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Results: 1-25 of 51,080   |   Refined by: Available Online   Remove Subject: New York   Remove

  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Confer on civil rights march 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 7 3/16 x 9 1/8 in. | Leaders of the 1963 March on Washington (l to r) Bayard Rustin, Asa Philip Randolph, and Dr. John Morsell holding a press conference in the New York headquarters.
    • Date: 1963
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    NAACP photographs of civil rights marches, demonstrations, and lobbying activities to promote civil rights legislation at the national and local levels 98 photographic prints : gelatin silver, 4 photocopies ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller. | Primarily marches, demonstrations, and meetings on civil rights issues. Includes one image of the Silent Protest parade of 1917 (New York, N.Y.), the Prayer Pilgrimage of 1957 and the Civil Rights Assembly of 1956 at Washington, D.C.; color snapshot views of the Selma, Ala., march of 1965. Miscellaneous...
    • Date: 1917
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    [Puerto Ricans demonstrate for civil rights at City Hall, New York City] 1 photographic print.
    • Date: 1967
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Benefit night and rally : Sat., January 15th, 8 PM for the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Assoc. ... 1 print ; (poster format)
    • Contributor: W. Chris Gorman Associates
    • Date: 1972
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    [Civil rights demonstrators from the Congress of Racial Equality and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee chained to a federal courthouse in New York City in protest of civil rights abuses in Jackson, ... 1 photographic print.
    • Date: 1965
  • Book/Printed Material
    Civil rights bill and West Point academy. Letter from Gerrit Smith to Frederick Douglass. Peterboro, June 27th, 1874. On verso, Copy 1: MC#09-82-038.233. On verso, Copy 2: Exchange Oberlin College Library Mar 26, 1915; MC #09-82-038.234.; On verso, Copy 3: Trans from Manuscripts Div. Oct 29, 1945; MC #09-82-038.235.; On recto, Copy 3: 83. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 3 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collection;...
    • Contributor: Smith, Gerrit
    • Date: 1874
  • Film, Video
    Emmett W. Bassett and Priscilla Tietjen Bassett oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Grahamsville, New York, 2011 July 21. Priscilla Tietjen Bassett recalls growing up in Plainfield, New Jersey, and attending Smith College, and Emmett W. Bassett remembers growing up in Henry County, Virginia, serving in World War II, and attending Tuskegee Institute, where he assisted George Washington Carver with research. They tell how they met at a protest of a segregated restaurant in Massachusetts, raising money for Emmett Till's mother, their involvement...
    • Contributor: Bassett, Priscilla - Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Bassett, Emmett W.
    • Date: 2011

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  • Film, Video
    Purcell Maurice Conway oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Saint Augustine, Florida, 2011 September 13. Purcell Conway recalls growing up in St. Augustine, Florida, and working many odd jobs. He recalls facing discrimination, participating in demonstrations, and witnessing a riot when attempting to integrate the beach. He also discusses moving to New York City, his career as a police officer, and successfully suing the city for discrimination in promotions.
    • Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Mosnier, Joseph - Conway, Purcell Maurice
    • Date: 2011

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  • Film, Video
    Wyatt Tee Walker oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Richmond, Virginia, 2014 July 09. Dr. Walker reflects on his involvement in the freedom movement, especially his work as Martin Luther King's chief of staff and as the Executive Director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) from 1960-1964. He recalls helping to organize the Children's Crusade in Birmingham, Alabama, and supporting Dr. King in transcribing and publishing "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." He also remembers preaching in Petersburg,...
    • Contributor: Walker, Wyatt Tee - Walker, Theresa Ann - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Cline, David P. - Bishop, John Melville
    • Date: 2014
  • Film, Video
    John Carlos oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in New York, New York, 2013 August 18. John Carlos discusses his childhood in Harlem, New York, the changes that he saw in Harlem with the widespread use of heroin and the splintering of families, and describes the disparities in education for black children when he was growing up. He remembers the influence of black leaders including Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Carlos was recruited to run...
    • Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Cline, David P. - Carlos, John
    • Date: 2013

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  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    [Civil rights leaders (left to right), John Lewis, Whitney Young, Jr., Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., James Farmer, and Roy Wilkins stand behind table at meeting at Hotel Commodore, New York City] 1 photographic print.
    • Date: 1963
  • Book/Printed Material
    Paying with their lives : the status of compensation for 9/11 health effects : joint hearing before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law and the Subcommittee on ... Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche. Shipping list no. unavailable. "Serial no. 110-82" Includes bibliographical references. Also available via Internet from the GPO Access web site. Address as of 7/14/08: http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=110_house_hearings&docid=f:41582.pdf; current access is available via PURL.
    • Contributor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law
    • Date: 2008
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    [A New York plumber, from Local 2 of the Plumbers' Union, watches civil rights demonstrators picketing the Union office following the Union's refusal to work on a $25 million construction project in ... 1 photographic print.
    • Date: 1964
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Lilli Vincenz papers, 1879-2013 Gay rights activist, psychotherapist, and documentary film maker. Correspondence, journals, organizational files, speeches, writings, surveys and questionnaires, press clippings, printed matter, academic files, and other papers relating to Lilli Vincenz's life as a gay civil rights activist, her work to support and empower lesbians and gay men, and her documentation of the gay and lesbian civil rights movement.
    • Contributor: Vincenz, Lilli
    • Date: 1879
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Roger W. Wilkins papers, 1861-2012 Civil rights activist, professor of history, journalist, and United States assistant attorney general in President Lyndon B. Johnson's adminstration. Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, writings, notebooks, teaching material, family papers, newspaper clippings, printed matter, photographs, digital files, and other papers relating to Wilkins's career and civil rights and social activism.
    • Contributor: Wilkins, Roger W.
    • Date: 1861
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    1st women's march for equality. 5th Ave. NYC 1 photographic print ; 8 x 10 in. | Photograph shows women marching and holding banner with message: Equal jobs and educational opportunities!
    • Contributor: Lane, Bettye
    • Date: 1970
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Women's march for equality. NYC 1 photographic print ; 8 x 10 in. | Photograph shows African American and white women marching and wearing t-shirts and buttons with the message: Ratify the ERA.
    • Contributor: Lane, Bettye
    • Date: 1977
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Robert L. Carter papers, 1941-2006 Civil rights lawyer and judge. Correspondence, memoranda, legal cases, speeches, writings, subject files, newspaper clippings, ephemera, biographical material, oral history interviews, photographs, notes, and research material relating primarily to Carter's career after 1968.
    • Contributor: Carter, Robert L.
    • Date: 1941
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Three placards 1 photographic print. | Photograph shows a group of African Americans standing at a fence holding placards with portraits of Elijah Muhammad, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X.
    • Contributor: Nance, Marilyn
    • Date: 1986
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Leaders of integration struggle 1 photographic print. | Civil rights leaders (l to r) Dr. Martin Luther King, James Farmer, and Roy Wilkins speak about plans for the March on Washington, D.C., while at a luncheon in New York's Hotel Roosevelt.
    • Date: 1963
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    1st women's march for equality. NYC 1 photographic print ; 8 x 10 in. | Photograph shows women and men behind a sign with the message: Men for women's liberation.
    • Contributor: Lane, Bettye
    • Date: 1970
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    [African American woman being carried to police patrol wagon during demonstration in Brooklyn, New York] 1 photographic print : gelatin silver.
    • Contributor: Demarsico, Dick
    • Date: 1963
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    260 West 125th St., Harlem, 2016 1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color. | Photograph shows a group of people walking past a display of pictures related to civil rights next to a table of books and t-shirts.
    • Contributor: Vergara, Camilo J.
    • Date: 2016-10-23
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Marchers carrying banner lead way as 15,000 parade in Harlem 1 photographic print. | Photograph shows marchers carrying banner "We march with Selma!" on street in Harlem, New York City, New York.
    • Contributor: Wolfson, Stanley
    • Date: 1965
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    [Stokely Carmichael, LeRoi Jones, and H. Rap Brown in Michaux's [i.e. Micheaux's ] Bookstore, Harlem, New York] 1 photographic print : gelatin silver.
    • Contributor: Hinton, James E.
    • Date: 1967
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