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Clear All Type Still Image Rights No Copyright - United States

Description:: Online version of an exhibit at the Library of Congress on African American life.
Date of Original:: 1998
Contributing Institution:: Library of Congress

Description:: This collection consists of one charcoal drawing of Martin Luther King, Jr., approximately 24"x36", created by Clifford "Baldy" Baldowski.
Date of Original:: 1965/1966
Contributing Institution:: Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies

Description:: Papers of Theresa El-Amin, activist and union organizer who was involved with the Coalition of Labor Union Women, the Service Employees International Union, the Black Radical Congress, the Black Workers for Justice, Jobs with Justice, Solidarity, and the Durham NAACP.
Date of Original:: 1960/2010
Contributing Institution:: Duke University. Library

Description:: Collection of images of school desegregation protests in Farmville, Virginia, the county seat of Prince Edward County.
Date of Original:: 1959/1969
Contributing Institution:: James Branch Cabell Library. Special Collections and Archives

Description:: Photographs and documents relating to the Little Rock School Integration Crisis from the collections of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library.
Date of Original:: 1954/1958
Contributing Institution:: Dwight D. Eisenhower Library

Description:: Correspondence, published literature, and notes dating from 1919 to 1938 related to the Women of the Ku Klux Klan
Date of Original:: 1919/1938
Contributing Institution:: John Davis Williams Library. Department of Archives and Special Collections

Description:: Photographs dating between 1918 and 1990 from the Los Angeles Times newspaper.
Date of Original:: 1918/1990
Contributing Institution:: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections

Description:: Black Trailblazers, Leaders, Activists, and Intellectuals in Cleveland contains approximately 2000 images of 500 individuals selected from the photographs in the Cleveland Press Collection. The photographs in the collection generally date from the 1920s on, with most of them from 1960 to 1982 and are arranged alphabetically by the individual's last name. To be included in the collection, an individual had to be either born or raised in the greater Cleveland area or have lived a significant part of his/her life in the region.
Date of Original:: 1912/1990
Contributing Institution:: Michael Schwartz Library

Description:: Activist Modjeska Simkins of Columbia, S.C. served as the South Carolina State Secretary for the NAACP, 1941-1957; as Campaign Director for the renovation of Good Samaritan-Waverly Hospital, 1944-1950; as Public Relations Director for the Richland County Citizens Committee, 1956-1988; and as President of the Southern Conference Educational Fund, 1972-1974.
Date of Original:: 1909/1992
Contributing Institution:: South Caroliniana Library
University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

Description:: Documents from the Papers of Robert E. McNair at South Carolina Political Collections
Date of Original:: 1905/1989
Contributing Institution:: South Caroliniana Library

Description:: Building the African-American Community is a collection of photographs and texts largely from the Jacob Fontaine Religious Museum, dedicated to preserving the African-American cultural history of Austin, Texas.
Date of Original:: 1900/1985
Contributing Institution:: Jacob Fontaine Religious Museum
Marfa Public Library (Marfa, Tex.)

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