Walter White, activist and Secretary of NAACP, at a table with microphone for NBC, February 24, 1934.
African-American writer, editor and political activist Professor W E B Du Bois at the headquarters of the NAACP publication 'Crisis' as his...
Flag hanging outside the headquarters of the NAACP at 69 Fifth Avenue, New York City, bearing the words 'A Man was Lynched Yesterday'.
View inside an office of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People where a man points to a sign reading, 'Are You ON GUARD;...
Washington, D.C.: Attorneys for the NAACP are shown. Left to right: William T. Coleman Jr., New York; Wiley A. Branton, Pine Bluffs, Arkansas; and...
New York: Faces Countersuit. Autherine Lucy , 26-year-old Negro who was for a brief time the only member of her race ever to attend the University of...
Jackson, Mississippi: To Return To Ole Miss James H Meredith reads prepared statement at news conference January 30, saying he has decided to return...
Attorneys Spottswood Robinson III and Oliver W. Hill, Jr. Arrive at Federal Court. They are pleading for an order to allow 30 African American...
Washington, DC: Attorneys for the NAACP are shown. Left to right: William T Coleman Jr, New York; Thurgood Marshall, Chief Counsel; and Wiley A...
View, from behind, of a group of students, most in NAACP jackets, as they stand outside of a Trailways bus during the March on Washington for Jobs...
Members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People protesting against the disappearance of three civil rights activists from...
Bishop Smallwood Williams delivers a prayer during a civil rights movement demonstration in front of the White House, Washington DC, US, 18th June...
Washington, D.C.- Leaders of the March on Washington lock arms and put hands together as they move along Constitution Avenue here Aug. 28. A. Philip...
John Davis and Thurgood Marshall argued for and against school segregation before the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education. Marshall's...
DuBois , American educator, editor and writer who helped create the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Undated Photograph.
Washington, D.C.: Thurgood Marshall, NAACP Chief Council, is shown in front of the Supreme Court, making a last-ditch appeal that would permit Black...
Officials of the NAACP arrive in Federal Court here, November 4th, to contest an ordinance passed by the city council and drafted by the Arkansas...
Seven of the nine negro students now attending classes at central high school under protection of federal troops are shown as they met for a short...
Walter White, activist and Secretary of NAACP, speaks at Fair Employment Practices Commission hearing before Senate subcommittee on Labor,...
Women hands a flyer to a man looking to join the NAACP . The NAACP was founded in 1909 on Abraham Lincoln's birthday after a riot had broken out the...
Assistant Director John A Morsell , Executive Director Roy Wilkins and Mildred Barnes at the NAACP Headquarters, New York August 1963.
African-American teenagers, carrying American flags, protest the assassination of NAACP leader Medgar Evers in Jackson, Mississippi, US, 13th June...
Actress/director Regina King gets ready for the 52nd NAACP Image Awards on March 27, 2021 in Los Angeles, California.
Schoolchildren and members of the NAACP parade in Washington DC, 17th May 1979, the 25th anniversary of the US Supreme Court's ruling, which ended...
Some of the more than 100,000 people demonstrating in protest at racial discrimination, jam Woodward Avenue, from curb to curb in a huge, but orderly...
Aerial shot of some of the more than 100,000 people demonstrating in protest of racial discrimination, jam Woodward Avenue, from curb to curb in a...
Senator Edward P. Costigan , co-author of the Anti-Lynching Bill, and Walter White, Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of...
Washington: Thurgood Marshall, Chief Counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and his wife, leave the Supreme...
The St. Louis Board of Education was picketed by the NAACP after the Board issued a modified enrollment plan which the NAACP did not go far enough in...
Washington, DC- Thurgood Marshall, counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, relaxes in the lawyers' lounge today...
American General Colin Powell is presented with the NAACP 1991 Spingarn Award, the organizations highest award of honor, at the NAACP annual national...
Chief Counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Charles Hamilton Houston was nominated by the United Government...
Little Rock, AR: Lawyers Thurgood Marshall of New York , chief attorney for the NAACP, and George E. Howell of Pine Bluff, Arkansas arrive at the...
Washington, D.C.: Mrs. Medgar Evers, widow of the slain integrationist leader, is shown addressing a National Association for the Advancement of...
Officials of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People from 17 states meet in Atlanta, May 22nd to plan a course of action in...
Thurgood Marshall, attorney for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, reads "Political and Civil rights in the United...
Mrs. L.C. Bates, leader of the NAACP in Little Rock, looks at a special election sign tacked up near a polling place here, September 27th.
Attorneys Spottswood Robinson and Oliver W. Hill, Jr. Arrive at Federal Court. They are pleading for an order to allow 30 African American children...
Gus Courts of Belzoni, Miss., a member for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, lies in critical condition in a hospital...
Negro attorneys Harold R. Boulware , Columbia, S.C., and Spotswood Robinson III , who are arguing against segregation before the Supreme Court,...
Little Rock, AR- Mrs. L.C. Bates, Arkansas president of the NAACP, talks with a group on Negro students. The students organized to protest assignment...
Washington: Thurgood Marshall, Chief Counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and his wife, leave the Supreme...
Former Maryland Democratic Congressman Parren Mitchell speaking to the crowd during the 77th annual convention of the National Association for the...
An artist's depiction of a lynched African American man, shown at a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People exhibit, April 13,...
Mamie Bradley, mother of lynched teenager Emmett Till, receives her baggage at the Philadelphia International Airport before speaking at the NAACP,...
American writer and sociologist W E B DuBois , a founder member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People , he eventually...
The Great March organized by A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin united civil rights, religious, and labor organizations to peaceably advocate for...
American actor Rodney Grier and his sister, American actress and singer Pam Grier attend the 7th NAACP Image Awards, held at the Hollywood Palladium...
American NAACP Secretary James Allen, Amos Bowman of the judicial committee, and a man, in conversation in the NAACP offices in in the Harlem...
View of members of the Mt Vernon, New York chapter of the NAACP , as they, among others, pass the Munitions Building during the March on Washington...
American actress Halle Berry, wearing a black dress with sheer detail, attends the 30th Annual NAACP Image Awards, held at the Pasadena Civic...
Picketers demanding an end to lunch counter segregation made their first appearance outside a Woolworth store in Lynchburg, VA. Reverend Virgil Wood,...
Logo is seen for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People as NAACP President and CEO Cornell William Brooks speaks during a...
Protestors outside the Stork Club in New York City, where renowed dancer Josephine Baker was refused service on grounds of her colour, 24th October...
Aerial view of some of the more than 100,000 people demonstrating in protest of racial discrimination, jam Woodward Avenue, from curb to curb in a...
Vice President George H. W. Bush spaeking to a conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Baltimore, Maryland,...
Washington, DC: Attorneys who argued the case against segregation stand together smiling in front of the U.S. Supreme Court Building after the High...
Washington, D.C.: Ike poses in the White House with Negro leaders, following their conference on problems of school integration and other matters....
Washington, DC- NAACP Overground Railroad marchers for voter registration, led by Edward Hailes , President of the DC branch of the NAACP, and Joseph...
Ocala, FL: Walter Lee Irvin speaks with his attorneys during his trial for rape. Thurgood Marshall, Washington,DC, Chief Counsel for the NAACP;...
Ocala, FL: Seated in the crowded courtroom during the second trial of Walter Lee Irvin are, Left to Right: Paul C. Perkins; Jack Greenberg, New York...
New York, NY: A mass picketing demonstration is in full sway before Mt. Sinai Hospital at 100th St. And Fifth Ave., as members of the Abyssinian...
In Jackson, 1500 people attended a NAACP nighttime rally here on August 13 among them some 170 'Freedom Riders' in town to appeal previous...
Photo shows Mr. And Mrs. L.C. Bates in their home. Mrs. Bates is the President of Arkansas Chapter of NAACP.
Mrs. L.C. Bates, President of the Arkansas Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and her husband see Governor...
Attorneys who argued the case against segregation stand together smiling in front of the U. S. Supreme Court Building, after the High Tribunal ruled...
Demonstrators preparing to picket selected businesses in Atlanta leave the Atlanta Municipal Auditorium where the NAACP is holding its annual...
Marchers holding signs gather at school athletic field in Tallahassee, Florida before a Civil Rights march.
Lawyer Thurgood Marshall and civil rights activist Daisy Bates join several members of the "Little Rock Nine", the first students to integrate...
