Civil Rights Movement Photographs
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Albany State College Civil Rights Activists, 1961 [PDF]

Alabama Dossier Cards targeting activists

Julian Aaron, CORE Freedom Rider.
Ralph Abernathy, SCLC.
Arvenna Adams with Hollis Watkins.
Louis Allen
Thomas Armstrong, Freedom Rider
Bulah Mae Ayers, editor "Benton County Freedom Train," MS, 1964
Ella Baker. Our guide, our mentor, our example.
Three justice & freedom warriors Willie (Wazir) Peacock Sam Block Miss. Ella Baker
Marion Barry, SNCC
Randy Battle, SNCC
James Batts, Benton Country, MS, 1964
Harry Belafonte, 1968
Fay Bellamy, SNCC
Jim "Arkansas" Benston, SNCC & SCLC (AKA "Strider") on the Selma to Montgomery March.
James Bevel, SNCC & SCLC.
Mike Bibler and Willie Kinkaid, SCLC
Unita Blackwell speaking to U.S. Senate hearing on poverty in Jackson, Mississippi, April, 1967
Sam Block, SNCC, 1964.
Paul & Pat Bokulich, SCLC, Greene Co. AL
Julian Bond, SNCC, 1963.
Chuck Bonner Selma student leader, 1963.
Rev. Richard Boone, SCLC.
Ann and Carl Braden, SCEF, Birmingham, 1962
Carl Braden, SCEF
Janet Braun-Reinitz, Freedom Rider
Ethel Brooks, Wilcox Co. AL
H. Rap Brown (Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin). SNCC.
Jim Bullock, SCLC. On the line in Grenada MS. 1966.
Gordon Carey, CORE
Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture), SNCC. City College of New York. 1968
Oretha Castle Haley New Orleans CORE
Septima Clark, SCLC.
Alma Mitchell Carnegie, COFO, Holmes County, MS.
Jack Chatfield, SNCC, Southwest GA.
Frank Cieciorka, Mississippi & Arkansas, 1964.
Charlie Cobb, SNCC, 1966.
Dorothy Cotton, SCLC.
R.B. Cottonreader, SCLC. Mugshot, Grenada, MS. 1966.
Catherine Crowell, Director, Meridian MS COFO/MFDP. 1965.
Connie Curry, SNCC, NSA, AFSC.
Vernon Dahmer, Forrest County, MS. 1964
CORE leader Dave Dennis.
Mrs. Annie Devine, COFO
Dion Diamond, CORE. Freedom Rider mugshot, Jackson, MS. 1961.
James Dumbrowski, SCEF. Birmingham, 1962
Ernestyne Evans, Benton Country, MS, 1964
Genieval Evans, Benton Country, MS, 1964
NAACP leader Medgar Evers, Jackson MS. 1963.
James Farmer, CORE.
Ralph Featherstone, SNCC, 1967.
Mimi Feingold, CORE Freedom Rider
Robert Filner, Freedom Rider
Bob Fletcher, SNCC Photographer, MS, 1966
Jim Forman, SNCC.
Jo Freeman, SCLC. Meredith Mississippi March, 1966.
Hardy Frye of SNCC and Freedom Summer volunteer Bob Feinglass, Holly Springs, 1964.
Gwen Gillion, SNCC
Thomas Gilmore (right). First Black sheriff elected in Greene County AL. 1971. Rev. William Branch (left). First Black probate judge elected in Greene County AL. 1971.
Miriam Cohen Glickman, SNCC.
Victoria Jackson Gray, SNCC & MFDP.

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