civil rights movements

Miss Eleanor Brannan (granddaughter of Cha[rle]s. A. Dana, former edit...

Title and name and address of photographer transcribed from item. Summary: Formal studio portrait of Eleanor Doddridge Brannan, seated, wearing a hat, pearl necklace, pendant on a chain, gloves, and a long dres... More

Mildred Koonce, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Head-and-shoulders portrait of Mildred Koonce, facing left, looking toward camera, in hat and stole.

Miss Anna McCue is one of the organizers of the Congressional Union fo...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Head and shoulders portrait of Anna McCue, facing camera, with bar brooch.

Mrs. Emma Smith Devoe, of Seattle, Washington, is President of the Nat...

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

N.Y. Suffragettes - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Miss Julia Emory of Baltimore Md.

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Mrs. Minnie E. Brooke, of Chevy Chase, Md., an experienced suffrage sp...

Title and name and address of photographer transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, head and shoulders, of Minnie E. Brooke of Chevy Chase, Maryland, wearing a hat, earrings, necklace, and open-collared... More

Mrs. Hettie Wallis of Houston, Texas, is a member of the National Advi...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Head-and-shoulders portrait of Hettie Wallis, wearing off-the-shoulder lace-trimmed gown, hair in upsweep, decorative background.

[Alice Paul, half-length portrait, seated, facing slightly right, sewi...

National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress). Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Speaker at Continental Hall.

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, head and shoulders, Carrie Chapman Catt, facing forward with head and eyes turned slightly to right, wearing a high-collared, richly brocaded or embroidere... More

[Alice Paul, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left, in academic rob...

Copyright by Taylor Studio, Washington. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Miss Janet Fotheringham, of Buffalo, N.Y., who was in the first group ...

Formal portrait, head and shoulders, Janet Fotheringham of Buffalo, New York, facing camera, wearing wide-collared, v-neck blouse or dress, with pin. Summary: Title transcribed from image. Janet Fotheringham of... More

Miss Elsie Lancaster, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Title transcribed from item. Elsa Lancaster traveled to Cheyenne, Wyoming, September 28, 1914, with plans to open a Congressional Union headquarters there on October 1, 1914, in conjunction with CU organizer Ge... More

Arrival Envoys from San F[rancisco]. Parade arriving at Capitol.

Title transcribed from item. A similar photograph was published in The Suffragist, vol. 3, no. 50 (December 11, 1915). Summary: Photograph of large crowd of suffragists on Capitol steps, some with banners, one ... More

Miss Elsa Ueland, Congressional Union organizer

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Action photograph of Elsa Ueland speaking at outdoor rally, Minnesota Congressional Union banner behind her, wearing suit, hat, and suffrage sash. Portions of buildings vis... More

Miss Gertrude Crocker of Illinois, Treasurer of National Woman's Party...

Title and name and address of photographer transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, head and shoulders, Gertrude Crocker of Illinois, wearing cotton v-neck dress or blouse with broad collar, lace trim, ... More

Miss Mabel Vernon, National Secretary, National Woman's Party

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Head-and-shoulders portrait of Mabel Vernon, in dark broad-brimmed hat, wearing light-colored suit with lace-collared blouse and pendant necklace. Cropped version of the ph... More

Cell at Occoquan [Workhouse]. National Woman Party

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of a prison cell in Occoquan Workhouse seen through door with bars.

Miss Kate Heffelfinger of Shamokin, Pennsylvania A picket who served t...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, head and shoulders, Kate Heffelfinger, facing right, with chin resting on arm bent at elbow, wearing a v-neck dress with suffrage prisoner ... More

Miss Elizabeth Smith, of Washington, D.C., Office Manager of The Suffr...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Head-and-shoulders portrait of Elizabeth Smith, in v-neck ruffled white blouse. Cropped version of photograph printed in The Suffragist, 5, no. 58 (Mar. 3, 1917), 11. Portr... More

Olive Mills Belches, State Chairman of Massachusetts[achusetts].

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, half-length, of Olive Mills Belches, seated at desk in front of typewriter facing camera. The caption on an alternate image in the same folder, which appea... More

WOMAN SUFFRAGE. SUFFRAGETTES WITH BANNERS

A couple of women standing next to each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Group of women wearing sashes, probably suffragists or members of the...

A group of women standing next to each other on a sidewalk. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Miss Virginia Moran of Seneca Falls as "Truth" in the Dnace [Dance] Dr...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Informal portrait, full-length, Virginia Moran, facing forward, standing outdoors by a lake, holding in right hand a pole with a stylized cross, part of a c... More

Jap[anese] suffragists - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photo shows group of women seated around a table. A man, identified as "Morita," is holding a child in his lap.

Doris Stevens working with Women's Consultative Committee at League of...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Doris Stevens and Alice Paul in a room with other women. Also on verso: La Srta. Doris Stevens, presidenta de la Comision Interamericana de Mujeres, firmande ... More

Freeman A. Hrabowski oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnie...

Freeman A. Hrabowski recalls growing up in Birmingham, Alabama, and attending the Sixth Avenue Baptist Church. He remembers being arrested for marching in the Birmingham Children's Crusade in 1963, and remember... More

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

Dorothy Foreman Cotton oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosn...

Dorothy Foreman Cotton discusses growing up in rural North Carolina, attending Shaw University and Virginia State College, working as a housekeeper for the president of these colleges, Dr. Robert Prentiss Danie... More

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

Governor Edwin P. Morrow signing the Anthony Amendment--Ky. was the tw...

Large group, mostly women wearing "Votes for Women" banners, standing around desk in office as Governor Edwin Morrow signs amendment. Blind stamp: Gretter Studio, Frankfort, KY. Names of some of the participan... More

David Mercer Ackerman and Satoko Ito Ackerman oral history interview c...

David and Satoko Ackerman recall meeting at the Chicago Theological Seminary and remember their classmate Jesse Jackson urging students to attend the Selma to Montgomery March. They recall traveling to Selma, p... More

Wheeler Parker oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in C...

Wheeler Parker, Jr., discusses his visit to Mississippi with his cousin, Emmett Till. He recalls the incident at Bryant's store and the night that Till was kidnapped, and Till's funeral in Chicago. He remembers... More

James Oscar Jones oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier i...

James Oscar Jones remembers growing up on a farm in Arkansas, the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, and attending the Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical, and Normal College in Pine Bluff. He dis... More

Evans Derrell Hopkins oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosni...

Evans Hopkins recalls growing up in Danville, Virginia, and participating in efforts to desegregate public schools and the library. He remembers joining the Black Panther Party in Winston-Salem, North Carolina,... More

Dorothy Foreman Cotton oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosn...

Dorothy Foreman Cotton discusses growing up in rural North Carolina, attending Shaw University and Virginia State College, working as a housekeeper for the president of these colleges, Dr. Robert Prentiss Danie... More

[Suffragette posed in police uniform to illustrate woman police concep...

George Grantham Bain Collection. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Suffragettes with flag] - Public domain demonstration photograph

Photo shows women suffrage hikers General Rosalie Jones, Jessie Stubbs, and Colonel Ida Craft, who is wearing a bag labeled "Votes for Women pilgrim leaflets" and carrying a banner with a notice for a "Woman Su... More

Women's Political Union delegation, Western New York, ca. 1910-1915. P...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of three women and two men standing next to ox-driven wagon with banner, "Votes for Women." Another woman sits on a horse nearby.

Mrs. Frederick (Mary) Nolan. National Woman Party

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, head and chest, Mary A. Nolan, facing forward, with lace collar and necklace. Mrs. Mary A. Nolan of Jacksonville, Fla., was often described... More

[Mrs. W. Thompson Burch] - Public domain portrait photograph

Summary: Full-length, studio portrait of Mrs. W. Thompson Burch, standing in a long formal dress facing right with head turned toward camera. Title taken from duplicate image in the same folder. Name and addres... More

Suffragettes - Inez Milholland Boissevain

Photograph shows Inez Milholland Boissevain, half-length portrait, seated, facing front. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Amalia E. Mallen de Ostalaza, Pres. of Nat[ional] Suffrage Party of Cu...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Women, including those representing the states of Wisconsin and Orego...

Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of contingents of suffragists marching with banners on street. Banners read: "Delegations From Womans Clubs", "Wisconsin," and "Oregon."

[New Jersey delegates in front of Congressional Union headquarters.]

Summary: Photograph of large group of women standing on front steps and street in front of building, National American Woman Suffrage Association office, lower level, Wilcox, Hane & Co. Real Estate office and C... More

Suffragets [i.e., suffragettes] on hike to Boston

Photo shows (left to right) suffragists Ida Craft, Elsie McKenzie, Vera Wentworth and Elisabeth Freeman (1876-1942). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009)

Miss Hazel MacKaye - A black and white photo of a woman holding a dog

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Informal half-length photograph of Hazel MacKaye in outdoor setting, wearing checked dress with button trim and white collar, smiling, holding a medium-sized dog in her arm... More

Miss Ada James of Wisconsin is one of the prominent members of the Adv...

Title and name and address of photographer transcribed from image. Summary: Formal portrait, head and shoulders, Ada L. James of Wisconsin, facing right with head turned slightly toward camera, wearing high-nec... More

Mrs. Edith Barriger, state chairman of Missouri for Congressional Unio...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, head and shoulders, Edith Barriger, Missouri state chairman of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, wearing wide-brimmed hat, necklace, and brooch. ... More

Mrs. Mary Austin, of California, the noted writer, [is] a prominent me...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, head and shoulders turned slightly to right facing camera, of writer Mary Hunter Austin of California, who served on the Congressional Union National Advis... More

Miriam Rollin - 1298 College Avenue, New York City (Age 23)

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, full-length, Miriam Rollin, seated on a balustrade, facing right with head turned back toward camera, wearing long skirt, blouse, and vest.... More

Mrs. Robert Morton, Chairman of Wyoming Branch of National Woman's Par...

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

Vida Milholland, New York City, New York City

Summary: Half-length studio portrait of Vida Milholland, seated on decorative bench, turned to look toward camera, wearing fur-trimmed embroidered jacket and large-brimmed hat, decorated with ruffle trim, beadw... More

WOMAN SUFFRAGE. GROUP OF SUFFRAGISTS AT HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING

A group of people standing in front of a door. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rose Winslow of New York; daughter of Polish miner and steel worker in...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Half-length portrait of Rose Winslow (born Ruza Wenclawska, Poland], wearing dark jumper and white blouse, with dark tam. Cropped version of the photograph published in The... More

Mrs. Margaret B. Laird, 34 Goldsmith Ave., Newark N.J. For four years...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Head-and-shoulders portrait of Margaret B. Laird, facing forward, with necklace.

Mary Dubrow speaking in Washington, D.C.

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Mary Dubrow, left, speaking to crowd of men, women, and children at public park, Washington, D.C. Baby in bassinette at front of audience, policemen looking on. Similar ima... More

[Suffrage protestors burn speech by President Wilson at Lafayette Stat...

Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of National Woman's Party members demonstrating, with banners, in front of the Lafayette Statue. Jessie Benton MacKaye speaking (second from left,... More

Mrs. Donald R. Hooker, Baltimore, Md., who will speak at Woman's Party...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, head and chest, Edith Houghton Hooker, facing slightly to the left with head turned toward camera and tilted slightly back, wearing lace-tr... More

Suffragette - Public domain monumental decor drawing

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Miss Alice Pavl is shown sewing the thirty-sixth star on the suffrage ...

National Photo Company Collection.

Suffragettes, 6/2/20 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain historic photograph of Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Republican [National] Convention, [Chicago, Illinois,] 1920.

Title derived from Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of six suffragists at the 1920 Republican National Convention in Chicago, gathered in front of a building with suffrage banners. Mrs. James Rect... More

Dedication of Women's Pioneer Statue in U.S. Capitol crypt, Feb. 15, 1...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of large group of women with banners gathered around the Women's Pioneer Statue in the Capitol.

[Young girls carry banners for the procession at dedication of the new...

Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of large contingent of girls in white dresses assembled in street in four columns, with banners.

Anita Pollitzer and Alice Paul at Susan B. Anthony gravesite, July 19-...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Anita Pollitzer (L, standing) and Alice Paul (R, kneeling) at the grave of Susan B. Anthony. Text on verso: Kneeling, Miss Alice Paul, vice president of Natio... More

Party delegation en route to Paris to seek admission into Internationa...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of National Woman's Party members on ship deck, Alva Belmont (center), seated in front row.. Photograph published in Equal Rights, v. 13, 17 (June 12, 1926), fro... 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...

D'Army Bailey oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Me...

D'Army Bailey describes growing up in Memphis, Tennessee, the influence of the Crump political machine in city politics, and his involvement with the Memphis NAACP at an early age. He talks about his participat... More

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 ...

[Alice Paul, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, raising glas...

J243092 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Harris & Ewing. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

John Elliott Churchville oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mo...

Summary: John Churchville recalls growing up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, his mother's career as a music teacher, moving to New York, and converting to Islam. He remembers joining the Student Nonviolent Coord... More

Candie Carawan and Guy Hughes Carawan oral history interview conducted...

Candie Carawan recalls attending Fisk University as an exchange student and meeting civil rights activists in Nashville, Tennessee. She discusses meeting Guy Carawan at the Highlander Folk School, the importanc... More

Carrie M. Young oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in ...

Summary: Carrie Young recalls growing up in on a farm, moving to West Helena, Arkansas, with her family, and meeting civil rights organizers from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), including ... More

Emmett W. Bassett and Priscilla Tietjen Bassett oral history interview...

Priscilla Tietjen Bassett recalls growing up in Plainfield, New Jersey, and attending Smith College, and Emmett W. Bassett remembers growing up in Henry County, Virginia, serving in World War II, and attending ... More

Courtland Cox oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Wa...

Courtland Cox recalls growing up in Trinidad and New York City, and attending Howard University. He remembers organizing student protests in Washington, D. C., with the Nonviolent Action Group, which later merg... More

Ruby Nell Sales oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in ...

Ruby Sales discusses her father's military career, growing up in Columbus, Georgia, and attending the Tuskegee Institute. She recalls joining the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Selma to M... More

William Lucy oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Wash...

Summary: William Lucy discusses his role in the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) in the 1960s, especially how he and the union supported the 1968 sanitation workers' strike ... More

Dorothy Foreman Cotton oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosn...

Dorothy Foreman Cotton discusses growing up in rural North Carolina, attending Shaw University and Virginia State College, working as a housekeeper for the president of these colleges, Dr. Robert Prentiss Danie... More

Mary E. McDowell, University of Chicago Settlement, Stock-Yards Distri...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Three-quarter length portrait of Mary E. McDowell, seated, facing camera, in ornately carved chair, with book in lap. Caption on cropped version of same ima... More

Mrs. Evelyn P. Coe, Sec[retary], Massachusetts[achusetts] Branch, C[on...

Public domain scan of a female portrait, woman, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Miss Clara Louise Rowe, of Syracuse, N.Y., campaigned in the New York ...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Head-and-shoulders portrait of Clara L. Rowe, wearing broad-brimmed hat and square-necked satin dress with ruffle trim.

Mrs. Gertrude Hunter of Minnesota is one of the national organizers of...

Title transcribed from image. Summary: Formal portrait, head and chest, Gertrude Hunter, facing slightly toward the left with head turned to camera, wearing eye glasses (pince-nez) and dress with sheer sleeves ... More

Suffragettes on way to Boston - Public domain portrait photograph

A crowd of people standing around a bus. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mrs. Nina E. Allender., Head and Shoulders Portrait

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Nina E. Allender, studio portrait, head and shoulders. The caption on an alternate photograph in the same folder reads: Mrs. Nina E. Allender of Washington, D.C., formerly ... More

Woman's Party Booth at San Francisco Exposition Spring 1915. L-R, Fron...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Group indoor photograph of National Woman's Party members wearing hats and suffrage sashes. Left to right: (front, seated) May Wright Sewall, Kate Waller Barrett, (rear, st... More

Mrs. Nina E. Allender, Cartoonist, Nat[ional] Woman's P[ar]ty

Summary: Informal portrait, Nina E. Allender, full-length, seated at desk, facing left with head turned toward camera, holding a cartoon sketch in her lap. Title and information transcribed from item. Photograp... More

Mrs. Robert Adamson, wife of Fire Commissioner of N.Y. City. She will ...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Head-and-shoulders studio portrait of Ethel M. Adamson, with clasped hands. The caption on a smaller duplicate print of the same image located in the same folder reads: "Mr... More

Elsie Hill speaking [at street meeting in St. Paul, Minn., during Proh...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Elsie Hill, standing in the back seat of an automobile that is parked at curb, speaking to a crowd of people (mostly men} standing on a sidewalk, on a street ... More

Suffragettes drilling, Chicago - Glass negative photogrpah. Public dom...

Photographs show suffragists parading in Chicago, outside the Republican National Convention. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

[Suffragists demonstrating against Woodrow Wilson in Chicago, 1916]

Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of (mostly female) suffrage supporters demonstrating with signs addressed to President Woodrow Wilson while assembled along a street in Chicago. S... More

Mrs. Sophie Meredith, chairman of Virginia Branch N.W.P.

Title and information transcribed from item. Cropped version of the photograph published in The Suffragist, 8, no. 5 (June 1920): n.p. Summary: Formal portrait, Sophie G. Meredith, seated, half-length, facing f... More

Mrs. George Elder Adams, of New York, who took part in the picketing o...

Summary: Studio portrait, Mrs. George Elder Adams of New York, in hat and fur stole, standing with a copy of the newsletter The Suffragist in her hands. Title transcribed from item.

Bastille Day. Julia Hurlbut of N.J. leading. Iris Calderhead of Kansas...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Julia Hurlbut leading procession of (two) suffragists down city sidewalk, both suffragists wear suffrage sashes and hold aloft suffrage banners, Hurlbut holds... More

Kate Heffelfinger after her release from Occoquan Prison, ca. 1917.

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of a woman escorting Kate Heffelfinger, wrapped in blanket, outside near a car, after release from jail. Kate Heffelfinger, of Shamokin, Penn., was an art studen... More