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1. Rosa Carolyn James & Sandra at Erics wedding, Gulfport, Mississippi [graphic].

Date of Original:: 1994-08-13
Collection:: Rosa Parks Papers
Contributing Institution:: Library of Congress

2. Rally, Boston Commons : commemorate Kent, Augusta, Jackson : strike [and] march May 5 ...

Date of Original:: 1970
Collection:: Posters: Yanker Poster Collection
Contributing Institution:: Library of Congress

3. 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, Mississippi

Date of Original:: 1965
Collection:: Voices of Civil Rights
Contributing Institution:: Library of Congress

4. John A. Morsell, Assistant to NAACP Executive Secretary to President John F. Kennedy requesting the assistance of the federal government in the case of James Meredith, September 21, 1962

Creator:: Morsell, John A.
Date of Original:: 1962-09-21
Collection:: With an Even Hand: Brown vs. Board at Fifty
Contributing Institution:: Library of Congress

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Civil rights era in the U.S. News & World Report photographs collection : selected images from the collections of the Library of Congress

Creator:: U.S. News & World Report, inc.
Date of Original:: 1959/1970
Contributing Institution:: Library of Congress

6. Negro man entering movie theatre by 'colored' entrance

Creator:: Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990
Date of Original:: 1939
Collection:: African American Odyssey
Contributing Institution:: Library of Congress