Browse Items (133 total)

Save Brown vs. Board of Education build the new civil rights movement.

Poster used in the April 1, 2003 Civil Rights March on Washington.

Manuscript re: segregation in schools

A manuscript whose author is unknown that discusses the violation of the Fourteenth Amendment regarding racial segregation in school and the failure…

Correspondence from Honey Toda to Betty Salzman, July 26, 1942

Personal letter mentions mutuel acquaintances and desire to see visitors, a ban on anything other than business visitors, and a requirement that all…

Thurgood Marshall and other members of the N.A.A.C.P. legal defense team who worked on the Brown v. Board of Education case

NAACP Legal Defense team: Louis Redding, Robert L. Carter, Oliver W. HIll, Thurgood Marshall, Spottswood Robinson, III, Jack Greenberg, James S.…

Opinion in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

Records of the District Courts of the United States Civil Case Files regarding Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Shawnee County Kansas.

Fire at the Alcatraz lighthouse seen from the water, May 30 1970

One of many fires of disputed origin destroying numerous buildings on the island, leaving protestors without electricity or clean water.

Alcatraz Proved a Point

In November 1969, Morris read about the Indian students who had taken over Alcatraz and quickly became involved in the movement. He became the…

L.A. burning during 1992 riots

Buildings going up in smoke on an unidentified street on April 30, 1992, as people watch.

Children and adults with heads bowed in vigil for the four killed in Birmingham, Ala. bombing, Pasadena, Calif., 1963

SILENT MARCHERS-Children are in foreground of group that staged a 'silent march' on Pasadena City Hall. They stand with heads bowed for four Negro…

Family Picture in Manzanar

Photograph shows the Toda family posing by a car, with a barrack in the background; Henry Toda is holding a shovel. Inscription on back of photograph:…