Photograph of the Scottsboro Boys, who were falsely accused of raping two white women, 1931
Acme News PicturesView Full Item in The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)Photograph
Photograph Mamie Till with her son Emmett, who was murdered in Money, Mississippi, 1955
View Full Item in UC Berkeley, Bancroft LibraryEmmett Till was murdered in Money, Miss.
Photograph of Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus with President Eisenhower after a two hour conference on the Little Rock integration controversy, 1957
Department of Defense. Department of the Navy. Naval Photographic Center. (12/1/1959 - ca. 1998)View Full Item in National Archives and Records AdministrationEditorial from The Nashville Tennessean encouraging the prosecution of those responsible for the bombing of Z. Alexander Looby’s home, 1960
View Full Item in Tennessee State Library and ArchivesAn editorial from page ten of The Nashville Tennessean newspaper dated April 20th, 1960 stresses the need for the community to come together and do everything in its power to not only find and prosecu…
Howard Zinn’s files on violence and intimidation of Mississippi blacks and civil rights workers, 1961-1964
Zinn, Howard, 1922View Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyThis folder includes many reports of violence and intimidation of Mississippi blacks, especially those involved in registering to vote, and of civil rights workers from 1961 on, COFO's hopes for unive…
Copy of telegram from President Kennedy to Governor Ross Barnett about James Meredith’s entrance into the University of Mississippi, 1962
President (1961-1963 : Kennedy). Office of the Personal Secretary. 1961-1963View Full Item in John F. Kennedy LibraryThis item is a copy of a telegram from President John F. Kennedy to Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett regarding the entrance of James Meredith into the University of Mississippi.
Violence and harassment summary reports during and following Freedom Summer in Mississippi, 1963-1965
Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi, Fourth Congressional DistrictView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyThis entire folder documents some of the many acts of violence, economic reprisals, threats, and intimidation experienced by civil rights workers before, during, and after Freedom Summer. Reprinted ar…
Speech by James Baldwin after the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963
View Full Item in Pacifica Radio ArchivesAfter the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama on September 15, 1963, James Baldwin spoke to an overflowing crowd at the New York Community Church. Baldwin spoke against th…
Photograph of Governor George Wallace blocking the entrance of two black students to the University of Alabama, 1963
View Full Item in Chapman University, Frank Mt. Pleasant Library of Special Collections and ArchivesGovernor George C. Wallace blocks the entrance of two black students to the University of Alabama.
News releases, newsletters, and miscellaneous publications relating to the murder of Andrew Goodman, Civil Rights worker, 1964-1965
Goodman, CarolynView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyThis folder contains three documents, all relating to the murder of Andrew Goodman: Andrew Goodman's Mississippi death certificate stating that he had died of "gun shot wounds of an undetermined origi…
Photograph of Andrew Goodman, slain civil rights worker
View Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyA posed photograph of Andrew Goodman wearing a dark shirt, used in the poster produced by the FBI after his disappearance. Andrew Goodman was a civil rights activist and volunteer for the Freedom Summ…
Audio of the memorial service held for murdered civil rights worker James Chaney, 1964
Hollander, EdwardView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyThis audio is from the memorial service held at the site of Mt. Zion Baptist Church for James Chaney. Both the minister present and Fannie Chaney remember the lives of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, an…
Voter Registration Program reports written by Program Director Michael Schwerner before his murder in June, 1964
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Lauderdale CountyView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyThis folder consists primarily of program reports, dating January to October of 1964, relating to the CORE and COFO Community Center and Voter Registration Program in Meridian, Mississippi. Most repor…
Photograph of Alabama State Troopers beating black marchers on Bloody Sunday, March 7, 1965
Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Planning, Environment, and Realty. Office of Natural and Human Environment. National Scenic Byways Program. 1991View Full Item in National Archives at College Park - Still PicturesOriginal caption: Alabama State Troopers Beat Black Marchers on Bloody Sunday - John Lewis Receives blow to the head.
