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DimensionsOverall: 5 7/8 x 8 1/8 in. (14.9 x 20.6 cm)
Accession Number 2024.233
Classificationsphotograph
The House Committee on Un-American Activities voted unanimously to conduct a full-scale investigation of the Klu Klux Klan. Chairman Edwin D. Willis (D-Louisiana) shown making the announcement, said that his preliminary study of the group indicated that "shocking crimes" had been carried out by groups within the Klan known as the "knock-off squad" or "holy terrors," Washington D.C., March 30, 1965
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
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
Tu la trouve un peu dur..., from Crimes et chatiments
Félix Vallotton
1901
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
No title
Al Muto
August 29, 1957
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Crowd for Ceremonies: General view, taken from top of Lincoln Memorial, shows crowd assembled at the memorial and around the Washington Monument reflection pool to hear speakers in ceremonies following the March on Washington parade by civil rights groups here today, August 28, 1963
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1963
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
Unknown
1960
Photo Credit: Michael Tropea, Chicago
D-a-i-l-y P-a-i-n-t-i-n-g
David Dunlap
1987-1989
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Institutiones iuris civilis D. Iustiniani Imp. (The Civil Code of the Emperor Justinian)
Sylvester Aldobrandin
1580
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Untitled (D), from the series, "Stacked Prisons"
Peter Halley
2012-2014
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
L'epee d' Damoclés, No. 11 (The Sword of Damocles, No. 11), from "Histoire Ancienne (Ancient History)" as published in Le Charivari
Honoré Daumier
1842
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Untitled (Women Only), from the portfolio “10.D.70.V1”
William Eggleston
1971, printed 1996
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
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Richard Tuttle
2003
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
Unknown
1957