Date: | 08 1963 |
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Description: | Marjory Collins, a writer and photographer for the "National Guardian," took this picture of the housing of poor blacks. |
Date: | 08 1963 |
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Description: | John McFerren, a leader of the civil rights movement in Somerville, working on the construction of a new building for the organization. |
Date: | 05 17 1916 |
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Description: | Men are watching the demonstration of an Avery Company tractor pulling a Hoosier seed drill (?) across a field at Newsorn Farm during the annual meeting of... |
Date: | 1928 |
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Description: | Front yard landscaping of the residential home of A.R. Matthews, master farmer. |
Date: | 1915 |
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Description: | A boy standing near a large area of soil erosion in a rural area. |
Date: | 1953 |
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Description: | Exterior view of the segregated entrance for African-Americans at Malco Theater. There is a fire escape on the side of the building. Several cars are parke... |
Date: | 1925 |
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Description: | Exterior view of the International Harvester Company Nashville branch warehouses and offices. Several trucks are parked on a loading dock along the side of... |
Date: | 1925 |
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Description: | A railroad track runs alongside the International Harvester Company Memphis branch building. |
Date: | 1925 |
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Description: | Exterior view of the International Harvester Company Knoxville branch. A sign advertising P&O plows hangs from a covered porch along the side of the build... |
Date: | 1959 |
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Description: | Elevated view of balers arranged in rows outdoors in a factory yard at International Harvester's Memphis Works. |
Date: | 1959 |
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Description: | Elevated view of balers arranged in rows inside International Harvester's Memphis Works factory. Three men are standing among the balers. |
Date: | 12 1978 |
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Description: | A crowd of people with signs march to the Democratic Party mid-term convention during the first national ACORN convention. |
Date: | 11 23 1915 |
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Description: | Boy retrieves water from a school well. Original caption reads: "This Old fashioned well, at Sheffield School near Union City, Tenn. is typical of the enti... |
Date: | 1963 |
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Description: | "Martin Luther King .... at Communist Training School," a broadside received by Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey, while civil rights legislation was bei... |
Date: | 1973 |
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Description: | Two men are standing and talking in a plaza in front of a building which has a large sign with the words: "Memphis Tennessee Shelby County" around the seal... |
Date: | 1973 |
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Description: | View from lawn in a residential neighborhood of three men pushing trash cans on hand carts towards a garbage truck. Behind the garbage truck is an Internat... |
Date: | 1973 |
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Description: | An African-American man is dumping a barrel of trash into an International Harvester Scout with a dump body driven by another African-American man. They ar... |
Date: | 1973 |
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Description: | Three garbage trucks are pictured in a landfill dumping trash. An African-American man is standing by one of the trucks. The trucks are likely Internationa... |
Date: | 1942 |
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Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Zilphia Horton, wife of Myles Horton, the founder of Highlander Folk School. |
Date: | 11 10 1927 |
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Description: | A group of men at a water pump demonstration on the shoreline of a body of water. There is a truck on the left side. |
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