Hayes, Thurgood Marshall, and James M. Nabrit, following Supreme Court decision ending segregation. Ronald Martin, Robert Patterson, and Mark Martin stage sit-down strike after being refused service at a F.W. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (13) Digital ID # ppmsc 00182, Bookmark this item: //www.loc.gov/exhibits/civilrights/exhibit.html#12. Harold Dahmer, Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Theresa Joiner grew up in the same neighborhood as Emmett “Bobo” Till. Shuttlesworth and others seated alongside white passengers, Birmingham, Alabama. In 1960, Ruby Bridges integrated her New Orleans elementary school, and four Black students catalyzed the sit-in movement at the segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. “This exhibition will spark important conversations across generations about a crucial period in our nation’s history that connects directly to our city, a birthplace of the civil rights movement.”. View of scene in Lowndesboro, Alabama, where Michigan civil rights worker Mrs. Viola Liuzzo was slain March 25, 1965, while driving to Selma after the Selma-to-Montgomery march, March 26, 1965. New York World-Telegram and Sun Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress(18) Digital ID # cph 3c19497, Bookmark this item: //www.loc.gov/exhibits/civilrights/exhibit.html#17. His badly tortured body was displayed at the funeral. New York World-Telegram and Sun Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (38) Digital ID # cph 3c22435, Bookmark this item: //www.loc.gov/exhibits/civilrights/exhibit.html#37. St. Louis, Missouri (29), The Selma-to-Montgomery March, 1965. (c) 2002 Brian Selznick. Collection of the artist. Rev. Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Bradley, ca. Legal | Visual Materials from the NAACP Records, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (7) Courtesy of the NAACP. The National Archives: Documented Rights . New York World-Telegram and Sun Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. Reproduction # LC-USZ62-80126, Bookmark this item: //www.loc.gov/exhibits/civilrights/exhibit.html#43. (Submitted photo) It is free and open to the public. Viva Chavez, viva la causa, viva la huelga. Scene of the Murder of Activist Viola Liuzzo, 1965. There was a problem saving your notification. “Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down” by Andrea Davis Pinkney, illustrated by Brian Pinkney, “Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race” by Margot Lee Shetterly, illustrated by Laura Freeman, “A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation” by Barry Wittenstein, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney, “If a Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks” written and illustrated by Faith Ringgold, “My Daddy, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.” by Martin Luther King III, illustrated by A.G. Ford, “Child of the Civil Rights Movement” by Paula Young Shelton, illustrated by Raul Colón, “I Have a Dream” by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., illustrated by Kadir Nelson. Collection of the artist. Don't Threaten. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (23), Bookmark this item: //www.loc.gov/exhibits/civilrights/exhibit.html#22. Gelatin silver print. Gelatin silver print. 1957. The newest interactive exhibit at the Oregon Historical Society — focusing on Oregon's black pioneers during the civil rights era — is a powerful, educational and inspiring window into a world that might have technically passed but is still ever-present in today's Black Lives Matter movement and other race-related … Somebody Paid the Price for Your Right: Register/Vote. Years later, the street she lives on was renamed “Freedom Road.”, Mary Frances Mays Hayneville, Alabama (34), The 1965 Voting Rights Act. The collections storage is full of art and objects never seen before by the public. Poster. “Colored” Water Cooler, 1939. This page was last reviewed on November 26, 2018. The exhibit's selected documents, photographs, and original testimonies exemplify the range and depth of National Archives holdings chronicling the evolution of human and civil rights in the United States. Dorothy Mays saw Viola Liuzzo, a white housewife from Detroit, at a gathering of demonstrators two days before Liuzzo was murdered as she drove a black voting rights worker home from the Selma-to-Montgomery march. Accessibility | Photograph by Lester Sloan, © AARP 2004 (39), Bombing of NAACP Leader's Home, ca. You have permission to edit this article. Jobs | Nine months before Rosa Parks’ celebrated act, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin refused to surrender her seat to a white woman aboard a Montgomery, Alabama bus. Press | As a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Freedom Singers, Rutha Mae Harris toured extensively with the group, which raised money for SNCC operations and ensured the role of music in social protest. ATLANTA, Ga. (CBS46) -- The High Museum of Art will debut its newest exhibit "Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement Through Children's Books" on Saturday. Gelatin silver print. New York World-Telegram and Sun Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (20) Digital ID # cph 3c19524, The March on Washington, 1963. Gelatin silver print. Less than 1% of the National Civil Rights Museum's artifacts are on display in the exhibits. Shuttlesworth and others seated alongside white passengers, Birmingham, Alabama, African American students arriving at Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas, in U.S. Army car. The memory of a traumatic childhood incident near his hometown of Spiro, Oklahoma, still brings tears to the eyes of William Minner, director of the Kansas Human Rights Commission. racist or sexually-oriented language. Some wanted to broaden the campaign to include treaty rights for American Indians and other civil rights as well as to challenge lynching. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (5) Digital ID # cph 3b27120. Digital ID # cph 3c21590, Brown v. Board of Education, 1954. We'd love to hear eyewitness Smith (near top at right) addresses crowd in New York at a memorial service for Medgar Evers. Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) conducts a march in Washington, D.C., in memory of Negro youngsters killed in the Birmingham bombings, September 22, 1963. Be Truthful. The exhibit runs through November 8. USA.gov, The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration Participants marching in the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965. Franklin E. McCain, Sr., Charlotte, North Carolina. Visual Materials from the NAACP Records, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (7A) Courtesy of the NAACP. Alida Montiel, Scottsdale, Arizona. Phyllis Ballenger, Washington, D.C. (c) 2015 Ekua Holmes. Marchers Crossing the Edmund-Pettus Bridge, 1965. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, July 1939. PLEASE TURN OFF YOUR CAPS LOCK. Gelatin silver print. President Lyndon B. Johnson gives Dr. Martin Luther King one of the pens used in the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Used by permission of Penguin Random House LLC. Effie Jones Bowers, Little Rock, Arkansas (12), School Integration in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1957. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Bradley, ca. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (30) Digital ID # cph 3c33090 Reproduction # LC-USZ62-133090 (b&w film copy neg. Raúl Colón (American, born 1952), “So Mama and Daddy packed up their three little girls—,” from Child of the Civil Rights Movement by Paula Young Shelton (Schwartz & Wade Books, 2010), wash, colored pencil, lithograph pencil, and graphite on watercolor paper, courtesy of R. Michelson Galleries, Northampton, Massachusetts. Photograph by Lester Sloan, © AARP 2004 (43), United Farm Workers' Benefit, 1968. USA.gov, The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration The women of "Rainbow Coalition" hold signs bright with color but with messages that can only be filled in by the viewer. Harold Dahmer had just returned home from the Army when the Ku Klux Klan firebombed his family's home in 1966. Born in Meridian, Mississippi, and raised between Jackson and New York, Carolyn Byrd was living in New Jersey when she joined a group of young people to travel to Washington, D.C., for the 1963 March on Washington. Interview with Carnell Locklear In an interview conducted by Malinda Maynor Lowery, Lumbee tribe member Carnell Locklear speaks of his involvement in starting some of the tribe’s civil rights movement. Legal | Donate The exhibit provides one page-profiles of African American, American Indian, Asian American, Latina and white women. accounts, the history behind an article. Made possible by generous support from AARP, the exhibition celebrates the donation of these materials to the Library of Congress and links them to key collections in the Library. This exhibition draws from the thousands of personal stories, oral histories, and photographs collected by the “Voices of Civil Rights” project, a collaborative effort of AARP, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR), and the Library of Congress, and marks the arrival of these materials in the Library's collection. A. Philip Randolph Educational Fund, ca. Modern gelatin silver reprint from 1965 negative. Rev. Copyprint. In creating this exhibit, the museum combed the vault and picked the first pieces for their artistic value. (c) 2010 Raúl, Raúl Colón (American, born 1952), Illustration for Child of the Civil Rights Movement by Paula Young Shelton (Schwartz & Wade Books, 2010). 1955, Street rally in New York City, October 11, 1955, under joint sponsorship of NAACP and District 65, Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Workers Union in protest of slaying of fourteen-year old Emmett Till, George E.C. Montiel (right) and her daughter, Smoyma, are members of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community. World War II Japanese Internment Camp, 1942. Detroit, Michigan (17), Memorial Service for Civil Rights Leader Medgar Evers, 1963. Simpkins, vice president of the NAACP's Shreveport, Louisiana, office, after bombing by the Ku Klux Klan, ca. Emmett Till and his Mother, 1955. Explore our timeline of women in the Civil Rights Movement. Civil Rights – A Seat for Everyone. Photograph by Lester Sloan, © AARP 2004 (22), March Against the Birmingham Bombing, 1963. The collections storage is full of art and objects never seen before by the public. Gelatin silver print. Ministers outside an F.W. [Long Live (Cesar) Chavez, Long Live Our Cause, Long Live Our Strike]. "Organized in collaboration with The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, the presentation will include more than 80 artworks, ranging from paintings and prints to collages and drawings, that evoke the power and continuing relevance of the era that shaped American history and continues to reverberate today," reads the museum's description of the exhibit. Nate Powell (American, born 1978), "'Brother John— good to see you," from March: Book Two by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin (Top Shelf Productions, 2015), India ink on Bristol board, collection of the artist.