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…
Political poster featuring Fannie Lou Hamer, 1979
TABS: Aids for Ending Sexism in SchoolView Full Item in University of Michigan. LibrariesFBI files relating to possible civil rights violations relating to Fannie Lou Hamer’s arrest while protesting at a Mississippi bus station, 1963
United States. Federal Bureau of InvestigationView Full Item in United States. Federal Bureau of InvestigationFannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) was a voting rights activist and civil rights leader. In June 1963, she and several other voting rights activists were arrested at a Mississippi bus station. This release…
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
Carmichael, StokelyView 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.
Transcript of interview with Diane Nash, one of the founding leaders of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, 1985
View Full Item in Washington University in St. LouisThis collection consists of 115 transcriptions of selected interviews filmed by Blackside, Inc. for the Eyes on the Prize: American's Civil Rights Years 1954-1965 documentary series that premiered Jan…
Transcript of interview with Jo Ann Robinson, who helped organize the Montgomery bus boycott, 1979
View Full Item in Washington University in St. LouisThis collection consists of 115 transcriptions of selected interviews filmed by Blackside, Inc. for the Eyes on the Prize: American's Civil Rights Years 1954-1965 documentary series that premiered Jan…
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…
Rosa Parks in church, Atlanta, Georgia, 1970
Lewis, Boyd, 1944-View Full Item in Atlanta History CenterView of civil rights activist Rosa Parks in an unidentified church in Atlanta, Georgia. Known as "the Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement," Rosa Parks (1913-2005) was a civil rights activis…
Photograph of civil rights activists Rosa Parks and Johnnie Carr, 1970
Lewis, Boyd, 1944-View Full Item in Atlanta History CenterView of civil rights activists (L to R) Johnnie Carr, Rosa Parks, unidentified at an event in Atlanta, Georgia. Known as "the Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement," Rosa Parks (1913-2005) wa…
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 LibrariesMississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Daisy Lee Bates following her arrest in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1950s
Mississippi State Sovereignty CommissionView Full Item in Mississippi. Department of Archives and HistoryMug shot Individual(s) identified in the photograph include Bates, Daisy Lee Classified by the Sovereignty Commission as Integration Organizations The Civil Rights Digital Library received support fro…
Photograph 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…
Photograph of Dorothy Foreman Cotton, Educational Director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, speaking at a conference in Atlanta, Georgia, 1972
Lewis, Boyd, 1944-View Full Item in Atlanta History CenterA view of Civil Rights activist Dorothy Foreman Cotton, of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), speaking at a conference in Atlanta, Georgia. Dorothy Foreman Cotton (1930-) served as t…
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…
Video of Dorothy Cotton interviewed by fellow civil rights leader Andrew Young
Cotton, Dorothy F., 1930-, Young, Andrew, 1932-, Civil Rights Library of St. AugustineView Full Item in Civil Rights Library of St. AugustineIn this conversation with Andrew Young, civil rights activist Dorothy Cotton recounts her experiences in the St. Augustine civil rights movement. Highlights include her description of marches and beac…
Transcript of interview with Virginia Foster Durr, white civil rights activist
View Full Item in Washington University in St. LouisThis collection consists of 115 transcriptions of selected interviews filmed by Blackside, Inc. for the Eyes on the Prize: American's Civil Rights Years 1954-1965 documentary series that premiered Jan…
Photograph of Civil Rights activist and author, Virginia Foster Durr, ca. 1985
Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionView Full Item in Georgia State University. LibrariesPrint verso inscribed: "Virginia Foster Durr, 2750 Pinewood Dr., Millbrook, Ala., 36004; Virginia Foster Durr - Author, Ala. Civil Rights Leader. Local identification number: AJCP390-193a Atlanta Jour…
Article about civil rights leader Coretta Scott King
McCarty, LauraView Full Item in New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)Encyclopedia article about Coretta Scott King, a proponent of civil and human rights, who helped her husband, the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., lead the modern civil rights movement. During their…
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.
Woman protesting segregated facilities outside of Rich’s Department Store in Atlanta, Georgia, 1960
View Full Item in Atlanta History CenterView of an unidentified woman wearing a sign protesting segregated facilities outside of Rich's department store in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. Protests; civil rights movement In December of 1960 Afric…
Oral history interview with Freedom Rider Joan C. Browning
Browning, Joan CView Full Item in John Davis Williams Library. Dept. of Archives and Special CollectionsIn the summer of 1961, the Freedom Riders, a group of mostly young people, both black and white, including Joan C. Browning, risked their lives to challenge the system of segregation in interstate tra…
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
FBI files relating to civil rights activist Pauli Murray, 1966
FBIView Full Item in Washington University in St. LouisFBI documents studying Pauli Murray.
Letter from Carl and Anne Braden to W.E.B. Du Bois regarding their trial for sedition, 1954
Braden, Carl, 1914-1975View 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.
Video interview with Constance Curry, who worked with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Curry, Constance, 1933, Merritt, CaroleView Full Item in Atlanta History CenterIn this interview, Constance Curry discusses her involvement in the interracial organization, National Student Association (NSA) and employment with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC…
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…
Photograph of men transporting the body of Viola Liuzzo, civil rights worker slain in Alabama, 1965
Detroit News (Firm)View Full ItemCollection located at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. To schedule an appointment to view the original image, order high r…
FBI files related to murder of civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo
United States. Federal Bureau of InvestigationView Full Item in United States. Federal Bureau of InvestigationViola Liuzzo, a civil rights worker, traveled to Alabama to help with voter registration. In 1965 Ms. Luizzo was murdered en route to a civil rights meeting. Her murder was allegedly committed by KKK…
Genevieve Hughes, first female field secretary for CORE, pictured with Henry “Hank” Thomas and other Freedom Riders
Associated PressView Full Item in Civil Rights Library of St. AugustineSt. Augustine native and Freedom Rider, Hank Thomas, pictured at far right with other Freedom Riders. Also pictured from left are: Edward Blankenheim, Tucson, Ariz.; James Farmer, New York City; Genev…
Portrait of Myrlie Evers, civil rights activist
View Full Item in Los Angeles Public LibraryTitle supplied by cataloger. Photograph was edited for publication purposes. Myrlie Evers, widow of slain Civil Rights activist Medgar Evers, on September 14, 1968, during her tenure as the Director o…
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…
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…
Transcription of interview with singer and civil rights activist Bernice Johnson Reagon
View Full Item in Washington University in St. LouisThis collection consists of 115 transcriptions of selected interviews filmed by Blackside, Inc. for the Eyes on the Prize: American's Civil Rights Years 1954-1965 documentary series that premiered Jan…
Interview with Annie Devine about the Madison County, Mississippi movement
White, FrankView 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…
