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- A.W. Willis, Jr. Collection
- African Americans; Beale Street; civil rights; family life; government; integration; law; National Civil Rights Museum; politics; religion; Willis, A. W., Jr.;
- The A.W. Willis, Jr. Collection was donated to the Memphis Public Library and Information Center by Willis’s widow, Dr. Miriam DeCosta Willis, on January 10, 2003. Comprised of ten boxes, this collection contains correspondence, newspaper...
- Collection of Collections
- Freedom Rides display at National Civil Rights Museum
- Memphis; civil rights; National Civil Rights Museum;
- Civil Rights Photograph Collection
- Bus display at National Civil Rights Museum
- Memphis; civil rights; National Civil Rights Museum;
- Civil Rights Photograph Collection
- Sanitation workers' strike display at National Civil Rights Museum
- Memphis; civil rights; National Civil Rights Museum; sanitation workers strike;
- Civil Rights Photograph Collection
- Civil Rights - Judge D'Army Bailey
- Bailey, D'Army; National Civil Rights Museum; civil rights; Lorraine Motel;
- The back reads: "Judge D. Army Bailey addressing crowd at grand opening of Nat'l Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel."
- Arthur Webb Collection
- "Hooks Predicts Shakeup Regarding Civil Rights"
- African Americans; civil rights; Hooks, Benjamin L.; Memphis Area Chamber of Commerce; NAACP; politics; Stockton, Clifford; U.S. Navy; Zech, Lando W., Jr.;
- "Politicians who retreat from their support of civil rights and turn their backs on efforts to end discrimination will face an election-day uprising of blacks, civil rights leader Benjamin L. Hooks of Memphis says." (Clipping 1 of 2)
- The M Files
- Civil Rights - Lorraine Motel
- National Civil Rights Museum; Lorraine Motel; civil rights;
- A picture of the Lorraine Motel, now the National Civil Rights Museum.
- Arthur Webb Collection
- Civil Rights - plaque
- National Civil Rights Museum; King, Martin Luther, Jr.; Lorraine Motel;
- A picture of the National Civil Rights Museum, specifically where Dr. Martin Luther King was shot.
- Arthur Webb Collection
- Civil Rights Museum - timeline
- civil rights; Idlewild Presbyterian Church; timelines;
- A timeline of significant civil rights events in the nation, Memphis, and within Idlewild Presbyterian Church.
- Perre Magness Collection
- "Civil Rights for Whites"
- Memphis; civil rights; segregation;
- White segregationists stage counter-protest.
- Civil Rights Photograph Collection
- Marching to jail
- Memphis; civil rights; Smith, Maxine; Sugarmon, Laurie; Clark, Leroy; Crenshaw, Cornelia;
- Maxine Smith, Executive Director of the NAACP and Miriam "Laurie" Sugarmon, Chairperson of the NAACP Education Commission, march to jail, where they were incarcerated for urging a boycott of the public schools. Accompanying them are...
- Civil Rights Photograph Collection
- Rev. Frank Lewis McRae Collection: A Life in Ministry and Service
- Church Health Center; civil rights; Dozier, Carroll T.; Herenton, W. W.; Hyter, James A.; James, Robert B.; Kennedy, John F.; King, Martin Luther, Jr.; McRae, Frank Lewis; Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association (MIFA); religion; sanitation workers...
- Rev. Frank Lewis McRae, longtime minister of St. John's United Methodist Church, was also a civic and community leader. Active throughout the civil rights struggle, he continued his work in social justice with organizations such as MIFA, Friends...
- Collection of Collections
- Maxine A. Smith NAACP Collection
- activism; African Americans; boycotts; business; busing; civil rights; clubs; consolidation; desegregation; discrimination; education; employment; government; health care; hospitals; integration; labor; law; minimum wage; NAACP; neighborhoods;...
- Maxine Atkins was born in 1929, the youngest of the three children of Joseph and Georgia Rounds Atkins. Maxine graduated from Booker T. Washington High School at age 15 in 1945. She went on to earn a Bachelor’s degree in biology from Spelman...
- Collection of Collections
- Catholic Human Relations Council Papers
- activism; busing; Catholics; child care; civil rights; clergy; crime; desegregation; education; government; hospitals; housing; integration; jails; labor; neighborhoods; police; poverty; public service; race; religion; social justice;
- The Catholic Human Relations Council was founded in Memphis in 1962 in an effort to unite black and white Catholics in the city and to increase the role of the Catholic Church in the Civil Rights movement. Through the 1960s and early 1970s, the...
- Collection of Collections
- Why You Should Vote the States' Rights Ticket
- civil rights; Dixiecrats; politics; States' Rights Party;
- A campaign flyer for the States' Rights Party, which opposed President Truman's proposed Civil Rights Bill.
- The M Files
- "Hooks hailed as civil rights pioneer"
- civil rights; Hooks, Benjamin L.; Shelby County;
- The Shelby County Commission declared a "Dr. Benjamin L. Hooks Appreciation Day" to honor Hooks on his 80th birthday.
- The M Files
- Civil Rights - protest
- protests; civil rights;
- A group of African-American men hold signs reading, "I am a man."
- Arthur Webb Collection
- Disturbance at Hamilton High School
- Memphis; civil rights; education;
- Civil Rights Photograph Collection
- Early Civil Rights - newspaper
- newspapers; Memphis Appeal; Memphis Avalanche; civil rights; race relations;
- A newspaper clipping, without a date, about a riot caused by race issues.
- Arthur Webb Collection
- Can You Work Under the FEPC?
- civil rights; Dixiecrats; politics; States' Rights Party;
- A brochure put out by the States' Rights Party outlining their take on the Fair Employment Practices Commission and Truman's proposed Civil Rights Bill.
- The M Files