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The Black Panther Party’s newspaper article covers the 1971 acquittal on conspiracy charges for fellow members Ericka Huggins and Bobby Seale. In the article, BPP members also address issues like police brutality, urban poverty and political prisoners.

This photograph captures a moment of negotiation between a cotton farmer and a cotton buyer.

This interview with NAACP lawyer Constance Baker Motley discusses her experience at the March on Washington and the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

This video shows the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights holding a hearing in Jackson, Mississippi, over civil rights violations in voting.

This excerpt is part of a larger exhibition from the Library of Congress. This excerpt demonstrates the ways World War II and the Cold War informed President Roosevelt’s and President Truman’s decisions to pursue civil rights legislation.

A document declaring the principles of the Niagara Movement conference

A Black radical feminist organization of the 1970s, the Combahee River Collective outline their political ideology in their organization’s statement. They argue that race, gender and class oppression intersect to form new levels of inequalities experienced by Black women.

WPC President Jo Ann Robinson wrote to the mayor of Montgomery asking for fair treatment of Black people on public transportation.