National Visionary Leadership Project interviews and conference collection

Collection of video recordings of over 300 full-length oral history interviews with noted African American leaders conducted by Camille O. Cosby, Renee Poussaint, and others for the National Visionary Leadership Project from 1997 to 2009, with photographs of the interviewees and transcripts of the interviews.

Finding Aid: hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/eadafc.af013003

Voices of Civil Rights Project Collection, 2002-2006

Collection consists of oral history interviews, sound and video recordings, photographs and manuscript materials documenting memories of the civil rights movement for the Voices of Civil Rights Project, sponsored by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP).

Finding Aid: hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/eadafc.af012003

James Forman Papers, 1848-2005

Author, journalist, and civil rights activist. Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, subject files, speeches and writings, family papers, appointment books and calendars, and other papers relating primarily to Forman's activities as executive secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and president of the Unemployment and Poverty Action Committee.

Finding Aid: hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010125

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Records, 1842-1999

Civil rights organization. Records of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People consisting of correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, itineraries, biographical material, speeches, testimony, writings, annual convention files, legal case files, legislation, publications, resolutions, policy statements, constitutions, bylaws, charters, contracts, proposals, scripts, financial records, publicity files, manuals, handbooks, music, awards, certificates, directories, subject files, daily mail sheets, notes, lists, questionnaires and surveys, certificates, awards, flags, photographs, maps, and printed matter.

Finding Aid: hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008007

Bayard Rustin Papers, 1942-1987

Civil rights activist and author. Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, notes, reports, press releases, financial records, agendas, printed material, and other papers documenting Bayard Rustin's leading role as an activist in the African-American civil rights movement, advocate of international human rights and social reform, and pacifist.

Finding Aid: hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms996004

Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Records, 1922-1991

The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, a national association of civil rights organizations, was founded 1949-1950 by Roy Wilkins (chairman), A. Philip Randolph, and Arnold Aronson. The records include correspondence, memoranda, minutes, notes of meetings, position papers, reports, financial records, congressional testimony, clippings, printed material, and other records documenting efforts by the organization to lobby for and monitor enforcement of civil rights legislation at the national level.

Finding Aid: hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms997011

A. Philip Randolph Papers, 1909-1979

Labor union official and civil rights leader. Correspondence, documents relating to presidential executive orders, memoranda, notes, printed matter, reports, scrapbooks, speeches, and other material reflecting Randolph's role in the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the Fair Employment Practices Committee, marches on Washington for employment and equal rights for African Americans, and the civil rights movement.

Finding Aid: hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms005004

Reflections on memory and history: collecting new oral histories of the civil rights movement for the LOC/Smithsonian NMAAHC / lecture by Joe Mosnier, 2012 April 12.

Video recording of a lecture given by historian Joe Mosnier in the Mary Pickford Theater, James Madison Building, Library of Congress on April 12, 2012. Mosnier, together with videographer John Bishop, journeyed to twenty states to interview fifty individuals who, most as teenagers or young adults, gave themselves over to the civil rights struggle. These interviews are the first installment of a five-year national research initiative, the Civil Rights History Project, supported by an act of Congress and jointly led by the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture and conducted by the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill’s Southern Oral History Program.

Webcast: www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5672

We had sneakers, they had guns: the kids who fought for civil rights in Mississippi / lecture by Tracy Sugarman, 2009 May 5

Video recording of a lecture delivered by Tracy Sugarman in the Mumford Room, James Madison Building LM 649, Library of Congress, on May 5, 2009, as part of the Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. As an illustrator and journalist, Tracy Sugarman covered the nearly one thousand student volunteers who traveled to the Mississippi Delta in 1964 to assist black citizens in the South in registering to vote. He discusses and reads from his recently published book, We Had Sneakers, They Had Guns (Syracuse University Press, 2009).

Webcast: www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4571

A Day Like No Other: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington

U.S. Representative John Lewis, who was a young civil-rights leader in 1963, opened the photo exhibition "A Day Like No Other: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington" at the Library of Congress.

Webcast: www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5960

Voices from the Days of Slavery

Oral histories and interviews with African Americans who endured the hardships of slavery. These recordings document the first-person accounts of several individuals whose life experiences spanned the period during and after slavery. The podcasts are drawn from several collections in the American Folklife Center Archives, one of the preeminent audio-visual repositories of national and international folklife, history and cultural expressions.

Podcast: www.loc.gov/podcasts/slavenarratives/index.html

• Inside the March on Washington: Bayard Rustin’s "Army”
  blogs.loc.gov/loc/2013/08/inside-the-march-on-washington-bayard-rustins-army/
• Inside the March on Washington: "Our Support Really Ran Deep”
  blogs.loc.gov/loc/2013/08/inside-the-march-on-washington-our-support-really-ran-deep/
• Inside the March on Washington: Speaking Truth to Power
  blogs.loc.gov/loc/2013/08/inside-the-march-on-washington-speaking-truth-to-power/
• Inside the March on Washington: Moving On
  blogs.loc.gov/loc/2013/09/inside-the-march-on-washington-moving-on/

• Tracing the Long Journey of "We Shall Overcome”
  blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2014/02/tracing-the-long-journey-of-we-shall-overcome/

A Day Like No Other: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

This exhibition transports visitors to the momentous day of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, August 28, 1963—a day that transformed our nation—when 250,000 people from all walks of life participated in the largest non-violent demonstration for civil rights that Americans had ever witnessed.

Online exhibition: www.loc.gov/exhibits/march-on-washington/

Voices of Civil Rights Project collection, 2002-2006

Collection consists of oral history interviews, sound and video recordings, photographs and manuscript materials documenting memories of the civil rights movement for the Voices of Civil Rights Project, sponsored by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP).

Online exhibition: www.loc.gov/exhibits/civilrights/