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DimensionsOverall: 6 3/8 x 7 in. (16.2 x 17.8 cm)
Accession Number 2024.229
Classificationsphotograph
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
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
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
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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
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
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1966
Image Not Available for Dr. Martin Luther King (right) of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference July 28th condemned Negro riots as a "self-defeating passion, "while castigating Congress for "loving rats more than Negroes," At the same time Roy Wilkins (left), executive Secretary of the NAACP said the traffic gluts in Los Angeles, scene of a racial uprising in 1965, show the city "cares more about care than people." Both appeared on a panel oh race riots at the concluding sessions of the International Platform Association, July 28, 1967
Dr. Martin Luther King (right) of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference July 28th condemned Negro riots as a "self-defeating passion, "while castigating Congress for "loving rats more than Negroes," At the same time Roy Wilkins (left), executive Secretary of the NAACP said the traffic gluts in Los Angeles, scene of a racial uprising in 1965, show the city "cares more about care than people." Both appeared on a panel oh race riots at the concluding sessions of the International Platform Association, July 28, 1967
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1967
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Mrs. Nhu Blames U.S. For Coup: Mrs. Ngo Dinh Nhu tells a news conference in Beverly Hills today that she blames the United States for the military coup which deposed her ruling family in South Vietnam, November 2, 1963
1963
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
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1948
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
A demonstrator carries an American flag upside-down as the peace march passes its nearest point to the White House today buses parked bumper-to-bumper in the background were used as barricades. No one was allowed closer than one block from the Executive Mansion where President Nixon was conducting business as usual, November 15, 1969
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1969
Image Not Available for Johnson Confers With Negro: President Lyndon B. Johnson confers in the White House office with Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, a leader in the black drive for integration and equal opportunity. Wilkins was invited to the Executive Mansion by the new president. the appointment was one of many midway through a busy day, Washington DC, November 29, 1963
Johnson Confers With Negro: President Lyndon B. Johnson confers in the White House office with Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, a leader in the black drive for integration and equal opportunity. Wilkins was invited to the Executive Mansion by the new president. the appointment was one of many midway through a busy day, Washington DC, November 29, 1963
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1963
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Father Daniel Berrigan (right) and William M. Kunstler of New York City, defense lawyer, talked with newsmen after Berrigan and eight other Catholics were sentenced to 2 and 3 1/2 years in prison Friday. They were convicted of burning selective service records to protest the VIetnam war. Kunstler said he was making an immediate appeal to the United States 4th circuit court of appeals, November 9, 1968
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1968
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
South Korea: While Lt. General Walton H. Walker, CG 8th Army looks on, General J. Lawton Collins, Army Chief of Staff, inspects some captured North Korean small arms near the Korean battle front. Collins visited the Korean front to analyze the war’s progress, August 24, 1950
1950