african americans, civil rights

"Jewels" found at Alexandria, by the Federal Army; consisting of chain...

Picture shows shackles, leg irons and handcuffs. Gladstone's inventory code and notes: Envelope 11; leg and arm slave shackles. Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113.231)

Franchise. And not this man? / Th. Nast.

Columbia speaking, with hand on shoulder of Civil War soldier, who lost a leg in the war. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1865 Aug. 5, p. 489.

Pardon. Franchise Columbia. -- "Shall I trust these men, and not this ...

Centerfold prints show Columbia considering why she should pardon Confederate troops who are begging for forgiveness when an African American Union soldier with an amputated leg does not have the right to vote.... More

The political uncle tommers / Kep., Political Cartoon

Illustration shows Benjamin R. Tillman as "Simon Legree", whipping a black man labeled "Negro Voter". Caption: Simon Legree Tillman Don't I own you, body and soul, you black dog? / Uncle Tom Yuh may own mah... More

[Mrs. Constance Motley with Harvey Gantts and W.T. Smith, Jr.]

Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[African American and white Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party suppo...

U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 12470-I, frame 35. Contact sheet folder caption: "Demo Nat'l Conv. Atlantic City, ... More

Poor People's March at Lafayette Park and on Connecticut Avenue / [WKL...

Photograph showing people marching and carrying signs at Connecticut Avenue and L Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. On the left is the Blake building. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

Rosa Parks Papers: General Correspondence, 1928-2006; Alphabetical fil...

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Rosa Parks Papers: Subject File, 1937-2005; Wilmington Ten, 1974-1976

Rosa Parks Papers: General Correspondence, 1928-2006; Chronological fi...

Jack Greenberg oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in N...

Jack Greenberg remembers attending Columbia University Law School, working for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, and arguing the Brown v. Board of Education case. He discusses working on many other ci... More

Mary Church Terrell Papers: Miscellany, 1851-1954; Printed matter; Gen...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to politics, political campaigns, committee, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Rosa Parks Papers: Writings, Notes, and Statements, 1956-1998; Noteboo...

Rosa Parks Papers: Miscellany, 1934-2005; Banking; Personal; Canceled ...

Mary Church Terrell Papers: Miscellany, 1851-1954; Printed matter; Gre...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to politics, political campaigns, committee, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Rosa Parks Papers: General Correspondence, 1928-2006; Greeting cards; ...

The Republican Party going to the right House

Abraham Lincoln's supporters are portrayed as radicals and eccentrics of various stripes. The satire is loosely based on an anti-Fremont cartoon from the previous presidential race, "The Great Republican Reform... More

Bethel Baptist Church, 3233 Twenty-ninth Avenue, North, Birmingham, Je...

Significance: Located in a black working class neighborhood, near coal mines and industrial plants, Bethel Baptist Church provided the leadership to sustain the fight for civil rights in Birmingham. From 1953 ... More

Harmony Street Baptist Church, 527 Forty-Second Place North, Birmingha...

Significance: The building's architect, Wallace A. Rayfield, was a notably successful African American architect in the late nineteenth and early 20th centuries. After earning a B.S. degree in classics in 1896... More

Drinking fountain on the county courthouse lawn, Halifax, North Caroli...

Public domain photograph - historical image of North Carolina, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

South Elyton Baptist Church, 102 First Street, South, Birmingham, Jeff...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a church, cathedral, religious building, 17th,18th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Monroe Elementary School, 1515 Monroe Street, Topeka, Shawnee County, ...

Significance: The Monroe School is one of two elementary schools in Topeka that is associated with the Supreme Court's 1954 landmark decision in Oliver Brown et al v. The Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. T... More

NAACP - one society - images Black History Month

Poster showing composite of seven scenes of NAACP activities. Public domain scan of American poster, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Participants, some carrying American flags, marching in the civil rig...

Contact sheet 8, frame 34. Photograph printed in 1999 or 2000 by the photographer from his original negatives. Exhibited: "Voices of Civil Rights" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2005.

Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site, Ebenezer Baptist Churc...

Significance: The Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site is located in one of the oldest neighborhoods in Atlanta - the Upper Auburn Avenue area. Originally called Wheat Street in honor of one of Atlant... More

Emancipation / G. G. Fish, pinx. ; J.P. Soule, photo.

Photograph shows a woman (Columbia) holding a document (the Declaration of Emancipation?) standing between two kneeling slaves. The slave to her left, a man, holds a U.S. flag; the slave to her right, a woman, ... More

Lincoln Park, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Significance: L'Enfant designated a large park one mile east of the U.S. Capitol at the convergence of four avenues. Set aside as a large rectangle on the Ellicott Plan, it has been landscaped as a park since t... More

1318 Vermont Avenue, Northwest (House), Washington, District of Columb...

Significance: The row house at 1318 Vermont Avenue, NW, attained its prestige as the headquarters of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) as as the Washington residence of Mary McLeod Bethune, the educato... More

1318 Vermont Avenue, Northwest (House), Washington, District of Columb...

Significance: The row house at 1318 Vermont Avenue, NW, attained its prestige as the headquarters of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) as as the Washington residence of Mary McLeod Bethune, the educato... More

Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church, 454 Dexter Avenue, Montgom...

Significance: The Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church is a nationally significant site for its association with Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement. The church was formally established... More

Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church, 454 Dexter Avenue, Montgom...

Significance: The Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church is a nationally significant site for its association with Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement. The church was formally established... More

Charles Sumner / Matt Morgan. - Public domain dedication image

Illustration shows Columbia laying a laurel wreath on the casket of Charles Sumner as African Americans kneel to mourn; an angel in the distance carries a plague stating "Equal rights to all." Illus. in: Frank ... More

The four Rips; or, twenty years behind the age / Gillam.

Illustration shows Uncle Sam seated at a table in front of "Uncle Sam's Inter-State Market" with a businessman labeled "Northern Capital" on the right and an agricultural producer labeled "Southern Goods - Cott... More

[A series of statistical charts illustrating the condition of the desc...

Line graph shows percentage of African Americans in slavery between 1790 and 1870. Title from LOT 11931, no. 37; part title from item. Chart prepared by Atlanta University students for the Negro Exhibit of the ... More

For the sunny South. An airship with a "Jim Crow" trailer

Caricature showing an airplane with white people, towing a blimp with a platform on which are seated African Americans. Color halftone repro. of drawing signed in lower left Erhart, copyrighted by Keppler & Sch... More

[Mrs. Constance Motley at a news conference with Medgar Evers and Jack...

Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Aerial view of marchers, from the Lincoln Monument to the Washington ...

U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 10352, frame 10.

[Young men in NAACP caps in front of Union Station, during the March o...

U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 10346, frame 29.

[Civil rights leaders meet with President John F. Kennedy in the oval ...

Photograph shows (left to right): Willard Wirtz (Secretary of Labor); Floyd McKissick (CORE); Mathew Ahmann (National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice); Whitney Young (National Urban Leage); Martin L... More

[Marchers, signs, and tent at the March on Washington, 1963]

U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 10344, frame 12.

[African American and white supporters of the Mississippi Freedom Demo...

U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 12470-DD, frame 8. Contact sheet folder caption: "Demo Nat'l Conv. Atlantic City, ... More

The confrontation, Selma, Alabama / McMahon.

Drawing shows clergy and nuns facing police officers in a confrontation with the Sheriff's posse. Container list: McMahon. Title on container list: Clergy facing police officers, Selma, Alabama, 1965 (Confront... More

[African American demonstrators outside the White House, with signs "W...

U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 13478, frame 17. Contact sheet folder caption: "Demonstrators outside the White Ho... More

Dessie Woods is strong, strong, strong and black people will be free!

"European tour, August-September, 1979: Kobenhavn, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Paris, Amsterdam, London." Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983.

Mary Church Terrell Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953; 1939, Ma...

Rosa Parks Papers: Subject File, 1937-2005; Packet relating to Lynette...

Rosa Parks Papers: Miscellany, 1934-2005; Medical; 2004, undated

Mary Church Terrell Papers: Miscellany, 1851-1954; Clippings; Unarrang...

Public domain scan of newspaper clippings. Free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Bethel Baptist Church, 3233 Twenty-ninth Avenue, North, Birmingham, Je...

Significance: Located in a black working class neighborhood, near coal mines and industrial plants, Bethel Baptist Church provided the leadership to sustain the fight for civil rights in Birmingham. From 1953 ... More

Mary Church Terrell House, 326 T Street Northwest, Washington, Distric...

Significance: Home of Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954), a black educator, suffragist, civil rights activist, lecturer and writer. Among her many achievements, she was the first black woman to be appointed to an... More

McKee-Smalls House, 511 Prince Street, Beaufort, Beaufort County, SC

Significance: Robert Smalls (1839-1915) was an important black lawmaker who fought for black rights in the years following the end of the Civil War. He had served in the South Carolina Legislature and the U.S. ... More

South Elyton Baptist Church, 102 First Street, South, Birmingham, Jeff...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a church building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Riot damage in D.C. / [WKL]., Washington DC

Photograph shows the ruins of a store in Washington, D.C., that was destroyed during the riots that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Title from contact sheet folder caption. U.S. News & Wor... More

Watch meeting, Dec. 31, 1862--Waiting for the hour / Heard & Moseley, ...

African American men, women, and children gathered around a man with a watch, waiting for the Emancipation Proclamation. Photograph of a painting(?). Gladstone's inventory number and notes: CDV68 ; Emancipation... More

Lincoln Park, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Significance: L'Enfant designated a large park one mile east of the U.S. Capitol at the convergence of four avenues. Set aside as a large rectangle on the Ellicott Plan, it has been landscaped as a park since t... More

Lincoln Park, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Significance: L'Enfant designated a large park one mile east of the U.S. Capitol at the convergence of four avenues. Set aside as a large rectangle on the Ellicott Plan, it has been landscaped as a park since t... More

America / E.W.C. - Print, Library of Congress collection

Print shows an idealized portrayal of American slavery and the conditions of blacks under this system in 1841. The Library's impression of the print is a fragment--the left panel only--of a larger print entitle... More

Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church, 454 Dexter Avenue, Montgom...

Significance: The Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church is a nationally significant site for its association with Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement. The church was formally established... More

Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church, 454 Dexter Avenue, Montgom...

Significance: The Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church is a nationally significant site for its association with Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement. The church was formally established... More

Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church, 454 Dexter Avenue, Montgom...

Significance: The Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church is a nationally significant site for its association with Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement. The church was formally established... More

[Title page and frontispiece showing slave on top of mountain, with hi...

Illus. in: Walker's appeal, with a brief sketch of his life / by David Walker. New York : Printed by J.H. Tobitt, 1848, title page and frontispiece.

Death at the polls, and free from "federal interference" / Th. Nast.

Skeleton "solid Southern shot gun" holding shotgun at polls, to prevent African Americans from voting. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 23, no. 1190 (1879 Oct. 18), p. 821.

Clinton, TN, school integration conflicts

Photograph shows an African American boy walking through a crowd of white boys during a period of violence related to school integration. Title from contact sheet folder caption. U.S. News & World Report Magazi... More

Little Rock, [Arkansas]. Filming high school classes / [TOH].

Photograph shows an African American high school girl being educated via television during the period that the Little Rock schools were closed to avoid integration. Title from contact sheet folder caption. U.S.... More

Little Rock, 1959. Rally at state capitol

Photograph showing a group of people, several holding signs and American flags, protesting the admission of the "Little Rock Nine" to Central High School. Title from contact sheet folder caption. Formerly ident... More

Civil rights march on Wash[ington], D.C. / [WKL].

Photograph shows a crowd of African Americans and whites on the grounds of the Lincoln Memorial; two men in foreground read a newspaper with the headline: "They're Pouring In From All Over."

Civil rights march on Wash[ington], D.C.

Photograph shows a military color guard on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, with audience, speakers, and photographres on all sides. Title from contact sheet folder caption. U.S. News & World Report Magazine ... More

[Man in wheelchair at the March on Washington, 1963]

U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 10361, frame 17.

[Group of African Americans viewing the bomb-damaged home of Arthur Sh...

U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 10409, frame 18A.

[African American and white Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party suppo...

U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 12470-H, frame 8. Contact sheet folder caption: "Demo Nat'l Conv. Atlantic City, N... More

'It really takes guts to stick' This scene occurred at Fulton St. and ...

Photograph shows confrontation between African Americans and police with billysticks. Title from news agency caption on item. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection ... More

Sojourner Truth seated with photograph of her grandson, James Caldwell...

Photograph shows portrait of abolitionist Sojourner Truth wearing polka dotted dress and holding cased photograph of her grandson, who was a prisoner-of-war at James Island, South Carolina between 1863 and 1865... More

Rosa Parks Papers: General Correspondence, 1928-2006; Alphabetical fil...

Rosa Parks Papers: Medals, 1996-1999; Medals; Congressional Gold Medal...

Rosa Parks Papers: Miscellany, 1934-2005; Business cards of; Others, 1...

Robert L. Carter oral history interview conducted by Patricia Sullivan...

Robert L. Carter recalls growing up in Newark, New Jersey, and attending Lincoln University, Howard University Law School, and Columbia University. He discusses hearing Marian Anderson sing at the Lincoln Memor... More

Rosa Parks Papers: Subject File, 1937-2005; Wilmington Ten, 1974-1976

Robert L. Carter oral history interview conducted by Patricia Sullivan...

Robert L. Carter recalls growing up in Newark, New Jersey, and attending Lincoln University, Howard University Law School, and Columbia University. He discusses hearing Marian Anderson sing at the Lincoln Memor... More

Rosa Parks Papers: Miscellany, 1934-2005; Receipts; Cernitin American ...

Drinking fountain on the county courthouse lawn, Halifax, North Caroli...

Public domain photograph - historical image of North Carolina, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Martin Luther King Jr. Birth Home, 501 Auburn Avenue, Atlanta, Fulton ...

Public domain photograph of living room, apartment, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Secession - Public domain historical image, Political Cartoon. A close...

Picture shows an African American boy and mother with a bundle running. Gladstone's inventory code and notes: Envelope 20; illustration of black mother and child; mother has animal-like head. "E20" inscribed o... More

South Elyton Baptist Church, 102 First Street, South, Birmingham, Jeff...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Alabama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

South Elyton Baptist Church, 102 First Street, South, Birmingham, Jeff...

Public domain photograph of church building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site, Ebenezer Baptist Churc...

Significance: The Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site is located in one of the oldest neighborhoods in Atlanta - the Upper Auburn Avenue area. Originally called Wheat Street in honor of one of Atlant... More

Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site, Ebenezer Baptist Churc...

Significance: The Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site is located in one of the oldest neighborhoods in Atlanta - the Upper Auburn Avenue area. Originally called Wheat Street in honor of one of Atlant... More

1318 Vermont Avenue, Northwest (House), Washington, District of Columb...

Significance: The row house at 1318 Vermont Avenue, NW, attained its prestige as the headquarters of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) as as the Washington residence of Mary McLeod Bethune, the educato... More

Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church, 454 Dexter Avenue, Montgom...

Significance: The Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church is a nationally significant site for its association with Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement. The church was formally established... More

Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church, 454 Dexter Avenue, Montgom...

Significance: The Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church is a nationally significant site for its association with Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement. The church was formally established... More

Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church, 454 Dexter Avenue, Montgom...

Significance: The Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church is a nationally significant site for its association with Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement. The church was formally established... More

Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church, 454 Dexter Avenue, Montgom...

Significance: The Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church is a nationally significant site for its association with Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement. The church was formally established... More

Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church, 454 Dexter Avenue, Montgom...

Significance: The Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church is a nationally significant site for its association with Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement. The church was formally established... More

Celebration of the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia by...

Page includes two illustrations showing African Americans celebrating the abolition of slavery in Washington, D.C. and portrait of Henry A. Smythe, newly appointed Collector of Customs of New York; also include... More

[Integrated classroom at Anacostia High School, Washington, D.C.] / [W...

U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 1033, frame 16. USN&WR website uses this illustration with text about Little Rock,... More

[Marchers carrying labor union banners, including one reading "Corruga...

U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 10344, frame 31. Contact sheet folder caption: "Civil rights march on Washington, ... More

[Demonstrators holding signs during the March on Washington, 1963] / M...

U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 10344, frame 17. Contact sheet folder caption: "Civil rights march on Washington, ... More

[Civil rights leaders meet with President John F. Kennedy in the oval ...

Photograph shows (left to right): Whitney Young (National Urban Leage); Martin Luther King, Jr.(SCLC); John Lewis (SNCC), partially visible; Rabbi Joachim Prinz (American Jewish Congress); Reverend Eugene Carso... More

[Marchers with signs at the March on Washington, 1963]

Public domain photograph related to Germany, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Marchers with SCLC sign for the Savannah Freedom Now Movement, during...

U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 10346, frame 19.

[Charlton Heston and Harry Belafonte walking past marshals at the Linc...

U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 10361, frame 27.