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The Civil Rights Era
Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr., “101st U.S. Senator.”
Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr., Director NAACP Washington Bureau, February 28, 1957. Photograph. NAACP Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (100.00.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
[Digital ID # ppmsca.23839]
Herbert Hill, Authority on Race and Labor
Herbert Hill, between 1950 and 1960. Photograph. NAACP Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (101.00.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
[Digital ID # cph.3c26947]
Harry Tyson Moore, Florida Leader
Harry Tyson Moore, ca. 1950. Photograph. NAACP Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (102.00.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
[Digital ID # cph.3c28702]
“Fight for Freedom” Campaign
Minutes of Committee Meeting to Implement the Annual Conference Resolution on the Fighting Fund for Freedom, October 8, 1953. Typescript. NAACP Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (103.00.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
Digital ID # na0103p1 – na0103p6
NAACP Fundraiser, Marguerite Belafonte
Marguerite Belafonte and little boy holding NAACP Freedom Fund balloons, between 1950 and 1960. Photograph. NAACP Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (118.00.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
[Digital ID # ppmsca.23841]
Robert L. Carter, Legal Expert
Robert L. Carter, between 1940 and 1955. Photograph. NAACP Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (105.00.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
[Digital ID # cph.3c26948]
Earl Warren’s Reading Copy of the Brown Opinion
Earl Warren’s reading copy of the Brown v. Board opinion, May 17, 1954. Printed document with autograph annotations. Earl Warren Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (106.00.00)
Digital ID # na0106
Attorneys for Brown v. Board of Education
George E. C. Hayes, Thurgood Marshall, and James M. Nabrit congratulating each other on the Brown decision, May 17, 1954. Gelatin silver print. New York World-Telegram and Sun Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (107.00.00)
Digital ID # cph-3c11236
Roy Wilkins, Longest-Serving NAACP Leader
Warren K. Leffler. Roy Wilkins, Executive Secretary of the NAACP, April 5, 1963. Photograph. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (100.01.00)
[Digital ID # ppmsca.01273]
The Lynching of Emmett Till
Press release concerning the lynching of Emmett Till, September 1, 1955. Typescript. NAACP Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (107.01.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
[Digital ID # na0107_01, na0107_01p1]
Justice for Emmett Till Flyer
Mass Meeting Protesting Emmett Till Lynching and Trial [in Mississippi] 8:00 P.M., Friday, October 21, 1955 at Community A.M.E. Church. . . , [1955]. Flyer. NAACP Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (107.02.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
[Digital ID # na0107_02]
Rosa Parks’s Arrest
Mrs. Rosa Parks being fingerprinted in Montgomery, Alabama, 1956. Gelatin silver print. New York World-Telegram and Sun Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (109.00.00)
Digital ID # cph-3c09643
Rosa Parks’s Arrest Record
Rosa Parks’s arrest record, December 5, 1955. Typed document. Frank Johnson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (108.00.00, 108.00.01)
Digital ID # na0108p1, na0108p2
Efforts to Ban the NAACP
J.L. Leflore to Thurgood Marshall concerning the Alabama State Attorney General’s efforts to ban the NAACP in Alabama, June 4, 1956. Typed letter. NAACP Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (110.00.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
[Digital ID # na0110]
Ruby Hurley, Southeast Region Director
Ruby Hurley, Youth Secretary of NAACP, between 1943 and 1950. Photograph. NAACP Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (113.00.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
[Digital ID # ppmsca.23840]
Civil Rights Act of 1957
U.S. Congress. Public Law 85-315, 85th Congress, H.R. 6127 (Civil Rights Act of 1957), September 9, 1957. NAACP Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (111.00.00)
[Digital ID # na0111p1-na0111p4]
Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine
Daisy Bates to NAACP Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins on the treatment of the Little Rock Nine, December 17, 1957. Typed letter. NAACP Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (112.00.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
Digital ID # na0112p1 – na0112p2
Ella Baker, Director of Branches
Ella Baker, between 1943 and 1946. Photograph. NAACP Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (114.00.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
[Digital ID # cph.3c18852]
“50 Years: Freedom, Civil Rights, Progress”
The Crisis. “50 Years: Freedom, Civil Rights, Progress,” June-July 1959. New York: NAACP, 1959. General Collections, Library of Congress (115.00.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
[Digital ID # na0115]
Beginning of the Student Sit-in Movement
The Day They Changed Their Minds. New York: NAACP, March, 1960. NAACP Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (117.00.00-117.00.06) Courtesy of the NAACP
[Digital ID # na0117p1-na00117p7]
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