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Posted by: Erin Allen
(The following is a guest post from Ryan Reft, modern U.S. historian in the Manuscript Division.) “No son has ever left home whose family had greater pride in him than we have in you,” wrote prominent Washington D.C. lawyer and African American civic leader William LePre Houston to his son, Charles Hamilton Houston in September …
Posted in: Civil Rights, Collections, Curators, Education, History, Manuscripts
Posted by: Erin Allen
Library experts involved in making the papers of Rosa Parks available online answered questions in a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) session on Tuesday. During the Reddit AMA, experts from the Library of Congress Manuscripts Division, the Prints and Photographs Division and Educational Outreach took questions about Rosa Parks and about how the Library cataloged, preserved, digitized, and …
Posted in: Civil Rights, Collections, Curators, Education, Events, History, LC Web site, Manuscripts, Photos, Pic of the Week, Women's History
Posted by: Erin Allen
The Rosa Parks Collection at the Library of Congress has been digitized and is now online. The collection, which contains approximately 7,500 manuscripts and 2,500 photographs, is on loan to the Library for 10 years from the Howard G. Buffett Foundation. The Library received the materials in late 2014, formally opened them to researchers in …
Posted in: Civil Rights, Collections, Education, History, LC Web site, Manuscripts, Video
Posted by: Erin Allen
Considered the most significant piece of civil rights legislation since Reconstruction, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin. It banned discrimination in public accommodations, such as hotels, restaurants, theaters and retail stores. It outlawed segregation in public education. It banned discrimination in employment, and it …
Posted in: American Folklife Center, Audiovisual, Civil Rights, Collections, Congress, Education, Exhibitions, Film, History, Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington DC
Posted by: Erin Allen
Simeon Wright still recalls the terror of the night they came and took his cousin away. “I woke up and saw these two white men standing at the foot of my bed,” Wright said. “One had a gun, flashlight. He ordered me to lay back down and go to sleep. He made Emmett get up …
Posted in: Audiovisual, Civil Rights, Collections, Folksonomies, History, LC Web site, Women's History
Posted by: Erin Allen
Civil Rights activist Roy Wilkins devoted his life to achieving equal rights under the law for the nation’s African Americans. The legacy of slavery, Roy Wilkins once wrote, divided African Americans into two camps: victims of bondage who suffered passively, hoping for a better day, and rebels who heaped coals of fire on everything that …
Posted in: Civil Rights, Collections, Exhibitions, History, Manuscripts, Photos, Uncategorized, Washington DC
Posted by: Erin Allen
(The following is a guest post by Guha Shankar, folklife specialist in the American Folklife Center and the Library’s project director of the Civil Rights History Project, and Kate Stewart, processing archivist in the American Folklife Center, who is principally responsible for organizing and making available collections with Civil Rights content in the division to …
Posted in: African American History, Audiovisual, Capitol Hill, Civil Rights, Collections, Education, Events, Exhibitions, History, Uncategorized
Posted by: Erin Allen
(The following is a guest post by Guha Shankar, folklife specialist in the American Folklife Center and the Library’s Project Director of the Civil Rights History Project, a Congressionally mandated documentation initiative that is being carried out in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.) Dr. Martin Luther King’s …
Posted in: African American History, Audiovisual, Capitol Hill, Civil Rights, Collections, Events, Exhibitions, Folksonomies, History, Manuscripts, Washington DC
Posted by: Erin Allen
(The following is a guest post by Guha Shankar, folklife specialist in the American Folklife Center and the Library’s Project Director of the Civil Rights History Project, a Congressionally mandated documentation initiative that is being carried out in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.) Fifty years later, the …
Posted in: African American History, Capitol Hill, Civil Rights, Education, Events, Exhibitions, History, Washington DC