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DimensionsOverall: 6 3/4 x 8 1/8 in. (17.1 x 20.6 cm)
Accession Number 2024.227
Classificationsphotograph
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
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
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
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
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
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
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1954
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
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1954
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
Senator Strom Thurmond (D-South Carolina) points to clock in Capitol during a break in his one-man talkathon against the Civil Rights Bill. A colleague yielded to give to give Thurmond a short break. He threatened to talk all night, Washington D.C., August 29, 1957
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1957
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
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Representative Adam Clayton Powell (Democrat-NY), shown during news conference in his office November 6, said that Negroes should now look towards their political rather than civil rights leaders for future progress, November 6, 1964
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1964
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Senate page boy Bill Owens, Alexandria, Louisiana, carries a pile of civil rights debate records into the Senate Chamber as the Senate prepares for round-the-clock sessions in an effort to force action on a civil rights bill. A similar stack of records will be placed on each Senator's desk, Washington DC, February 29, 1960
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1960
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