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- Record Album, "March on Washington: The Official Album," 1963 - More than 250,000 civil rights advocates -- both African American and white -- showed up at this peaceful march on August 28, 1963, to support unity, jobs, and a new Civil Rights bill being proposed by President Kennedy. This LP record includes speeches by ten Civil Rights leaders heard at the Lincoln Memorial that day.
- August 28, 1963
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Record Album, "March on Washington: The Official Album," 1963
More than 250,000 civil rights advocates -- both African American and white -- showed up at this peaceful march on August 28, 1963, to support unity, jobs, and a new Civil Rights bill being proposed by President Kennedy. This LP record includes speeches by ten Civil Rights leaders heard at the Lincoln Memorial that day.
- Button, "Emancipation March on Washington," 1963 - More than 250,000 civil rights advocates showed up at this peaceful march to support unity, jobs, and a new Civil Rights bill being proposed by President Kennedy. Television viewers nationwide watched African Americans and whites march together, united behind a common cause. Songs and speeches at this march included Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
- August 28, 1963
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Button, "Emancipation March on Washington," 1963
More than 250,000 civil rights advocates showed up at this peaceful march to support unity, jobs, and a new Civil Rights bill being proposed by President Kennedy. Television viewers nationwide watched African Americans and whites march together, united behind a common cause. Songs and speeches at this march included Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
- Portion of Draft of "The House by the Side of the Road: The Selma Civil Rights Movement" -
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Portion of Draft of "The House by the Side of the Road: The Selma Civil Rights Movement"
- "Life" Magazine, March 26, 1965 -
- March 26, 1965
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"Life" Magazine, March 26, 1965
- Young Demonstraters in Selma Gain Enthusiasm for Another Attempt to March to Montgomery, March 9, 1965 -
- March 09, 1965
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Young Demonstraters in Selma Gain Enthusiasm for Another Attempt to March to Montgomery, March 9, 1965
- Letter from Southern Christian Leadership Conference to Richie Jean Jackson with Thanks for Her Hospitality, March 17, 1965 -
- March 17, 1965
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Letter from Southern Christian Leadership Conference to Richie Jean Jackson with Thanks for Her Hospitality, March 17, 1965
- John Lewis of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee is Forced to the Ground by State Trooper, March 7, 1965 -
- March 07, 1965
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John Lewis of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee is Forced to the Ground by State Trooper, March 7, 1965
- Letter from Ralph Abernathy, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, to Richie Jean Jackson, February 23, 1965 - The home of Dr. Sullivan and Richie Jean Sherrod Jackson became a safe haven for Civil Rights leaders during the struggle for voting rights in the 1960s. Ralph Abernathy, a friend of the Jacksons and Vice President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, stayed there. He wrote this letter to Richie Jean, praising the "fine manner in which [she cared] for our staff."
- February 23, 1965
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Letter from Ralph Abernathy, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, to Richie Jean Jackson, February 23, 1965
The home of Dr. Sullivan and Richie Jean Sherrod Jackson became a safe haven for Civil Rights leaders during the struggle for voting rights in the 1960s. Ralph Abernathy, a friend of the Jacksons and Vice President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, stayed there. He wrote this letter to Richie Jean, praising the "fine manner in which [she cared] for our staff."
- Coming of Age in Mississippi, 1968 -
- 1968
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Coming of Age in Mississippi, 1968
- Notes and Corrections for "The House by the Side of the Road," 2009 -
- April 21, 2009
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Notes and Corrections for "The House by the Side of the Road," 2009