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Booker T. Washington (001.00.00)

Booker T. Washington

C.M. Battey. Booker T. Washington. Photograph, ca. 1890. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (001.00.00)
Digital ID # cph.3a26544

Booker T. Washington’s Atlanta Exposition Speech (002.00.00)

Booker T. Washington’s Atlanta Exposition Speech

Booker T. Washington. “Atlanta Exposition Speech,” September 18, 1895. Typescript with autograph corrections. Booker T. Washington Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (002.00.00)
Digital ID # na0002p1 – na0002p7

Du Bois Congratulates Washington on Atlanta Speech (003.00.00)

Du Bois Congratulates Washington on Atlanta Speech

Letter from W.E.B. Dubois to Booker T. Washington congratulating Washington on his “Atlanta Exposition Speech,” September 24, 1895. Autograph letter. Booker T. Washington Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (003.00.00)
Digital ID # na0003

W. E. B. Du Bois (005.00.00)

W. E. B. Du Bois
C. M. Battey. W. E. B. Du Bois, ca. 1919. Photograph.  Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (005.00.00)

[Digital ID # cph.3a53178]

Plessy v. Ferguson Supports Segregation (004.00.00)

Plessy v. Ferguson Supports Segregation

Thomas Brook, ed. Plessy v. Ferguson: A Brief History with Documents. Boston: Bedford Books, 1997. General Collections, Library of Congress (004.00.00)
Digital ID # na0004p1 – na0004p3

Ida B. Wells-Barnett (006.00.00)

Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Ida B. Wells-Barnett, published 1891. Photographic print. NAACP Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (006.00.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
Digital ID # ppmsca-23823

Lynch Law in Georgia (007.00.00)

Lynch Law in Georgia

Ida B. Wells-Barnett. Lynch Law in Georgia. Chicago: Chicago Colored Citizens, 1899. Daniel A.P. Murray Pamphlet Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (007.00.00)
Digital ID # na0007, na0007p01-na0007p19

A 1900 Satirical Cartoon from Puck Magazine (008.00.00)

A 1900 Satirical Cartoon from Puck Magazine

“In Georgia.” Puck, April 11, 1900. Facsimile of magazine cover. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (008.00.00)
Digital ID # cph-3b48926

Founders of the Niagara Movement (009.00.00)

Founders of the Niagara Movement

Niagara Movement Founders, 1905. Top row (left to right): H. A. Thompson, Alonzo F. Herndon, John Hope, James R. L. Diggs (?). Second row (left to right): Frederick McGhee, Norris B. Herndon (boy), J. Max Barber, W. E. B. Du Bois, Robert Bonner. Bottom row (left to right): Henry L. Bailey, Clement G. Morgan, W. H. H. Hart, B. S. Smith.  Reproduction. Courtesy of the W.E.B Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (009.00.00)
[Digital ID # MS0312-0394, MS0312-0401]

The Talented Tenth (014.00.00)

The Talented Tenth

An Open Letter to College Men—The Meaning of the Niagara Movement and the Junior Niagara Movement, 1909. Pamphlet. Booker T. Washington Papers. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (014.00.00)
[Digital ID # na0014p1-na0014p5]

Brownsville Affair Erodes Washington’s Support (013.00.00)

Brownsville Affair Erodes Washington’s Support

“25th Infantry, Companies B, C & D.” Supplement to the Richmond (Virginia) Planet. n.d. Poster. Mary Church Terrell Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (013.00.00) Digital ID # na0013

Letter from Mary Church Terrell Concerning the Brownsville Affair (011.00.00)

Letter from Mary Church Terrell Concerning the Brownsville Affair

Mary Church Terrell to Sergeant Sanders concerning the Brownsville Affair, December 8, 1906. Typed letter. Mary Church Terrell Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (011.00.00)
Digital ID # na011

Letter from Mary Church Terrell Concerning the Brownsville Affair (012.00.00)

Educator and Rights Advocate Mary Church Terrell

Addison Scurlock. Mary Church Terrell, ca. 1920. Photograph. NAACP Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (012.00.00) Permission for online use courtesy of the Scurlock Studio Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Behring Center, Smithsonian
Digital ID # ppmsc-00065

The 1906 Atlanta Riot (010.00.00)

The 1906 Atlanta Riot

Francis Jackson Garrison to Booker T. Washington concerning the Atlanta Riot, October 7, 1906. Autograph letter. Booker T. Washington Papers, Manuscript
Division, Library of Congress (010.00.00)
Digital ID # na0010p1, na0010p2

Springfield, Illinois, Race Riots, 1908 (015.00.00)

Springfield, Illinois, Race Riots, 1908

Militia camp in tents on State House grounds during the Springfield, Illinois, riots [1908]. Photograph. George Grantham Bain Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (015.00.00)
Digital ID # ggbain-02050

Founding and Early Years

William English Walling, a NAACP Founder (016.00.00)

William English Walling, a NAACP Founder

William English Walling, Chairman of NAACP Executive Committee (1910–1911) [1906]. Photograph. NAACP Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (016.00.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
Digital ID # ppmsca-23824

Journalist Ray Stannard Baker (017.00.00)

Journalist Ray Stannard Baker

William English Walling to Ray Stannard Baker concerning the National Conference on the Negro, February 6, 1909. Typed letter. Ray Stannard Baker Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (017.00.00)
Digital ID # na0017

“Call” for a National Conference to Address Racial Inequality (018.00.00)

“Call” for a National Conference to Address Racial Inequality

Committee on the Negro “Call” for a National Conference, February 1909.  Typescript. Ray Stannard Baker Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (018.00.00).
Digital ID # na0018p1 – na0018p3

NAACP Founder Mary White Ovington (020.00.00)

NAACP Founder Mary White Ovington

Mary White Ovington, ca. 1910. Photograph. NAACP Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (020.00.00)
Digital ID # ppmsca-23826

Social Worker and Civic Leader Henry Moskowitz (021.00.00)

Social Worker and Civic Leader Henry Moskowitz

Dr. Henry Moskowitz, between 1920 and 1936. Photograph. NAACP Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (021.00.00)
Digital ID # ppmsca-23827

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