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"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…

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"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…

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"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…

Immediate, not gradual abolition: or an inquiry into the shortest, safest, and most effectual means of getting rid of West Indian slavery. 2nd ed.; "Written by Elizabeth Heyrick ... in 1824"--p. 2.

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Alphonso Deal listens as James F. Bodine awaits John W. Eckman's presentation of his Exemplar Award during banquet held at the Franklin Institute.

Sisters Beverly and Karla Barnes with brother and sister Billy and Debra Harris posed on Chicken Bone Beach. Chicken Bone Beach was the segregated section for African Americans on Atlantic City's beac…

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Demonstrators picket Girard College in protest of the school's segregationist admissions policy. With description

"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…

"Mr. DeLuca showing one of the forms to be filled when applying to register through the mail." With description;

Portrait of Crystal Bird Fauset wearing a hat. With clipping

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Photograph 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…

Two 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 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…