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  3. IMAGO International History, USA, Black History Month, Labor movements and Icons

IMAGO International History, USA, Black History Month, Labor movements and Icons

Jan 30, 2025

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  • 1963 March on Washington. In the early morning, Marchers boarding buses for Washington, D.C. outside Broadway Congregational Church, New York City. Aug. 28, 1963. Courtesy Everett Collection PUBLICATIONXNOTxINxCANxCHNxFRAxITAxJPNxNORxPOLxRUSxESPxUKxUSA Copyright: xCourtesyxEverettxCollectionx HISL033 EC484

    1963 March on Washington. In the early morning, Marchers boarding buses for Washington, D.C. outside Broadway Congregational Church, New York City. Aug. 28, 1963. Courtesy Everett Collection PUBLICATIONXNOTxINxCANxCHNxFRAxITAxJPNxNORxPOLxRUSxESPxUKxUSA Copyright: xCourtesyxEverettxCollectionx HISL033 EC484

  • Bayard Rustin (1912-1987), speaking in New York City in 1965. At different times in his life he was a Quaker, Pacifist, Communist, Socialist, Gay rights activist, but is best known for his role as the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington. Courtesy Everett Collection PUBLICATIONXNOTxINxCANxCHNxFRAxITAxJPNxNORxPOLxRUSxESPxUKxUSA Copyright: xCourtesyxEverettxCollectionx HISL033 EC477

    Bayard Rustin (1912-1987), speaking in New York City in 1965. At different times in his life he was a Quaker, Pacifist, Communist, Socialist, Gay rights activist, but is best known for his role as the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington. Courtesy Everett Collection PUBLICATIONXNOTxINxCANxCHNxFRAxITAxJPNxNORxPOLxRUSxESPxUKxUSA Copyright: xCourtesyxEverettxCollectionx HISL033 EC477

  • A. Philip Randolph making speech at rally supporting Harlem Congressman Adam Clayton Powell. Aug. 1958. Courtesy Everett Collection PUBLICATIONXNOTxINxCANxCHNxFRAxITAxJPNxNORxPOLxRUSxESPxUKxUSA Copyright: xCourtesyxEverettxCollectionx HISL033 EC473

    A. Philip Randolph making speech at rally supporting Harlem Congressman Adam Clayton Powell. Aug. 1958. Courtesy Everett Collection PUBLICATIONXNOTxINxCANxCHNxFRAxITAxJPNxNORxPOLxRUSxESPxUKxUSA Copyright: xCourtesyxEverettxCollectionx HISL033 EC473

  • Communist accusation. Billboard of a 1950 s photo of Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks among others in a class at the Highlander Folk School, Monteagle, Tenn. In the 1950.s the school trained civil rights activists in non-violent protest. 1965 Courtesy Everett Collection PUBLICATIONXNOTxINxCANxCHNxFRAxITAxJPNxNORxPOLxRUSxESPxUKxUSA Copyright: xCourtesyxEverettxCollectionx HISL033 EC455

    Communist accusation. Billboard of a 1950 s photo of Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks among others in a class at the Highlander Folk School, Monteagle, Tenn. In the 1950.s the school trained civil rights activists in non-violent protest. 1965 Courtesy Everett Collection PUBLICATIONXNOTxINxCANxCHNxFRAxITAxJPNxNORxPOLxRUSxESPxUKxUSA Copyright: xCourtesyxEverettxCollectionx HISL033 EC455

  • Lyndon Johnson meeting with civil rights leaders at the White House. In the foreground are LBJ and Martin Luther King, Jr. In the background are Andy Biemiller, Dorothy Height, and A. Philip Randolph. March 18, 1966. Courtesy Everett Collection PUBLICATIONXNOTxINxCANxCHNxFRAxITAxJPNxNORxPOLxRUSxESPxUKxUSA Copyright: xCourtesyxEverettxCollectionx HISL033 EC427

    Lyndon Johnson meeting with civil rights leaders at the White House. In the foreground are LBJ and Martin Luther King, Jr. In the background are Andy Biemiller, Dorothy Height, and A. Philip Randolph. March 18, 1966. Courtesy Everett Collection PUBLICATIONXNOTxINxCANxCHNxFRAxITAxJPNxNORxPOLxRUSxESPxUKxUSA Copyright: xCourtesyxEverettxCollectionx HISL033 EC427

  • IMAGO History, U.S. Bürgerrechtsbewegung: 1954-1968 Rosa Parks was a member of the NAACP when she defied segregation laws by refusing to surrender her Montgomery Alabama bus seat to a White person in 1955. 1964 portrait. Courtesy Everett Collection PUBLICATIONXNOTxINxCANxCHNxFRAxITAxJPNxNORxPOLxRUSxESPxUKxUSA Copyright: xCourtesyxEverettxCollectionx HISL009 EC051

    IMAGO History, U.S. Bürgerrechtsbewegung: 1954-1968 Rosa Parks was a member of the NAACP when she defied segregation laws by refusing to surrender her Montgomery Alabama bus seat to a White person in 1955. 1964 portrait. Courtesy Everett Collection PUBLICATIONXNOTxINxCANxCHNxFRAxITAxJPNxNORxPOLxRUSxESPxUKxUSA Copyright: xCourtesyxEverettxCollectionx HISL009 EC051

  • Thurgood Marshall, the Chief Counsel for the NAACP with Rosa Parks in 1956. Parks joined the Montgomery, Alabama chapter of the NAACP in 1943 and was the chapter s secretary in 1956. Courtesy Everett Collection PUBLICATIONXNOTxINxCANxCHNxFRAxITAxJPNxNORxPOLxRUSxESPxUKxUSA Copyright: xCourtesyxEverettxCollectionx HISL006 EC250

    Thurgood Marshall, the Chief Counsel for the NAACP with Rosa Parks in 1956. Parks joined the Montgomery, Alabama chapter of the NAACP in 1943 and was the chapter s secretary in 1956. Courtesy Everett Collection PUBLICATIONXNOTxINxCANxCHNxFRAxITAxJPNxNORxPOLxRUSxESPxUKxUSA Copyright: xCourtesyxEverettxCollectionx HISL006 EC250

  • CORE members swing down Fort Hamilton Parkway, Brooklyn, to join the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Washington. Courtesy Everett Collection PUBLICATIONXNOTxINxCANxCHNxFRAxITAxJPNxNORxPOLxRUSxESPxUKxUSA Copyright: xCourtesyxEverettxCollectionx HISL006 EC221

    CORE members swing down Fort Hamilton Parkway, Brooklyn, to join the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Washington. Courtesy Everett Collection PUBLICATIONXNOTxINxCANxCHNxFRAxITAxJPNxNORxPOLxRUSxESPxUKxUSA Copyright: xCourtesyxEverettxCollectionx HISL006 EC221

  • Civil rights march on Washington, 1963 Civil rights march on Washington, DC, USA. Procession of African Americans carrying placards demanding equal rights, integrated schools, decent housing, and an end to bias. 28 August 1963. Photographer: Warren K Leffler. Copyright: xPhoto12 AnnxRonanxPicturexLibraryx ARP15A01149

    Civil rights march on Washington, 1963 Civil rights march on Washington, DC, USA. Procession of African Americans carrying placards demanding equal rights, integrated schools, decent housing, and an end to bias. 28 August 1963. Photographer: Warren K Leffler. Copyright: xPhoto12 AnnxRonanxPicturexLibraryx ARP15A01149

  • FREEDOM RIGHTS MARCH IN WASHINGTON - AERIAL VIEW ; 28 AUGUST 1963, Copyright: Topfoto UnitedArchivesIPU462550

    FREEDOM RIGHTS MARCH IN WASHINGTON - AERIAL VIEW ; 28 AUGUST 1963, Copyright: Topfoto UnitedArchivesIPU462550

  • Bayard Rustin (right), deputy director and chief organiser of the civil rights march on Washington, speaks to march marshals at New York headquarters. 14 August 1963, New York City New York United States Copyright: Topfoto !ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! UnitedArchives1347966

    Bayard Rustin (right), deputy director and chief organiser of the civil rights march on Washington, speaks to march marshals at New York headquarters. 14 August 1963, New York City New York United States Copyright: Topfoto !ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! UnitedArchives1347966

  • Negro integration leaders plots route of projected March on Washington, one match in a headquarters building. Left to right: A Philip Randolph, president of the brotherhood of sleeping car porters; Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the National Association for the advancement of colored people (NAACP); and Anna Arnold Hedgeman. 3 August 1963, New York City New York United States Copyright: Topfoto !ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! UnitedArchives1345987

    Negro integration leaders plots route of projected March on Washington, one match in a headquarters building. Left to right: A Philip Randolph, president of the brotherhood of sleeping car porters; Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the National Association for the advancement of colored people (NAACP); and Anna Arnold Hedgeman. 3 August 1963, New York City New York United States Copyright: Topfoto !ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! UnitedArchives1345987

  • September 10, 1993 - Michigan, U.S. - Maya Angelon with federal judge Damon Keith, Detroit poet laureate Dudley Randall and Rosa Parks Michigan U.S. - ZUMAf31_ 19930910_zaf_f31_001

    September 10, 1993 - Michigan, U.S. - Maya Angelon with federal judge Damon Keith, Detroit poet laureate Dudley Randall and Rosa Parks Michigan U.S. - ZUMAf31_ 19930910_zaf_f31_001

  • Photograph of Bayard Rustin (1912-1987) an American leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, pacifism and non-violence, and gay rights. Dated 1964 WHA !ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright: WHA UnitedArchivesWHA_045_0308

    Photograph of Bayard Rustin (1912-1987) an American leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, pacifism and non-violence, and gay rights. Dated 1964 WHA !ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright: WHA UnitedArchivesWHA_045_0308

  • IMAGO History, U.S. Bürgerrechtsbewegung: 1954-1968 Rosa Parks is fingerprinted by police Lt. D.H. Lackey in Montgomery 1956. WHA !ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright: WHA UnitedArchivesWHA_5154_TR

    IMAGO History, U.S. Bürgerrechtsbewegung: 1954-1968 Rosa Parks is fingerprinted by police Lt. D.H. Lackey in Montgomery 1956. WHA !ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright: WHA UnitedArchivesWHA_5154_TR

  • IMAGO History, U.S. Bürgerrechtsbewegung: 1954-1968 Rosa Parks sitting on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, 1956. WHA !ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright: WHA UnitedArchivesWHA_5153_TR

    IMAGO History, U.S. Bürgerrechtsbewegung: 1954-1968 Rosa Parks sitting on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, 1956. WHA !ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright: WHA UnitedArchivesWHA_5153_TR

  • Rosa Parks Mug Shot 1955. Arrested for refusing to relinquish her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. WHA !ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright: WHA UnitedArchivesWHA_5152_TR

    Rosa Parks Mug Shot 1955. Arrested for refusing to relinquish her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. WHA !ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright: WHA UnitedArchivesWHA_5152_TR

  • Asa Philip Randolph, half-length portrait, facing slightly right, behind microphones during a press interview World Telegram & Sun photo by Ed Ford. Date 1964.(1964.) Source Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection. http: hdl.loc.gov loc.pnp cph.3c19496 Author New York World-Telegram and the Sun staff photographer WHA !ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright: WHA UnitedArchives020467

    Asa Philip Randolph, half-length portrait, facing slightly right, behind microphones during a press interview World Telegram & Sun photo by Ed Ford. Date 1964.(1964.) Source Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection. http: hdl.loc.gov loc.pnp cph.3c19496 Author New York World-Telegram and the Sun staff photographer WHA !ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright: WHA UnitedArchives020467

  • Jan. 1, 2011 - 2196.DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR ADDRESSING MEMBERS IN HIS GEORGIA CHURCH.SUPPLIED BY - ZUMAg49_

    Jan. 1, 2011 - 2196.DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR ADDRESSING MEMBERS IN HIS GEORGIA CHURCH.SUPPLIED BY - ZUMAg49_

  • Jan. 1, 2011 - JAMES BALDWIN WITH SAMMY DAVIS JR AND DR MARTIN LUTHER KING. PHOTOS - ZUMAg49_

    Jan. 1, 2011 - JAMES BALDWIN WITH SAMMY DAVIS JR AND DR MARTIN LUTHER KING. PHOTOS - ZUMAg49_

  • Montgomery, Alabama: 1956. Mrs. Rosa Parks, a Negro seamstress, being fingerprinted after her refusal to move to the back of a bus to accomodate a white passenger touched off the bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala. (Photo by Underwood Archives Getty Images) 990_05_7-Hist-CR_23HR

    Montgomery, Alabama: 1956. Mrs. Rosa Parks, a Negro seamstress, being fingerprinted after her refusal to move to the back of a bus to accomodate a white passenger touched off the bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala. (Photo by Underwood Archives Getty Images) 990_05_7-Hist-CR_23HR

  • Sept. 22, 1964 - London, England, U.K. - Reverend MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. (1929-1968) was a prominent leader of the African American Civil Rights Movement. Tragically King was assassinated on April 4, 1968 on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel. PICTURED: MLK, Jr. sitting in a chair speaking in London. London UK - ZUMAk09

    Sept. 22, 1964 - London, England, U.K. - Reverend MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. (1929-1968) was a prominent leader of the African American Civil Rights Movement. Tragically King was assassinated on April 4, 1968 on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel. PICTURED: MLK, Jr. sitting in a chair speaking in London. London UK - ZUMAk09

  • At a meeting here in NAACP Headquarters July 29th are L to R Bayard Rustin, Washington march leader, Jack Grennberg NAACP lawyer, Whitney M Young Jnr, National Urban League executive director, James Farmer National Core Director, Roy Wilkins executive secretary of the NAACP, the Rev Dr Martin Luther King Prseident of hte Southern Christian Leadership Conference, John Lewis Chairman of the Student Non-Violent Co-Ordinating Committee, A Philip Randolph, Head of Negro American Labour Council and Courtney Fox of the student group. Wilkins read a statement signed by himself, King, Young and Randolph asking members of the major civil rights organisations to observe a broad curtailment if not total moratorium on all mass demonstrations until after November 3rd Presidential elections. In addition, the statement was critical of Senator Goldwater, accusing him of having injected racism into the UnitedArchives00499831

    At a meeting here in NAACP Headquarters July 29th are L to R Bayard Rustin, Washington march leader, Jack Grennberg NAACP lawyer, Whitney M Young Jnr, National Urban League executive director, James Farmer National Core Director, Roy Wilkins executive secretary of the NAACP, the Rev Dr Martin Luther King Prseident of hte Southern Christian Leadership Conference, John Lewis Chairman of the Student Non-Violent Co-Ordinating Committee, A Philip Randolph, Head of Negro American Labour Council and Courtney Fox of the student group. Wilkins read a statement signed by himself, King, Young and Randolph asking members of the major civil rights organisations to observe a broad curtailment if not total moratorium on all mass demonstrations until after November 3rd Presidential elections. In addition, the statement was critical of Senator Goldwater, accusing him of having injected racism into the UnitedArchives00499831

  • 28 August 1963 Civil Rights Leader - A. Philip Randolph - in front of the statue of Abraham Lincoln, the President who freed the slaves. Over 200.000 civil rights demonstrators marched into the heart of Washington DC by the Lincoln Memorial where Martin Luther King addressed the crowd with his historic I Have A Dream speech. Â UnitedArchives00115334

    28 August 1963 Civil Rights Leader - A. Philip Randolph - in front of the statue of Abraham Lincoln, the President who freed the slaves. Over 200.000 civil rights demonstrators marched into the heart of Washington DC by the Lincoln Memorial where Martin Luther King addressed the crowd with his historic I Have A Dream speech. Â UnitedArchives00115334

  • Washington : President Lyndon B. Johnson meets leaders of civil rights oganisations at the White House . From Left : Dr Martin Luther King Jr , President Southern Christian Leadership ; Rep Emmanuel Celler , D . N. Y . , President Johnson ; Roy Wilkins , Director , N AACP , and A . Phillip Randolph , Vice Present A . F . L . C. I . O . 29 April 1966 Mono Negative !AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! UnitedArchives1271970

    Washington : President Lyndon B. Johnson meets leaders of civil rights oganisations at the White House . From Left : Dr Martin Luther King Jr , President Southern Christian Leadership ; Rep Emmanuel Celler , D . N. Y . , President Johnson ; Roy Wilkins , Director , N AACP , and A . Phillip Randolph , Vice Present A . F . L . C. I . O . 29 April 1966 Mono Negative !AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! UnitedArchives1271970

  • Ikonische Bilder der Zeitgeschichte ... dann war mein Leben nicht umsonst - Martin Luther King (1970 71) Martin Luther King - Attentat ohne Mörder: Am 4. April 1968 tötet eine Kugel den Bürgerrechtler und Friedensnobelpreisträger Martin Luther King (FOTO!). Eine Kugel, deren Herkunft bis heute Rätsel aufgibt. Und das, obwohl der vermeintliche - und mittlerweile gestorbene - Täter James Earl Ray gefaßt war und jahrzehntelang in Haft saß. 18KPAARDEXW UnitedArchives02767

    Ikonische Bilder der Zeitgeschichte ... dann war mein Leben nicht umsonst - Martin Luther King (1970 71) Martin Luther King - Attentat ohne Mörder: Am 4. April 1968 tötet eine Kugel den Bürgerrechtler und Friedensnobelpreisträger Martin Luther King (FOTO!). Eine Kugel, deren Herkunft bis heute Rätsel aufgibt. Und das, obwohl der vermeintliche - und mittlerweile gestorbene - Täter James Earl Ray gefaßt war und jahrzehntelang in Haft saß. 18KPAARDEXW UnitedArchives02767

  • May 07, 1968; Miami, FL, USA; RALPH DAVID ABERNATHY was born in Lindon, Alabama, on 21st March, 1926. The son of a farmer, Abernathy was ordained as a Baptist minister in 1948. In 1957 Abernathy, Martin Luther King and Bayard Rustin, formed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). King was president and Abernathy became the secretary-treasurer. The new organisation was committed to using nonviolence in the struggle for civil rights. Abernathy worked closely with Martin Luther King until his assassination in 1968. Miami USA - ZUMAk09

    May 07, 1968; Miami, FL, USA; RALPH DAVID ABERNATHY was born in Lindon, Alabama, on 21st March, 1926. The son of a farmer, Abernathy was ordained as a Baptist minister in 1948. In 1957 Abernathy, Martin Luther King and Bayard Rustin, formed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). King was president and Abernathy became the secretary-treasurer. The new organisation was committed to using nonviolence in the struggle for civil rights. Abernathy worked closely with Martin Luther King until his assassination in 1968. Miami USA - ZUMAk09

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