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Long Civil Rights Movement: Photographs from the Ronnie Moore Papers, 1964 -1972

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Creator
Moore, Ronnie Malcolm, 1940-

Date of Original
1959/2004

Subject
Congress of Racial Equality
Protest marches--Southern States
African Americans--Civil rights--Southern States
African American civil rights workers--Southern States
Civil rights workers--Southern States
Civil rights movements--Southern States
African Americans--Suffrage
United States--Race relations--History--20th century
Voter registration--Southern States
Black Panther Party
African Americans--Suffrage--Southern States
Scholarship, Education and Defense Fund for Racial Equality
African American Catholics--Louisiana
Poor People's Campaign
Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.)
Protest marches--Washington (D.C.)

People
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Moore, Ronnie Malcolm, 1940-

Medium
photographs

Type
StillImage

Description
Moore is a civil rights activist and community development consultant who trained leaders in community organization, youth development, cultural diversity, and team building. Moore was the field secretary in the South for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the executive director of the Scholarship, Education and Defense Fund for Racial Equality, Inc. (SEDFRE). These photographs were collected by Moore in his roles with CORE and SEDFRE. The Ronnie Moore digital collection captures the political and social empowerment of African Americans in the South during the 1960s. Images of CORE activists, and the African American populations they served, are displayed in photographs of voter registration drives in Florida and South Carolina, freedom schools in Mississippi, and direct protest demonstrations in Louisiana and North Carolina. Images from Moore’s work with SEDFRE emphasize the economic activism carried out by African Americans during the late 1960s and 1970s in Northern states such as New Hampshire, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Indiana, and Maryland. Other economic initiatives depicted are farming cooperatives in Louisiana, job training for youth and adults in Mississippi, and the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign in Washington D.C. Most importantly, Moore’s photographs exhibit a shift in the Civil Rights Movement from direct protests targeting disenfranchisement and segregationist practices in the 1960s, to federally funded programs that were created to raise the economic viability of African Americans in the 1970s. Students, teachers, researchers, and others are encouraged to contact the Center about this digital collection and the Ronnie Moore papers., The Long Civil Rights Movement: Photographs from the Ronnie Moore Papers, 1964 -1972, is a digital collection created by the Amistad Research Center. It is presented in the Tulane University Digital Library through a partnership between the Amistad Research Center and Tulane University. Inquiries regarding content in this digital collection should be addressed to reference@amistadresearchcenter.org or (504) 862-3222. This digital collection, funded by the Patrick F. Taylor Foundation, consists of photographs from the Ronnie Moore papers located at the Amistad Research Center.

Metadata URL
https://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/islandora/object/tulane%3Amoore

Rights Holder
Copyright to these papers has not been assigned to the Amistad Research Center. It is the responsibility of an author to secure permission for publication from the holder of the copyright to any material contained in this collection.

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Amistad Research Center

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