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King's Body Put on Plane

One wirephoto taken by Associated Press dated April 5, 1968. Photo depicts casket of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. being loaded onto a plane as the Rev. Ralph Abernathy stands in the doorway of the plane. Wirephoto description notes that Rev. Abernathy...

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To Claim Body

One wirephoto taken by Associated Press dated April 5, 1968. Depicts Coretta Scott King boarding a plane bound for Memphis, Tennessee to claim the body of her husband, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holding a umbrella for Mrs. King is her late husband's...

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progress and portents, NAACP Annual Report for 1958

One pamphlet entitled "progress and portents, NAACP Annual Report for 1958," dated July 1959. Summarizes the organization's yearly efforts, details legislative matters, grassroot efforts, economic status of African Americans, housing, branding the...

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progress and portents, NAACP Annual Report for 1958

One pamphlet entitled "progress and portents, NAACP Annual Report for 1958," dated July 1959. Summarizes the organization's yearly efforts, details legislative matters, grassroot efforts, economic status of African Americans, housing, branding the...

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Then and Now

One pamphlet entitled "Then and Now," dated February 1959. Describes the NAACP's inception on February 12, 1959; the first conference held in New York City attended by almost 300 people challenging racist policies and legislation; a list of...

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Roy Wilkins Answers

One pamphlet entitled "Roy Wilkins Answers," dated February 1959. Contains a published reply from Roy Wilkins, executive director of NAACP, to Chet Huntley. Is a response to the hour-long segment that aired on NBC where Huntley expressed that the...

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The Year of Jubilee, NAACP Annual Report for 1959

One pamphlet entitled, "The Year of Jubilee, NAACP Annual Report for 1959," dated July 1960. Contains chapters on legal cases, convention of 1959, religion and civil rights, program activities, membership campaigns, housing, and voting rights.

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NAACP Report for 1960

One pamphlet entitled "NAACP Report for 1960," dated July 1961. Content consists of legal cases, convention of 1960, religion and civil rights, program activities, membership campaigns, housing, voting rights. Also highlights the 1960 sit-in...

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Reclaiming a Heritage; the NAACP and Africa: An Historical Profile, NAACP Task Force on Africa

One study entitled, "Reclaiming a Heritage; the NAACP and Africa: An Historical Profile, NAACP Task Force on Africa," completed by the NAACP dated 1976. Includes a list of the names of the task force, summary of five Pan-African congresses...

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The Jim Crow School-North and West

One pamphlet entitled, "The Jim Crow School-North and West," from July 1962. Document pertains to efforts to desegregate schools in the North and West states, expresses the NAACP's position on reducing segregation in schools in the North. Includes...

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To Lead Service

One wirephoto taken by Associated Press dated April 6, 1968. Depicts Benjamin E. Mays, retired president of Morehouse College. According to the wirephoto description, Dr. Mays was a former teacher of Dr. King and was selected to lead the funeral...

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The Jim Crow School-North and West

One pamphlet entitled, "The Jim Crow School-North and West," from July 1962. Document pertains to efforts to desegregate schools in the North and West states, expresses the NAACP's position on reducing segregation in schools in the North. Includes...

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The Jim Crow School-North and West

One pamphlet entitled, "The Jim Crow School-North and West," from July 1962. Document pertains to efforts to desegregate schools in the North and West states, expresses the NAACP's position on reducing segregation in schools in the North. Includes...

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Examines Attache Case

One telephoto taken by United Press International dated April 5, 1968. Depicts Hosea Williams, an aide to Dr. Martin Luther King, examining the contents of King's briefcase. Observable contents of briefcase include King's book "Strength to Love" and...

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report for 1962: The March to Freedom

One pamphlet entitled "report for 1962: The March to Freedom," dated July 1962. Content consists of updates on desegregation in Northern schools, housing discrimination, voter registration, finances, politics and religion.

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Long Live the King

One wirephoto taken by Associated Press dated April 5, 1968. Depicts Reverend Ralph Abernathy raising an arm to the sky and saying "Long Live the King." Picture taken after a short memorial service in Memphis, Tennessee after King's body had been...

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[View through simulated rifle scope aimed at Dr. Martin Luther King's hotel room]

One wirephoto taken by United Press International dated April 6, 1968. Depicts the view through a simulated rifle scope aimed at the spot where Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated on the balcony of the Lorraine Hotel. The shot was taken from an...

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Target for 1963

One pamphlet entitled, "Target for 1963." published in November 1955. Content consists of a summary of goals for civil rights in 1963; details conditions for "Fight for Freedom Campaign," which includes talking points on attaining civil rights in...

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[View of mop handle aimed at Dr. Martin Luther King's hotel room]

One telephoto taken by United Press International dated April 5, 1968. Depicts the length of a mop handle pointed at room 306 of the Lorraine Hotel, meant to simulate the view of a rifle's barrel. Picture taken from the inside of an adjacent motel...

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Target for 1963

One pamphlet entitled, "Target for 1963." Content consists of a summary of goals for civil rights in 1963; details conditions for "Fight for Freedom Campaign," which includes talking points on attaining civil rights in employment, housing, voter...

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Target for 1963

One pamphlet entitled, "Target for 1963." Content consists of a summary of goals for civil rights in 1963; details conditions for "Fight for Freedom Campaign," which includes talking points on attaining civil rights in employment, housing, voter...

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[Interior of bathroom from which assassin stood to murder Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.]

One United Press International Telephoto dated April 5, 1968. Depicts the interior of the bathroom from which an assassin shot Martin Luther King Jr.

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Assassin's Room

One Associated Press wirephoto dated April 5, 1968. Depicts a newsman in the room rented by James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King's assassin, in a motel adjacent to the Lorraine hotel.

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[Coretta Scott King, 1968]

One telephoto taken by United Press International dated April 6, 1968. Depicts Coretta Scott King as she reads a prepared statement at a press conference in Atlanta. According to the telephoto description, "In her first public statement since her...

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Mrs. King Gives Views

One wirephoto taken by Associated Press dated April 6, 1968. Depicts Coretta Scott King at a press conference in Atlanta following Dr. King's assassination. Pictured in the background is Rev. Ralph Abernathy.

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