Photograph of voting rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer participating in the March Against Fear, June 1966
Charmian Reading, 1930 - 2014View Full Item in National Portrait GalleryThe daughter of poor sharecroppers, Fannie Lou Hamer joined the civil rights movement at age forty-five, when she agreed to work in a voter registration drive for Mississippi blacks. Joining in the fi…
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party political poster for Fannie Lou Hamer, 1964
View Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyCampaign posters for two Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party(MFDP) candidates, Aaron Henry and Fannie Lou Hamer.
Papers of Ella Baker, activist with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, 1959-1965
Baker, Ella, 1903-1986View Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyElla Baker was an executive with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with close ties to the MDFP and several other civil rights groups. This folder consists of an assortment of SNCC and COFO…
Tribute to Ella Baker by Stokley Carmichael, audio recording, 1968
WBAI, Carmichael, Stokely, Brown, H. Rap, Zellner, Robert, Mulloy, Karen, Braden, Anne, Baker, Ella, 1903-1986, McKissick, Floyd B, Zinn, HowardView Full Item in Pacifica Radio ArchivesThe Southern Conference Education Fund (SCEF) annual dinner held in Louisville honored Ella Baker, who has worked for many years behind the scenes in the civil rights movement. Speakers Anne Braden, B…
Scrapbook celebrating the life of educator and voting rights activist Septima P. Clark
Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987View Full Item in Avery Research Center at the College of CharlestonThis scrapbook celebrates the life and achievements of Charleston-born civil rights activist and educator, Septima Poinsette Clark.
Portrait of Septima P. Clark, civil rights activist who developed literacy and citizenshop workshops in support of the voting rights movement
View Full Item in Avery Research Center at the College of CharlestonBlack and white photograph of Septima P. Clark speaking.
Photograph of Rosa Parks being fingerprinted after her arrest, 1956
Gene HerrickView Full Item in National Portrait GalleryBorn Tuskegee, Alabama As a boycott of Montgomery, Alabama’s racially segregated buses entered its third month, Rosa Parks was arrested for the second time. One of 115 black Montgomerians—including Ma…
Video of interview with Rosa Parks, whose refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger sparked the Montgomery bus boycott, 1992
Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005View Full Item in Claremont Colleges LibraryRosa Parks discusses her book, “Rosa Parks: My Story.” Parks talks about her grandparents and her mother who was a teacher. She goes on to discuss her involvement in the NAACP (National Association fo…
Photograph of newspaper publisher and activist Daisy Bates picketing school segregation in Little Rock, circa 1957
View Full Item in Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. The New York Public LibraryLetter from Mary Fair Burks to Dr. Horace Bond regarding her employment termination as a result of participating in civil rights activities, 1960
Burks, Mary FairView Full Item in Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst LibrariesPhotograph of Mary Church Terrell, founder of the National Association of Colored Women, 1950s
Mosley, John WView Full Item in Temple UniversityImage of Mary Church Terrell with Eugene Waymon Jones [left] and Walter White [right]. Terrell was an early civil rights leader, women's rights advocate, founder of National Association of Colored Wom…
Transcripts of interviews with Ella Baker, Fannie Lou Hamer, Sandy Leigh, Annie Devine, and other civil rights movement leaders related to the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, 1966-1967
Romaine, AnneView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyFor anyone interested in blow-by-blow descriptions of the political maneuvering at the Democratic National Convention in 1964, this is the folder to look at. In 1966 and 1967 Romaine interviewed many…
Bernice Robinson’s handwritten notes for a speech entitled, “The Early Days of the Civil Rights Movement”
Robinson, Bernice, 1914-1994View Full Item in Avery Research Center at the College of CharlestonBernice Robinson's handwritten notecards for a speech entitled, "The Early Days of The Civil Rights Movement.
Septima P. Clark speech entitled “The Movement in the Sixites,” 1982
Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987View Full Item in Avery Research Center at the College of CharlestonClark's essay delivered at the College of Charleston, regarding the need not to give up despite Civil Rights goals not being met.
Portrait of Pauli Murray, civil rights activist, lawyer, and co-founder of the National Organization for Women, circa 1956
View Full Item in Durham County LibraryDurham native and author of Proud Shoes, published by Harper and Brothers
Letter from Carl and Anne Braden to W.E.B. Du Bois regarding their trial for sedition, 1954
Braden, Carl, 1914-1975, Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963, Braden, Anne, 1924-2006View Full Item in Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst LibrariesConcerning the Kentucky sedition case; asking Du Bois to speak at their trail and provide statements and objectives of the National Committee to Defend Dr. Du Bois, the Council on African Affairs, and…
Photograph of Dorothy Cotton, Annelle Ponder, and Septima P. Clark in Mississippi, February 1963
View Full Item in Avery Research Center at the College of CharlestonColor photograph of Dorothy Cotton, Annelle Ponder, and Septima P. Clark in Mississippi.
Civil rights volunteers in Mississippi pose in front of Victoria Johnson Gray campaign poster, 1964
View Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyIn the summer of 1964, Freedom Summer volunteers pose in front of a campaign poster for Victoria Jackson Gray, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party candidate for Congress representing the 5th District…
Victoria Gray campaign poster, 1964
View Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyCampaign poster for Victoria Gray. She ran against the policies of white segregationist Senator John Stennis in the 5th District. Along with Fannie Lou Hammer, Annie Devine, and Aaron Henry, she helpe…
Outtakes of video interview with Modjeska Simkins, civil rights activist in South Carolina, 1980
WIS-TVView Full Item in University of South Carolina. Moving Image Research CollectionsModjeska Simkins speaks on the status of Black leadership in South Carolina and on the opening of public facilities as a highlight of the Civil Rights movement. The fight for economic development, the…
Photograph of Doris Derby displaying dolls and other items made by the Poor People’s Corporation of Mississippi, 1969
View Full Item in UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research LibraryAccess to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. LIBERTY ITEMS--Doris Derby displays items made by the Poor People's Corp. of Mississippi, a cooperative which sets up workshops for…
Memorandum regarding H. Rap Brown from Cambridge movement leader Gloria Richardson Dandridge, July 26, 1967
View Full Item in Avery Research Center at the College of CharlestonMemorandum from "Ethel, Communications" to "Staff" regarding "copy of fact sheet received July 26, 1967 from Gloria (Richardson) Dandridge regarding Rap Brown and Cambridge, Maryland.
Portrait of Bernice Johnson Reagon, founding member of the SNCC Freedom Singers and Sweet Honey in the Rock, 1981
Penland, Dane AView Full Item in Smithsonian Archives - History DivHistoric Images of the Smithsonian Featured in TORCH, January 1982 Bernice Johnson Reagon directs the Program in Black American Culture for the Division of Performing Arts at the Smithsonian. Smithson…
Interview with Annie Devine about the Madison County, Mississippi movement
White, Frank, WGBH Educational Foundation, Devine, Annie, Myers, Maureen, King, RevView Full Item in WGBHThis is the third part of a documentary study on black power conducted over one month by Frank White, an Oxford Rhodes scholar. (In previous segments, White investigated black power in Harlem, Bedford…
Interview with Denise Nicholas, author of Freshwater Road, a book based on her experience during Freedom Summer in Mississippi
Nicholas, DeniseView Full Item in Claremont Colleges LibraryConnie and Denise begin the interview discussing the context of the novel and how Denise became inspired to write the work based on her experience during Freedom Summer. They proceed to talk about Den…
Audio clip of Elaine Brown speaking at the United Front Against Fascism Conference called by the Black Panther Party
View Full Item in Pacifica Radio ArchivesElaine Brown reading a statement by Ericka Huggins of the Connecticut Black Panthers at the United Front Against Fascism conference called by the Black Panther Party. The statement was written from Ni…
“Bernice V. Robinson announces her candidacy,” political flyer, 1972
View Full Item in Avery Research Center at the College of CharlestonPolitical flyer entitled, "Bernice V. Robinson Announces Her Candidacy for the S. C. State House of Representatives From Charleston County" wherein a short biography and political issues are provided.
Photograph of Angela Y. Davis, scholar, educator, and political activist, 1969
Stephen Shames, born 1947View Full Item in National Portrait GalleryThe scholar, educator, and political activist Angela Davis was the nation’s most iconic revolutionary for a generation. Davis taught philosophy at UCLA as the Black Power movement intensified. She own…
