Query: African Americans -- Civil rights
Website Records
Dates:
2018
Collection ID:
Accession 19-212
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of the "Oh Freedom!: Teaching African American Civil Rights through American Art at the Smithsonian" website, crawled on August 6, 2018. The website is jointly maintained by the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Museum of African American History and Culture. It offers a new introduction to the …

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Website Records
Dates:
2014
Collection ID:
Accession 14-219
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of the "Oh Freedom!: Teaching African American Civil Rights through American Art at the Smithsonian" website, crawled on April 4, 2014. The website is jointly maintained by the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Museum of African American History and Culture. It offers a new introduction to the …

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Website Records
Creators:
Smithsonian Institution
Dates:
2012
Collection ID:
Accession 13-086
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of the "Oh Freedom!: Teaching African American Civil Rights through American Art at the Smithsonian" website, crawled in two parts on July 17 and 19, 2012. The website is jointly maintained by the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Museum of African American History and Culture. It offers a …

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Moses Moon Civil Rights Movement Audio Collection
Creators:
McNamara, Norris
Moon, Moses
Dates:
1963-1964
Size:
4 Cubic feet (18 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0556
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Recorded by Moses Moon (known at the time as Alan Ribback) and assisted by Norris McNamara during 1963 and 1964, the collection includes audio recordings of interviews with civil rights leaders and participants as well as free-style recordings of mass meetings, voter registration events, and other gatherings organized by Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). This collection provides a mostly unfiltered documentation of significant moments in the civil rights movement.

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Joan and Robert K. Morrison Collection
Creators:
Morrison, Joan, -2010
Morrison, Robert K.
Beirne, Barbara T.
Dates:
1985 - 1987
Size:
6 Cubic feet (20 boxes )
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0359
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

The collection is comprised of 139 audiocassettes (original copies only), 80 transcripts and tape summaries, and photographs (including some negatives). The transcripts and photographs also exist in single copies only, but they may be used with care by researchers.

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Productions
Creators:
Smithsonian Institution. Office of Telecommunications
Dates:
1973, 1986, 1988, 1990, undated
Size:
1.5 cu. ft. (1 record storage box) (1 document box)
Collection ID:
Accession 09-084
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of audiovisual materials created during the production of "Through the Looking Glass Darkly: Struggle for Rights;" "Afro-Americans and the Evolution of a Living Constitution;" "Life and Times of Richard Allen;" and "Harlem Renaissance." "Through the Looking Glass Darkly: Struggle for Rights," produced in 1973, deals with the history …

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Ruth Koenig Mississippi Summer Project Collection
Creators:
Koenig, Ruth
Reagon, Bernice Johnson, 1942-
Dates:
1964-1966
Size:
0.33 Cubic feet (1 box)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0558
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Materials related to the Civil Rights struggle, voter registration drive in Holly Springs, summer 1964: includes diaries, correspondence, business records, periodical articles, newsletters, and ephemera.

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Ethel Payne papers
Creators:
Payne, Ethel L.
Dates:
circa 1960s-1980s
Size:
0.5 Linear feet (2 boxes)
Collection ID:
ACMA.06-011
Repository:
Anacostia Community Museum Archives

The Ethel Payne papers, which date from circa 1960s to 1980s and measure .50 linear feet, document the career of journalist Ethel Payne. The collection is comprised of passports, badges, photographs, press credentials, awards and ephemera.

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Ed King Collection of Civil Rights Material
Creators:
King, Ed
Dates:
1961-1970.
Size:
0.5 Cubic feet
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0559
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

The bulk of this collection contains affidavits and legal papers filed in civil action suits which document acts of violence committed against Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) workers between 1961 and 1964. All activity documented occurred in Mississippi, and much of the violence that occurred was inflicted by police and white civilians …

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Website Records
Dates:
2015
Collection ID:
Accession 15-251
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of the online exhibition "Freedom Just around the Corner: Black America from Civil War to Civil Rights" as it existed on April 30, 2015. It accompanies an exhibition of the same name at the National Postal Museum. Due to technical issues, some features may not function properly in this …

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