Guide to the Civil rights photograph album Mss 334

Finding aid prepared by Special Research Collections staff, 2017.
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara 93106-9010
special@library.ucsb.edu
2017 March 14


Title: Civil rights photograph album
Identifier/Call Number: Mss 334
Language of Material: English.
Contributing Institution: UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Physical Description: 1.17 Linear Feet (1 clam shell box)
Date: approximately 1960
Physical Location: Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library

Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Research Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Research Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Research Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.

Preferred Citation note

[Identification of Item], Civil rights photograph album, Mss 334. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Acquisition Information

Gift of Sara Miller McCune. 2017.

Scope and Content

Civil rights photograph album containing 83 prints documenting the struggle for equal rights, New York, approximately 1960. Images include Malcolm X, Jesse Jackson, and Roy Wilkins, New York Congresswoman Liz Holtzman, Thurgood Marshall, and Kenneth B. Clark, as well as voter registration campaigns by the Jamaica, Queens branch of the NAACP, community rallies, and New York City street protests following the 1960 Woolworth counter sit-in in North Carolina.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

African Americans -- Civil rights -- New York (State) -- History -- Pictorial works
Civil rights -- New York (State) -- 20th century -- Pictorial works
Civil rights movements -- New York (State) -- History -- 20th century
New York (N.Y.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century

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Civil rights photograph album