Images of 20th Century African American Activists: A Select List
Listed below are images of individuals
frequently requested by researchers
for which staff have been able to
find acceptable
quality images in the Prints and
Photographs Division collections. Except where
otherwise noted in the "Reproduction
Number" line, images are considered to be in
the public domain. Select the thumbnail image
to retrieve and print or download larger jpeg
and tiff images through the Prints & Photographs
Online Catalog (in cases where the rights status
of the image is
not
known,
only
a "thumbnail" image
will display).
Photographic copies of the images may be ordered through the Library
of Congress Photoduplication Service (202-707-5640). When placing orders,
the reproduction number should be cited.
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![Ralph Abernathy portrait](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090112093431im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/ppmsc/01200/01262t.gif)
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Description: RALPH ABERNATHY,
head-and-shoulders, at National Press Club luncheon. Photograph
by Warren K. Leffler, 1968 June 14.
Location of Original: U.S. News and World
Report Collection: LC-U9-19265
Reproduction Number: LC-U9-19265-frame #9 |
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![Mary McCleod Bethune portrait](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090112093431im_/http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3a40000/3a42000/3a42700/3a42795t.gif) |
Description: MARY MCLEOD
BETHUNE, half-length, wearing white blouse and jacket.
Silver gelatin photographic print by Carl Van Vechten,
1949 April 6.
Location of Original: LOT 12735, no. 130
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-42476 |
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![H. Rap Brown portrait](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090112093431im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/ppmsc/01200/01263t.gif)
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Description:Description: H.
RAP BROWN, SNCC, at news conference, bust-length, seated,
speaking into microphone, wearing denim(?) jacket with
buttons on lapel, small bandage on his forehead, gesturing
with forefinger. Photograph by Marion S. Trikosko, 1967
July 27.
Location of Original: U.S. News and World
Report Collection: LC-U9-17744
Reproduction Number: LC-U9-17744-frame #27A/28 |
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![Nannie Helen Burroughs portrait](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090112093431im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/cph/3b40000/3b46000/3b46000/3b46093t.gif)
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Description: NANNIE HELEN
BURROUGHS, half-length, wearing white blouse, pinafore(?),
and necklaces, hair pinned up. Silver gelatin photographic
print on bromide paper (postcard stock) by Rotograph Co.,
New York City, 1909.
Location of Original: LOT 12572-1
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-79903 |
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Description: SHIRLEY CHISHOLM
announcing candidacy for presidential nomination, bust-length,
wearing dress with collar and necklace. Photograph by Tom
O'Halloran, 1972 Jan. 25.
Location of Original: U.S. News and World
Report Collection: LC-U9-25383
Reproduction Number: LC-U9-25383-frame #33 |
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Description: ELDRIDGE CLEAVER,
bust-length, his left hand on his goatee. Photograph by
Marion S. Trikosko, 1968 Oct. 18.
Location of Original: U.S. News and World
Report Collection: LC-U9-20018
Reproduction Number: LC-U9-20018, frame
#9A |
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![Angela Davis poster](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090112093431im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/yan/1a38000/1a38400/1a38470t.gif)
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Description: "Free ANGELA
DAVIS now!" [Reproduction of photograph of Angela Davis,
head-and-shoulders, head turned to left, legend underneath.]
Poster sponsored by New York Committee to Free Angela Davis,
artist unknown, ca. 1971.
Location of Original: POS 6 - U.S. 733;
also available as digital image when searching Prints and
Photographs Online Catalog onsite.
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-105252 [Rights
status not known.] |
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Description: W.E.B. (WILLIAM
EDWARD BURGHARDT) DUBOIS, bust-length, wearing suit and
bow tie. Silver gelatin photographic print by C.M. Battey,
1918.
Location of Original: Biographical File.
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-16767 |
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![Medgar Evers portrait](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090112093431im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/cph/3c00000/3c09000/3c09400/3c09400t.gif)
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Description: MEDGAR EVERS,
bust-length, wearing jacket and tie. Silver gelatin photographic
print, 1963 June 15(?) [probably date of publication]
Location of Original: New York World Telegram
and Sun Collection, Biog.
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-109400 [Rights
status not known.] |
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![James Farmer portrait](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090112093431im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/ppmsc/01200/01266t.gif) |
Description: JAMES FARMER
at meeting of American Society of Newspaper Editors, bust-length,
seated in front of microphone, wearing jacket and tie.
Photograph by Marion S. Trikosko, 1964 April 15.
Location of Original: U.S. News and World
Report Collection: LC-U9-11814
Reproduction Number: LC-U9-11814-frame #28 |
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Description: MARCUS GARVEY,
full-length, seated at desk. Silver gelatin photographic
print, 1924 Aug. 5, from George Grantham Bain Collection.
Location of Original: Biographical File.
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ61-1854 |
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![Fanny Lou Hamer portrait](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090112093431im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/ppmsc/01200/01267t.gif) |
Description: FANNIE LOU
HAMER at Democratic National Convention, Atlantic City,
N.J, half-length, seated at table. Photograph by Warren
K. Leffler, 1964 Aug. 22.
Location of Original: U.S. News and World
Report Collection: LC-U9-12470-B
Reproduction Number: LC-U9-12470-B-frame
#17 |
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Description: JESSE JACKSON,
half-length, seated at table, wearing jacket and tie, gesturing
with his hands. Photograph by Warren K. Leffler, 1983 July
1.
Location of Original: U.S. News and World
Report Collection: LC-U9-41583
Reproduction Number: LC-U9-41583-frame #29 |
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Description: JAMES WELDON
JOHNSON, half-length, facing forward, wearing jacket and
tie. Silver gelatin photograph by Carl Van Vechten, 1932
Dec. 3.
Location of Original: LOT 12735, no. 590
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-42498 |
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![Barbara Jordan portrait](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090112093431im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/ppmsc/01200/01268t.gif) |
Description: BARBARA JORDAN,
head-and-shoulders, seated. Photograph by Tom O'Halloran,
1976 April 7.
Location of Original: U.S. News and World
Report Collection: LC-U9-32512
Reproduction Number: LC-U9-32512-frame #12 |
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![Martin Luther King portrait](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090112093431im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/ppmsc/01200/01269t.gif) |
Description: MARTIN LUTHER
KING, JR. at a press conference at the Capitol, Washington,
D.C., head-and- shoulders, grasping front of podium. Photograph
by Marion S. Trikosko, 1964 March 26.
Location of Original: U.S. News and World
Report Collection: LC-U9-11696
Reproduction Number: LC-U9-11696-frame #9A |
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![John Lewis portrait](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090112093431im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/ppmsc/01200/01270t.gif) |
Description: JOHN LEWIS
at meeting of American Society of Newspaper Editors, head-and-shoulders,
seated in front of microphone. Photograph by Marion S.
Trikosko, 1964 April 16.
Location of Original: U.S. News and World
Report Collection: LC-U9-11812
Reproduction Number: LC-U9-11812-frame #26 |
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![Malcolm X portrait](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090112093431im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/ppmsc/01200/01274t.gif) |
Description: MALCOLM X,
head and shoulders, seated, leaning with right hand to
head, waiting for press conference. Photograph by Marion
S. Trikosko, 1964 March 26.
Location of Original: U.S. News and World
Report Collection: LC-U9-11695
Reproduction Number: LC-U9-11695-frame #5 |
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![Thurgood Marshall portrait](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090112093431im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/ppmsc/01200/01271t.gif) |
Description: THURGOOD MARSHALL,
half-length, seated, wearing coat and tie. Photograph by
Tom O'Halloran, 1957 Sept. 17.
Location of Original: U.S. News and World
Report Collection: LC-U9-1027-B
Reproduction Number: LC-U9-1027-B-frame
#11 |
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![Rosa Parks portrait](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090112093431im_/http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/cph/3c10000/3c11000/3c11200/3c11235t.gif) |
Description: ROSA PARKS,
seated on bus, looking out window, her face in profile.
Photographed at the end of the Montgomery bus boycott,
21 Dec. 1956. United Press photo.
Location of Original: New York World-Telegram & Sun
Collection, SUBJ/GEOG - Racism
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-111235 [Rights
status not known.] |
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![Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., portrait](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090112093431im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/cph/3a30000/3a39000/3a39100/3a39172t.gif) |
Description: ADAM CLAYTON
POWELL, JR., head-and-shoulders, wearing jacket and tie.
Silver gelatin photograph by James J. Kriegmann, N.Y.,
[ca. 1968]
Location of Original: Biographical File.
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-38826 ["no
restrictions" --photo caption] |
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![A. Philip Randolph portrait](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090112093431im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/fsa/8d10000/8d10600/8d10637t.gif) |
Description: A. PHILIP RANDOLPH,
head-and-shoulders, wearing jacket and tie. Silver gelatin
photograph by Gordon Parks for Office of War Information,
Washington, D.C., 1942 Nov.
Location of Original: Biographical File.
Reproduction Number: LC-USW3-11697 |
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![Bayard Rustin portrait](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090112093431im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/ppmsc/01200/01272t.gif)
[37K JPEG]
retrieve
tiff image [4.3M] |
Description: BAYARD RUSTIN
at news briefing on Civil Rights March on Washington, seated
at table, wearing jacket bearing buttons on lapel and tie,
listening to man at his right. Photograph by Warren K.
Leffler, 1963 Aug. 27.
Location of Original: U.S. News and World
Report Collection: LC-U9-10332
Reproduction no: LC-U9-10332-frame #11 |
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![Bobby Seale poster](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090112093431im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/yan/1a38000/1a38100/1a38174t.gif)
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Description: BOBBY SEALE, "Here
and new for Bobby Seale." Poster showing Bobby Seale's
head and shoulders, with text superimposed above his head
and on his chest. Poster produced between 1965 and 1975
under sponsorship of the Black Panther Party. Artist unknown.
Location of Original: POS 6 - U.S., no.
424 (C size); also available as digital image when searching
Prints and Photographs Online Catalog onsite.
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-107186 (b&w
film copy neg.); LC-USZC4-6285 (color film copy transparency)
[Rights status not known.] |
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![Mary Church Terrell portrait](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090112093431im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/cph/3b40000/3b47000/3b47800/3b47842t.gif) |
Description: MARY CHURCH
TERRELL, full-length, seated, chin resting on hand, wearing
white dress. Copy of photograph owned by Terrell's family,
[190-? (date of original)]
Location of Original: Biographical File.
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-54722 |
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![Ida B. Wells portrait](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090112093431im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/cph/3c00000/3c07000/3c07700/3c07756t.gif) |
Description: IDA B. WELLS,
head-and shoulders portrait, facing slightly right. Illustration
in The Afro-American Press and Its Editors,
by I. Garland Penn, 1891.
Location of Original: Rare Book and Special
Collections Division: PN4888.N4P4
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-107756 |
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![Roy Wilkins portrait](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090112093431im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/ppmsc/01200/01273t.gif) |
Description: ROY WILKINS,
head-and-shoulders, wearing jacket and tie. Photograph
by Warren K. Leffler, 1963 April 4.
Location of Original: U.S. News and World
Report Collection: LC-U9-9522
Reproduction Number: LC-U9-9522-frame #6 |
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![Andrew Young portrait](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090112093431im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/ppmsc/01200/01275t.gif) |
Description: ANDREW YOUNG
speaking to congressional Foreign Relations Subcommittee
on African Affairs, bust-length, seated, wearing jacket
and tie. Photograph by Tom O'Halloran, 1977 June 6.
Location of Original: U.S. News and World
Report Collection: LC-U9-34630A
Reproduction Number: LC-U9-34630A-frame
#13/13A |
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