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- Collection: Civil Rights - Fall 2023
African American picketers outside of the Atlanta Public Schools building in Atlanta, Georgia.Signs read: "Letson [Board of Education superintendent John W. Letson] Must Go," "Atlanta Board of Education 1954 Segregation Segregated Segregate,"…
U.S. Reports: Brown v. Board of Education, 344 U.S. 141 (1952).Description of the U.S. Reports Volume 344; October Term, 1952; Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al.
President Lyndon B. Johnson greeting Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and other civil rights leaders after signing the Voting Rights Act into law, 1965 (Public Domain)
Family Picture in ManzanarPhotograph 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:…
Children and adults with heads bowed in vigil for the four killed in Birmingham, Ala. bombing, Pasadena, Calif., 1963SILENT MARCHERS-Children are in foreground of group that staged a 'silent march' on Pasadena City Hall. They stand with heads bowed for four Negro…
L.A. burning during 1992 riotsBuildings going up in smoke on an unidentified street on April 30, 1992, as people watch.
Alcatraz Proved a PointIn November 1969, Morris read about the Indian students who had taken over Alcatraz and quickly became involved in the movement. He became the…
Fire at the Alcatraz lighthouse seen from the water, May 30 1970One of many fires of disputed origin destroying numerous buildings on the island, leaving protestors without electricity or clean water.
Opinion in Brown v. Board of Education of TopekaRecords of the District Courts of the United States Civil Case Files regarding Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Shawnee County Kansas.
Thurgood Marshall and other members of the N.A.A.C.P. legal defense team who worked on the Brown v. Board of Education caseNAACP Legal Defense team: Louis Redding, Robert L. Carter, Oliver W. HIll, Thurgood Marshall, Spottswood Robinson, III, Jack Greenberg, James S.…