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[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0841]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Twenty-six Negro adults, one Negro child and an automobile with a Negro at the wheel staged a march on the city hall Tuesday morning to demand Hassman park."
Date: 1937
Creator: Turner, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0149.0972]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Several hundred-students at the University of Oklahoma Thursday aligned themselves with the fight to break down segregation laws when they met on the university campus (top picture), burned a copy of the fourteenth amendment to the constitution (which provides racial equality), and mailed the ashes to President Truman."
Date: January 29, 1948
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0831]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "SPIRITUAL HELP in their 5-day-old campaign to obtain food service in downtown restaurants and fountains is sought by these two Negro children."
Date: August 14, 1958
Creator: Matheson, Mandell
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0834]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "DE-SEGREGATION PLEA is laid before the city council by Dr. E. C. Moon Jr., president of the local branch of the NAACP, shown at microphone in Tuesday's meeting of the council."
Date: March 1, 1960
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9140]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Rally at Capitol Sees Edmondson Action Praised. An estimated 200 persons, nearly all Negroes, rallied at the state capitol Saturday to urge elimination of segregation in business firms and to thank Gov. Edmondson for creating a committee on human relations. The 45-minute meeting replaced a planned demonstration in the downtown Oklahoma City business area to win equal treatment for Negroes at eating places. The demonstrat… more
Date: April 2, 1960
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9145]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "More than 200 Negroes stood on the south steps of the capitol Saturday morning and pledged "good faith" to Gov. Edmondson for creation of a racial study committee. The governor was not present. He had other plans which his office would not disclose. John Criswell, Edmondson's press secretary, spoke for the governor, who could not attend......E. C. Moon jr., local NAACP president, offered praise and commendation to a … more
Date: April 2, 1960
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9157]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "An estimated 200 persons, nearly all Negroes, rallied at the state capitol Saturday to urge elimination of segregation in business firms and to thank Gov. Edmondson for creating a committee on human relations. The 45-minute meeting replaced a planned demonstration in the downtown Oklahoma City business area to win equal treatment for Negroes at eating places. The demonstration was planned at the John A. Brown Co., departm… more
Date: April 2, 1960
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0770]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "MAPPING strategy for renewing "sit-in" demonstrations seeking desegregation of Oklahoma City eating places are Barbara Posey, left, president of the NAACP youth council, and Mrs. Clara Luper, adviser."
Date: July 29, 1960
Creator: Peterson, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0789]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Renewal of sit-in demonstrations at OKC eating places August was threatened Friday unless the owners agree to serve Negroes."
Date: July 29, 1960
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0766]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "An estimated 1,000 Negroes met in the Calvary Baptist Church in Oklahoma City today for prayer meeting that preceded a sit-in demonstration at five eating establishments."
Date: August 6, 1960
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0788]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "WAITING in front of an OKC eating place, these youths Saturday took part in the demonstrations designed to gain entrance for Negroes into cafes and restaurants which do not serve them at present."
Date: August 6, 1960
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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