|
Title
|
Artist
|
Medium & Support
|
Creation Date
|
|
USA. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1962. NAACP Convention.
|
Davidson, Bruce
|
Gelatin silver print on paper
|
1962
|
|
Leaders of the proposed August 28 Civil Rights March on Washington DC hold a news conference at the march headquarters in New York
|
Adams, Eddie
|
Vintage wire photograph on paper
|
August 3, 1963
|
|
James H. Meredith (left), the first black man to graduate from the University of Mississippi, sits with Myrlie Evers, widow of Civil Rights and NAACP leader Medgar Evers, and Evers' brother Charles Evers in Jackson, Mississippi
|
Bourdier, James
|
Vintage wire photograph on paper
|
August 16, 1963
|
|
President Johnson pays close attention to A. Phillip Randolph, right, Vice President of the AFL-CIO, and Roy Wilkins, Director of the NAACP, in a meeting in the Cabinet Room at the White House.
|
Georges, Harvey
|
Vintage wire photograph on paper
|
April 28, 1966
|
|
Roy Wilkins, the 74-year-old Director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, says he will resign at the end of the year
|
Unknown Photographer
|
Vintage wire photograph on paper
|
May 27, 1905 (printed 1976)
|
|
Civil Rights activist James M. Meredith (above) said in New York that he accepted the "re-invitation" of the Columbus, Ohio chapter of the NAACP to speak at a "Mississippi Day" rally
|
Unknown Photographer
|
Vintage wire photograph on paper
|
November 23, 1966
|
|
Roy Wilkins, Executive Director of the NAACP, dispels reports that he has been ousted from his post during a news conference at NAACP headquarters in New York
|
Unknown Photographer
|
Vintage wire photograph on paper
|
January 15, 1974
|
|
James H. Meredith (right), who wants to enroll at all-white University of Mississippi, is at the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans with Tom Dent (left) of the NAACP
|
Pitts, J. N.
|
Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
|
September 25, 1962
|
|
Roy Wilkins, right, Executive Secretary of NAACP, speaks before the Civil Rights and Immigration Subcommittee of the Republican Platform Committee in Chicago
|
Unknown Photographer
|
Vintage wire photograph on paper
|
July 20, 1960
|
|
Edward Scheidt, Commissioner of Motor Vehicles for North Carolina, and Roy Wilkins, Executive Secretary of the NAACP, appeared before the House Judiciary Subcommittee during hearings on Civil Rights legislation
|
Unknown Photographer
|
Vintage wire photograph on paper
|
February 5, 1957
|
|
NAACP Executive Director Roy Wilkins said, "the police and the black minority are not on good terms" at a press conference in Milwaukee
|
Unknown Photographer
|
Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
|
August 20, 1965
|
|
Roy Wilkins, Executive Director of the NAACP, charges the Nixon Administration with "playing cat and mouse" on school integration at a press conference in Jackson, Mississippi
|
Unknown Photographer
|
Vintage wire photograph on paper
|
June 29, 1969
|
|
President Kennedy will reportedly send the nomination of Thurgood Marshall to the Senate today. Marshall is shown in 1960 as a federal appellate judge.
|
Unknown Photographer
|
Vintage wire photograph with applied pigment on paper
|
September 23, 1961
|
|
Harold P. Boulware, Thurgood Marshall, and Spottswood W. Robinson III confer at the Supreme Court today before presenting arguments against segregated schools in Virginia and South Carolina
|
Georges, Harvey
|
Vintage wire photograph on paper
|
December 7, 1953
|
|
Devours Nix is escorted by Federal agents after his arrest on Civil Rights charges stemming from the slaying of black leader Vernon Ferdinand Dahmer, Sr.
|
Thornell, Jack
|
Vintage wire photograph on paper
|
March 1, 1966
|
|
Fayette, Mississippi. Top: banner across a highway entrance asking for passersby to shop. Bottom: Charlie Montgomery, Jr. points to a boycott sign he painted on his store, hoping to boost business from white buyers.
|
Thornell, Jack
|
Vintage wire photograph on paper
|
January 1966
|
|
Thurgood Marshall, Chief Counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, speaks before the reunion of the 396th Veterans' Association in New York City
|
Unknown Photographer
|
Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
|
September 23, 1956
|
|
Mayor John Nosser (left) and state NAACP Field Secretary Charles Evers announce agreements ending a black boycott of downtown white merchants, Natchez, Mississippi
|
Unknown Photographer
|
Vintage wire photograph on paper
|
December 3, 1965
|
|
Speakers lock hands and sing during memorial service on Boston Common for Medgar Evers, slain Mississippi black leader
|
Green, J. Walter
|
Vintage wire photograph on paper
|
June 26, 1963
|
|
Paul B. Zuber, who has fought school segregation in several Northern communities, is pictured in Detroit after resigning as Housing Chairman of the New York State Conference of the NAACP
|
Quinn, Alvan
|
Vintage wire photograph on paper
|
February 22, 1962
|
|
Attorney Russell Thompson, left, and private investigator Paul Mitchell leave a meeting of NAACP lawyers in New York City regarding new information about the slaying of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
|
Harris, Jacob
|
Vintage wire photograph on paper
|
March 17, 1969
|
|
Church and black leaders confer outside Pompano Beach Municipal Court
|
Unknown Photographer
|
Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
|
June 25, 1966
|
|
Atlanta restaurateur Lester Maddox, staunch segregationist and candidate for Lieutenant Governor, watches as a picket from the NAACP national convention carries a sign in front of his restaurant
|
Cort, Horace
|
Vintage wire photograph on paper
|
July 1962
|
|
Judges Boyd Sloan and Frank Hooper walk to the courtroom to preside over a trial in United States District Court related to Atlanta's school segregation laws
|
Cort, Horace
|
Vintage wire photograph on paper
|
June 1959
|
|
Three pickets patrol the area in front of all-black Lincoln Senior High School in Marrero, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana
|
Guillot, J. W.
|
Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
|
September 1965
|
by Artist (17)