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Rutledge Pearson
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Rutledge Pearson (on left), a former baseball player and president of the Jacksonville NAACP, speaking with a woman living on Caroline Lane, the poorest section of the city. Pearson and Oscar Taylor (right) were distributing flyers for an upcoming jobs and freedom march.
1963
Collins, Marjory, 1912-1985
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WSP Peace March
June 1963
Inter-racial demonstration at the second annual conference of Women Strike for Peace (WSP).
Southern Housing Conditions
August 1963
Marjory Collins, a writer and photographer for the "National Guardian," took this picture of the housing of poor blacks.
Building the Movement
August 1963
John McFerren, a leader of the civil rights movement in Somerville, working on the construction of a new building for the organization.
Ed Nixon
April 1962
Civil rights leader Ed Nixon, and his wife, seated on the front porch of their home.
Rev. Claude Williams
1962
Rev. Claude Williams and his wife Joyce, probably photographed at their house in Birmingham, Alabama. Williams, a Presbyterian minister, was expelled from several southern congregations for his vie...
Movement Leader Ezekiel Bell
April 1962
Ezekiel Bell, his wife, and son Frederick posed outside his house. Bell was the chair of the Community Service Committee which was credited with the successful desegregation of lunch counters in H...
