19 July 1964

United Press International

Photograph

Title: New York

One telephoto entitled, "New York" taken by United Press International dated July 19, 1964. Image is of police officers marking in a line. Also photographed are two residents of Harlem. Wire transfer information states that 300 police officers were patrolling an area in Harlem.

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15 March 1965

Associated Press

Photograph

Title: Another Day, Another Confrontation

One wirephoto entitled, "Another Day, Another Confrontation," taken by Associated Press dated March 15, 1965. Images is of police officers blocking a large crowd of demonstrators with police cars. Wire transfer information states that Sheriff James Clark and state police prevented the demonstration from proceeding to the courthouse. Clark said protesters could proceed one by one if they had "voter registration business there."

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19 July 1964

Associated Press

Photograph

Title: Pistol Wielding Police Clear Harlem Riot Area

One photograph entitled, "Pistol Wielding Police Clear Harlem Riot Area" taken by Associated Press dated July 19, 1964. Image is of a scene during the 1964 Harlem Riot. Pictured are police officers running in front of a theatre while other bystanders run away from them. Two people are laying down on the ground.

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16 March 1965

unknown, fl. 1965

Photograph

Title: [Protesters at the Alabama State Capitol]

One photograph of a protest dated March 16, 1965. Image is of demonstrators blocked by barricades and police officers as others look on from the steps of the State Capitol.

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19 July 1964

Associated Press

Photograph

Title: Police Lead Negro From Harlem Riot Scene

One photograph entitled, "Police Lead Negro From Harlem Riot Scene" taken by Associated Press dated July 19, 1964. Image is of a police officer lading a cuffed Black man by the arm past a line of police officers. Wire transfer information states that the arrest followed riots in Harlem.

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21 March 1965

Associated Press

Photograph

Title: Tenting Tonight

One wirephoto entitled, "Tenting Tonight" taken by Associated Press dated March 21, 1965. Image is of a group of marchers resting on blankets on the ground as they prepare to continue the Selma to Montgomery March. Wire transfer information states that protesters were planning to completing the march in five days.

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April 30, 1961

Associated Press

Photograph

Title: Confirmation Delayed

One wirephoto entitled, "Confirmation Delayed," taken by the Associated Press dated April 30, 1961. Image is a press portrait of Thurgood Marshall. Wire transfer information states that Marshall's Supreme Court confirmation had been delayed.

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19 July 1964

Associated Press

Photograph

Title: Equality in Harlem

One photograph entitled, "Equality in Harlem" taken by Associated Press dated July 19, 1964. Image is of a barricade blocking residents on the corner of 7th Avenue and W. 133rd Street. Wire transfer information states that the barricade was an attempt to prevent further violence from riots.

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19 July 1964

Associated Press

Photograph

Title: Harlem Riot Scene

One photograph entitled, "Harlem Riot Scene" taken by Associated Press dated July 19, 1964. Image is of a crowd in Harlem. A police van and parked cars are in front of them and traffic is behind them. Wire transfer information states that the protest took place following the fatal shooting of James Powell, a Black teenager shot by a white off-duty police officer Thomas Gilligan.

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22 March 1965

Associated Press

Photograph

Title: [Demonstrators cross Edmund Pettus Bridge during a march for voting rights in Selma, Alabama]

One photograph taken by the Associated Press dated March 22, 1965. Image is an aerial view of a dense crowd of marchers crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March 21, 1965.

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19 July 1964

Associated Press

Photograph

Title: Steel Store Front Guard Ripped Off By Rioters

One photograph entitled, "Steel Store Front Guard Ripped Off by Rioters," taken by Associated Press dated July 19, 1964. Image is of a steel fence ripped off during a riot. Wire transfer information states that fence was in front of a pawnshop in Harlem.

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13 June 1967

United Press International

Photograph

Title: Washington

One telephoto of entitled, "Washington," taken by United Press International dated June 13, 1967. Image is cartoon of a tailor giving Thurgood Marshall his robe. On the robe is text that reads, "First Negro on the Supreme Court." A caption above the cartoon reads, "Should be a good fit...it took us 177 years to make."

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19 July 1964

United Press International

Photograph

Title: New York

One photograph entitled, "New York" taken by United Press International dated July 19, 1964. Image is of a police officer looking at a brocken store front window of a furniture store, damaged during the Harlem riots. Wire transfer information claims that people smashed windows with "missiles," and that 30 people were arrested.

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26 March 1965

Associated Press

Photograph

Title: Civil Rights Marchers Swarm On the Capitol

One wirephoto entitled, "Civil Rights Marchers Swarm On the Capitol," taken by Associated Press dated March 26, 1965. Image is of a crowd in front of the Alabama State Capitol on the final day of the Selma to Montgomery march. Wire transfer information states that state troopers were blocking the protestors from the steps of the capitol.

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01 September 1967

Associated Press

Photograph

Title: New Justice and Family

One wirephoto entitled, "New Justice and Family," taken by Associated Press dated September 1, 1967. Image is of Thurgood Marshall with his wife and two sons in front of the Supreme Court building. Wire transfer information states that the images was taken before his confirmation to the Supreme Court.

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19 July 1964

Associated Press

Photograph

Title: Clean-Up After Harlem Riot

One photograph entitled, "Clean-Up After Harlem Riot" taken by Associated Press dated July 19, 1964. Image is of three residents and police officers surveying the damage of a pawn shop, Isaac Leon Corp. Wire transfer information states that damages to the pawn shop followed riots after a 15-year old Black boy, James Powell, was fatally shot by an off-duty police officer, Thomas R. Gilligan.

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25 March 1965

Enquirer, Ledger, fl. 1965

Photograph

Title: [Brigadier General Henry V. Graham supervises the voting rights march to Selma]

One photograph taken by the Ledger Enquirer dated March 25, 1965. Image is of Brigadier General Henry V. Graham walking towards demonstrators gathered in the plaza of the State Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.

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20 July 1964

United Press International

Photograph

Title: New York

One wirephoto entitled, "New York" by United Press International dated July 20, 1964. Image is of police removing ammunition and weapons from truck. On the sidewalk, two people watch the police. Wire transfer information states that people threw debris and Molotov cocktails during the Harlem riots.

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02 October 1967

Associated Press

Photograph

Title: Justice Marshall

One wirephoto entitled, "Justice Marshall," taken by Associated Press dated October 2, 1967. Image is a portrait of Thurgood Marshall in his judicial robes.

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20 July 1964

unknown, fl. 1964

Photograph

Title: Beefed-Up Police Force Near the Funeral of Negro Boy

One photograph entitled, "Beefed-Up Police Force Near the Funeral of Negro Boy" dated July 20, 1964. Image is of people behind a barricade. A group of police officers stands on the other side of the barricade. A newspaper clipping is pasted on the reverse side. The caption reads, "A rain of bottles fell from the rooftops in Harlem yesterday."

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1932

Helene, fl. 1932

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Arthur Ruhl

One letter from "Helene" dated Sunday. Writes that she has finished reading "Haitian Odds and Ends," and the memory of Haiti's smell almost brings her to tears. Encourages him to write more about Haiti and that they may visit it together again some day.

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8 March 1925

Ruhl, Arthur, 1876-1935

Autograph letter signed

Title: to "Pop"

One letter dated Port-au-Prince, March 8, 1925 addressed to "Pop." Apologizes that his replies were delayed and inquires about his health. Gives detail of his military service and believes there to be no reason for the Navy's occupation in Haiti.

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21 April 1925

Chenery, William L., 1884-1974

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Arthur Ruhl

One letter dated April 21, 1925, from William L. Cheney, editor of Collier's Magazine. Makes recommendations for Ruhl's article about U.S. and Haitan relations. Requests a stronger connection to the American reader. Chenery writes, "I believe that this comment is sound and that we have to reckon with the fact that the average reader doesn't care a hang about the whole business unless he is lured into it by the sheer interest of the narrative."

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21 April 1925

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William Chenery

One memo to William Chenery dated April 21, 1925. The author of the memo regards Ruhl's article of the American occupation in Haiti as admirable. Suggests that Ruhl refrain from omitting the details of Haitian people and activists with a little bit of humor. He writes that the "general reader who is interested in himself, who cares little, if at all, about the political and ecoomic fortunes of Haiti, and who if he reads about Haiti at all, wants to be amused by it."

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February 6, 1930

Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Arthur Ruhl

One letter dated February 6, 1930 from Herbert Hoover on White House stationery. Acknowledges in a brief note that he received Ruhl's approval to his statement about Haiti from February 5.

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