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Young NAACP members are seen picketing in Edenton, NC. Obtained by Kelly M. Alexander Sr. as president of the North Carolina State Conference of Branches and as a member of the NAACP National Board of Directors.

A book exploring the various social and political movements of the 1960s, including the Civil Rights Movement, the anti-war movement, and the counterculture.

A book examining the social and political divisions within the United States during the 1960s

A list of teaching guidelines for Freedom Schools teachers in Mississippi during the Freedom Schools Movement (1964).

In a press conference, Roy Wilkins make the claim that the NAACP was the first organization to execute sit-in protests and that the phenomenon did not actually begin with the February 1, 1960 Greensboro, North Carolina sit-in.

Two sit-in demonstrators from the Congress of Racial Equality are seen being dragged from the Federal Building by deputy US marshals.

A book that the displays the rise of various social movements like the Civil Rights movement, anti-war protests against Vietnam, and the New Left.

Children attending "freedom schools" in churches and public buildings. It was a one-day boycott of "de facto" segregation in Boston public schools. This boycott was sponsored by the Freedom Movement. The movement's headquarters were in St. Mark's…

A sit-in by Junior NAACP activists at a segregated movie theater in Farmville, Virginia. The item was donated by Phyllis Padow-Sederbaum, a volunteer with the Virginia Student-Help Project in 1963.