Search results for Civil Rights, Available Online, Kansas

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Civil Rights Era (1950–1963) - The Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Long Struggle for Freedom The Brown decision fueled violent resistance during which Southern states evaded the law. The Montgomery bus boycott began a campaign of nonviolent civil disobedience to protest segregation that attracted national and international attention. Media coverage of the use of fire hoses and attack dogs against protesters and bombings and riots in Birmingham compelled Kennedy to act, sending a civil rights bill to Congress.

Contributor: Robeson, Paul - Morsell, John - Minneapolis - Minnesota - Martin, Louis - O'Halloran, Thomas - Ward, Fred - Warren, Earl - Rustin, Bayard - Parks, Gordon ... Robeson, Paul - Morsell, John - Minneapolis - Minnesota - Martin, Louis - O'Halloran, Thomas - Ward, Fred - Warren, Earl - Rustin, Bayard - Parks, Gordon - Leffler, Warren - Mingus, Charles - Mink, Patsy - Evers, Medgar - Herblock - Kheel, Theodore - Alper, Joe - Taylor, Billy - Roach, Max - Farmer, James - U.S. Congress - Humphrey, Hubert - Mitchell, Clarence - Johnson, Patricia - Baldwin, Jamesstudent Nonviolent Coordinating Committee - Carter, Roosevelt - Lewis, John - Ellison, Ralph - Bond, Julian - Bates, Daisy - Wilkins, Roy - Marshall, Thurgood - King, Martin Luther Jr.
Date: 2014-10-10

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The Civil Rights Era - The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship Resistance to racial segregation and discrimination with strategies such as civil disobedience, nonviolent resistance, marches, protests, boycotts, 'freedom rides,' and rallies received national attention as the press documented the struggle to end racial inequality. There were continuing efforts to legally challenge segregation through the courts and the passage of civil rights legislation.

Contributor: Leffler, Warren K. - Clark, Kenneth - Harrington, Oliver W. - Trikosko, Marion S. - Roach, Max - Greene, William C. - Hamilton, Frank - Seeger, Pete - Bates, Daisy - Rennert, Richard Scott - Carawan, Guy - Horton, Silphia - Marshall, Thurgood
Date: 1998-02-09

Book/Printed Material

Racial and religious tensions on selected Kansas college campuses / Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available "February 1992." Includes bibliographical references. A digital reproduction made from a copy held by the Thurgood Marshall Law Library, University of Maryland, is available from the University of Maryland Web site.

Contributor: United States Commission on Civil Rights. Kansas Advisory Committee
Date: 1992

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Exhibition Overview This exhibition examines precedent-setting court cases that lay the groundwork for the Brown v. Board decision, explores the Supreme Court argument, the public's response to it, and closes with an overview of this profound decision's aftermath. Topics include Racial Segregation, Brown v. Board of Education, Aftermath the civil rights movement.

Contributor: Carter, Robert L. - Marshall, Thurgood - Bridges, Ruby
Date: 2004-11-13

Photo, Print, Drawing

Monroe Elementary School, 1515 Monroe Street, Topeka, Shawnee County, KS Measured Drawing(s): 14 | Data Page(s): 47

Contributor: Balachowski, J - Heath, Sarah - Fenton, Scotney - Lindstrom, F J - Brown Vs. Board of Education - Smith, Roland P - Hurley, David Wayne - Hopkins, Denise a - Historic American Buildings Survey - Williamson, Thomas W

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NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund records, Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Correspondence, memoranda, reports, notes, legal case files, committee files, conference agenda, administrative records, printed matter, and other records documenting the legal program of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, parent organization of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, through the mid-1960s and its coordinated attack on legal segregation and racial discrimination waged in state, federal, and supreme courts. Subjects include...

Contributor: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund

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Reconstruction and Its Aftermath - The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship After the Civil War, African Americans were allowed to vote, actively participate in politics, acquire land, seek employment, and use public accommodations. Opponents soon began to find means for eroding these gains.

Contributor: Stephens, Henry L. - Nast, Thomas - White, Elizabeth - Crane, George F. - Waud, Alfred R. - Hoover, J. - Taylor, James E.
Date: 1998-02-09

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The Aftermath - Brown v. Board at Fifty: "With an Even Hand" By 1964, ten years after Brown, the NAACP's focused legal campaign had been transformed into a mass movement to eliminate all traces of institutionalized racism from American life.

Contributor: Douglas, William O. - White Citizens Council - Rustin, Bayard - Motley, Constance - Eckford, Elizabeth - Morsell, John A. - Shores, Arthur - Lucy, Autherine - Parks, Rosa - Brady, Tom ... Douglas, William O. - White Citizens Council - Rustin, Bayard - Motley, Constance - Eckford, Elizabeth - Morsell, John A. - Shores, Arthur - Lucy, Autherine - Parks, Rosa - Brady, Tom - Little Rock Nine - Bridges, Ruby - Kennedy, John F. - Randolph, A. Phillip - Greenberg, Jack - King, Martin Luther, Jr. - Bates, Daisy
Date: 2004-11-13

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A Century of Racial Segregation 1849–1950 - Brown v. Board at Fifty: "With an Even Hand" Between 1849 and 1950, blacks were segregated from whites by law and private action in transportation, public accommodations, armed forces, recreational facilities, prisons, and schools in both northern and southern states.

Contributor: Sumner, Charles - Howard University - White, Walter - Spingarn, Arthur - Houston, Charles H. - Margold, Nathan R. - Lovett, Edward P. - Ransom, Leon A. - Garland, Charles - Spingarn, Joel - Tyson, James G. - Hastie, William - NAACP Legal Defense Fund - Roberts, Benjamin - Marshall, Thurgood
Date: 2004-11-13

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1950 to 2000 - Books That Shaped America The titles featured here from 1950 to 2000 have had a profound effect on American life, but they are by no means the only influential or best ones.

Contributor: Bradbury, Ray - X, Malcolm - Capote, Truman - Friedan, Betty - Shilts, Randy - Ginsberg, Allen - Heller, Joseph - Baldwin, James - Watson James D. - Heinlein, Robert E. ... Bradbury, Ray - X, Malcolm - Capote, Truman - Friedan, Betty - Shilts, Randy - Ginsberg, Allen - Heller, Joseph - Baldwin, James - Watson James D. - Heinlein, Robert E. - Haley, Alex - Keats, Jack Ezra - Sendak, Maurice - Seuss, Dr. - Brown, Margaret Wise - Kerouac, Jack - Morrison, Toni - Chávez ,césar - Ralph, Nader - Sagan, Carl - Carson, Rachel - Rand, Ayn - Salinger, J. D. - Ralph Ellison - Geisel, Theodore Seuss - White, E. - Brown, Dee - Lee, Harper
Date: 2012-06-25

Photo, Print, Drawing

The destruction of the city of Lawrence, Kansas, and the massacre of its inhabitants by the Rebel guerrillas, August 21, 1863 1 print : wood engraving ; 27 x 39.6 cm (sheet) | Print shows Rebel troops killing the citizens of Lawrence, Kansas, and setting fire to the buildings.

Date: 1863

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The ruins of Lawrence, Kansas 1 print : wood engraving. | Print shows ruins of buildings in Lawrence, Kansas, following attack by William Quantrill and his Confederate raiders.

Date: 1863

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[Two unidentified Border Ruffians with swords] 1 photograph : albumen print on card mount ; mount 11 x 6 cm (carte de visite format) | Photograph shows pro-slavery activists from Missouri who crossed into Kansas Territory between 1854 and 1860 to promote slavery.

Date: 1854

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Charles Ewing family papers, Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Correspondence, diaries, biographical material, genealogical notebooks, legal and business records, scrapbooks, memorabilia, photographs, and other papers relating to the family of Charles Ewing during and after the Civil War. Includes volumes of family history and genealogy, illustrated with correspondence, family trees, clippings, and portraits. Materials pertain to the Ewing, Larwill, Miller, and Stibbs families. Papers of Thomas Ewing (1789-1871) consist primarily of records from...

Contributor: Ewing, Thomas - Ewing, Charles - Ewing, Virginia Larwill Miller

Photo, Print, Drawing

A rare specimen found on hill above Fort Riley, Kansas, 420 miles west of St. Louis, Mo. 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph, albumen. | Photo shows a portable darkroom in the wagon, with photographer Alexander Gardner seated in middle of image, holding his camera lens. Man at left is holding a plant.

Contributor: Gardner, Alexander
Date: 1867

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Henry Clay family papers,
Clay family papers Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Personal, official, and family correspondence, speeches, writings, business records, legal files, biographical material, printed matter, and other papers chiefly documenting the public career and private life of statesman Henry Clay, his son James B. Clay, and other Clay family members. Part I consists of general correspondence relating primarily to politics; dispatches and instructions sent by Henry Clay as secretary of state to chargés d'affaires...

Contributor: Clay, James (James Brown) - Morrison, James - Clay, Henry - Transylvania University

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Neville-Kanode Farmstead, East side of U.S. Highway 81,2.5 miles south of Kansas-Nebraska state line, Munden, Republic County, KS Photo(s): 3 | Data Page(s): 19 | Photo Caption Page(s): 2

Contributor: White, Sheryll L - Missouri Pacific Railroad - Poppe Family - Coffeyville Vitrified Brick & Tile Company - Derowitsch, Maxwell - Nimz, Dale E - Worley, Barry - Greatorex, Linda - Weston, Timothy - Burlington & Missouri Railroad ... White, Sheryll L - Missouri Pacific Railroad - Poppe Family - Coffeyville Vitrified Brick & Tile Company - Derowitsch, Maxwell - Nimz, Dale E - Worley, Barry - Greatorex, Linda - Weston, Timothy - Burlington & Missouri Railroad - Neville, Mary Ellen, Kanode - Hedval, Eric - Poppe, Dorothy - Neville Family - Spence, Beatrice Spry - Guzman, Wolffang - Poppe, Peter Frederick - Burruss, Albert G - Jungck, Edward - Newton, Dale - Neville, James Louis - Kniep, Randy - King, Marsha K - Kansas Department of Transportation - Colcher, Larry - Leibsack, Rodger - Derowitsch, Huetta - Historic American Buildings Survey - Liebsack, George

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Henry Clay family papers, 1732-1927
Clay family papers Personal, official, and family correspondence, speeches, writings, business records, legal files, biographical material, printed matter, and other papers chiefly documenting the public career and private life of statesman Henry Clay (1777-1852), United States secretary of state and representative and senator from Kentucky; his son, James B. Clay (1817-1864), diplomat, United States representative from Kentucky, and Confederate sympathizer; and other members of Henry Clay's family.

Contributor: Clay, James (James Brown) - Morrison, James - Clay, Henry - Transylvania University
Date: 1732

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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas - Brown v. Board at Fifty: "With an Even Hand" The NAACP developed a campaign to attack the doctrine of 'separate but equal,' which culminated in five separate cases gathered under the name Oliver Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.

Contributor: Hayes, George E.C. - Frankfurter, Felix - Nabrit, James M. - Brown, Oliver - Greenburg, Jack - Clark, Dr. Kenneth - Warren, Earl - Carter, Robert - Clark, Mamie Phipps - Redding, Louis - Marshall, Thurgood - Parks, Gordon
Date: 2004-11-13