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AADEF_161011_006.JPG: Black Politics
AADEF_161011_008.JPG: Sanctuary
AADEF_161011_011.JPG: Cabin
AADEF_161011_016.JPG: To Be Free
AADEF_161011_035.JPG: Defending Freedom, Defining Freedom
The Era of Segregation
1877-1968
AADEF_161011_042.JPG: 1865-1876
Reconstruction
AADEF_161011_044.JPG: Nicodemus
Nicodemus, established in 1877, was one of several African American settlements in Kansas. The 350 settlers came from Kentucky to escape the problems of the oppression of the "Jim Crow" South. Residents established a newspaper, a bank, hotels, schools, churches, and other businesses. They enjoyed much success despite the hardships and challenges of late 19th century High Plains settlement -- wind, drought,swarming insects, and more.
The town grew rapidly through the 1880s and many prospered. But when Nicodemus failed to secure the railroad, growth slowed and the population began to dwindle after World War I.
Edward P. McCabe, who joined the colony in 1878, served two terms as state auditor, 1883-1887, the first African American elected to a statewide office in Kansas.
A symbol of the African American experience in the West, Nicodemus operates today as a unit of the National Park Service.
AADEF_161011_047.JPG: Jones Hall Sims House, Jonesville, Maryland
AADEF_161011_051.JPG: Jones Hall Sims House
AADEF_161011_053.JPG: Smithfield
This residential area was carved from the Joseph Riley Smith plantation, a 600 acre antebellum farm, one of the largest in 19th century Jefferson County. Smithfield lies to the west of Birmingham's city center on the flat land & hills north of Village Creek & has the city's earliest & most substantial concentration of black, middle-class residences, small commercial enclaves & churches. The neighborhood illustrates the lifestyles of a wide spectrum of black Birmingham citizens in the early 20th century, & provides an exceptional view of the emergence of a black white-collar class in the city. Residential structures include a variety of industrial housing types, as well as examples of the fashionable styles built for community leaders
AADEF_161011_057.JPG: African American Life in Montgomery County
AADEF_161011_061.JPG: Jones Hall Sims House
AADEF_161011_065.JPG: 1877-1900
Creating a Segregated Society
AADEF_161011_067.JPG: Origins of Freedman's Town
AADEF_161011_070.JPG: Mound Bayou
AADEF_161011_072.JPG: Black Codes
AADEF_161011_086.JPG: Southern Railway Company
Coach No. 1200, 1923
Redesigned as a segregated car, 1940
For most of the 20th century, long-distance travel meant taking a train. For African Americans, such travel often meant hours or days of segregated accommodations throughout the South and much of the Midwest. This railroad coach, extensively rebuilt inside and out in 1940, was meant for long trips. It has separate sections of reclining seats and rest rooms for whites and blacks. The added lounges were reserved for white passengers. There are no overnight berths.
AADEF_161011_100.JPG: The Convict Labor System
AADEF_161011_107.JPG: Pullman Porters
AADEF_161011_120.JPG: Stool from Woolworth's
AADEF_161011_125.JPG: A Guard Tower
AADEF_161011_128.JPG: Loving v. Virginia: Interracial Marriage
Mildred Jeter, an African American woman, and Richard Loving, a white man, were married in the District of Columbia, but preferred to live in Virginia. There, interracial marriage was illegal, and they were arrested, convicted and told to leave the state. With the help of the American Civil Liberties Union, they appealed their case to the Supreme Court, arguing that the Virginia law deprived them of their constitutional rights. The Court unanimously agreed, ruling that all state bans on interracial marriage were unconstitutional.
AADEF_161011_131.JPG: The Lovings
Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving grew up as next door neighbors in Caroline County, Virginia. They fell in love and married in the District of Columbia in 1958. After returning to Virginia, local authorities arrested them, and the trial judge banned them from the state. They relocated to the District of Columbia, but were arrested again on a visit to Virginia. Mildred wrote to Attorney General Robert Kennedy for assistance. He sent them to the American Civil Liberties Union, and their historic lawsuit began.
AADEF_161011_133.JPG: The Evolution of Martin Luther King, Jr.
AADEF_161011_137.JPG: Congressional Gold Medal:
In 2014 Coretta Scott King and Martin Luther King Jr. were awarded the highest civilian honor bestowed by the United States Congress.
AADEF_161011_141.JPG: Recovering from a Long March:
When Martin Luther King finished the five-day march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, he stayed at the home of a friend and used this tub to soak his feet.
AADEF_161011_144.JPG: 1966-1967
AADEF_161011_146.JPG: Rosa Parks
AADEF_161011_148.JPG: Rosa Parks Dress;
On the day she was arrested, Rosa Parks's project at home was making this dress.
AADEF_161011_153.JPG: Segregation and Child's Play:
Tests performed by psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark using these and other dolls helped convince the justices that segregation had negative psychological effects on black children.
AADEF_161011_156.JPG: John Lewis: The Unending Struggle
AADEF_161011_159.JPG: The Bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham
AADEF_161011_161.JPG: Glass Shards:
After the bombing, Joan Trumpauer, a white civil rights activist, and Rev. Norman Jimerson, a white Baptist activist in Birmingham, gathered these shards of glass outside the church.
AADEF_161011_166.JPG: 1965 Voting Rights Act
AADEF_161011_168.JPG: One of the ceremonial pens used by President Johnson to sign the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
AADEF_161011_172.JPG: From California to Alabama: The Long Struggle to Vote
Across the country, registering voters has been a focus of civil rights organizations for decades. Pioneering activist Frances Albrier worked with the Council of Negro Women in Berkeley, California, to register voters. In Selma, Alabama, Martin Luther King Jr. launched a voter registration drive in 1965, but local officials resisted. Courts then ordered the registration test opened to blacks, but no one passed. When a black man, Jimmie Lee Jackson, was murdered by police, King called for a march from Selma to Montgomery.
AADEF_161011_176.JPG: Train ticket stub, Washington DC to Selma, Alabama, purchased by Joan Trumpauer for the march.
AADEF_161011_181.JPG: The Murder of Viola Gregg Liuzzo
Viola Liuzzo was a civil rights activist and NAACP member from Detroit, Michigan. Horrified by the police attacks on the Selma marchers, Liuzzo traveled to Alabama to join the second march. After the march, driving a black protester to his car, she was forced off the road and shot in the head by Klansmen. In court, three men were eventually found guilty on federal charges of violating her civil rights. Viola Liuzzo was the only white woman killed during the Civil Rights Movement.
AADEF_161011_184.JPG: Deacons for Defense and Justice
AADEF_161011_186.JPG: 1965
AADEF_161011_189.JPG: The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense
AADEF_161011_193.JPG: Stokely Carmichael
AADEF_161011_196.JPG: Robert Williams
AADEF_161011_198.JPG: March from Selma to Montgomery
AADEF_161011_199.JPG: Shotgun used by the Deacons for self-defense
AADEF_161011_203.JPG: Black Power
AADEF_161011_206.JPG: Tape recorder used during Malcolm X's radio program
AADEF_161011_208.JPG: Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam
The Organization of Afro-American Unity
AADEF_161011_216.JPG: 1964 Civil Rights Act
AADEF_161011_219.JPG: One of the ceremonial pens used by President Johnson to sign the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
AADEF_161011_223.JPG: A Triple Murder
AADEF_161011_225.JPG: FBI photograph of the bodies of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner
AADEF_161011_228.JPG: FBI photograph of the burned-out station wagon of the three slain civil rights workers.
AADEF_161011_230.JPG: Dolls of Freedom:
Freedom Schools made and sold dolls like these to help pay the bills.
AADEF_161011_232.JPG: Looking for Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner:
This card was part of the search for the three murdered civil rights workers. It was seven weeks before the National Guard located their bodies buried in a dam.
AADEF_161011_237.JPG: Freedom Summer
AADEF_161011_239.JPG: 1964
AADEF_161011_241.JPG: Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth
AADEF_161011_242.JPG: "Bombingham" Alabama
AADEF_161011_246.JPG: "Upon This Rock" -- The Role of Black Churches
AADEF_161011_247.JPG: The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
AADEF_161011_252.JPG: March on Washington Button:
It was estimated that more than 42,000 of these buttons were distributed to participants in the march.
AADEF_161011_255.JPG: The Murder of Medgar Evers
AADEF_161011_258.JPG: The Birmingham Campaign
AADEF_161011_262.JPG: 1963
AADEF_161011_264.JPG: Bayard Rustin
Bayard Rustin was a gay man and a master civil rights strategist. Beginning in the 1930s, he was involved with the peace movement and civil rights activism. As a Quaker, he believed in nonviolent resistance, disapproved of war, and promoted universal human rights. Rustin helped Martin Luther King Jr. in Montgomery and was a key organizer of the March on Washington in 1963. His homosexuality troubled some civil rights leaders, but King found him a valuable advisor. Rustin continued his activism until his death in 1987.
AADEF_161011_267.JPG: Martin Luther King Jr. and Bayard Rustin:
Rustin's organizational and strategic skills made him an important advisor to King.
AADEF_161011_272.JPG: Engraved pocket watch given to Rustin as a personal gift from Martin Luther King, Jr.
From Martin to Bayard
for Aug. 28th, 1962
AADEF_161011_277.JPG: John Lewis
AADEF_161011_283.JPG: Joan Trumpauer's Denim Vest:
"Segregation was unfair," Trumpauer said. "It was wrong, morally, religiously. As a Southerner -- a white Southerner -- I felt that we should do what we could to make the South better and to rid ourselves of this evil."
AADEF_161011_290.JPG: Congress of Racial Equality Freedom Ride Button
AADEF_161011_291.JPG: Joan Trumpauer
AADEF_161011_293.JPG: Mug shot of Joan Trumpauer, Freedom Rider, under arrest in Mississippi
AADEF_161011_297.JPG: The Freedom Rides
AADEF_161011_300.JPG: Greensboro, North Carolina Sit-in, February 1960
AADEF_161011_305.JPG: Enduring Stereotypes
AADEF_161011_307.JPG: 1945-1968
Freedom Now!
The Modern Civil Rights Movement
AADEF_161011_313.JPG: The Purpose of Stereotypes
AADEF_161011_319.JPG: Minstrelsy
AADEF_161011_325.JPG: Making a Way in a Hostile World
AADEF_161011_327.JPG: Ida B. Wells' Anti-Lynching Campaign
AADEF_161011_333.JPG: Ida Wells's Tea Set
AADEF_161011_343.JPG: Jim Crow Laws
AADEF_161011_348.JPG: 1896
Plessy V. Ferguson
"Separate but Equal"
AADEF_161011_350.JPG: The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan
AADEF_161011_357.JPG: A Negro a Beast or in the Image of God
AADEF_161011_360.JPG: Satin KKK Hood
AADEF_161011_369.JPG: Le Journal Ilustre
AADEF_161011_372.JPG: Lynching
AADEF_161011_375.JPG: The Lynching of Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson, and Isaac McGhie
AADEF_161011_379.JPG: Man lunched at railroad crossing, Orangeburg, South Carolina, 1885
AADEF_161011_381.JPG: The Lynching of Four Men:
The unidentified men in this photograph are likely four sharecroppers murdered in Logan County, Kentucky, in 1908. One was accused of murder and the others hanged for not preventing the act.
AADEF_161011_388.JPG: The Tuskegee Airmen's Stearman Kaydet
AADEF_161011_391.JPG: Training the Tuskegee Airmen
AADEF_161011_394.JPG: A Signature Baggage Door:
Tuskegee Airmen signed this baggage door for Boeing PT-13D Stearman airplane as it flew across country to join the collections of the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
AADEF_161011_407.JPG: Women and the Movement
AADEF_161012_001.JPG: Robert Smalls, US Congressman
AADEF_161012_004.JPG: Clara Brown, Searching for Family
AADEF_161012_009.JPG: Edmonia Highgate, Teaching the Freedmen
AADEF_161012_011.JPG: 1877-1900
Creating a Segregated Society
AADEF_161012_013.JPG: The National Afro-American Council
AADEF_161012_015.JPG: The Murder of Frazier Baker, 1898
AADEF_161012_017.JPG: Convict Leasing
AADEF_161012_019.JPG: Riots and Massacres
AADEF_161012_020.JPG: A Climate of Fear
AADEF_161012_048.JPG: Debating the Path Forward
AADEF_161012_051.JPG: Creating African American Culture
AADEF_161012_053.JPG: Historically Black Colleges and Universities
AADEF_161012_056.JPG: Three cornerstones from Veterinary Medicine Hall at Prairie View A&M University
AADEF_161012_064.JPG: Quinn Chapel AME Church
AADEF_161012_067.JPG: Harriet Tubman
AADEF_161012_069.JPG: Wooden-handled knife and fork belonging to Harriet Tubman
AADEF_161012_074.JPG: 1900-1917
Building National Institutions
AADEF_161012_083.JPG: African American Entrepreneurs
AADEF_161012_084.JPG: The National Negro Business League
AADEF_161012_087.JPG: National Negro Business League Pin
AADEF_161012_110.JPG: Race Riots
1906 Atlanta
1908 Springfield
1917 East St. Louis
AADEF_161012_111.JPG: 1906 Atlanta
AADEF_161012_113.JPG: 1908 Springfield
AADEF_161012_116.JPG: 1917 East St. Louis
AADEF_161012_118.JPG: The Battle Over Lynching
AADEF_161012_122.JPG: The Rise of Lynching
AADEF_161012_125.JPG: The Campaign Against Lynching
AADEF_161012_127.JPG: Murder By Mob
AADEF_161012_130.JPG: The Hardening of Racial Separation
AADEF_161012_132.JPG: Segregation in Transportation
AADEF_161012_135.JPG: Restrictive Covenants
AADEF_161012_136.JPG: The Cycle of Sharecroppping
AADEF_161012_142.JPG: The Great Migration
AADEF_161012_144.JPG: From Field to Factory: The South
AADEF_161012_161.JPG: The Chicago Defender and Pullman Porters
AADEF_161012_165.JPG: From Field to Factory: The North
AADEF_161012_170.JPG: 1917-1945:
The New Negro Steps Forward
AADEF_161012_175.JPG: African Americans in World War I
AADEF_161012_177.JPG: Close Ranks
AADEF_161012_179.JPG: "Close Ranks" Editorial, The Crisis Magazine, July 1918
AADEF_161012_182.JPG: Croix de Guerre
AADEF_161012_189.JPG: U.S. Infantry Helmet
AADEF_161012_191.JPG: The Migration of the Negro, Panel no. 1
by Jacob Lawrence
Jacob Lawrence created a series of 60 panels depicting the migration north of African Americans. His parents were part of this movement, and he based his work on extensive research as well as what he learned from them.
AADEF_161012_194.JPG: Red Kleagle Ku Klux Klan Robe:
Within the KKK, the kleagle is often a recruiter for new members and a spokesperson for a local unit of the Klan, known as a klavern.
AADEF_161012_200.JPG: Demoracy Abroad, Injustice at Home
AADEF_161012_203.JPG: The Red Summer of 1919
AADEF_161012_206.JPG: The Second Rise of the KKK
AADEF_161012_209.JPG: Bullet Holes in Omaha:
A crowd of more than 250 people stormed the Omaha, Nebraska, courthouse and kidnapped and murdered Will Brown, who was accused of molesting a white woman.
AADEF_161012_213.JPG: The New Negro, Movement
AADEF_161012_216.JPG: Alain Locke
AADEF_161012_220.JPG: The Cotton Club
AADEF_161012_221.JPG: Voices of Protest and Resistance
AADEF_161012_225.JPG: Marcus Garvey's Hat:
It is believed that Garvey wore this hat while he traveled in the South in the 1920s.
AADEF_161012_230.JPG: The Rise of Marcus Garvey
AADEF_161012_233.JPG: The Commission on Interracial Cooperation
AADEF_161012_236.JPG: The National Council of Negro Women
AADEF_161012_239.JPG: Dorothy Height's Watch and Jewelry
AADEF_161012_244.JPG: Religious Responses to Racial and Social Challenges
AADEF_161012_246.JPG: Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam
AADEF_161012_254.JPG: Miniature Quran of Elijah Muhammad
AADEF_161012_259.JPG: Spruce Street Baptist Church
AADEF_161012_261.JPG: Father Divine and the Peace Mission Movement
AADEF_161012_267.JPG: Banner for Father Divine
AADEF_161012_271.JPG: The Great Depression
AADEF_161012_275.JPG: The Detroit Race Riot
AADEF_161012_278.JPG: The Tulsa Race Riot
AADEF_161012_280.JPG: "Maryland, My Maryland"
Edmund Duffy drew this cartoon for the Baltimore Sun after the lynching of Matthew Williams in Salisbury, Maryland, in 1931. Duffy was one of the few white cartoonists to speak out against racial injustice.
AADEF_161012_282.JPG: The Economics of Lynching
AADEF_161012_284.JPG: The Rosewood Massacre
AADEF_161012_287.JPG: Sophia Monroe's Dress:
Sophia Monroe was raised in Rosewood and died there in 1917. Her children, who survived the 1923 Rosewood massacre, preserved her dress as a remembrance.
AADEF_161012_298.JPG: The Lynching of Matthew Williams:
Paul Henderson, a photographer for the Baltimore Afro-American newspaper, kept this piece of rope used to hang Matthew Williams after reporting on the tragedy in Maryland in 1931.
AADEF_161012_301.JPG: Travel Guide:
Travel guides like this, often called "green books," highlighted places where black travelers could visit or stay safely. Baltimore's Afro-American newspaper published this guide.
AADEF_161012_309.JPG: Travel and Accommodations
AADEF_161012_310.JPG: Black Resorts
AADEF_161012_316.JPG: Home Life in Segregated America
AADEF_161012_318.JPG: Navigating a Segregated Reality
AADEF_161012_320.JPG: The Home Front
AADEF_161012_325.JPG: Hand-painted Sign, "Colored Section":
Train travel in the South was segregated, and signs like this were common. Black travelers had to move to the segregated car when trains passed from a northern state to a southern state.
AADEF_161012_330.JPG: The Double V Campaign
AADEF_161012_333.JPG: The Scottsboro Boys
AADEF_161012_336.JPG: "Save the Scottsboro Boys" Pin:
This was a pin created by the International Labor Defense in support of the Scottsboro Boys.
AADEF_161012_341.JPG: Booklet on the Scottsboro Boys, "That Shall Not Die!":
This booklet was published by the Worker's Library of the Communist Party, which helped pay for young men's legal defense.
AADEF_161012_346.JPG: The Depression and Discrimination
AADEF_161012_347.JPG: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
AADEF_161012_351.JPG: The Assault on Recy Taylor
AADEF_161012_356.JPG: Women and the Movement
AADEF_161019_002.JPG: The Tuskegee Airmen's Stearman Kaydet
AADEF_161019_008.JPG: Training the Tuskegee Airmen
AADEF_161019_031.JPG: March to Montgomery
AADEF_161019_036.JPG: "Whites Only" Door, San Antonio, Texas:
This door was used in a restaurant to keep African Americans and Mexicans from using this entrance to the business.
AADEF_161019_042.JPG: 1945-1968
Freedom Now! The Modern Civil Rights Movement
AADEF_161019_053.JPG: "Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals."
-- Dorothy Height
AADEF_161019_068.JPG: Greensboro, North Carolina Sit-in, February 1960
AADEF_161019_077.JPG: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
AADEF_161019_080.JPG: Peoples Drug Store Sit-ins
AADEF_161019_081.JPG: At the Greensboro Woolworth's
AADEF_161019_083.JPG: The first day of sit-ins at People's Drug Store, Arlington, Virginia, 1960.
AADEF_161019_087.JPG: Nashville Sit-ins
AADEF_161019_089.JPG: Sit-ins at the Drugstore
AADEF_161019_100.JPG: Sit-Ins
AADEF_161019_101.JPG: Carlotta LaNeir and Central High School
AADEF_161019_104.JPG: Carlotta LaNier's Skirt and Blouse:
LaNier wore this outfit on the first day of school when she was turned away by the National Guard. Recognizing the importance of the day, her parents had saved to buy a dress worthy of the occasion.
AADEF_161019_110.JPG: Flyer Opposing the Desegregation of Little Rock Central High School:
This mimeograph flyer features a crude drawing of the high school and fears about the impact of integration.
AADEF_161019_115.JPG: The Mother's League Flyer:
During the struggle over school desegregation, groups like "The Mother's League" urged voters to support segregationists running for office.
AADEF_161019_118.JPG: Anti-Integration Card:
Groups opposed to the desegregation of the schools sent out cards like this to encourage support for segregation.
AADEF_161019_122.JPG: Carlotta LaNier's 10th-Grade Report Card:
Despite harassment from other students, LaNier worked hard to keep up her grades.
AADEF_161019_124.JPG: The Little Rock Nine
AADEF_161019_127.JPG: Calling Out the National Guard:
Gov. Orville Faubus ordered National Guardsmen to prevent black students from entering Little Rock Central High School.
AADEF_161019_131.JPG: Bayonets in Little Rock:
Troops remained at the high school for most of the school year.
AADEF_161019_135.JPG: Ruby Bridges
AADEF_161019_137.JPG: The Stars and Bars:
Fighting school integration, protesters wave Confederate flags at a meeting of the White Citizens Council of Greater New Orleans.
AADEF_161019_139.JPG: Ruby Nell Bridges:
US deputy marshals escorted Ruby Bridges to and from school each day. They said she never cried and was a little soldier the whole time.
AADEF_161019_142.JPG: Ruby Bridges at Home:
Shown here at age six, Ruby Bridges was born the same year as the Brown vs Board of Education Supreme Court decision and was one of the first to test it in New Orleans.
AADEF_161019_143.JPG: Dorothy Geraldine Counts
AADEF_161019_145.JPG: "With All Deliberate Speed"
AADEF_161019_148.JPG: Daisy Bates with Little Rock Central High School Students:
The members of the group are (standing, left to right): Minnie Brown, Terrance Roberts, and Melba Pattilo (seated) Carlotta Walls, Elizabeth Eckfort, Daisy Bates, Gloria Ray, and Thelma Mothershed.
AADEF_161019_150.JPG: Dorothy Geraldine Counts:
A hostile crowd followed Dorothy Counts, spat on her, and taunted her on her way to Harding High School.
AADEF_161019_152.JPG: Perils of the Press:
Angry whites attack an African American reporter near Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Opponents of integration targeted several reporters, black and white.
AADEF_161019_161.JPG: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference
AADEF_161019_164.JPG: Creating the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
AADEF_161019_167.JPG: SCLC Citizenship Workbook
AADEF_161019_170.JPG: Boycotting Buses and Streetcars
AADEF_161019_175.JPG: Bus Boycott in Baton Rouge
AADEF_161019_178.JPG: The Montgomery Bus Boycott
AADEF_161019_180.JPG: The Tallahassee Bus Boycott
AADEF_161019_181.JPG: Bombing at the Home of Rev. Ralph Abernathy:
Abernathy and other boycott leaders suffered harassment and death threats for their participation in the movement.
AADEF_161019_186.JPG: Peaceful Defiance in Tallahassee:
Florida A&M students played an important role in the early stages of the boycott in Tallahassee. Here, Morris Thomas refuses the request of a bus driver to move to the back of the bus.
AADEF_161019_190.JPG: Rosa Parks
AADEF_161019_196.JPG: Rosa Parks Dress;
On the day she was arrested, Rosa Parks's project at home was making this dress.
AADEF_161019_198.JPG: Rosa Parks
AADEF_161019_201.JPG: Rosa Parks -- A Test Case
AADEF_161019_203.JPG: Segregated Clinic Sign from Lallie-Kemp Hospital:
This hospital in Independence, Louisiana, remained segregated until 1965. Across the South, black and white patients were often seen on different days so they would not share a waiting or examination room.
AADEF_161019_210.JPG: Lester Maddox Ax Handle:
Lester Maddox once brandished an ax handle to keep black patrons from his restaurant. When he ran for governor of Georgia, he used the ax handle to symbolize his opposition to civil rights legislation.
AADEF_161019_215.JPG: Harry and Harriette Moore
AADEF_161019_218.JPG: The Moore Family, ca 1931
AADEF_161019_219.JPG: Harriette Moore
AADEF_161019_221.JPG: The Moore's House:
The Moores were killed in a bombing at their home on Christmas Day, 1951. It was the first killing of a prominent civil rights leader after World War II.
AADEF_161019_224.JPG: Harry T. Moore's Wallet:
From 1943 until his death, Moore investigated every lynching in Florida.
AADEF_161019_228.JPG: Locket with Photos of Harry and Harriette Moore:
The Moores were the leading civil rights activists in Florida at the time of their death.
AADEF_161019_231.JPG: Harriette Moore's Watch
AADEF_161019_234.JPG: Harry T. Moore's Watch
AADEF_161019_237.JPG: The Death of John C. Jones
AADEF_161019_239.JPG: John C. Jones and His Wife and Child:
Jones's case was the first time the federal government had prosecuted anyone in Louisiana in the death of an African American.
AADEF_161019_241.JPG: The Badly Beaten Body of John C. Jones:
The executive secretary of [the] New Orleans branch of the NAACP immediately pressed local authorities and the the federal government to prosecute Jones's murderers.
AADEF_161019_243.JPG: Death Certificate of John C. Jones:
The certificate described the cause of death as "shock multiple bruises & abrasions due to wounds received while being beaten by unknown persons."
AADEF_161019_246.JPG: "I thought about Emmett Till, and I could not go back."
-- Rosa Parks
AADEF_161019_252.JPG: Emmett TIll's Story in Jet Magazine:
When Emmett Till was beaten and murdered in Mississippi in 1955 it became a national story. Jet magazine was one of the first publications to give the story extensive coverage.
AADEF_161019_270.JPG: Savage lynchers crushed boy's skull, shot him, mutilated his face
AADEF_161019_274.JPG: Mamie TIll with her baby son Emmett, 1941
AADEF_161019_276.JPG: Mamie Till at the trial of the men accused of killing her son
AADEF_161019_280.JPG: The Battle over Segregated Tranportation
AADEF_161019_282.JPG: Segregation Signs, ca 1930
AADEF_161019_287.JPG: Bus Segregation Sign, ca 1950
AADEF_161019_290.JPG: Bus Station Waiting Room Sign, ca 1957
AADEF_161019_293.JPG: Signs for Segregated Travel:
Segregated seating in waiting rooms and on different forms of transportation were the norm for most of the 20th century, especially in the South. Signs like these let travelers known where they could sit without breaking the law.
AADEF_161019_294.JPG: Segregated Bus Sign, ca 1950
AADEF_161019_297.JPG: This segregated motor lodge in Alachua County, Florida, served as a recreational and health facility for black soldiers during World War II.
AADEF_161019_300.JPG: Restricted Travel:
When African Americans traveled by automobile, they usually had little choice but to stay in segregated accommodations. Publications like this one let them know where they were welcome.
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Description of Subject Matter: Defending Freedom, Defining Freedom: Era of Segregation 1876-1968
September 24, 2016 – Indefinitely
This exhibition takes visitors from the end of Reconstruction through the civil rights movement of the 1960s. It is rich with history and artifacts that capture the major aspects of the ongoing struggle by the nation in general and African Americans in particular to define and make real the meaning of freedom. The exhibition illustrates how African Americans not only survived the challenges set before them, but crafted an important role for themselves in the nation, and how the nation was changed as a consequence of these struggles.
Some of the most powerful artifacts in the museum are located here:
* Emmett Till’s casket
* dress made by Rosa Parks
* prison tower from Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola
* segregated Southern Railway rail car from the Jim Crow era
* Greensboro, N.C., Woolworth’s lunch-counter stools
* house (c. 1874) built, owned, and lived in by freed slaves in Maryland
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2016 photos: Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000.
Seven relatively short trips this year:
two Civil War Trust conference (Gettysburg, PA and West Point, NY, with a side-trip to New York City),
my 11th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including sites in Utah, Nevada, and California),
a quick trip to Michigan for Uncle Wayne's funeral,
two additional trips to New York City, and
a Civil Rights site trip to Alabama during the November elections. Being in places where people died to preserve the rights of minority voters made the Trumputin election even more depressing.
Number of photos taken this year: just over 610,000.
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