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- Collection: Civil Rights - Fall 2023
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Message to you from Belmont High School
The Akamine and Fuchita Family Papers include letters, certificates, photographs, scrapbooks, high school yearbooks, and other materials related to the Akamine, Fuchita, and Yasumura families. Subjects in the collection include the Manzanar and…
Correspondence on Manzanar Children's Center
Correspondence from Phoebe H. Bannister to All Area Supervisors regarding evacuation of children in institutions and the Children's Center at Manzanar
March to courthouse stops traffic
Chela Zabin co-author, Rodney King
African American School House
Photograph of the African American school in Diboll, Texas, depicting teacher J. W. Hogg and students.
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," and "Negro 61% in 71 Schools, White 39% in 74 schools Equality". Negative envelope: "Racial…
Save Brown vs. Board of Education build the new civil rights movement.
Poster used in the April 1, 2003 Civil Rights March on Washington.
Hoka Hay !!
This poster, created overnight, appeared in Berkeley on June 12, 1971, the day after the removal of the Indians from Alcatraz. “Hoka Hay” is a battle cry used by the Lakota people of the Sioux tribes. It means: “To live life in such a way that one…
Koreatown residents sweeping sidewalks outside Shin Jung restaurant in Los Angeles, Calif., 1979
OLD OR NEW, THEY SWEEP CLEAN--These residents of Los Angeles' Korea town community take a centuries-old tradition seriously as they sweep the sidewalks in their neighborhood. They say they are planning to have such a cleanup once each month.
Tom's Liquor store cleanup, Los Angeles, 1992
A group of people clean up debris in front of Tom's Liquor at 1355 West Florence Ave., a flash point of the 1992 Los Angeles rebellion after the Rodney King verdict.
Protest on MLK Blvd., Los Angeles
A crowd of people with signs on Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. protesting against Judge Joyce Karlin's judgement regarding the Latasha Harlins shooting.