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to Sharpless D. Green

One note from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Sharpless Dobson Green, dated May 9, 1924. Thanks Green for letter received on May 6. Note is on letterhead from Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland.

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to Sharpless D. Green

One letter From Franklin D. Roosevelt to Sharpless Dobson Green, dated November 27, 1927. Note refers to a personalized message included in a bound version of Roosevelt's speech, "Whither Bound."

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[Photo of President Johnson meeting with top African American leaders]

One telephoto taken by UPI dated April 5, 1968. Photograph depicts top African American leaders meeting with President Lyndon Johnson at the White House. Press is present.

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[Photo of Martin Luther King's casket being loaded onto an Atlanta bound plane]

One telephoto taken by UPI dated April 5, 1968. Photograph depicts casket of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. being loaded onto a plane for transport back to Atlanta, Georgia.

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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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In Freedom's Vanguard, Report for 1963.

One pamphlet entitled, "In Freedom's Vanguard, Report for 1963," dated 1964. The report for 1963 highlights: the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom; Medgar Evers's funeral and activism; integrated classrooms; briefing on a convention; religion...

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In Freedom's Vanguard, Report for 1963

One pamphlet entitled, "In Freedom's Vanguard, Report for 1963," dated 1964. The report for 1963 highlights: the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom; Medgar Evers's funeral and activism; integrated classrooms; briefing on a convention; religion...

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A New Birth of Freedom, Report for 1964

One pamphlet entitled, "A New Birth of Freedom, Report for 1964," dated 1965. Report topics include: legislation passed in Congress; NAACP departmental actions; membership; legal cases of the year; desegregation in schools; labor department; voter...

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NAACP Annual Report for 1965

One pamphlet entitled "NAACP Annual Report for 1965." Report covers the enactment of the Civil Right Act of 1964; Los Angeles riots; police brutality; YMCA segregation; highlights victims of racial violence; protests; NAACP departmental actions...

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57th Annual Convention Resolutions

One pamphlet entitled, "57th Annual Convention Resolutions," dated 1966. Resolutions concerned with civil rights, economic advancement, education, housing, legislation, health, labor, religion, foreign affairs, apartheid, discrimination in unions...

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Your Future Rests ... In Your Hands

One comic book entitled, "Your Future Rests...In Your Hands," by Larry Lieber dated 1964. Illustrates characters discussing racial inequality in housing and education in African American communities; Steve Baxter of NAACP Voter Registration Committee...

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to Robert D. Moran

A typed letter from Senator John F. Kennedy to Robert D. Moran dated May 14, 1957. Kennedy is writing to Moran in response to a letter concerning the minimum voting age. Kennedy believes that the matter of voting age should continue to be determined...

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Housing: the Continuing Problem.

One pamphlet entitled, "Housing: the Contuining Problem," dated June 1940. Printed by the National Resources Planning Board. Item reports demand for affordable housing, estimates labor costs, foreclosure laws among other details.

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"Racial Policy in Public Housing"

One pamphlet entitled, "Racial Policy in Public Housing," written by Robert C. Weaver dated 1940. Describes how African-Americans have been neglected by the federal government and the lack of a "racial policy" in America related to public housing.

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What the Housing Act Can do for Your City

One pamphlet entitled, "What the Housing Act Can do for Your City," dated 1938. Item concerns of the details of the United States Housing Act: created by Congress to address poor living conditions and unemployment; a plan to assist local public...

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Introduction to Housing Facts and Principles.

One item entitled, "Introduction to Housing Facts and Principles," by Edith Elmer Wood dated December 1939. Item relays various aspects of the housing situation in the lates 1930s: living conditions of Americans, health rates affected by poor housing...

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"The Housing of Negro Families in Greater New York"

One pamphlet entitled, "The Housing of Negro Families in Greater New York" dated January 15, 1940 written by Warren M. Banner. Pertains to a report on the population of African Americans living in New York City and evidence of low quality housing...

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[Coretta Scott King Reads Prepared Statement at Ebenezer Baptist Church]

One telephoto taken by United Press International dated April 6, 1968. Depicts Coretta Scott King at a press conference at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta two days after Dr. King's assassination. In the background is Dr. King's pulpit with the...

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Demonstration in Harlem.

One pamphlet entitled, "Demonstration in Harlem," published by Urban Housing Management Association dated June 1945. Item pertains to housing built for African Americans in Harlem, NY; the construction, how to make it economically solvent for local...

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[Coretta Scott King leaves press conference]

One telephoto taken by United Press International dated April 6, 1968. Depicts Coretta Scott King leaving a press conference where she reads a prepared statement urging Dr. Martin Luther King's followers to remain true to the tenets of nonviolence...

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Floral Tribute to Dr. King

One Associated Press wirephoto dated April 7, 1968. Depicts the floral wreaths which hang on the balcony rail outside of Dr. Martin Luther King's room at the Lorraine Motel. According to the text on the wirephoto, Dr. King was leaning on the rail...

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[Casket of Dr. Martin Luther King placed into Hearse]

One telephoto taken by United Press International dated April 6, 1968. Depicts men carrying Dr. Martin Luther King's casket into a hearse from the funeral home in Atlanta for transport to Spellman College where his body will lie in state. Information...

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Wait to View King

One Associated Press wirephoto dated April 5, 1968. Depicts crowds gathered outside of an Atlanta funeral home waiting to view the body of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Pictured in the crowd is Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen, identified in the accompanying...

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[Martin Luther King Sr. carried away from son's funeral bier]

One telephoto taken by United Press International dated April 7, 1968. Depicts Martin Luther King Sr. being led away from his son's funeral bier after collapsing while viewing the body. Assisting King Sr. is Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, a top aide of...

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[Martin Luther King Sr. Weeps at son's viewing]

One telephoto taken by United Press International dated April 7, 1968. Depicts Martin Luther King Sr. crying at the viewing of his son's body as it lay in state in Atlanta, Georgia.

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[Coretta Scott King gazes at her husband's body as it lies in state]

One United Press International telephoto dated April 7, 1968. Depicts Coretta Scott King pausing to look upon the body of her husband.

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