This is the bookstamp of Aron Kagan (Aharon HaKohen), a Lithuanian rabbi. He was born in 1865 to Rabbi Yosef HaKohen and his wife Henya. His grandfather, Rabbi Abraham HaKohen, served as head of the rabbinical court in Goniądz.
A voter marks the ballot of the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO)’s Freedom Vote, a mock election, held to protest mass disenfranchisement of black citizens in Mississippi.
Giovanni Griffio the Elder was likely born in Lyon in 1518 and was a descendant of the Gryphe publishing family, one of the best known dynasties of printers and publishers in Europe in the 16th century. The Gryphe publishing house was originally…
Medgar Evers, NAACP field secretary, and Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the NAACP, are arrested for protesting beatings and arrests of civil rights demonstrators in Jackson, Mississippi. The two men are surrounded by white police officers. A…
Crowds of people standing and sitting at tables during voter registration in Canton, Mississippi.
Source: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division (16543 U9-14512 #26 MB)
Four photographs from "Eyes on the Prize" pasted to foam board:
1) Volunteers talking to a Mississippi resident on a porch during freedom summer, 2) Freedom school sign in Indianola, Mississippi. Joined black and white hands and the words,…
Interview with Robert Moses, conducted by Blackside, Inc. on May 19, 1986, for Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years (1954-1965). Washington University Libraries, Film and Media Archive, Henry Hampton Collection.
Interview with Unita Blackwell, conducted by Blackside, Inc. on May 7, 1986, for Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years (1954-1965). Washington University Libraries, Film and Media Archive, Henry Hampton Collection.