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DimensionsSheet: 7 1/2 x 9 15/16 in. (19.1 x 25.2 cm)
Image: 6 3/4 x 8 1/16 in. (17.1 x 20.5 cm)
Accession Number 2024.208
Classificationsphotograph
InscriptionsCVL-DC-068 (verso l,l graphite) 2500 (verso l,l graphite) (Blacks - Schools) [illegible] - Education Schools - [illegible] (verso c,l graphite and ink)
MarksFILLED SEP 14 1954 (verso l,c purple stamped ink) NOTICE This picture is the property of The Associate Press and may be used only for the purposes of reproduction when authorized by the owner. It may not be syndicated, rent or loaned, or used for advertising purposes or for the purposes of trade. The following credit must be printed under each reproduction of this picture ASSOCIATED PRESS WIREPHOTO RED U.S. PATENT OFFICE (verso center red stamped ink)
White, Negro Pupils Get Instructions: H. B. Sanders, right, gives instructions to members of a 10th grade class at McKinley Technical High School as the new District of Columbia public school term opens today. White and negro pupils are members of the class. heretofore public schools in the nation's capital were segregated. A school official said some 400 Negroes have enrolled in previously all-white McKinley High, one of the city's larger schools, September 13, 1954
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Image Not Available for Public schools of Washington opened their doors today to 98,000 school children on a partially non-segregated basis to begin the process of integration, which is expected to be completed within a year. At Thompson Elementary school formerly for white children only a group of pupils studies a poster urging all to work together. Front left to right: Saundra Green, 11; Fred Austin, 11; Demos Georganos, 11, and Athy Georganos, 8. Rear left to right: Caroal Canady, 10 and her sister Shirley, 8, September 13, 1954
Public schools of Washington opened their doors today to 98,000 school children on a partially non-segregated basis to begin the process of integration, which is expected to be completed within a year. At Thompson Elementary school formerly for white children only a group of pupils studies a poster urging all to work together. Front left to right: Saundra Green, 11; Fred Austin, 11; Demos Georganos, 11, and Athy Georganos, 8. Rear left to right: Caroal Canady, 10 and her sister Shirley, 8, September 13, 1954
Unknown
1954
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
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1963
Image Not Available for Among the attorneys who will argue against segregation in public school before the Supreme Court this week are, left to right: Harold R. Boulware, Columbia, South Carolina; Thurgood Marshall, New York City, official of National Association for Advancement of Colored People; and Spottswood W. Robinson III, representing Negro parents attacking school segregation in Virginia and South Carolina, December 1953
Among the attorneys who will argue against segregation in public school before the Supreme Court this week are, left to right: Harold R. Boulware, Columbia, South Carolina; Thurgood Marshall, New York City, official of National Association for Advancement of Colored People; and Spottswood W. Robinson III, representing Negro parents attacking school segregation in Virginia and South Carolina, December 1953
Unknown
1953
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Kids aren’t interested in canning or making pickles. It’s hard to keep the class’s attention. Amador High School, Pleasanton, California, from the "Leisure" series
Bill Owens
1976, printed 2000
Image Not Available for Thirty white and Negro parents and some children, conducted a shouting camp-in at the office of Attorney General John N. Mitchell to protest against any possible weakening of school desegregation guidelines. The demonstrators were from Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and South Carolina, July 1, 1969
Thirty white and Negro parents and some children, conducted a shouting camp-in at the office of Attorney General John N. Mitchell to protest against any possible weakening of school desegregation guidelines. The demonstrators were from Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and South Carolina, July 1, 1969
Unknown
1969
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
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1966
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
White House Introduction: President Eisenhower reaches across George M. Johnson, new member of the Civil Rights Commission, to shake hands with Johnson's wife at the end of a ceremony swearing him into the post. Johnson, who holds his commission, is the former dean of the Howard University School of Law, Washington D.C., June 9, 1959
1959
Image Not Available for Under Police Surveillance: Members of the American Nazi Party carry out their own demonstration today under close police surveillance. The swastika-wearing marchers showed up at the White House about the time Negro demonstrators were scheduled to arrive. Police hustled off the Nazis to the next block up Pennsylvania Avenue where they were permitted to march in a tight circle, June 14, 1963
Under Police Surveillance: Members of the American Nazi Party carry out their own demonstration today under close police surveillance. The swastika-wearing marchers showed up at the White House about the time Negro demonstrators were scheduled to arrive. Police hustled off the Nazis to the next block up Pennsylvania Avenue where they were permitted to march in a tight circle, June 14, 1963
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1963
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Near Taegu, Korea: South Korean soldiers receive bayonet instruction from members of the United States 7th Cavalry between battles against the North Korean forces. Free time available is spent in this fashion to help make the South Korean a better soldier for combat, August 30, 1950
1950
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Everywhere we go we challenge the local high school team to a game. We let them win. It’s all for charity. Points don’t count unless you shoot from the back of the donkey. Donkeys are dumb and uncooperative, and they really hate to move. Livermore, California, from the "Leisure" series
Bill Owens
1976, printed 1999
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Protest at the White House: Demonstrators from various anti-Vietnam war groups who are in the capital carry signs, some protesting the probe of their activities by the White House Un-American Activities Committee, as they march along Pennsylvania Avenue today before the White House. Some members of the group earlier in the day were ejected forcibly from a meeting of the committee in Washington DC, August 16, 1966
William J. Smith
1966
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
A group of prominent Negroes tried unsuccessfully to meet with President Nixon at the White House to discuss black capitalism. Members of the group talk with reporters outside the White House. They are left to right: Floyd McKissick (with fur hat); Jackie Robinson, former baseball player, (center); and Dr. Walter Cooper, Rochester, New York, January 25, 1969
Unknown
1969