civil rights

[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.

The man that blocks up the highway.

Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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.

Christmas at Washington / J. Keppler '83.

Print shows several members of Congress around a large Christmas tree labeled "Tax Surplus" decorated with money bags labeled "Surplus"; the legislators carry bags in which to place the bags of surplus they plu... More

Colored Chieftains - Print, Library of Congress collection

3926 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Rewell (George M.) & C... More

A squelcher for woman suffrage / C.J. Taylor.

Print shows a woman being denied the opportunity to vote because she is wearing a dress and a hat that are too wide for the narrow booths labeled "Ballots Must Be Prepared In These Booths" where the ballots are... More

Boiling over / Mabel Lucie Attwell., Political Cartoon

Illustration shows a little girl standing at the peak of a mountain, holding a banner labeled "Achievement" in one hand and toting bundles labeled "Votes, Equality, [and] Rights" with the other. She is starting... More

Jose Celso Barbosa House, 16 Calle de Barbosa, Bayamon, Bayamon Munici...

2017 Leicester B. Holland Prize, Honorable Mention Significance: The Jose Celso Barbosa House Museum is a nineteenth century building located on Barbosa Street #16 in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. The construction show... More

Oakland, Calif., Mar. 1942. A large sign reading "I am an American" pl...

Photograph shows the Wanto Co. store located at 401 - 403 Eighth and Franklin Streets in Oakland, California. The business was owned by the Matsuda family. Tatsuro Matsuda, a University of California graduate, ... More

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.

[Martin Luther King, Jr., head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, a...

Contact sheet folder caption: "Martin Luther King meets with Pres. Johnson at the White House, WKL, 12/3/63." U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purp... More

[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

Scottsboro boys museum in Scottsboro, Alabama

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama

The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church was organized in 1873 as the First Colored Baptist Church of Birmingham. In 1880, the church came to this site on 16th Street and 6th Avenue North. During the Civil Rights Mo... More

Klu Klux Klan exhibit, Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Birmingham, ...

The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute was dedicated in 1992. Today, the BCRI features exhibits showing human rights barriers during the Civil Rights era. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the ... More

45th Anniversary of the Civil Rights March from Selma, Alabama to Mont...

For the 45th Anniversary of the 1965 Civil Rights March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, Jesse Jackson and other dignitaries came to walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge to recreate the event Title, date, sub... More

Civil Rights Memorial, Montgomery, Alabama

The Civil Rights Memorial, designed by Maya Lin, is a circular black granite table that chronicles the history of the movement in lines that radiate like the hands of a clock. Water emerges from the table's cen... More

Dorothy I. Height/Benning Neighborhood Library, Washington, D.C.

Opened in 2010 and named after Civil Rights activist Dorothy Height. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of ... 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

Suffragette parade Mar. 3, 1913; Wash., D.C.

Photograph shows nurses marching to support women's suffrage near the U.S. Capitol. LOT subdivision subject: Women's suffrage in the United States - Activities in Washington, D.C. 1913-1917. George Grantham Ba... More

Support the American Indian Movement

Posters are close variants; no. POS 6 - U.S., no. 788 is a different color and printed on both sides.

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 ...

Nathan W. Daniels Diary: Addition, scrapbook, 1863-1867

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

Final plans for the march on Washington for jobs and freedom, August 2...

Cover title. Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington DC, 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

Alabama State Capitol, Dexter Avenue, Montgomery, Montgomery County, A...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-50 Survey number: HABS AL-601 Building/structure dates: 1851 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1886 Subsequent Work Building/struct... More

Alabama State Capitol, Dexter Avenue, Montgomery, Montgomery County, A...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-50 Survey number: HABS AL-601 Building/structure dates: 1851 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1886 Subsequent Work Building/struct... More

Alabama State Capitol, Dexter Avenue, Montgomery, Montgomery County, A...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-50 Survey number: HABS AL-601 Building/structure dates: 1851 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1886 Subsequent Work Building/struct... 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

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

Thirty-Second Street Baptist Church, 518 Thirty-second Street, South, ...

Significance: The Thirty-Second Street Baptist Church was organized in the early 20th Century as the Rising Star Baptist Church. Since 1910, the church has been located on 32nd Street (Lots 23 and 24 in Block 4... More

Remember Wounded Knee - A book with a picture of a man holding a knife

Poster showing Bobby Onco, a Kiowa, and member of the American Indian Movement (AIM), holding up rifle. Photograph was taken after a ceasefire agreement between AIM forces and federal marshals at Wounded Knee, ... 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

Rich's Downtown Department Store, 45 Broad Street, Atlanta, Fulton Cou...

Significance: The original 1924 building, which has been added to eight times, reflects the appearance of an Italian palazzo, a favorite theme associated with department stores constructed in the early twentiet... More

Rich's Downtown Department Store, 45 Broad Street, Atlanta, Fulton Cou...

Significance: The original 1924 building, which has been added to eight times, reflects the appearance of an Italian palazzo, a favorite theme associated with department stores constructed in the early twentiet... More

Rich's Downtown Department Store, 45 Broad Street, Atlanta, Fulton Cou...

Significance: The original 1924 building, which has been added to eight times, reflects the appearance of an Italian palazzo, a favorite theme associated with department stores constructed in the early twentiet... More

Rich's Downtown Department Store, 45 Broad Street, Atlanta, Fulton Cou...

Significance: The original 1924 building, which has been added to eight times, reflects the appearance of an Italian palazzo, a favorite theme associated with department stores constructed in the early twentiet... More

Rich's Downtown Department Store, 45 Broad Street, Atlanta, Fulton Cou...

Significance: The original 1924 building, which has been added to eight times, reflects the appearance of an Italian palazzo, a favorite theme associated with department stores constructed in the early twentiet... More

Rich's Downtown Department Store, 45 Broad Street, Atlanta, Fulton Cou...

Significance: The original 1924 building, which has been added to eight times, reflects the appearance of an Italian palazzo, a favorite theme associated with department stores constructed in the early twentiet... More

Rich's Downtown Department Store, 45 Broad Street, Atlanta, Fulton Cou...

Significance: The original 1924 building, which has been added to eight times, reflects the appearance of an Italian palazzo, a favorite theme associated with department stores constructed in the early twentiet... 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

Isaac Cruikshank - The Irish bull broke loose, British Cartoon Print

Print shows the "Irish Bull" tossing William Pitt into the air and about to do the same to Lord Dundas who runs to the left; on the far right, those opposed to Pitt's "Union Bill" cheer on the bull, "Go it my B... More

Irish march of intellect; or, the happy result of emancipation / A Sha...

Print shows a bare-foot Irish man and his son in the chamber of an English lord. Hoping to get his son placed as an apprentice, he introduces him to the English lord who is sitting in a chair, wearing wig and robe.

Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama

The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church was organized in 1873 as the First Colored Baptist Church of Birmingham. In 1880, the church came to this site on 16th Street and 6th Avenue North. During the Civil Rights Mo... 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

Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church & Parsonage, Montgomery, Al...

Founded in 1877, the current red-brick building was constructed between 1883 and 1889 and is a national historic landmark. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was the pastor from 1954-1960, and began his quest for civ... 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

"Independence Day" of the future / C.J. Taylor.

Print shows a future 4th of July celebration where women have gained suffrage and equality; it shows young and old women ringing a bell labeled "Equal Rights", as women emerge from underground and participate i... 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

The evacuation of Japanese-Americans from West Coast areas under U.S. ...

Photograph shows Japanese Americans in lines next to horse stalls as armed guards observe. Corresponding negative no. LC-USF34-72325-D. Forms part of: Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information... 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.

[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.

[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

[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

Lyndon Baines Johnson signing Civil Rights Bill, April 11, 1968

U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Reference copy in PRES FILE - Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973.

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.

Civil Rights Memorial, Montgomery, Alabama

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

Classroom exhibit, Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Birmingham, Alab...

The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute was dedicated in 1992.Today, the BCRI features exhibits showing human rights barriers during the Civil Rights era. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the p... More

Exhibit, Civil Rights Memorial Center, Montgomery, Alabama

The Civil Rights Memorial Center honors the memory and achievements of those who lost their lives during the Civil Rights Movement. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit l... More

Exhibit, Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Birmingham, Alabama

The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute was dedicated in 1992.Today, the BCRI features exhibits showing human rights barriers during the Civil Rights era. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the p... More

Dexter Parsonage Museum, Montgomery, Alabama

Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential building, house, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

March from Selma to Montgomery recreating the important Civil Rights e...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Civil Rights Memorial at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Exhibit, Civil Rights Memorial Center, Montgomery, Alabama

The Civil Rights Memorial Center honors the memory and achievements of those who lost their lives during the Civil Rights Movement. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit l... More

Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Birmingham, Alabama

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

45th Anniversary of the Civil Rights March, Selma, Alabama

For the 45th Anniversary of the 1965 Civil Rights March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, people gathered to walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge to recreate the event. Photographer's choice (Alabama project).... More

Exhibit, Civil Rights Memorial Center, Montgomery, Alabama

The Civil Rights Memorial Center honors the memory and achievements of those who lost their lives during the Civil Rights Movement. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit l... More

Dorothy I. Height/Benning Neighborhood Library, Washington, D.C.

Opened in 2010 and named after Civil Rights activist Dorothy Height. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of ... More

Bust of Jackie Robinson, the baseball star and civil-rights pioneer, w...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Both were Pasadena natives. The two nine-foot-tall statues, across from Pasadena City Hall, were created by sculptor Ralph Helmick in 1997. Credit line: ... More

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.

Facts for men who do their own thinking. The two platforms, one positi...

Printed in five columns. Map of rebel and Union territory on verso.