African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship. The exhibition The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship, showcases the incomparable African American collections of the Library of Congress. Displaying more than 240 items, including books, government documents, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, plays, films, and recordings, this is the largest black history exhibit ever held at the Library, and the first exhibition of any kind to feature presentations in all three of the Library's buildings. The major presentation in the Jefferson Building, The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship, explores black America's quest for equality from the early national period through the twentieth century.
The items in this exhibit attest to the drama and achievement of this remarkable story. Unseen. Unforgotten. We Shall Overcome -- The Players. Al.com: Photo Galleries. Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement -- Images of a Peoples' Movement. Freedom Now! Minutes after the picture at left is taken, Mississippi State Troopers, attack the Meredith March.
Wearing gas-masks, they charge through the blinding, choking tear gas, clubbing to the ground everyone they can reach... ...many were injured, but the march continued. American Experience.Eyes on the Prize.Transcript. Transcript Awakenings (1954-1956) UNITA BLACKWELL: I guess our courage came out because we didn't have nothing, and we couldn't lose nothing. But we wanted something for ourselves and for our children. And so we took a chance with our lives. ERNEST GREEN: We marched up the steps with this circle of soldiers with bayonets drawn. WHITE YOUNG MAN: My freedom is very much entangled with the freedom of every other man. REPORTER: Are you scared? WHITE YOUNG MAN: Yes. [singing] NARRATOR: In a ten year period in the 1950s and 1960s, America fought a second revolution.
INTERVIEWER: I take it then that you are advocating negroes in New York to stay out of these national chain stores? ADAM CLAYTON POWELL, JR: Oh, no. WHITE WOMAN: I have thought for a long time that negroes should be allowed to sit at the counters where we are served downtown. SENATOR EASTLAND: All the people of the South are in favor of segregation. C.T. OFF CAMERA VOICE: Why don't you get out from in front of the camera and go on? J. American Experience.Eyes on the Prize.The Story of the Movement. An African American teen from Chicago is visiting relatives in Mississippi when he makes a fatal mistake. By whistling at a white woman in a grocery store, Emmett Till breaks the unwritten laws of the Jim Crow South. Three days later, two white men drag him from his bed and brutally murder him.
In Chicago, Till's mother makes the fateful decision to let the world see what has happened to her son, and has an open-casket funeral. Thousands witness the brutality the boy suffered, and photos are published and disseminated nationwide in Jet magazine. Context Other Events: 1955 Dwight D. Baseball's Brooklyn Dodgers, whose second baseman Jackie Robinson became the first African American major league player in 1947, win their only World Series title. Notable books include The Strange Career of Jim Crow, by C. General Motors becomes the first American company to make more than $1 billion. Television's quiz show era begins with "The $64,000 Question. " Dr. Press Rev. What the People Say Dear Editor... American Experience . The Murder of Emmett Till . Special Features. The Shocking Story of Approved Killing in MississippiBy William Bradford Huie Editors Note: In the long history of man's inhumanity to man, racial conflict has produced some of the most horrible examples of brutality.
The recent slaying of Emmett Till in Mississippi is a case in point. The editors of Look are convinced that they are presenting here, for the first time, the real story of that killing -- the story no jury heard and no newspaper reader saw. Disclosed here is the true account of the slaying in Mississippi of a Negro youth named Emmett Till. Last September in Sumner, Miss., a petit jury found the youth's admitted abductors not guilty of murder. In November, in Greenwood, a grand jury declined to indict them for kidnapping.
Of the murder trial, the Memphis Commercial Appeal said: "Evidence necessary for convicting on a murder charge was lacking. " Carolyn Holloway Bryant is 21, five feet tall, weighs 103 pounds. Carolyn and Roy Bryant are poor: no car, no TV. The J. J.