Civil Rights
African-American Political and
Cultural Figures page of "Camera on Assignment: The Ollie Atkins Photograph
Collection" has some excellent images of political and cultural leaders
in the 1950s and 1960s. All the images are copyrighted to George Mason
University Libraries and there is no information on use restrictions
other than to contact the institution.Excellent download quality.
Birmingham News photographs of civil
rights activity in that city have just been discovered and many of
those images are now online, along with the story of how they were
discovered. An wonderful new resource. According to the site " Photos
may not be reproduced without prior written consent." Excellent
download quality.
Civil Rights Movement Veterans This is a great site with amazing photographs. (To get to
the photographs click on "Images" on the list on the left side of the
screen on the homepage.) Unfortunately the captioning isn't always very
clear. To find out who took the photograph and equally as importantly
who owns it, right click on the image. Click on "properties"
and a box will appear. The credit is listed in brackets under
"alternate text." Be very careful with these photographs. They are
copyrighted.
