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Says Housing Amendment Cripples Rights Bill: Roy Wilkins, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, tells the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights in Washington last night that the compromise amendment on the housing provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1966, renders the section of questionable value. The amendment exempts individual homeowners in real estate sales. At left is W.H. Booth, Jr., chairman of the New York Commission on Human Rights. The meeting was called for groups lobbying for passage of the bill, Washington DC, July 27, 1966
Says Housing Amendment Cripples Rights Bill: Roy Wilkins, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, tells the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights in Washington last night that the compromise amendment on the housing provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1966, renders the section of questionable value. The amendment exempts individual homeowners in real estate sales. At left is W.H. Booth, Jr., chairman of the New York Commission on Human Rights. The meeting was called for groups lobbying for passage of the bill, Washington DC, July 27, 1966
Says Housing Amendment Cripples Rights Bill: Roy Wilkins, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, tells the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights in Washington last night that the compromise amendment on the housing provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1966, renders the section of questionable value. The amendment exempts individual homeowners in real estate sales. At left is W.H. Booth, Jr., chairman of the New York Commission on Human Rights. The meeting was called for groups lobbying for passage of the bill, Washington DC, July 27, 1966

Says Housing Amendment Cripples Rights Bill: Roy Wilkins, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, tells the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights in Washington last night that the compromise amendment on the housing provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1966, renders the section of questionable value. The amendment exempts individual homeowners in real estate sales. At left is W.H. Booth, Jr., chairman of the New York Commission on Human Rights. The meeting was called for groups lobbying for passage of the bill, Washington DC, July 27, 1966

Maker (American, 1918 - 1989)
Date7/26/1966
MediumVintage Associated Press wirephoto
Dimensions6-5/8 x 7-3/4 inches
Credit LineGift of Jennifer & Marc Lipschultz
Collections
Object number2024.249
Status
Not on view
Blasts Nixon Administration: Clifford L. Alexander gestures during a speech in Washington today to the National Association of Television and Radio Announcers in which he blasted what he called "a significant change in the Nixon Administration's attitude toward Civil Rights." Alexander resigned yesterday as a member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Washington, D.C., August 15, 1969
Blasts Nixon Administration: Clifford L. Alexander gestures during a speech in Washington today to the National Association of Television and Radio Announcers in which he blasted what he called "a significant change in the Nixon Administration's attitude toward Civil Rights." Alexander resigned yesterday as a member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Washington, D.C., August 15, 1969
Charles Tasnadi
8/15/1969
Typing Words of Protest: Ray Robinson Jr. chief assistant to the national coordinator of the Committee to end the war in Vietnam, types out words of protest in the group's headquarters three blocks from the Wisconsin State Capitol. Robinson, from Washington D.C. , has taken part in many civil rights marches throughout the country, Madison, Wisconsin, October 16, 1965
Typing Words of Protest: Ray Robinson Jr. chief assistant to the national coordinator of the Committee to end the war in Vietnam, types out words of protest in the group's headquarters three blocks from the Wisconsin State Capitol. Robinson, from Washington D.C. , has taken part in many civil rights marches throughout the country, Madison, Wisconsin, October 16, 1965
Unknown Artist
10/16/1965
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1964 Nobel Peace Prize winner and leader of the American Negro civil rights movement for more than a decade, addresses an integrated audience during a testimonial dinner in his honor here January 27. The dinner was held in one of the city's largest downtown hotels, January 27, 1965
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1964 Nobel Peace Prize winner and leader of the American Negro civil rights movement for more than a decade, addresses an integrated audience during a testimonial dinner in his honor here January 27. The dinner was held in one of the city's largest downtown hotels, January 27, 1965
Unknown Artist
1/27/1965
Wallace, Abernathy Honored: Alabama Governor George C. Wallace and civil rights leader Ralph Abernathy wear ceremonial robes Wednesday as both received honorary doctor of law degrees form predominantly black Alabama State University, Abernathy's alma mater, Montgomery, Alabama, May 15, 1974
Wallace, Abernathy Honored: Alabama Governor George C. Wallace and civil rights leader Ralph Abernathy wear ceremonial robes Wednesday as both received honorary doctor of law degrees form predominantly black Alabama State University, Abernathy's alma mater, Montgomery, Alabama, May 15, 1974
Unknown Artist
5/15/1974
Rights of the Individual
Rights of the Individual
Peter Saul
1989
Elmer Reads His Rights, N.Y.
Elmer Reads His Rights, N.Y.
Arthur Tress
1977
Shown after their conviction in U.S. District Court here today are the 11 Communist leaders charged with conspiracy to teach and advocate the forcible overthrow of the government. Left to right are: Henry Winston, Eugene Dennis, Jacob Stachel, Gilbert Green, Benjamin Davis, John Williamson, Robert G. Thompson, Gus Hall, Irving Potash, Carl Winter, John Gates. Men at upper right behind the two lines of prisoners are unidentified court attaches, New York City
Shown after their conviction in U.S. District Court here today are the 11 Communist leaders charged with conspiracy to teach and advocate the forcible overthrow of the government. Left to right are: Henry Winston, Eugene Dennis, Jacob Stachel, Gilbert Green, Benjamin Davis, John Williamson, Robert G. Thompson, Gus Hall, Irving Potash, Carl Winter, John Gates. Men at upper right behind the two lines of prisoners are unidentified court attaches, New York City
Unknown Artist
circa 1951
Housing Northern Style
Housing Northern Style
Vincent DaCosta Smith
1965 (plate, printed 1994)
Untitled (Chicago Housing Authority: Women Sweeping Floor, Dimly Lit Home)
Untitled (Chicago Housing Authority: Women Sweeping Floor, Dimly Lit Home)
Robert Natkin
1952 - 53
Housing for Veterans, Los Angeles
Housing for Veterans, Los Angeles
Lou Stoumen
1947
Right of Assembly
Right of Assembly
Arthur Siegel
1939
Image Not Available for Couplet of Calligraphy: Right Panel
Couplet of Calligraphy: Right Panel
Chen Wenwu
1944