Civil rights era in the U.S. News & World Report photographs collection : selected images from the collections of the Library of Congress
Selected photographs from U.S. News and World Report Magazine of the Civil Rights movement.
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Creator
U.S. News & World Report, inc.
Date of Original
1959/1970
Subject
African American civil rights workers
African Americans--Civil rights
Black Panther Party
Black power
Civil rights movements--United States
Demonstrations--Washington (D.C.)
Lincoln Memorial (Washington, D.C.)
Race discrimination--Alabama--Birmingham
Demonstrations--Arkansas--Little Rock
Segregation in education--United States
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing, Birmingham, Ala., 1963
Bombings--Alabama--Birmingham
College integration--Mississippi--Oxford
University of Mississippi
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Washington, D.C., 1963
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Democratic National Convention (1964 : Atlantic city, N.J.)
People
Henry, Aaron, 1922-
Katzenbach, Nicholas deB. (Nicholas deBelleville), 1922-
Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919-1998
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973
Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Meredith, James, 1933-
Location
United States, Alabama, Jefferson County, Birmingham, 33.52066, -86.80249
United States, Arkansas, Pulaski County, Little Rock, 34.74648, -92.28959
United States, District of Columbia, Washington, 38.89511, -77.03637
United States, Mississippi, Lafayette County, 34.35675, -89.48492
United States, Mississippi, Lafayette County, Oxford, 34.3665, -89.51925
Medium
black-and-white photographs
negatives (photographs)
film negatives
group portraits
photographic prints
Type
StillImage
Description
The selected images from the U.S. News & World Report collection relating to the Civil Rights movement depict Aaron Henry of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party at the Democratic National Convention, a Black Panther convention, bombings in Alabama, school integration in Alabama and Arkansas, and Lyndon Johnson and Robert Kennedy in their role as civil rights activists., The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata.
Original Collection
U.S. News and World Report Magazine Photograph Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Contributing Institution
Library of Congress
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