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1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
Description
An account of the resource
Roughly 250,000 people joined <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/273">The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom</a>, one of the largest civil rights demonstrations in US history. Marching for social and economic equality, the crowd stretched from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial. <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/90">Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr</a>. delivered his <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/35">"I Have A Dream Speech"</a> on its steps. The march influenced Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act (1964) and the Voting Rights Act (1965).
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National Archives at College Park. <a href="http://research.archives.gov/description/542045">View original</a>.
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08/28/1963
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1950-1979
civil rights
politics & protest
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The white bathing beach in the tidal basin will be dismantled as soon as his force can get around to the work, Lieut. Col. C. O. Sherrill, director of public buildings and public parks of the National Capital, said yesterday. He is required by Congress to dismantle it by July 1, 1926, and the work will require by 30 days, he said. Col. Sherrill said yesterday that he had not yet received a letter sent him by Neval H. Thomas, head of the local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of the Colored People, in which it is demanded that Col. Sherrill begin immediately to dismantle the white bathing beach. "I withheld the work of dismantling the white bathing beach when the talk of reopening it arose," Col. Sherrill said. "But now that it is settled that it will not be reopened I will tear it down. However, there is no hurry as it will require but 30 days and by congressional action must be accomplished only by July 1, 1926." In his letter Thomas told Col. Sherrill that his organization would demand a congressional investigation of the dismantling of the colored beach on the west side of the tidal basin. "As the colored people expected all through the long controversy over the local bathing beach," he writes, "(since a segregated beach has been forced upon them) you have found a novel way of defeating the plain word and unmistakable intent of Congress ordering both beaches dismantled."
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White Bathing Beach Will Be Dismantled
Description
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In February 1925, the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/174">Senate voted to defund</a> and demolish the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/164">white and black bathing beaches at the Tidal Basin</a>. Black residents were critical of the unequal funding and facilities at their beach when compared with the white one. In addition, physicians were concerned that the water in the basin was increasingly polluted and not safe for swimming.
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<em>The Washington Post</em>
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06/23/1925
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1920-1949
civil rights
environment
neighborhood
work & play
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18350812
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Snow Riot
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Washington's first race riot spilled to the edges of the National Mall in 1835. On August 12, angered at rumors of a slave attack on a white woman, a mob of angry white men descended on the Epicurean Eating House owned by Mr. Beverly Snow at Sixth and Pennsylvania Avenues. A successful African American entrepreneur, Snow fled his restaurant while the mobs continued to attack the property of free blacks across the city. The upheaval became known as the Snow Riot. Afterwards, Black Codes, restrictive legislation limiting the rights of free blacks in the city, became increasingly harsh.
Source
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<em>National Intelligencer </em>(Washington, DC), August 27, 1835.
Date
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8/12/1835
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The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
1830-1859
civil rights
politics & protest
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Marches and Rallies
Remembrance
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19871011
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AIDS Quilt displayed on the National Mall
Description
An account of the resource
The first display of the Project NAMES Aids Memorial Quilt was on the National Mall on October 11, 1987, during the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights. Composed of nearly 2,000 panels, the Quilt was larger than a football field. <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/153">Cleve Jones</a>, a gay rights activist from San Francisco, conceived the Quilt in 1985 during a candlelight march in memory of Harvey Milk and George Moscone. Panels were, and still are, created by family and friends of those who have died of AIDS. In the first weekend over half a million people visited the Quilt while volunteers stood at a microphone and read the names of people remembered on the panels. This has become a tradition followed at nearly every display of the Quilt.
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10/11/1987
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1980-1999
Source
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Smithsonian Institution. <a href="http://newsdesk.si.edu/photos/aids-memorial-quilt-names-project-foundation-displayed-national-mall-1987">View original</a>.
civil rights
museums
politics & protest
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Appropriations amounting to $1,793,847 for the District are proposed in the second deficiency bill, which was passed yesterday by the House…. The bill also carried an appropriation of $50,000 for a bathing beach for negroes. An appropriation of $25,000 has been available for two years, but officials said it was insufficient for the beach colored people wanted. It is planned to establish the beach in Tidal basin opposite the beach for white bathers.
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$1,795,847 District Deficiency Measure is Now Up To Senate
Description
An account of the resource
One of the line items in the proposed 1924 appropriations for the District of Columbia was $50,000 for a bathing beach at the Tidal Basin for the African American residents of the District. While <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/164">white residents had enjoyed a formal beach since 1918</a>, an equivalent for blacks was never established. In 1925, the Senate not only chose not to approve funding for a "colored beach," but <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/185">cut out all funding for the white beach,</a> solving the question of equal facilities for white and black by <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/185http://mallhistory.org/items/show/195">closing all the beaches</a>.
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<em>The Washington Post</em>
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06/05/1924
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1920-1949
civil rights
everyday life
ghost mall
work & play
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Important spaces on the mall (See the "Places" writeboard in basecamp.)
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photograph
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Text describing the appearance of the place and its situation on the Mall.
The white bathing beach was located on the southeastern side of the Tidal Basin, near the current location of the Jefferson Memorial.
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Ghost Sites
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White Bathing Beach
Description
An account of the resource
White residents of Washington enjoyed swimming in the Tidal Basin as early as the 1880s. In 1918, the district office of buildings and grounds <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/170">added buildings</a> to make the beach more enjoyable, like a cabana and diving platform. Like other recreational areas in DC, the part of the beach with buildings and diving structures was <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/164">white-only</a>. The Tidal Basin beaches <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/195">closed in 1925</a>.
Source
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/npco/item/npc2007006675/">View original</a>.
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1918 (opened)
1925 (closed)
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1920-1949
civil rights
environment
everyday life
ghost mall
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Important spaces on the mall (See the "Places" writeboard in basecamp.)
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Text describing the appearance of the place and its situation on the Mall.
Made of solid granite, the monument depicts the Mountain of Despair out of which the Stone of Hope has been cut. The figure of Dr. King has been carved from the Stone, standing in quiet reflection. The gap left within the Mountain allows the visitor a clear view of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial, connecting King's work to secure freedom for all to the legacy of the founding fathers. Around the memorial there is a wall of quotes, representing Dr. King’s ideals of hope, democracy and love, flanking the Mountain of Despair and encircling the Stone of Hope.
URL
http://www.nps.gov/mlkm/index.htm
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The nature or genre of the resource
Memorials
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Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial
Description
An account of the resource
The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial was dedicated on the 48th anniversary of the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/190">March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom</a>, where King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. King's college fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha originally proposed a memorial to the civil rights leader on the Mall in 1984; a dozen years later in 1996, Congress approved a joint resolution authorizing the project.
Creator
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Master Lei Yixin
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08/28/2011 (Dedicated)
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The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
2000-present
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National Park Service
civil rights
design & monuments
politics & protest
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Meeting of American Society of Newspaper Editors, bust portrait, seated at a table before a microphone
Description
An account of the resource
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsc-01266 (digital file from original negative)
Creator
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Trikosko, Marion S.
Source
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U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection.
Publisher
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Date
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1964 Apr. 15
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No known restrictions on publication.
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LC-U9- 11814-28 [P&P]
People
An individual, biographical data, birth and death, etc.
Birth Date
01/12/1920
Birthplace
Marshall, Texas
Death Date
07/09/1999
Occupation
Activist
Biographical Text
<p>James Leonard Farmer Jr. was born in Marshall, TX in 1920. His father, James Farmer Sr., was a Methodist minster and one of the first African American men in the state to earn a PhD. The family moved to Mississippi and back to Texas during Farmer's childhood as his father took teaching positions at various colleges. Farmer was accepted at the age of 14 to Wiley College in Marshall, TX. In 1938, he graduated and moved on to Howard University in Washington, DC, where he studied religion. His master's thesis examined the interrelatedness of economics, religion, and race.</p>
<p>During his time at Howard, Farmer began to work with the Fellowship of Reconciliation, a pacifist Quaker organization. In 1942, Farmer cofounded the Committee of Racial Equality (CORE), an interracial civil rights organization dedicated to the idea that racial equality is necessary for a just society. Throughout the 1940s and 50s, Farmer was a prominent civil rights leader, fighting to end segregation.</p>
<p>In early 1961, he became the National Director of CORE, now the Congress of Racial Equality. He led the first group of Freedom Riders, an interracial group of activists who rode buses in southern states to desegregate them. Farmer and his fellow activists were repeatedly threatened and attacked, as they worked to confront the racial segregation across the south. Farmer was one of the organizers of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom but could not attend the March because he had been arrested in Louisiana while protesting segregation. His speech was read by a fellow CORE member, Floyd McKissick, who would take over as director of the organization when Farmer resigned in 1966. Farmer's resignation was prompted by increasing conflict over whether civil rights activists should take more confrontational action in their protests.</p>
<p>He spent the 1970s working with the Council on Minority Planning and Strategy and organizations which promoted integrated housing. In 1984, Farmer accepted a position as a professor at the College of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, VA, where he taught until 1998, a year before his death. He published an autobiography, "Lay Bare the Heart," in 1986. In 1998, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his work for racial equality.</p>
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for nav purposes
James
Last Name
for nav purposes
Farmer
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James L. Farmer Jr.
Description
An account of the resource
James Farmer was one of the leaders of the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/190">1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom</a>. As one of the founders of the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE), an interracial civil rights organization, and its National Director in the early 1960s, Farmer was a major figure in organizing civil rights protests. While he participated in the planning for the March on Washington, Farmer was unable to attend the event because he had been arrested at a protest in Louisiana. But, imprisonment did not prevent him from being heard in Washington: his speech was read by fellow CORE member Floyd McKissick. In the speech, Farmer declared that the fight for racial equality would not end "until the dogs stop biting us in the South and the rats stop biting us in the North."
Source
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/cph/item/2003688125/">View original photograph</a>.
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The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
1950-1979
Creator
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James L. Farmer Jr.
civil rights
politics & protest
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Interview: Roy Wilkins, Executive Secretary of the NAACP
Description
An account of the resource
Photograph shows head-and-shoulders portrait of Wilkins.
Creator
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Leffler, Warren K.
Source
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Publisher
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Date
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1963 Apr. 5.
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No known restrictions on publication.
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Call Number: LC-U9- 9522-6 [P&P]
People
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Birth Date
08/30/1901
Birthplace
St. Louis, Missouri
Death Date
08/04/1981
Occupation
Activist
Biographical Text
<p>Roy Wilkins was born in 1901 in St. Louis, Missouri. His parents had moved to the city the year before from Mississippi, fleeing threats of racial violence against his father, a minister. Wilkins's mother died when he was young, and he and his younger sister went to live with their aunt and uncle in St. Paul, Minnesota. He graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1923 with a bachelors degree in sociology.</p>
<p>In 1922, Wilkins had become the editor of a local black newspaper. After graduating, Wilkins moved to the Kansas City area to work as the editor of the <em>Call</em>, a weekly paper that served the African American communities of Kansas City, Missouri, and Kansas City, Kansas. In 1931, Wilkins became the assistant secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, serving with Executive Secretary, Walter White. It was this position which led to his participation in the planning of the 1941 <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/329">march</a> on Washington organized by <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/97">A. Philip Randolph</a>, which was cancelled after President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/328">executive order</a> banning discrimination in the national defense industry.</p>
<p>When Walter White died in 1955, Wilkins was unanimously named Executive Secretary of the NAACP by the Board of Directors. The landmark Supreme Court decision banning school segregation, <em>Brown v. Board of Education</em>, was issued the year before, and during his tenure as Executive Secretary, Wilkins had to grapple with the competing strategies of the growing number of civil rights organizations. In 1963, Wilkins was one of the leaders of the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/190">March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom</a>. At the event, his speech addressed the continuing existence of segregation in schools and called on Congress to take decisive action.</p>
<p>Wilkins retired in 1977 and lived the rest of his life in New York, NY.</p>
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Roy
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for nav purposes
Wilkins
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Roy Wilkins
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An account of the resource
Roy Wilkins was a prominent civil rights activist who held leadership positions within the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People from 1931 until 1977. In 1941, he helped coordinate staff and financial support from the NAACP for <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/97">A. Philip Randolph</a>'s <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/329">proposed march</a> on Washington to protest discrimination and segregation in the government. Although the march did not happen, it did result in an executive order banning discrimination in the national defense industry. In 1963, Wilkins was one of the leaders of the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/190">March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom</a>, and in his speech, he emphasized the need for Congressional action on school desegregation.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/cph/item/2003688134/">View original photograph</a>.
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1920-1949
1950-1979
Creator
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Roy Wilkins
civil rights
politics & protest
-
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Title
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Erecting million-dollar bridge in Washington...
Creator
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Smith, Roger, photographer
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1943
People
An individual, biographical data, birth and death, etc.
Birth Date
05/04/1888
Birthplace
Ottumwa, Iowa
Death Date
01/04/1958
Occupation
Engineer
Biographical Text
<p class="p1">Archie A. Alexander was born in Iowa, part of a very small African American community. He graduated from the College of Engineering at the University of Iowa in 1912, although his professors warned him that it would difficult for an African American engineer to find work.</p>
<p class="p1">Alexander had to begin at an entry-level position with the Marsh Engineering Firm but quickly rose to be the engineer in charge of bridge construction. Two years after he was first hired, Alexander left to found his own engineering firm which specialized in bridges and viaducts.</p>
<p class="p1">In 1929, Alexander took on a junior partner, Maurice A. Repass, who had been a teammate from Alexander's college football days; the firm changed its name to Alexander and Repass. This new partnership undertook projects in almost every state in the union.</p>
<p class="p1">Alexander was an active member of the Republican party, serving on the Iowa State Republican Committee in the 1930s. In 1954 his political activity led to his appointment as Governor of the Virgin Islands, a position he held until his resignation in August 1955.</p>
<p class="p1">Upon his death in 1958, Alexander left a trust to establish engineering scholarships at the University of Iowa, Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, and Howard University, each of which was over 100,000 dollars.</p>
Bibliography
Charles E. Wynes. "Alexander, Archie Alphonso"; <a href="http://www.anb.org/articles/10/10-01909.html">http://www.anb.org/articles/10/10-01909.html</a>; American National Biography Online Feb. 2000.
First Name
for nav purposes
Archie
Last Name
for nav purposes
Alexander
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Archie Alphonso Alexander
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An account of the resource
Archie Alexander was an African American engineer from Iowa and the senior partner in the firm Alexander and Repass. In the 1940s, the firm was hired to build a bridge and seawall at the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/430">Tidal Basin</a>. Alexander spearheaded the project and brought in an integrated construction crew.
Source
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/oem2002007913/PP/">View original photograph</a>.
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The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
1920-1949
Creator
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Archie Alphonso Alexander
building the mall
civil rights
design & monuments