Key Preceding Events /
1) Mustered Out /
2) Freedmen /
3) Women’s Bible /
4) Ballad of Booker T. Washington /
5) Congress
Fighting Against /
6) Bureau /
7) Jim Crow /
8) Suffrage Parade /
9) Dark Laughter /
10) One Nation
Leaders /
11) Heroes /
12) Booker T. /
13) Alice Paul /
14) Marchers /
15) Jesse Jackson
Methods /
16) Emancipation /
17) Landmark Briefs /
18) Suffrage Envoys /
19) Voting Rights
20) Overcome /
21) Boycott
Results and Consequences /
22) Ku Klux Klan /
23) Water Cooler
24) School Building /
25) ERA Map
26) Casting Votes /
27) Decree
28) Pen /
29) Brown v Board
Civil Rights
African American Odyssey
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"Ballad of Booker T."
Langston Hughes.
RELATED NAMES
Miscellaneous Manuscript Collection
MEDIUM
10 p.
SPECIAL TERMS OF USE
Courtesy of Harold Ober Associates, New York, NY.
PART OF
African American Odyssey
REPOSITORY
Library of Congress Manuscript Division Washington, D.C. 20540
DIGITAL ID
(Harlem Renaissance--The Quest for Artistic Freedom) aaohtml 0708 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart7b.html#0708
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Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party
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#18
Item Title
[Suffrage envoys from San Francisco greeted in New Jersey on their way to Washington to present a petition to Congress Suffrage envoys from San Francisco greeted containing more than 500,000 signatures.]
Created/Published
[1915 Nov.-Dec.]
Notes
Summary: Photograph of group of smiling women and two children standing with banners on sidewalk. Banner on left: "We demand an amendment to the United States Constitution enfranchising women." Banner on right: "Welcome Suffrage Envoys."
Title derived by Library of Congress staff.
Subjects
United States--New Jersey--
Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage (U.S.)
Women--Suffrage--New Jersey
Suffragists--United States--1910-1920
Photographs
Object Type
still image
Medium
1 photograph: print; 7.25 x 9.5 in.
Call Number
Location: National Woman's Party Records, Group I, Container I:159, Folder: Envoys from San Francisco
Part of
Records of the National Woman's Party
Repository
Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID
mnwp 159032
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#19
"Signing the Voting Rights Act," August 6, 1965.
U.S. News and World Report, August 16, 1965.
Humanities and Social Sciences Division, General Collections. (9-20)
Copyright, August 16, 1965, U.S. News and World Report (www.usnews.com).
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
The 1965 Voting Rights Act created a significant change in the status of African Americans throughout the South. The Voting Rights Act prohibited the states from using literacy tests, interpreting the Constitution, and other methods of excluding Afric an Americans from voting. Prior to this, only an estimated twenty-three percent of voting-age blacks were registered nationally, but by 1969 the number had jumped to sixty-one percent.
In the Southern states, the numbers were more dramatic. During this same period in Mississippi, for example, African American registration jumped from 6.7 to 66.5 percent. This increase in registration led to the election of African Americans to federal, state, and local office.
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Negro drinking at "Colored" water cooler in streetcar terminal, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Lee, Russell, 1903- photographer.
CREATED/PUBLISHED
1939 July.
NOTES
Title and other information from caption card.
Additional information on caption card: For M5 use copy negative in series LC-USF331.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
SUBJECTS
Oklahoma City--Oklahoma
Nitrate negatives.
United States--Oklahoma--Oklahoma City.
MEDIUM
1 negative : nitrate ; 35 mm.
CALL NUMBER
LC-USF33- 012327-M5
REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-DIG-fsa-8a26761 DLC (digital file from original neg.)
LC-USZ62-80126 DLC (b&w film copy neg. from file print)
LC-USF3301-012327-M5 DLC (b&w film dup. neg.)
PART OF
Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)
REPOSITORY
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540 USA
DIGITAL ID
(digital file from original neg.) fsa 8a26761 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8a26761
#17
Phillip B. Kurland.
Landmark Briefs and Arguments of the Supreme Court of the United States: Constitutional Law. Volume 13.
Arlington, Virginia: University Publications
of America, Inc., 1975.
Law Library (3)
Available from LexisNexis®,
a division of Reed Elsevier Inc
Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896
By the time Homer A. Plessy, an octoroon (one-eighth Negro blood), who lived in New Orleans, challenged that city's right to segregate public transportation by riding in a Whites Only rail car, the constitutional amendments, passed after the Civil War and written to provide protections and rights for Negro citizens, had been eroded. The Louisiana state courts ruled against Plessy, and his subsequent appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court was denied in 1896. The impact of Plessy was to relegate blacks to second-class citizenship. They were separated from whites by law and by private action in transportation, public accommodations, recreational facilities, churches, cemeteries and school in both Northern and Southern states.
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#24
School building in
Louisa County, Virginia (20.4)
[Digital ID# ppmsca-#05513]
Gelatin silver prints, ca. 1935.
Visual Materials from the NAACP Records,
Prints and Photographs Division
Courtesy of the NAACP
Separate and Unequal
The 1896 court ruling in Plessy v Ferguson ushered in an era of "separate but equal" facilities and treatment for blacks and whites. In the area of education, it was felt that the children of former slaves would be better served if they attended their own schools and in their own communities. These images of schools for black students show that facilities were separate but never equal.
Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party
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Item Title
[Women, including those representing the states of Wisconsin and Oregon, and delegations from Womans' clubs, assemble in first national suffrage parade, Washington, D.C.]
Created/Published
1913
Notes
Summary: Photograph of contingents of suffragists marching with banners on street. Banners read: "Delegations From Womans Clubs", "Wisconsin," and "Oregon."
Title derived by Library of Congress staff.
Subjects
United States--District of Columbia--
National Woman's Party
Women--Suffrage--United States
Suffragists--United States--1910-1920
Photographs
Object Type
still image
Medium
1 photograph: 5 x 7 in.
Call Number
Location: National Woman's Party Records, Group I, Container I:159, Folder: Campaign of 1913
Part of
Records of the National Woman's Party
Repository
Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID
mnwp 159007
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.159007
#3
Words and Deeds in American History: Selected Documents Celebrating the Manuscript Division's First 100 Years
Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895.
(Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers)
Although most often identified as a suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) participated in a variety of reform initiatives during her lifetime. Setting her sights on women's emancipation and equality in all arenas--political, economic, religious, and social--Stanton viewed suffrage as an important but not paramount goal. Since childhood, Stanton had rebelled against the role assigned to women and chafed at being denied a university education because of her sex. As a young woman, she became involved in the temperance and antislavery movements, through which she met Henry Brewster Stanton (1805-1887), an abolitionist reformer and journalist, whom she married in May 1840. While honeymooning in England, Elizabeth became outraged when she and other women were barred from a major antislavery convention. She discussed her feelings with Lucretia Mott (1793-1880), a Quaker minister from Pennsylvania and one of the American delegates to the meeting, and together they resolved to hold a women's rights convention to discuss women's secondary status when they returned to the United States.
concerned about the increased influence of conservative evangelical suffragists, Stanton published the second part of her Bible in 1898. This volume, like the first, was an attempt to promote a radical liberating theology that stressed self-development and challenged the ideological basis for women's subordination. Until her death in 1902, Stanton continued to write on religious themes and to condemn canon law for restricting women's freedom and retarding their progress.
1. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Mary Ann McClintock, "Letter to the Editor," Semi-Weekly Courier (Seneca Falls, New York), [1848], The Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, microfilm edition, reel 6:779-81.
Janice E. Ruth, Manuscript Division
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Reproduction Number:
A114 (color slide; Chapter II, page 3)
Related Terms:
Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) (1820-1906) | Declaration of Rights and Sentiments | Mott, Lucretia (1793-1880) | National American Woman Suffrage Association | Religion | Stanton, Elizabeth Cady (1815-1902) | Stanton, Henry B. (Henry Brewster) (1805-1887) | Suffragists | The Woman's Bible | Women | Women's rights
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[ERA map : United States] / St. Petersburg Times--Frank Peters.
Peters, Frank.
CREATED/PUBLISHED
[St. Petersburg, Fla.] : St Petersburg Times, 1979.
NOTES
"October 17, 1979."
Scale not given.
SUBJECTS
Constitutional amendments--United States--Maps.
Equal rights amendments--United States--Maps.
United States.
RELATED TITLES
[ACSM Map Design Competition Collection ; 1979-20]
MEDIUM
1 map : col. ; on sheet 58 x 35 cm.
CALL NUMBER
G3701.F8 1979 .P4 MLC ACSM 79-20
REPOSITORY
Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA
DIGITAL ID
g3701f awh00001 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3701f.awh00001
#29
Save Brown v. Board of Education, 2003.
Poster.
Prints and Photographs Division (220)
The New Civil Rights Movement
On April 1, 2003, several thousands gathered for a new March on Washington sponsored by The Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration & Immigrant Rights, and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary. BAMN, the organization's acronym, were co-defendants in Grutter v. Bollinger, the case which disputed the University of Michigan's admissions policy. They felt many of the gains made by minorities would be lost if the case did not uphold the Brown decision. Many of the protesters carried these signs with the phrase "Save Affirmative Action" and "Save Brown v. Board of Education."
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"It says here Congress is anxious to get out of town"
Since his move to Washington, D.C., in 1946, Herb Block has been an impassioned advocate for the social, political, and economic welfare of the city's inhabitants. In early October 1966 members of Congress openly expressed their desire to end the current session and leave Washington to campaign for re-election in November. This cartoon depicts the poor who were unable to escape the dismal living conditions found in many of the city's neighborhoods.
"It says here Congress is anxious to get out of town," October 12, 1966
Ink, graphite, and opaque white over graphite underdrawing on layered paper
Published in the Washington Post (64)
LC-USZ62-127091
#6
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TITLE:The Freedman's Bureau! An agency to keep the Negro in idleness at the expense of the white man. Twice vetoed by the President, and made a lawy by Congress. Support Congress & you support the Negro Sustain the President & you protect the white man
CALL NUMBER:Broadside Collection, portfolio 159, no. 9a c-Rare Bk Coll
REPRODUCTION NUMBER:LC-USZ62-40764 (b&w film copy neg.)
SUMMARY:One in a series of racist posters attacking Radical Republicans on the issue of black suffrage, issued during the Pennsylvania gubernatorial election of 1866. (See also "The Constitutional Amendment!," no. 1866-5.) The series advocates the election of Hiester Clymer, who ran for governor on a white-supremacy platform, supporting President Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction policies. In this poster a black man lounges idly in the foreground as one white man ploughs his field and another chops wood. Accompanying labels are: "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat thy bread," and "The white man must work to keep his children and pay his taxes." The black man wonders, "Whar is de use for me to work as long as dey make dese appropriations." Above in a cloud is an image of the "Freedman's Bureau! Negro Estimate of Freedom!" The bureau is pictured as a large domed building resembling the U.S. Capitol and is inscribed "Freedom and No Work." Its columns and walls are labeled, "Candy," "Rum, Gin, Whiskey," "Sugar Plums," "Indolence," "White Women," "Apathy," "White Sugar," "Idleness," "Fish Balls," "Clams," "Stews," and "Pies." At right is a table giving figures for the funds appropriated by Congress to support the bureau and information on the inequity of the bounties received by black and white veterans of the Civil War.
MEDIUM:1 print : woodcut on wove paper ; 45.5 x 58.1 cm. (image)
CREATED/PUBLISHED:1866.
FORMAT:
Political posters.
Woodcuts.
REPOSITORY:Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party
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Item Title
[Alice Paul]
Author/Creator
Photographer:Harris & Ewing, Washington, D.C.
Created/Published
[ca. 1913 June]
Notes
Summary: Photograph of Alice Paul, seated at desk, in profile, speaking on telephone.
Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Date derived from June calendar visible on desktop in image.
Photograph published in The Suffragist, 3, no. 52 (Dec. 25, 1915): 6.
Subjects
United States--New Jersey--
United States--District of Columbia--
Paul, Alice, 1885-1977
National Woman's Party
Suffragists--United States--1910-1920
Women--Suffrage--United States
Photographs