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Senator Robert Kennedy discusses school with young Ricky Taggart of 733 Gates Avenue, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn
February 4, 1966
Dick DeMarsico, photographer
World Telegram & Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress
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“A spirit of harmony can only survive if each of us remembers, when bitterness and self-interest seem to prevail, that we share a common destiny.
This country can ill afford to continue to function using less than half of its human resources, brain power, and kinetic energy.”
— Representative Barbara Jordan, Keynote Address, Democratic National Convention, July 12, 1976, New York City
Photo by Warren K. Leffler, photographer
U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection, Library of Congress
Crowd in Harlem chants and taunts police on Lenox Avenue, 1964
Stanley Wolfson, photographer
New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress
The Harlem Riot of 1964 occurred after James Powell, a 15-year-old African American from Harlem, was shot dead by an off-duty New York City Police Lieutenant named Thomas Gilligan on July 16, 1964. On July 18, residents gathered at a Harlem police precinct to demand justice. When tactical officers tried to force the crowd back, a violent confrontation erupted. The ensuing riot lasted five days.
An estimated 500 people were injured in the rioting, one man was killed and 485 men and women were arrested. Gilligan, who maintained Powell pulled a knife on him, was cleared of any wrongdoing.
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![African American children on their way to PS204, 82nd Street and 15th Avenue, pass mothers protesting the busing of children to achieve integration
September 13, 1965
Dick DeMarsico, photographer
New Your World-Telegram and the Sun New Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress
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African American children on their way to PS204, 82nd Street and 15th Avenue, pass mothers protesting the busing of children to achieve integration
September 13, 1965
Dick DeMarsico, photographer
New Your World-Telegram and the Sun New Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress
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![African American woman being carried to police patrol wagon during demonstration in Brooklyn, New York] / World Telegram & Sun photo by Dick DeMarsico.
1963
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Avenue D Housing Project on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City, July 1974
Danny Lyon, photographer
Environmental Protection Agency, Project DOCUMERICA
Villa Lewaro was the stately home of America’s first black female millionaire, Madame C.J. Walker.
Walker commissioned Vertner Tandy, the first registered black architect, to build the Italian Renaissance style estate so that black Americans could “see what could be accomplished, no matter what their background.” The mansion was constructed during 1916-1918 at an estimated cost of $250,000 (a fortune at the time). Madame Walker lived in the home from 1918 until her death in 1919. Her daughter, A’lelia Walker, inherited the estate and lived there until she died in 1931.
Located in Irvington, New York, Villa Lewaro is a private residence today and is listed as a National Historic Landmark.
Photo: VIEW OF EAST ELEVATION - Villa Lewaro, North Broadway, Irvington, Westchester County, NY; Library of Congress, Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey
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