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Association for the Advancement of Colored People, for authorizing
the use of many of these photographs.
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Summary: Holding banners and American
flags, a group of people protest the "Little Rock Nine"
admission to Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Created/Published: 1959 Aug. 20.
Notes: Photographer: John T. Bledsoe. Part of the U.S. News
& World Report Magazine Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). |
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Summary: Students sitting in an
integrated classroom at Anacostia High School in Washington, D.C.,
1957.
Created/Published: 1957 Sept. 10.
Notes: Photographer: Warren K. Leffler. Part of the U.S.
News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection (Library
of Congress). |
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Summary: Photograph
shows an integrated elementary school, Barnard School, in Washington,
D.C., 1955.
Created/Published: 1955 May 27.
Notes: Photographer: Thomas J. O'Halloran.. Part of the U.S.
News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection (Library
of Congress). |
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Summary: NAACP members
protest Texas segregation laws in Houston, Texas.
Created/Published: [1947].
Notes: Part of visual materials from the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People Records. (Library of Congress). |
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Summary: Six African American
students who applied for enrollment in the University of Oklahoma
in a move to break down the state's racial segregation in education.
Created/Published: ca. 1948
Notes: Part of visual materials from the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People Records. (Library of Congress). |
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Summary: African American students
walking to Clinton High School at Clinton, Tennessee. White students
stand outside the walkway.
Created/Published: 1956.
Notes: United Press Association photo. Part of the U.S. News
& World Report Magazine Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). |
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Summary: George W. McLaurin seated
in anteroom at the University of Oklahoma law school.
Created/Published: n/a
Notes: Part of visual materials from the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People Records. (Library of Congress). |
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Summary: African American students
attend a segregated classroom. Exact date unknown.
Created/Published: [between 1940 and 1960].
Notes: Part of visual materials from the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People Records. (Library of Congress). |
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Summary: George W. McLaurin greets
students at the University of Oklahoma law school.
Created/Published: 1948.
Notes: Part of visual materials from the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People Records. (Library of Congress). |
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Summary: Louis L. Redding (left)
of Wilmington, Delaware, and Thurgood Marshall, general counsel
of the NAACP, conferring at the Supreme Court during a recess in
the court's hearing on racial integration in public schools].
Created/Published: 1955.
Notes: Associated Press photo. Part of visual materials from
the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Records.
(Library of Congress). |
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Summary: Mr. and Mrs. Heman
Sweatt, three-quarter length portrait, standing in front of building
with large columns, probably the Supreme Court.
Created/Published: [between 1946 and 1950]
Notes: Part of visual materials from the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People Records. (Library of Congress).
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Summary: Protected by National
Guard troops, African American student Elizabeth Eckford is heckled
outside of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Created/Published: 1957
Notes: United Press International photograph. Part of New
York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection
(Library of Congress) |
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Summary: Little Rock Nine and
Daisy Bates posed in living room.
Created/Published: [between 1957 and 1960]
Notes: Photographer: Cecil Layne. Part of visual materials
from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Records. (Library of Congress). |
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Summary: Ernest Green, the first
African American graduate of Little Rock Central High School, and
his parents are escorted to a taxi following graduation ceremonies.
Created/Published: 1958
Notes: United Press International photograph. Part of New
York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection
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