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Photograph

Amzie Moore, Julian Bond, and Others

Date: 1963
Description: Bob Moses, Julian Bond, Curtis (Hayes) Muhammad, Willie Peacock, Hollis Watkins, Amzie Moore and E.W. Steptoe on Steptoe's farm.
Manuscript

Louisiana Story 1963

Date: 1963
Description: Cover of pamphlet entitled "Louisiana Story 1963," by James Farmer. Produced by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE).
Photograph

James L. Farmer, Jr.

Date: 1963
Description: James L. Farmer, Jr. of CORE, speaking at a national conference of the United Packinghouse Workers of America. James Leonard Farmer, Jr. was a civil rights...
Photograph

Anti-Desegregation Demonstrator

Date: 1963
Description: Man in a hat and long coat holding a sign opposing desegregation in schools. Possibly in Milwaukee.
Photograph

Rutledge Pearson

Date: 1963
Description: Rutledge Pearson (on left), a former baseball player and president of the Jacksonville NAACP, speaking with a woman living on Caroline Lane, the poorest se...
Print

Martin Luther King Broadside

Date: 1963
Description: "Martin Luther King .... at Communist Training School," a broadside received by Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey, while civil rights legislation was bei...
Map or Atlas

Map for Canton Boycott

Date: 1963
Description: A map with handwritten notes and locations for Freedom Fighters participating in the Canton Boycott, for orientation during picketing. It is not a map show...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

SNCC News Release

Date: 1963
Description: News release from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Atlanta, Georgia for immediate release in Greenville, Mississippi with the headli...
Book or Pamphlet

A Page from "Louisiana Story" Brochure

Date: 1963
Description: Two photographs featured in a "Louisiana Story" brochure. In the top image, CORE worker Daniel Mitchell interviews a potential voter on a porch with three ...

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