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DimensionsSheet: 8 7/16 x 6 9/16 in. (21.4 x 16.7 cm)
Image: 7 7/8 x 6 1/16 in. (20 x 15.4 cm)
Accession Number 2024.205
Classificationsphotograph
InscriptionsCVL-DC-034 (verso u,l graphite) 1500 (verso u,l graphite) 769090 . . WATCH YOUR CREDIT . . INTERNATIONAL NEWS PHOTO DLUH . . (VANCE MUSE) VANCE MUSE TESTIFIES AT LOBBY PROBE. WASHINGTON,D.C. . . . VANCE MUSE, OF TEXAS, MANAGER OF THE SOUTHERN COMMITTEE TO UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION, WAS PHOTOGRAPHED AS HE TESTIFIED BEFORE THE SENATE LOBBY INVESTIGATION, HERE, TODAY (APRIL 15) MR. MUSE REVEALED THE NAMES OF SOME OF THE CONTRIB- UTORS TO THE SOUTHERN COMMITTEE, AND ADMITTED THAT HE HAD CAUSED PICTURES OF MRS. FRANKLIN D. ROOSE- VELT. "ENTERING A NEGRO MEETING WITH TWO NEGRO ES- CORTS" TO BE DISTRIBRUTED THROUGH THE SOUTHERN. K-4-15-36 840 (CHECK WIRE STORIES) (verso center printed on pasted paper) 100 (verso l,c ink)
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Vance Muse Testifies at Lobby Probe: Vance Muse, of Texas, manager of the Southern Committee to Uphold the Constitution, was photographed as he testified before the Senate Lobby Investigation, here, today. Mr. Muse revealed the names of some of the contributors to the Southern Committee, and admitted that he had caused pictures of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt "entering a Negro meeting with two Negro escorts" to be distributed through the South, Washington DC, April 15, 1936
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Image Not Available for Thurgood Marshall, the first Negro nominated to the Supreme Court, faces Senate Judiciary Committee examination today on his attitudes toward the court's increasingly liberal rulings on criminal justice and civil rights. Marshall is shown here with his wife as he waits to take the witness stand, Washington DC, July 13, 1967
Thurgood Marshall, the first Negro nominated to the Supreme Court, faces Senate Judiciary Committee examination today on his attitudes toward the court's increasingly liberal rulings on criminal justice and civil rights. Marshall is shown here with his wife as he waits to take the witness stand, Washington DC, July 13, 1967
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1967
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Negro Leaders Testify: Grant Reynolds (left), New York State Commissioners of Correction, and A. Philip Randolph, head of the sleeping car porters' union, testify today before the senate Armed Services Committee. Randolph said millions of Negroes will refuse to register or serve under draft and military training unless racial segregation and discrimination are ended. Reynolds said he would follow any program proposed by Randolph, Washington DC, March 31, 1948
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1948
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Light Up Time: Representative Adam Clayton Powell, D-NY, lights up a cigar today just before announcing the names of members of a House subcommittee to probe what he called "hand me down" school systems of de facto segregation in the north. The hearings, he said, probably will start in Washington and be held later in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Detroit, Cleveland, St. Louis, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Powell, chairman of the House Education Committee, announced the plans at a news conference, Washington DC, March 7, 1966
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1966
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
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Image Not Available for Bishop Smallwood B. Williams (center), Washington representative of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, leads prayer for hundreds of Negro demonstrators who assembled across from the White House After the prayer meeting, the group marched to the Justice Department to protest racial discrimination in Washington, June 14, 1963
Bishop Smallwood B. Williams (center), Washington representative of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, leads prayer for hundreds of Negro demonstrators who assembled across from the White House After the prayer meeting, the group marched to the Justice Department to protest racial discrimination in Washington, June 14, 1963
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1963
Image Not Available for Dr. Martin Luther King (right) of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference July 28th condemned Negro riots as a "self-defeating passion, "while castigating Congress for "loving rats more than Negroes," At the same time Roy Wilkins (left), executive Secretary of the NAACP said the traffic gluts in Los Angeles, scene of a racial uprising in 1965, show the city "cares more about care than people." Both appeared on a panel oh race riots at the concluding sessions of the International Platform Association, July 28, 1967
Dr. Martin Luther King (right) of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference July 28th condemned Negro riots as a "self-defeating passion, "while castigating Congress for "loving rats more than Negroes," At the same time Roy Wilkins (left), executive Secretary of the NAACP said the traffic gluts in Los Angeles, scene of a racial uprising in 1965, show the city "cares more about care than people." Both appeared on a panel oh race riots at the concluding sessions of the International Platform Association, July 28, 1967
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1967
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Witness Table Huddle: The Reverend Ralph Abernathy, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and leader of the Poor People's Campaign in Washington, leans over today at the witness table for a whispered word with Mrs. Alberta Scott of Baltimore, Maryland, one of the participants in the campaign. They appeared before a Senate Labor and Public Welfare subcommittee during hearings on emergency employment legislation, Washington DC, April 30, 1968
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1968
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Representative Adam Clayton Powell, Democrat-New York, chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, shown at news conference here December 9, called for an immediate tripling of the present $1.5 billion-a-year antipoverty program. He also announced that his committee will hold hearings next year on de facto school segregation, Washington, December 9, 1965
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1965
Image Not Available for Robinson Testifies: Brooklyn Dodgers' star Jackie Robinson speaks before the House Un-American Activities committee. Robinson said African Americans would fight for this country "against Russia or any other enemy,", July 18, 1949
Robinson Testifies: Brooklyn Dodgers' star Jackie Robinson speaks before the House Un-American Activities committee. Robinson said African Americans would fight for this country "against Russia or any other enemy,", July 18, 1949
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1949
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Smoke Screen: Representative Adam Clayton Powell, Democrat-New York, blows a cloud a cigar smoke today at Capitol Hill news conference in Washington. Powell, chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, announced a victory in his campaign to increase the participation of the poor in the anti poverty programs. In return for pledges on that point he promised fast action on a bill, which he had been holding up, to extend and expand the operation, May 12, 1965
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1965
School Bill Problems: Representative Adam Clayton Powell (D-N.Y.), presented this study today at a news conference. Powell said the House Education and Labor Committee which he heads, will consider a separate bill providing general aid for public elementary and high schools. He also said a proposal to provide $1.4 billion for construction of college academic facilities would be considered separately and the remainder of the Administration's school program would be lumped into a omnibus bill, May 2, 1963
School Bill Problems: Representative Adam Clayton Powell (D-N.Y.), presented this study today at a news conference. Powell said the House Education and Labor Committee which he heads, will consider a separate bill providing general aid for public elementary and high schools. He also said a proposal to provide $1.4 billion for construction of college academic facilities would be considered separately and the remainder of the Administration's school program would be lumped into a omnibus bill, May 2, 1963
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1963
Image Not Available for Segregationist John Kasper, right, is interviewed by a newsman as he and six of his followers picketed the White House today. Kasper said he believed that the four governors scheduled to confer with Mr. Eisenhower this afternoon "will sell out the South because they have sole their own people out.", October 1, 1957
Segregationist John Kasper, right, is interviewed by a newsman as he and six of his followers picketed the White House today. Kasper said he believed that the four governors scheduled to confer with Mr. Eisenhower this afternoon "will sell out the South because they have sole their own people out.", October 1, 1957
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1957