Google Collection- Black History and Culture. Black History at HarpWeek.com. March 7. First March from Selma When You Pray, Move Your Feet. -- African Proverb.
"When You Pray, Move Your Feet," Charles White(?) , photographer, Selma, Alabama, March 7, 1965. photo courtesy of Representative John Lewis John Lewis (on right in trench coat) and Hosea Williams (on the left) lead marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. On Sunday March 7, 1965, about six hundred people began a fifty-four mile march from Selma, Alabama to the state capitol in Montgomery. One hundred years after the Civil War, in many parts of the nation, the 15th Amendment had been nullified by discriminatory laws, ordinances, intimidation, violence, and fear which kept a majority of African Americans from the polls.
…I need only appeal to the memory of members who have served in this House for years and who have witnessed the contests that time and time again have come up from the black belt of Alabama—since 1880 there has not been an honest election in the county of Dallas… Hon. Rev. Daniel Webster. December 1. Rosa Parks Arrested I did not get on the bus to get arrested; I got on the bus to go home.
From Rosa Parks with Gregory J. Reed, Quiet Strength (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Pub. House, 1994), 23. Woman Fingerprinted. Rosa Parks: "Why do you push us around? " "With an Even Hand": Brown v. Board at Fifty (Library of Congress Exhibition) Voices of Civil Rights (A Library of Congress Exhibition) Reason Gallery A: American Treasures of the Library of Congress. Reason Introduction The Lewis and Clark Expedition In June 1803, President Thomas Jefferson wrote to Meriwether Lewis (1774–1809), his private secretary and a U.S. army captain, instructing the expedition to explore the Missouri basin by crossing over the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean.
Among the Library’s significant collection of manuscripts and published maps documenting the expedition of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark (1770–1838) to the Pacific Northwest between 1800 and 1803 are published maps issued with the final reports of the expedition, interim composite maps showing the progress of the expedition, and maps used or consulted in planning the expedition. The example shown here is a composite map drawn in 1803 by Nicholas King, a War Department copyist, from published and manuscript sources, at the request of Thomas Jefferson and Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin.
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. The African-American Mosaic Exhibition. February 9–August 29, 1994 This exhibit marks the publication of The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture.
A noteworthy and singular publication, the Mosaic is the first Library-wide resource guide to the institution's African-American collections. Covering the nearly 500 years of the black experience in the Western hemisphere, the Mosaic surveys the full range size, and variety of the Library's collections, including books, periodicals, prints, photographs, music, film, and recorded sound. Civil Rights Resource Guide (Virtual Programs & Services, Library of Congress) Lesson Plans - Civil Rights - Themed Resources - For Teachers. From Slavery to Civil Rights - For Teachers. Search Results: "Civil rights." - Prints & Photographs Online Catalog. Civil Rights - Themed Resources - For Teachers.