Resistance and Backlash

View of the aftermath of the lynching of an unidentified African American man. Local identification number: VIS 170.4583.001 Local identification number: ahc1704583001a Atlanta History Photograph Coll…

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Photograph of a Communist parade in Washington, D.C. Banners include: "We march for food and freedom; to free the Scottsboro boys; [...] hunger [...]", "Fight Roosevelt's new deal of hunger", "Down wi…

In the long struggle for civil rights and racial equality in America, few episodes had the impact of the infamous Scottsboro Boys case. When nine black teenagers falsely accused of raping two women on…

View of U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond (center, dark suit) and other unidentified people at the Dixiecrat Convention in Birmingham, Alabama. The Dixiecrat Convention of 1948 was a gathering of the States…

Emmett Till was murdered in Money, Miss.

Photograph of civil rights leader Ralph Abernathy (right) standing on the porch of his Atlanta, Georgia home in 1957 following a Ku Klux Klan bombing. A large hole appears in the brick foundation of t…

In this October, 2, 1957 News in Review article in The Collegian, Greensboro College's student newspaper, Carole Marshall gives a summary of the 1957 incident in Little Rock, Arkansas, in which the st…

Entry on the event of The Lost Year, the school year of 1957-1958 when Orval Faubus closed Little Rock high schools in an attempt to block desegregation. The Civil Rights Digital Library received supp…

This photograph shows two Atlanta, Georgia police officials investigating the synagogue of the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation in Atlanta, which was dynamited on October 12, 1958. The men stand inside…

Thurmond on the Civil Rights Commission Title supplied by cataloger. Local identification number: Clip number: wsbn34334 Original found in the WSB-TV newsfilm collection.

An originalist in matters of jurisprudence, McNair criticized the judicial activism of the Supreme Court in civil rights cases and praised Governor Hollings' stand against federal civil rights legisla…

In this WSB newsfilm clip from April 19, 1960 an unidentified reporter interviews civil rights lawyer and city councilman Z. Alexander Looby after his home in Nashville, Tennessee was bombed. The clip…

An 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…

Title supplied by cataloger. Original found in the WSB-TV newsfilm collection.

Letter from J.B. Stoner, Grand Wizard KKK to Elijah Muhammad Individual(s) identified in the photograph include Stoner J.B. The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership…

This 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…

Photograph of an injured C. B. King, in 1962, talking to six reporters after being caned by Dougherty County, Georgia sheriff Cull Campbell in the sheriff's office. His head is wrapped in white gauze…

In this WALB newsfilm clip from Tuesday, July 24, 1962, Albany, Georgia, police chief Laurie Pritchett speaks to reporters from his office regarding an outbreak of violence following the arrest of dem…

In this WALB newsfilm clip from August 28, 1962, Albany, Georgia police chief Laurie Pritchett addresses and then arrests ministers from New York and Chicago participating in a kneel-in at Albany City…

Reporter: Valeriani, Richard. In this WSB newsfilm clip from July 1962, a five-and-one-half months pregnant Marion King, wife of Slater King, speaks from her bed to WSB-TV reporter Richard Valeriani a…

Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett, Lieutenant Governor Paul Johnson, and others walking on University of Mississippi campus to stop James Meredith from enrolling The Civil Rights Digital Library recei…

This 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.

James Meredith's effort to become the first African American to enroll at the University of Mississippi made national headlines in the fall of 1962. Despite a U.S. Supreme Court decision supporting hi…

This silent WSB newsfilm clip from Oxford, Mississippi in October 1962 shows the University of Mississippi campus, white students on campus, and federal troops stationed at the university after an int…

In this series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips from July 25, 1963, authorities escort Byron de la Beckwith, accused of the slaying of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, to the Mississippi State Hospital for a…

Civil Rights leaders Fred Shuttlesworth (left), Martin Luther King Jr. (center), and Ralph Abernathy (right) attend a funeral for victims of the 16th Street Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963…

This 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…

Interior view of broken stained-glass windows inside the 16th Street Baptist Church following the church's bombing on September 15, 1963, in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963.

After 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…

The Clifford Baldowski cartoon depicts businessmen, law officials, editors, and clergy sweating as they tip toe in to Birmingham towards 16th Street Baptist Church that has been bombed. Clifford H. Ba…

Encyclopedia article about the Civil Rights movement in Birmingham, Alabama. The city's violent response to the spring 1963 demonstrations against white supremacy forced the federal government to inte…

In this WSB newsfilm clip from June 7, 1963, Eugene "Bull" Connor addresses a Citizens' Council rally in Holt, Alabama; and in Tuscaloosa, Alabama officials prepare the University of Alabama campus fo…

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Governor George C. Wallace blocks the entrance of two black students to the University of Alabama.

This silent WSB newsfilm clip from September 4, 1963 shows the bomb damage done to the Birmingham, Alabama home of African American attorney Arthur Shores. The clip begins with African American men an…

A recount of events in the civil rights movement in St. Augustine. Offers an account from the perspective of the African American community. Civil Rights Library of St. Augustine

Encyclopedia article about 1964 murder of Lemuel Penn in Madison County, Georgia. Penn, a World War II veteran and officer in the United States Army Reserves was driving from Fort Benning, Georgia, to…

Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of interviews with the attorneys for murder suspects in the Lemuel Penn case, Danielsville, Georgia, 1964 August 26. An unidentified reporter (first name is "Russ") con…

Axe handle. This autographed axe handle is one of many that were sold as souvenirs at the Pickrick restaurant in Atlanta, Georgia; they were commonly referred to as "Pickrick toothpicks." The Pickrick…

This 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…

A 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…

This 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…

This 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…

Printed on negative envelope: "Maddox, Lester. Closing the 'Pickrick' restaurant. 28108 Local identification number: AJCN160-092b Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic Archive, Special Collections…

KKK members walking around a burning cross during a rally. Dates from negative sleeve.

Original caption: Alabama State Troopers Beat Black Marchers on Bloody Sunday - John Lewis Receives blow to the head.

Text in image: N. Walnut St.

In this clip dated June 12, 1967, H. Rap Brown, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), reads from a prepared press statement condemning recent racial violence against SNCC m…

View of the funeral procession of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., from Ebeneezer Baptist Church to Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. Martin Luther King Jr. was an American civil rights leader,…

The National States Rights Party (NSRP) was formed in July of 1958, in Knoxville, Tennessee of segregationist and anti-Semitic elements. The NSRP is based on racism and bigotry, with blacks and Jews a…

Button supporting the Wilmington 10. Yellow button with brown border, picture of a man, and brown text that reads: "Free the Wilmington 10 / Now!" The Wilmington 10 are a group of civil rights partici…

This five-page paper outlines the plaintifs, defendants, legal basis, and summary of facts regarding the civil lawsuit, Waller vs. Butkovich. This civil suit, involving 16 plaintiffs and 86 defendants…