African Americans -- Civil rights
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Dr. Arthur E. Thomas, President Emeritus, Central State University, Collection (MS-667)
Collection
Identifier: MS-667
Abstract
The collection contains personal papers, legal documents and court proceedings, photographs, audio and video recordings, news clippings, awards and certificates, correspondence, and other materials relating to Dr. Thomas’s life and career in education and civil rights activism. The collection includes a significant amount of analog audiovisual material, including recordings of most episodes of Thomas’s interview program “Like It Is.”
Dates:
circa 1920 - 2020; Majority of material found within 1969 - 2000
Found in:
Special Collections
Yellow Springs Civil Rights Demonstration Photographs (SC-71)
Collection
Identifier: SC-71
Scope and Contents
This collection contains 31 photographs relating to a demonstration that occurred in Yellow Springs, Ohio, in 1964. There are also copies of court cases that arose from the demonstration. The demonstration arose after a local barber (Lewis Gegner) refused to cut the hair of a black patron.
Dates:
1964
Found in:
Special Collections
