Selections Edited from the Civil Rights collections
Mine Eye Have Seen: photographs from the book by Bob Adelman
The Movement: Photographs from the 2014 exhibition The Movement
Major Events: 1960’s Civil Rights Movement
Birmingham Demonstrations 1963
Montgomery Alabama 1965: Demonstrations in Montgomery before the Selma to Montgomery March
Selma to Montgomery March 1965
Martin Luther King Memorial in Memphis
Funeral for Martin Luther King Jr.
Poor Peoples March, Washington D.C. 1968
CORE: Congress of Racial Equality Protests and demonstrations
C.O.R.E – Columbus, Ohio, 1962.
Protests at an all-white swimming pool in Columbus, Ohio. CORE training sessions to teach activists organizing strategies and non- violent protest techniques.
C.O.R.E – Ebinger’s – Summer, 1962
Photographs for a story in EBONY magazine documenting the employment discrimination protests at Ebinger bakeries in New York which prompted negotiations with management and resulted in the immediate hiring of Black trainees.
C.O.R.E – Operation “Clean Sweep” – September, 1962.
“Sweep-In” where CORE members and volunteers collected trash from all over Brooklyn and dumped it on the steps of Borough Hall in Brooklyn in protest of inadequate garbage collection in the Bedford Stuyvesant community.
C.O.R.E – Sumter, SC – voter registration 1962
Images of Frank Robinson soliciting people to take the literacy test, escorting people to the test, would-be voters taking the literacy test and either failing or passing the test. Also includes CORE South Carolina leaders.
CORE – Freedom Rides, Sit-ins.-1962
In 1962 and early 1963, CORE organized non-violent demonstrations against then- segregated interstate buses and restaurants and other places of public accommodation. The photos are taken, especially in Maryland, along Route 40 and in other towns.
C.O.R.E – Washington, D.C. 1962
C.O.R.E. Freedom-Riders hold demonstrations in front of the White House to protest Jim Crow practices in the South.
C.O.R.E – Brooklyn Board of Education 1962/63
November, 1962. The Bibulb family sit-in. Congress of Racial Equality organized picketing and sit-in at the offices of the Brooklyn Board of Education as part of a protest over inadequate and unequal schooling.
C.O.R.E – Brooklyn Housing, 1963
Brooklyn Congress of Racial Equality sit-in against unfair housing policy at Midwood Homes and Westwood Federal savings and loans. Began on Christmas day, 1962. New York City, January, 1963.
C.O.R.E – Traffic Light – Brooklyn, 1963
We shall not be moved. Safety first: Parents and children respond to a wave of accidents by blocking their street and demanding the installation of a traffic light, Brooklyn, New York City. January 17, 1963.
C.O.R.E – Sealtest Boycott – 1963
Brooklyn CORE protested the failure of the Sealtest milk company to hire blacks. The protestors picketed the company’s offices and staged a sit-in in front of Sealtest’s garages, blocking delivery trucks. The protestors were removed and arrested by the police.
C.O.R.E – Kingstree, SC – 1963
Frank Robinson, CORE field secretary in South Carolina, organized a protest where hundreds of black voters conducted a stand-in to call attention to their inability to register to vote because of lack of staff and the nature of the registration process. Kingstree, SC, March, 1963
C.O.R.E – SUNY Downstate Medical Center, July, 1963.
Demonstration at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center where CORE demonstrators shut down a worksite in protest of unfair hiring practices.
C.O.R.E – Louisiana – 1963
During the Freedom Summer of 1963, CORE organized demonstrations in parishes north of Baton Rouge where there were large concentrations of unregistered Blacks. Photographs of student activists canvassing and preparing potential Black voters and escorted them to courthouses. Includes photographs for EBONY magazine assignment on Reverend Joe Carter, the first Black man to register to vote in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, which was 80% to 90% Black.
C.O.R.E – Freedom Walk – 1963
On April 23, 1963, a lone postman marching through the South protesting segregation, carrying a plea he hoped to hand-deliver to Ross Barnett, the segregationist governor of Mississippi, was shot and killed while marching alone near Attalia, Alabama. Members of CORE and SNCC continued his march through Tennessee then were stopped and arrested at the Georgia border.
CORE – White Castle – 1963
CORE organized demonstrations in the Bronx protesting job discrimination at a White Castle restaurant and the hiring practices of the company. It provoked a very racist reaction by the patrons.
C.O.R.E – Tallahassee – 1964
Students at the predominantly Black Florida A&M organized demonstrations against segregated movie theaters in Tallahassee.
CORE – World’s Fair – 1965
The national chapter of CORE and various CORE chapters from the New York area vowed to shut down the 1964-65 World’s Fair in protest against discrimination in housing and jobs.