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African Americans -- Civil rights.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

African American Civil Rights: History

 File — Box 2, Folder: 8
Identifier: Folder 8
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection contains news releases, reports, brochures, flyers, small published and unpublished items, and other ephemeral materials documenting the history, events, customs and social lives of peoples in the Appalachian region of the United States.

Dates: Other: Majority of material found within 1968-2000

Baldwin, John D. Human Rights and Human Races: Mr. Baldwin, of Massachusetts, in Reply to Hon. James Brooks, of New York, on the Negro Race. Washington, D.C.: Union Republican Congressional Committee, 1868

 Item — Box 5: Series 5, Folder: 5
Identifier: 5
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Series 5 is the largest series in the collection. It contains printed matter by and about national government, politics, and politicians. Many works were produced as partisan campaign literature during the tumultuous presidential elections of 1864, 1868, and 1872. Most such items promote the Republican Party’s views and candidates. The series is arranged by publication date, then by author and title. Within the same year, works without authors precede works with authors.

Dates: 1868

Committee for the March on Montgomery

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: RG 10-10.29
Abstract On Thursday, March 25, 1965, fifty-eight Berea College student, faculty and staff joined 25,000 other demonstrators in the last phase of the March on Montgomery from Selma, Alabama. The trip made by students and other members of the college was neither officially recognized by the College or endorsed by the Student Association Senate. Berea's participation in the march was organized by a committee of students which organized in response to a controversial letter from the Associate Dean of...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1965-1989; Other: Majority of material found in 1965

Douglass, Frederick. U.S. Grant and the Colored People. His Wise, Just, Practical, and Effective Friendship Thoroughly Vindicated by Incontestable Facts in His Record from 1862 to 1872. Washington, D.C.: Published by the Union Republican Congressional Committee, 1872

 Item — Box 5: Series 5, Folder: 39
Identifier: 5
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Series 5 is the largest series in the collection. It contains printed matter by and about national government, politics, and politicians. Many works were produced as partisan campaign literature during the tumultuous presidential elections of 1864, 1868, and 1872. Most such items promote the Republican Party’s views and candidates. The series is arranged by publication date, then by author and title. Within the same year, works without authors precede works with authors.

Dates: 1872

March on Frankfort

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: RG 10-10.30
Abstract

On Thursday, March 5, 1964, 170 Berea students and 30 faculty and townspeople joined approximately 10,000 other demonstrators for a March on Frankfort. At the March, demonstrators listened to speeches by Frank Stanley Jr., Martin Luther King, Jr., Jackie Robinson, D.E. King, and Ralph Abernathy. Speakers pleaded for the Governor Breathitt and state legislature to consider seriously the House-sponsored Public Accomodations Bill.

Dates: 1964