Category Archives: Anniversary
The Freedom Train and the Contagion of Liberty, 1947-1949
Today’s post is written by Dr. Greg Bradsher, Senior Archivist at the National Archives at College Park Late in 1946, Attorney General Tom Clark, concerned about the direction American life was taking in the wake of World War II, decided … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversary, Civil Rights, Civil Rights Protest & Issues, World War II Era
Tagged AHF, American Heritage Foundation, Bull Connor, Freedom Train, Greg Bradsher, Langston Hughes, Lester Granger, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, National Urban League, RG 64, segregation, Walter White
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75th Anniversary of the Attack on Pearl Harbor: Dorie Miller, War Hero
Today’s blog was written by Dr. Tina L. Ligon, Supervisory Archivist at the National Archives at College Park, Maryland At 7:48 am on December 7, 1941, Japanese fighter planes and bombers began their surprise attack on the US Naval base … Continue reading
Revolutionary Movements Then and Now: Black Power and Black Lives Matter
In 1966, Black Power emerged as a rallying call for African Americans to shift their focus from freedom now to the embrace of black cultural, political, and economic power. In a speech during the March against Fear in Mississippi, Stokely … Continue reading
“Turn this Town Out”: Stokely Carmichael, Black Power, and the March against Fear
Today’s blog was written by Dr. Tina L. Ligon, Supervisory Archivist at the National Archives at College Park, Maryland The March against Fear that took place in June 1966, is considered the last great march against racism of the 1960s … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversary, Black Power
Tagged Bruce Bains, Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), Greenwood_Mississippi, Howard University, James Meredith, Lowndes County Freedom Organization (LCFO), March against Fear, Meredith March, Parchman State Prison Farm, RG 65, Robert "Bob" Smith, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Stokely Carmichael, Stone Street Elementary School, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Tina L. Ligon, Willie Ricks
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Black Panther: A News Reel Video
Today’s blog was written by Dr. Tina L. Ligon, Lead Archivist at the National Archives at College Park, Maryland The ideology of Black Power promotes cultural appreciation and black self-determination. Although it sometimes has negative connotations, the phrase “Black Power” … Continue reading
Celebrating Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday and Legacy
Today’s blog was written by Alexis Hill, Assistant Registrar in the Exhibits Division at the National Archives in College Park, Maryland. Today we celebrate the birthday and legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He was a leader in … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversary, Civil Rights
Tagged Alexis Hill, Amelia Boynton Robinson, Bloody Sunday, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Edmund Pettus Bridge, Hosea Williams, John Lewis, Lyndon B. Johnson, March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Martin Luther King Jr, Montgomery Bus Boycott, National Archives at Atlanta, Nobel Peace Prize, Poor People's Campaign, Ronald Reagan, Rosa Parks, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Vietnam War
60th Anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Today’s post was written by Dr. Tina L. Ligon, Lead Archivist at the National Archives in College Park, Maryland On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama city bus to a white man. … Continue reading
Posted in African-American Women, Anniversary, Civil Rights
Tagged Aurelia S. Browder, Browder v. Gayle, Claudette Colvin, E. D. Nixon, Jo Ann Robinson, Mary Louise Smith, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Montgomery Improvement Association, Montgomery_Alabama, NAACP, National Archives at Atlanta, Ralph Abernathy, RG 21, Rosa Parks, Susie McDonald, Tina L. Ligon, Women's Political Council
NARA at ASALH’s Centennial
On September 25, 2015, archivists and archives specialists from the National Archives at College Park, Maryland and at Washington, D. C. participated in the 100th meeting of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH). In … Continue reading
60th Anniversary of the Death of Emmett Louis Till
Today’s blog was written by Dr. Tina Ligon, archivist at the National Archives at College Park and Mary Kate Eckles, summer intern at NARA and senior at St. John’s College Sixty years ago, Emmett Louis Till was kidnapped and murdered … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversary, Civil Rights
Tagged Carol Bryant, DOJ, Emmett Till, FBI, J. W. Milam, Mamie Till Bradley, Mary Kate Eckles, Mississippi, Moses Wright, RG 60, Rosa Parks, Roy Bryant, Simeon Wright, Tina L. Ligon
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10th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina
Today’s Record of the Week was contributed by Dr. Tina L. Ligon, Archivist at the National Archives at College Park, Maryland Hurricane Katrina formed on August 23, 2005, over the Bahamas in the Caribbean. It was the 11th tropical depression … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversary, Civil Rights
Tagged Gale Norton, Gulf Coast, Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, RG 255, RG 48, Tina L. Ligon
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