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DimensionsSheet: 10 1/16 x 7 7/8 in. (25.6 x 20 cm)
Image: 8 3/8 x 6 15/16 in. (21.3 x 17.6 cm)
Accession Number 2024.222
Classificationsphotograph
InscriptionsCVL-LDR-162 (verso u,l graphite) 1500 (verso u,l graphite)
MarksMAR 8 1966 (verso center black stamped ink)
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
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
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
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1965
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
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
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
Of Mississippi Matters: Aaron Henry, Mississippi president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, appears today before a House Judiciary Subcommittee. Henry a close associate of slain negro leader Medgar W. Evers, was called to testify on racial problems in Mississippi. The subcommittee is holding hearings on proposed civil rights legislation, Washington DC, June 13, 1963
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1963
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
Urges Adoption Of All Out Civil Rights Program: Attired in cap and gown, President Truman calls for swift adoption of an all out Civil Rights program backed up by "the full force and power of the federal government" in his commencement address today at Howard University, a Negro institution. The President said he was "not one of those who feel that we can leave these matters up to the state alone, or that we can rely solely on the efforts of men of good will," Washington D.C., June 13, 1952
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1952
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
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Picketing: Relatives of American prisoners of war and those missing in action in Southeast Asia, picket Tuesday in front of the White House. Later, President Nixon made a surprise visit to a banquet of the National League of Families of American Prisoners and missing in Southeast Asia and told them he was pushing to obtain the prisoners' release, September 29, 1971
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1971
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
Key figures in the Southern bloc of about 75 House members who have pledged themselves to fight Civil Rights when it comes up on House floor on March 10th are shown as they conferred following a luncheon conference. Left to right: Representatives John Bell Williams (D-Mississippi), John L. Flynt (D-Georgia) and Dale Alford (D-Arkansas), Washington D.C., March 9, 1960
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1960
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Senator Strom Thurmond (D-South Carolina) is all smiles as he steps outside of the Senate Gallery mobbed by reporters after winding up his 24-hour, 18-minutes talkathon against the Civil Rights Bill. Thurmond bested the record set by Wayne Morse of Oregon in 1953, Washington D.C., August 28, 1957
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1957