national association for the advancement of colored people

N.A.A.C.P., Atlanta, Ga., June 1, 1920

Sitters include: W.E.B. Du Bois. Transfer; Library of Congress Manuscript Division; 1985; (DLC/PP-1985:517). Forms part of: Visual materials from the papers of Roy Wilkins.

Cleveland Sellers oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer in ...

Cleveland Sellers shares memories of growing up in Denmark, South Carolina, especially the influence of Voorhees College in the community. He organized a Youth Chapter of the National Association for the Advanc... More

Robert Bagner Hayling oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosni...

Robert Hayling recalls serving in the air force during World War II, attending the Meharry Dental School, and participating in civil rights protests in Nashville, Tennessee. He remembers starting his dental pra... More

Silent protest parade in New York [City] against the East St. Louis ri...

Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, N.Y. Collection finding aid available. Forms part of: Visual Materials from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Records. Exhibited: "The Civil Rig... More

[Dr. John A. Davis, half-length portrait, facing slightly left, holdin...

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

Cleveland Sellers oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer in ...

Cleveland Sellers shares memories of growing up in Denmark, South Carolina, especially the influence of Voorhees College in the community. He organized a Youth Chapter of the National Association for the Advanc... More

Robert Bagner Hayling oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosni...

Robert Hayling recalls serving in the air force during World War II, attending the Meharry Dental School, and participating in civil rights protests in Nashville, Tennessee. He remembers starting his dental pra... More

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

Members of an artillery unit stand by and check their equipment while ...

Photograph shows African American artillery troops on march in Belgium. Stamped on verso: Released by authority of Bureau of Public Relations War Department. Credit: Signal Corps photo. SC 196212-A-S. Forms pa... More

Congratulated: Roy Wilkins, (second from right) is congratulated just ...

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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

Cleveland Sellers oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer in ...

Cleveland Sellers shares memories of growing up in Denmark, South Carolina, especially the influence of Voorhees College in the community. He organized a Youth Chapter of the National Association for the Advanc... More

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

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

[Flag, announcing lynching, flown from the window of the NAACP headqua...

Collection finding aid available. Forms part of: Visual Materials from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Records (Library of Congress). Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual ... 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

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

Cleveland Sellers oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer in ...

Cleveland Sellers shares memories of growing up in Denmark, South Carolina, especially the influence of Voorhees College in the community. He organized a Youth Chapter of the National Association for the Advanc... More

What can a girl do? - Posters Yanker Poster Collection

Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983. Public domain scan of American poster, advertisement, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rosa Parks receiving NAACP Spingarn medal from Judge Damon Keith, Loui...

Photograph shows a profile of Rosa Parks just after Judge Damon Keith places the medal around her neck. Forms part of: Visual Materials from the Rosa Parks Papers (Library of Congress).

The NAACP is people, join - Posters Yanker Poster Collection

Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983. Public domain scan of American poster, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Doris Adelaide Derby oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnie...

Doris Derby discusses her childhood in the Bronx, joining a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) youth group, and attending Hunter College. She recalls her work in African art and ... More

[Robert L. Carter, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

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

Holding a poster against racial bias in Mississippi are four of the mo...

NYWT&S staff photo by Al. Ravenna. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

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

Cleveland Sellers oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer in ...

Cleveland Sellers shares memories of growing up in Denmark, South Carolina, especially the influence of Voorhees College in the community. He organized a Youth Chapter of the National Association for the Advanc... More

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

Interview: Roy Wilkins, Executive Secretary of the NAACP / [WKL].

Photograph shows head-and-shoulders portrait of Wilkins. Title from contact sheet folder caption. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR ... More

Portrait of W.E.B. Du Bois - Public domain print

Title devised by cataloger. Signed by artist. Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Visual materials from the the National Association for the Advancement of Colo... More

Felix Frankfurter's draft decree to enforce the Brown v. Board of Educ...

Reproduction number: A36 (color slide; pages 1 and 2); LC-MSS-47571-3 (B&W negative; page 2) On 17 May 1954 Chief Justice Earl Warren (1891-1974) delivered the Supreme Court's unanimous opinion in Brown v. Boar... More

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

Dorie Ann Ladner and Joyce Ladner oral history interview conducted by ...

Doris and Joyce Ladner discuss organizing for the March on Washington with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Dorie Ladner recalls her work with SNCC in Natchez, Mississippi, and the murder a... More

Kay Tillow oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Louis...

Summary: Kay Tillow describes learning about the Civil Rights Movement as a student at the University of Illinois, where she got involved with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAA... More

Doris Adelaide Derby oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnie...

Doris Derby discusses her childhood in the Bronx, joining a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) youth group, and attending Hunter College. She recalls her work in African art and ... More

Be counted on election day : register so you can vote

Gift: Gary Yanker; 1975-1983. Public domain photograph of 20th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Felix Frankfurter's draft decree to enforce the Brown v. Board of Educ...

Reproduction number: A36 (color slide; pages 1 and 2); LC-MSS-47571-3 (B&W negative; page 2) On 17 May 1954 Chief Justice Earl Warren (1891-1974) delivered the Supreme Court's unanimous opinion in Brown v. Boar... More

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

[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

Lift ev'ry voice : join the NAACP

Public domain scan of American poster, advertisement, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Port Gibson Boycott mural in Port Gibson, Mississippi

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Photo shows mural commemorating the 1966 economic boycott, led by the local chapter of the NAACP, of majority white businesses in Port... More

What can a girl do? - Posters Yanker Poster Collection

Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983.

Letter, Eleanor Roosevelt to Walter White detailing the First Lady's l...

Reproduction number: A69 (color slide); LC-MSS-34140-41 (B&W negative) Lynching was undoubtedly the most terrible crime perpetrated by white supremacists against African Americans. From the late nineteenth cent... More

Thurgood Marshall, attorney for the NAACP / [TOH].

Photograph shows half-length portrait of Marshall. Title from contact sheet folder caption. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes.

[Reverend L. Francis Griffin, head of a local NAACP chapter in Farmvil...

Portrait of Griffin related to images of opening of "free" schools which provided education for African American students, after Prince Edward County closed public schools rather than desegregate. Contact shee... More

NAACP Headquarters - Join Now during World War I

Photograph shows a poster hanging outside a window encouraging people to join the NAACP to fight against segregation and discrimination.

Cleveland Sellers oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer in ...

Cleveland Sellers shares memories of growing up in Denmark, South Carolina, especially the influence of Voorhees College in the community. He organized a Youth Chapter of the National Association for the Advanc... More

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

[Flag, announcing lynching, flown from the window of the NAACP headqua...

Collection finding aid available. Forms part of: Visual Materials from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Records (Library of Congress). Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual ... More

NAACP - one society - images Black History Month

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

Robert Bagner Hayling oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosni...

Robert Hayling recalls serving in the air force during World War II, attending the Meharry Dental School, and participating in civil rights protests in Nashville, Tennessee. He remembers starting his dental pra... More

Marilyn Luper Hildreth oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosn...

Marilyn Hildreth describes growing up in segregated Oklahoma and the leadership of her mother, Clara Luper, in the local National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) youth group. She recal... More

Silent protest parade in New York [City] against the East St. Louis ri...

Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, N.Y. Collection finding aid available. Forms part of: Visual Materials from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Records. Exhibited: "The Civil Rig... More

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

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

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

[Flag, announcing lynching, flown from the window of the NAACP headqua...

Collection finding aid available. Forms part of: Visual Materials from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Records (Library of Congress). Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual ... 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

Charles Siler oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Da...

Mr. Oscar Adams, charter member N.A.A.C.P., former sec'y Barnett Camer...

Photograph shows portrait of African American Alabama Supreme Court justice Oscar William Adams, Jr. Forms part of: Visual materials from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People records ... More

People is what the NAACP is about

Public domain photograph of book cover featuring a portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

Cleveland Sellers oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer in ...

Cleveland Sellers shares memories of growing up in Denmark, South Carolina, especially the influence of Voorhees College in the community. He organized a Youth Chapter of the National Association for the Advanc... More

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

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

Cecilia Suyat Marshall oral history interview conducted by Emilye Cros...

Summary: Cecilia Suyat Marshall recalls moving from Hawaii to New York where she found a job as a secretary with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1948. Marshall notes so... More

Cecilia Suyat Marshall oral history interview conducted by Emilye Cros...

Summary: Cecilia Suyat Marshall recalls moving from Hawaii to New York where she found a job as a secretary with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1948. Marshall notes so... More

Cecilia Suyat Marshall oral history interview conducted by Emilye Cros...

Summary: Cecilia Suyat Marshall recalls moving from Hawaii to New York where she found a job as a secretary with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1948. Marshall notes so... More

Dorie Ann Ladner and Joyce Ladner oral history interview conducted by ...

Doris and Joyce Ladner discuss organizing for the March on Washington with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Dorie Ladner recalls her work with SNCC in Natchez, Mississippi, and the murder a... More

Dorie Ann Ladner and Joyce Ladner oral history interview conducted by ...

Doris and Joyce Ladner discuss organizing for the March on Washington with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Dorie Ladner recalls her work with SNCC in Natchez, Mississippi, and the murder a... More

Kay Tillow oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Louis...

Summary: Kay Tillow describes learning about the Civil Rights Movement as a student at the University of Illinois, where she got involved with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAA... More

Charles Siler oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Da...

Charles Siler oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Da...

Mildred Bond Roxborough oral history interview conducted by Julian Bon...

Roxborough discusses how she became active in the Civil Rights Movement at the age of nine, when she sold subscriptions to the NAACP The Crisis magazine. Roxborough began working with the NAACP as a fieldworker... More

Mildred Bond Roxborough oral history interview conducted by Julian Bon...

Roxborough discusses how she became active in the Civil Rights Movement at the age of nine, when she sold subscriptions to the NAACP The Crisis magazine. Roxborough began working with the NAACP as a fieldworker... More

Mildred Bond Roxborough oral history interview conducted by Julian Bon...

Roxborough discusses how she became active in the Civil Rights Movement at the age of nine, when she sold subscriptions to the NAACP The Crisis magazine. Roxborough began working with the NAACP as a fieldworker... More

Mildred Bond Roxborough oral history interview conducted by Julian Bon...

Roxborough discusses how she became active in the Civil Rights Movement at the age of nine, when she sold subscriptions to the NAACP The Crisis magazine. Roxborough began working with the NAACP as a fieldworker... More

Doris Adelaide Derby oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnie...

Doris Derby discusses her childhood in the Bronx, joining a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) youth group, and attending Hunter College. She recalls her work in African art and ... More

Doris Adelaide Derby oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnie...

Doris Derby discusses her childhood in the Bronx, joining a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) youth group, and attending Hunter College. She recalls her work in African art and ... More

Doris Adelaide Derby oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnie...

Doris Derby discusses her childhood in the Bronx, joining a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) youth group, and attending Hunter College. She recalls her work in African art and ... More

Doris Adelaide Derby oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnie...

Doris Derby discusses her childhood in the Bronx, joining a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) youth group, and attending Hunter College. She recalls her work in African art and ... More

Thomas Walter Gaither oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosni...

Thomas Gaither recalls growing up in Great Falls, South Carolina, attending Claflin College, and leading the college's National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) chapter. He remembers th... More

Thomas Walter Gaither oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosni...

Thomas Gaither recalls growing up in Great Falls, South Carolina, attending Claflin College, and leading the college's National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) chapter. He remembers th... More

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

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

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

Cleveland Sellers oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer in ...

Cleveland Sellers shares memories of growing up in Denmark, South Carolina, especially the influence of Voorhees College in the community. He organized a Youth Chapter of the National Association for the Advanc... More

Cleveland Sellers oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer in ...

Cleveland Sellers shares memories of growing up in Denmark, South Carolina, especially the influence of Voorhees College in the community. He organized a Youth Chapter of the National Association for the Advanc... More

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

Cleveland Sellers oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer in ...

Cleveland Sellers shares memories of growing up in Denmark, South Carolina, especially the influence of Voorhees College in the community. He organized a Youth Chapter of the National Association for the Advanc... More

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

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

Cecilia Suyat Marshall oral history interview conducted by Emilye Cros...

Summary: Cecilia Suyat Marshall recalls moving from Hawaii to New York where she found a job as a secretary with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1948. Marshall notes so... More

Dorie Ann Ladner and Joyce Ladner oral history interview conducted by ...

Doris and Joyce Ladner discuss organizing for the March on Washington with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Dorie Ladner recalls her work with SNCC in Natchez, Mississippi, and the murder a... More

Kay Tillow oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Louis...

Summary: Kay Tillow describes learning about the Civil Rights Movement as a student at the University of Illinois, where she got involved with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAA... More

Robert Bagner Hayling oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosni...

Robert Hayling recalls serving in the air force during World War II, attending the Meharry Dental School, and participating in civil rights protests in Nashville, Tennessee. He remembers starting his dental pra... More

Charles Siler oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Da...

Charles Siler oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Da...

Charles Siler oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Da...

Doris Adelaide Derby oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnie...

Doris Derby discusses her childhood in the Bronx, joining a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) youth group, and attending Hunter College. She recalls her work in African art and ... More

Doris Adelaide Derby oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnie...

Doris Derby discusses her childhood in the Bronx, joining a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) youth group, and attending Hunter College. She recalls her work in African art and ... More