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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.
- 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
- "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
- 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"
- 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
- Marie Foster Shaking Hands with President Bill Clinton - Marie Foster (1917-2003) was a Selma, Alabama-based voting rights activist and member of the Dallas County Voters' League. She taught citizenship classes to help Black Selmanians pass discriminatory literacy tests and participated in all three Selma to Montogomery marches in March of 1965. Foster's younger brother was Sullivan Jackson, whose Selma home was a base of operations during the voting rights campaign.
- 1993-2001
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Marie Foster Shaking Hands with President Bill Clinton
Marie Foster (1917-2003) was a Selma, Alabama-based voting rights activist and member of the Dallas County Voters' League. She taught citizenship classes to help Black Selmanians pass discriminatory literacy tests and participated in all three Selma to Montogomery marches in March of 1965. Foster's younger brother was Sullivan Jackson, whose Selma home was a base of operations during the voting rights campaign.