - Fall 2024 (HIST 27/127)
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US 1960s - Fall 2024 (HIST 27/127)
Collection Items
Freedom Summer Lessons
A white man volunteers to teach Black students in Hattiesburg, Mississippi during the Freedom Summer in 1964. His classes were held in Priest Creek Baptist Church.
Freedom School
This image depicts a freedom schools instructor teaching black students in an unconventional setting in Indianola, Mississippi.
Mural in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, San Francisco, California
This mural commemorates two early San Francisco leaders: Pioneer and exchange banker Henry Haight and Munroe Ashbury. The district is noted for its role as a center of the 1960s hippie movement
A sign of satire posted outside a restaurant
A satirical sign posted outside the Crawdad Hole restaurant in Flowood, Mississippi. Hippies, demonstrative members of a disaffected youth subculture, were more of a nuisance to retaurateurs in the 1960s than of late, in the second decade of the 21st…
Sit-In, Feb 1, 1960, F.W. Woolworth, Greensboro, NC, 1957-1985 Clarence Lee Harris Scrapbook #1
This scrapbook is part of a set of scrapbooks compiled by Clarence Lee Harris during the 1980s to commemorate the sit-ins through his own perspective.
Youth NAACP demonstrations in Charleston--outtakes
There are various scenes of young demonstrators on the streets of Charleston, South Carolina. A reporter then interviews a young man about the goals of the
demonstration.
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