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Published ReferencesAssociated Press ID # 490718051
DimensionsOverall: 8 x 6 3/4 in. (20.3 x 17.1 cm)
Accession Number 2025.255
Classificationsphotograph
ProvenanceJeff Perry; Des Moines Art Center [gift from the previous, 2025]
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
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
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
On The Way Out: One of several persons ejected from the hearing room is carried bodily by officers today as the probe of anti-Vietnam war activities by the House-Un-American Activities Committee erupted with turmoil as loud challenges were shouted at the members of the committee. At least eight persons were carried or dragged from the room, Washington DC, August 16, 1966
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1966
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
Ione Robinson
John Carroll
1929
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Relax Before Battle: Pvt. Raymond Williams (left with banjo), Moberly, Missouri, and Pvt. Bob Clinton (with guitar), Bismarck, Missouri, entertain fellow Americans aboard flat car moving men and equipment to Korean front. Listening are fellow 25th Division men PFC Bill Persinger, (lower center), Dille, West Virginia; Cpl. John H. McKinney (right), Logan, West Virginia; and Cpl. Mack C. Cook (foreground), Altoona, Pennsylvania, August 7, 1950
1950
Image Not Available for Black Students Testify at Senate Hearing: Testifying during a continuing discussion on segregation five black students gave testimony Thursday to the Senate Select Committee on Equal Education Opportunity in Washington. From left are: Lionel McIntyre, New Orleans; Tyrone Thomas, Mobile, Alabama; Arthur Mae Cohen, Frogmore, South Carolina; Anita Kleinpeter, Lake Providence, Louisiana; Lawander Lovette, Rocky Mount, North Carolina; and teacher Ruby Martin, June 19, 1970
Black Students Testify at Senate Hearing: Testifying during a continuing discussion on segregation five black students gave testimony Thursday to the Senate Select Committee on Equal Education Opportunity in Washington. From left are: Lionel McIntyre, New Orleans; Tyrone Thomas, Mobile, Alabama; Arthur Mae Cohen, Frogmore, South Carolina; Anita Kleinpeter, Lake Providence, Louisiana; Lawander Lovette, Rocky Mount, North Carolina; and teacher Ruby Martin, June 19, 1970
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1970
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
South Korea: An American machine gun crew are well prepared for the enemy in the southwest sector of the Korean war zone. Left to right: Pfc. Richard Bowker, Cheyenne, South Dakota; Pfc. Carle Batty, Rock Island, Illinois; and Cpt. George E. Murphy, August, Georgia, August 7, 1950
1950
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
...As Demonstrators Marched: Participants in the "March Against Death" place the name cards of United States military killed in Vietnam in the coffins, left, at the foot of the Capitol tonight. The 40-hour procession from Arlington Cemetery is part of Vietnam Moratorium activity in Washington, November 13, 1969
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1969
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
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 Scuffler Led Away: His face twisted with pain, an unidentified man is led away by police from the scene of the threatened race riot at Washington's Anacostia park swimming pool, June 29, 1949. The scuffle started when some 70 black youths appeared at the pool and the whites refused to let them swim. Washington, DC, June 29, 1949
Scuffler Led Away: His face twisted with pain, an unidentified man is led away by police from the scene of the threatened race riot at Washington's Anacostia park swimming pool, June 29, 1949. The scuffle started when some 70 black youths appeared at the pool and the whites refused to let them swim. Washington, DC, June 29, 1949
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1949
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Jackie Diptych
Andy Warhol
1964
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Vous; mon ami! comment vous savez que je suis veuf; après vingt ans de travaux for..... non de ménage: vous voyez que je commence à me refaire et vous me proposez un second mariage..... Ragoulot, voulez-vous me lâcher! (You: my friend! How do you know that I am a widower; after twenty years of work for..... no household; You see I am beginning to rebuild and you offer me a second marriage.....Ragoulot, would you let me go!), no. 10 from the series of ten lithographs, “Vulgarités” ("Vulgarities" 10), 1842
Honoré Daumier
1842