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DimensionsOverall: 7 7/8 x 6 in. (20 x 15.2 cm)
Accession Number 2024.235
Classificationsphotograph
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
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
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
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
Image Not Available for Leads Poor Campaign: Civil rights leader Rev. Ralph Abernathy wipes his face during his appearance before a Senate Labor and Public Welfare subcommittee in Washington, April 20, 1968. Abernathy is the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and successor to the assassinated Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, Washington D.C., April 30, 1968
Leads Poor Campaign: Civil rights leader Rev. Ralph Abernathy wipes his face during his appearance before a Senate Labor and Public Welfare subcommittee in Washington, April 20, 1968. Abernathy is the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and successor to the assassinated Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, Washington D.C., April 30, 1968
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1968
Image Not Available for Thurgood Marshall, the first Negro nominated to the Supreme Court, faces Senate Judiciary Committee examination today on his attitudes toward the court's increasingly liberal rulings on criminal justice and civil rights. Marshall is shown here with his wife as he waits to take the witness stand, Washington DC, July 13, 1967
Thurgood Marshall, the first Negro nominated to the Supreme Court, faces Senate Judiciary Committee examination today on his attitudes toward the court's increasingly liberal rulings on criminal justice and civil rights. Marshall is shown here with his wife as he waits to take the witness stand, Washington DC, July 13, 1967
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1967
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Beginning Round No. 2: Governor George Wallace of Alabama, a onetime boxer, listens to a question today at the start of a second round of questioning about his opposition to the Administration's Civil Rights program. Wallace is before the Senate Commerce Committee at a Washinton hearing, July 16, 1963
1963
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
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
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1968
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
Stars Will March in the planned August 28th Civil Rights Demonstration in Washington: Movie and TV stars sat down to talk over their parts in the march after about 60 performers pledged to take part in the demonstration. They include Judy Garland (second from left), Eartha Kitt (dark glasses), Marlon Brando (second from right) and James Garner (right), August 6, 1963
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1963
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Callers at the Capitol: Civil rights leader Reverend Ralph Abernathy, right, and A.D. King, brother of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, are shown on the steps of the Capitol discussing the second day of the Poor People's March. Dr. King was assassinated April 4, April 30, 1968
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1968
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Presidents Buchanan and Lincoln Entering the Senate Chamber Before the Inauguration
Winslow Homer
March 16, 1861
Image Not Available for Poster for March on Washington: Official poster for the Aug. 28 Civil Rights March on Washington, Washington, D.C. The design prepared by artist Louis LoMonaco of New York City, will also be used as the cover for a portfolio to be sold in Washington on the day of the march, August 18, 1963
Poster for March on Washington: Official poster for the Aug. 28 Civil Rights March on Washington, Washington, D.C. The design prepared by artist Louis LoMonaco of New York City, will also be used as the cover for a portfolio to be sold in Washington on the day of the march, August 18, 1963
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1963