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"Billboard reminds voters of registration deadline"
View Full Item in Temple University"Registration notice posted at the south side of City Hall is read by Mayor Clark (left) and Harold W. Brightman, president of Lit Brothers and chairman of the Non-Partisan Register and Vote Campaign…
Quaker meeting minutes, "Minute on slavery: At a yearly meeting held in Philadelphia..." signed William Evans
[Date Unavailable]View Full Item in Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division. The New York Public Library"Sit-in by parents at Philadelphia's Frankford High School."
Govan, Thaddeus JrView Full Item in Temple UniversityWith clipping
Groundbreaking for Bright Hope Baptist church
Psoras, SamView Full Item in Temple University"Ground-breaking of the new Bright Hope Baptist church at 12th and Columbia Avenue. Left to right: Charles W. Bowser, trustee of the church, Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., and Reverend William H. G…
Bowser to head Philadelphia delegation at King funeral
UnknownView Full Item in Temple Universitynewspaper clipping
Moore assails plan to divide Philadelphia NAACP
Evans, OrrinView Full Item in Temple Universitynewspaper clipping
Civil rights demonstrators
Owens, WilliamView Full Item in Temple University"Chester civil rights leader Stanley E. Branche (glassses) talks with Cecil Moore (with cigar) and the Reverend Henry Nichols (white straw hat), vice president of the Board of Public Education, before…
"Protestors wave from a second-floor window at Philadelphia's Frankford High School during a rally by more than 100 supporters."
Govan, Thaddeus JrView Full Item in Temple UniversityWith clipping
Exemplar Awards
View Full Item in Temple UniversityAlphonso Deal listens as James F. Bodine awaits John W. Eckman's presentation of his Exemplar Award during banquet held at the Franklin Institute.
Mothers of five barred boys file court plea against Girard
UnknownView Full Item in Temple Universitynewspaper clipping
Civil rights demonstrators at Girard College
Everly, Wilmer RView Full Item in Temple UniversityDemonstrators picket Girard College in protest of the school's segregationist admissions policy. With description
Roy Wilkins addresses the quadrennial session of the African Methodist Episcopal Church
Everly, Wilmer RView Full Item in Temple University"Roy Wilkins, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, addresses the 38th quadrennial session of the African Methodist Episcopal Church at the Spectrum." W…
Man displays Mail Voter Registration form
Nathans, DeanView Full Item in Temple University"Mr. DeLuca showing one of the forms to be filled when applying to register through the mail." With description;
Crystal Bird Fauset
View Full Item in Temple UniversityPortrait of Crystal Bird Fauset wearing a hat. With clipping
Girard urged to drop its racial ban
Schraga, SaulView Full Item in Temple Universitynewspaper clipping
Mary McLeod Bethune at the Pyramid Club
Mosley, John WView Full Item in Temple UniversityPhotograph taken inside the Pyramid Club. Seated front center is Mary McLeod Bethune. Mary McLeod Bethune was an educator, civil rights leader, and government official who founded the National Council…
PTC Strike
View Full Item in Temple UniversityTwo soldiers stand guard in the wake of the PTC strike as a passenger boards a trolley operated by a woman. Soldiers on guard in trolley cars following the end of the strike
Chicken Bone Beach
Mosley, John WView Full Item in Temple UniversityChicken Bone Beach was the segregated section for African Americans on Atlantic City's beach area. Between 1900 and the early 1950s, African Americans were socially restricted to use the Missouri Aven…
Mary Church Terrell, Eugene Waymon Jones, and Walter White
Mosley, John WView Full Item in Temple UniversityImage of Mary Church Terrell with Eugene Waymon Jones [left] and Walter White [right]. Terrell was an early civil rights leader, women's rights advocate, founder of National Association of Colored Wom…
