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DimensionsSheet: 9 7/8 x 7 7/8 in. (25.1 x 20 cm)
Image: 7 3/8 x 6 3/16 in. (18.7 x 15.7 cm)
Accession Number 2024.218
Classificationsphotograph
InscriptionsX1 (u,l ink) 4 3/16 (u,c ink) 1X (u,r ink) 20 w/ educ[illegible] Sp A8 Am1 (l,c red ink) K15 (l,l ink) A 3 (l,r ink) 6 (l,r ink) CVL-DC-129 (verso u,l graphite) 2000 (verso u,l graphite) Schools (classRooMs) (verso u,c blue ink) Education or statistics? WASHINGTON — It's probably too much to expect people to come up with good answers for the incredibly com-plex problems involved in race and schooling. But it would nice if, now and then, they at least got the ques-tions right. This forlorn hope is prompted by the fact that the Prince George's County, Maryland, school desegregation trial is over and the most critical issues were never even broached. U.S. District Judge Frank A. Kauf-man, who issued the original desegre-gation order in 1973, is expected to rule by month's end on complaint of the Prince George's National Associa-tion for the Advancement of Colored People that the county schools were never fully desegregated. That was the question before him. But the question that surely must have been in the minds of the plaintiffs — how best to educate the black chil-dren of the county — had no place in the eight-week trial. That, after all, is not a constitutional issue; desegrega-tion is. Thus, lawyers and witnesses for the NAACP and the county spent two months arguing not about education but about statistics. Quality of education is the real issue (verso center printed ink on pasted paper)
MarksSTATES-ITEM (l,c red stamped ink) AUG 31 1978 (verso l,r red stamped ink)

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Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Education of Statistics? Young African American girl being taught in a classroom, Washington, August, 1978
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Image Not Available for The Nation's Capitol, 1978: Ten Years after it was reduced to rubble in a four-day frenzy of fire-bombing and looting, triggered by the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Washington's 7th Street NW is an ash-can existence for winos. For black ghetto dwellers in Washington, the weed-filled lots and fire-scarred buildings silently mock the post-riot talk of rebuilding, April, 1978
The Nation's Capitol, 1978: Ten Years after it was reduced to rubble in a four-day frenzy of fire-bombing and looting, triggered by the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Washington's 7th Street NW is an ash-can existence for winos. For black ghetto dwellers in Washington, the weed-filled lots and fire-scarred buildings silently mock the post-riot talk of rebuilding, April, 1978
Unknown
1978
Image Not Available for Suspect Once Stood by Rockwell: John Patler, left, wearing captain's bars on his American Nazi Party uniform, stands at side of party leader Goerge Lincoln Rockwell as he spoke near the white house during a Vietnam demonstration in Washington. Rockwell was killed in Arlington, Virginia August 25th. Patler was charged with his murder, March 26, 1966
Suspect Once Stood by Rockwell: John Patler, left, wearing captain's bars on his American Nazi Party uniform, stands at side of party leader Goerge Lincoln Rockwell as he spoke near the white house during a Vietnam demonstration in Washington. Rockwell was killed in Arlington, Virginia August 25th. Patler was charged with his murder, March 26, 1966
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1966
Image Not Available for Freedom Marchers in Washington: An estimated 200,000 marched upon Washington earlier this week in a major demonstration asking for Civic Freedoms for all. A large section of the crowd, which came from all parts of the USA, consisted of Negroes. Photo shows a section of the large crowd which gathered in the United States capital for the demonstration, August 31, 1963
Freedom Marchers in Washington: An estimated 200,000 marched upon Washington earlier this week in a major demonstration asking for Civic Freedoms for all. A large section of the crowd, which came from all parts of the USA, consisted of Negroes. Photo shows a section of the large crowd which gathered in the United States capital for the demonstration, August 31, 1963
Unknown
1963
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
March on Washington: black woman waving flag reading "Freedom Parade", Washington D.C., August 28, 1963
Unknown
1963, printed 1988
Image Not Available for Tolerance Group in Washington: A committee representing the Chicago Council against racial and religious discrimination, visits Attorney General J. Howard McGrath at Washington, D.C., September 27, to bring to his attention the events revolving about the rioting in Cicero, Illinois last July when a colored family was prevented from moving into an apartment by a mob which was quelled by the Illinois National Guard. The attorney general advised that on the basis of investigation by the FBI, he intended to present these vents before a federal grand jury for further exploration..., September 28, 1951
Tolerance Group in Washington: A committee representing the Chicago Council against racial and religious discrimination, visits Attorney General J. Howard McGrath at Washington, D.C., September 27, to bring to his attention the events revolving about the rioting in Cicero, Illinois last July when a colored family was prevented from moving into an apartment by a mob which was quelled by the Illinois National Guard. The attorney general advised that on the basis of investigation by the FBI, he intended to present these vents before a federal grand jury for further exploration..., September 28, 1951
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1951
Image Not Available for Racial prejudice is acquired, not inherited, sociologists point out. These children at a nonsegregated housing project in Washington, D.C., are growing up in an atmosphere of racial harmony, reflecting the attitudes in their parents' homes. There is no reason to believe that integration will contribute to intermarriages, the social scientists say, because experience has shown that 90% of all marriages are between people who have similar racial, social and religious backgrounds. This is one example of racial integration of a number in the nation's capital. President Eisenhower hopes Washington will became a model for the rest of the nation. Economic and social barriers against Negroes have been dropping int he wake of court rulings and organized campaigns, September 12, 1955
Racial prejudice is acquired, not inherited, sociologists point out. These children at a nonsegregated housing project in Washington, D.C., are growing up in an atmosphere of racial harmony, reflecting the attitudes in their parents' homes. There is no reason to believe that integration will contribute to intermarriages, the social scientists say, because experience has shown that 90% of all marriages are between people who have similar racial, social and religious backgrounds. This is one example of racial integration of a number in the nation's capital. President Eisenhower hopes Washington will became a model for the rest of the nation. Economic and social barriers against Negroes have been dropping int he wake of court rulings and organized campaigns, September 12, 1955
Unknown
1955
Image Not Available for Slums...And The Capitol: The domed top of the United States Capitol building may be seen almost within a stone's throw of this dingy and diplidated slum district in Washington D.C. The capitol is pushing a new drive to root out the alley slums, of which is typical, and which have been a part of Washington since the civil war, December 11, 1938
Slums...And The Capitol: The domed top of the United States Capitol building may be seen almost within a stone's throw of this dingy and diplidated slum district in Washington D.C. The capitol is pushing a new drive to root out the alley slums, of which is typical, and which have been a part of Washington since the civil war, December 11, 1938
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1938
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
South African memorial statue, Quebec
Henri Cartier-Bresson
1965
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Police Chase Demonstrators: Leaders of a group of residents from the neighborhood Harlem in New York, argue today with the police before being cleared from the grounds of the Capitol in Washington, while the cameras of representatives and senators have been sitting. The trouble started with a singing and clapping demonstration in the gallery of the House of Representatives shortly after the House adjourned for the day, August 7, 1967
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1967
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
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1949
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
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
Unknown
1936
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
The "Russia" has just arrived from Batumi and is on her way to Odessa, Young Girls chatting with sailors on shore, Sukhumi on the Black Sea, Abkhazia, Georgia, U.S.S.R.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
1954