Category Archives: Demonstrations and Protests

FBI investigation of bombing of home of Martin Luther King Jr., and federal court ruling on bus segregation law in Montgomery, Alabama, May 1956-July 1956, 1956

FBI folder on Montgomery Bus Boycott, including bombings and information on Martin Luther King Jr., E. D. Nixon, and Rosa Parks, December 1955-March 1956, 1956

FBI folder on Montgomery Bus Boycott and Tallahassee, Florida Bus Boycott, August 1956-November 1956, 1956

FBI folder on Montgomery Bus Boycott, including decision by Judge Frank M. Johnson Jr. regarding segregation on Montgomery buses, November 1956-January 1957, 1956-1957

FBI folder on Tuskegee, Alabama race relations, and Montgomery Bus Boycott trials and continuing violence in Montgomery, September 1957-April 1958, 1957-1958

FBI folder on Montgomery Bus Boycott, mass arrests of boycott leaders and conviction of Rosa Parks, February 1956-March 1956, 1956

FBI folder on Montgomery Bus Boycott trials and segregation policy in Montgomery, Alabama, March 1956-April 1956, 1956

From the Presidential Library of Dwight D. Eisenhower: School desegregation, including Prayer Pilgrimage to Washington, 1957, 1957

Records from the Presidential Library of Dwight D. Eisenhower: White House Central Files on public reaction to civil rights issues, including racial violence in South and Montgomery bus boycott, 1956, 1956

Prayer Pilgrimage to Washington, 1957, discrimination in employment, and public reaction to civil rights issues, 1957, 1957

Presidential Papers of Dwight D. Eisenhower: Sit-ins at public facilities, Civil Rights Act of 1960, and other civil rights issues, 1960, 1960

FBI folder on Albany Movement demonstrations and boycotts of local businesses, January 1962-September 1963, 1962-1963

FBI folder on school desegregation in Albany, Georgia, and prosecution of Albany Movement leaders, September 1963-May 1964, 1962-1963

FBI folder on Albany Movement civil rights demonstrations and meetings, May 1963-July 1963, 1963

FBI folder on tensions in Albany, Georgia including civil rights demonstrations by the Albany Movement, July-August 1963, 1963

FBI folder on killing of a 15-year-old black male by an Albany, Georgia police officer and meetings of the Albany Movement, February 1964-July 1964, 1964

FBI folder on Albany Movement and civil rights activities in Albany, including the arrest and detention of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., December 1961, 1961

FBI folder on Albany Movement and civil rights demonstrations in Albany, Georgia, December 1961-April 1962, 1962

FBI folder on demonstrations in Albany, Georgia, including jailing of Martin Luther King Jr., April 1962-July 1962, 1962

FBI folder on Albany Movement, including civil rights demonstrations and arrest of Martin Luther King Jr., July 1962, 1962

FBI folder on civil rights demonstrations in Albany, Georgia, July 1962-August 1962, 1962

FBI folder on Albany Movement and arrests of civil rights demonstrators in Albany, Georgia, July 1962-August 1962, 1962

FBI folder on meetings between the Albany City Commission and Albany Movement leaders, August 1962, 1962

FBI summary of Albany Movement and racial situation in Albany, Georgia, August 1962-September 1962, 1962

FBI folder on mass meetings and other activities of the Albany Movement, September 1962-December 1962, 1962

FBI file on civil rights demonstrations, including sit-ins and voter registration activities, and efforts to organize a SNCC chapter in Selma, Alabama, July-September 1963, 1963

FBI folder on civil rights demonstrations in Alabama, including demonstrations to protest the murder of Samuel Younge, December 1965-February 1966, 1965-1966

FBI folder on voter registration efforts and other civil rights demonstrations in Selma, Alabama, including mass arrests of demonstrators and police brutality, September- October 1963, 1963

FBI folder on Selma, Alabama, voter registration campaign, October 1963, 1963

FBI folder on Selma, Alabama, voter registration campaign, October 1963-January 1964, 1963-1964

FBI Files: Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) designation of Alabama as primary focus for 1964, and voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, January-June 1964, 1964

FBI folder: Selma , Alabama, voter registration drive, including voter registration workshops and voter registration at Dallas County Courthouse, June-July 1964, 1964

FBI folder on civil rights demonstrations in Montgomery, Alabama, and racial tensions in Alabama, December 1961-September 1962, 1961-1962

FBI folder on Bloody Sunday attack on Edmund Pettus Bridge, and Selma to Montgomery March, February 1965-April 1965, 1965

FBI folder on reaction to Bloody Sunday attack on civil rights demonstrators in Selma, Alabama, and SNCC-led demonstrations at Alabama State College in Montgomery, April-May 1965, 1965

FBI folder on Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) demonstrations in St. Augustine, Florida, attacks on demonstrators, and arrest of Martin Luther King Jr., April 1964-December 1964, 1964

FBI folder on civil rights demonstrations in St. Augustine, Florida, June 1963-September 1963, 1963

FBI folder on civil rights demonstrations in St. Augustine, Florida, including NAACP picketing of drugstore lunch counters and Ku Klux Klan violence, September 1963-April 1964, 1963-1964

FBI folder: Selma , Alabama civil rights activities, February 1965, 1965

FBI folder: Selma , Alabama voter registration activities, including confrontation between C. T. Vivian and Sheriff Jim Clark, January 1965-February 1965, 1965

FBI folder on memorial services for Jimmie Lee Jackson, plans for Selma to Montgomery March, Bloody Sunday attack by Alabama state troopers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, and Martin Luther King Jr.’s decision on March 9 to turn back to Selma, February 1965-March 1965, 1965

FBI folder on March 9 decision of Martin Luther King Jr., to turn back to Selma, memorial services for the Reverend James Reeb, FBI investigation into Bloody Sunday, March 1965, 1965

FBI folder: Selma , Alabama voter registration activities, including Selma to Montgomery March, March 1965, 1965

FBI folder: Selma , Alabama voter registration activities, election laws, intimidation of prospective voters, and compliance with Voting Rights Act of 1965, July 1964-May 1966, 1964-1966

FBI folder: Daily reports on the Selma to Montgomery March, Alabama, March 1965, 1965

FBI folder on Selma to Montgomery March, including travel of students and other participants to Selma to take part in civil rights demonstrations, and preparations of civil rights organizations and law enforcement agencies, March 1965, 1965

FBI folder: Preparations for the final stages of the Selma to Montgomery March, and civil action brought against Martin Luther King Jr. and SCLC by Selma and the Selma Bus Lines, March 1965, 1965

FBI folder: FBI chronology of the Selma to Montgomery March and voter registration activities in Selma , March 1965-April 1965, 1965

FBI folder: Daily reports on the Selma to Montgomery March, and preparations of civil rights organizations and law enforcement agencies, March 1965, 1965

FBI Files: Civil rights tension in Montgomery and elsewhere in Alabama, including sit-ins by black students, December 1957-July 1967, 1957-1967

From the Presidential Library of Lyndon Baines Johnson: Legislative Jurisdiction, Civil Rights Bill, Proposed March on Washington, Negro Demonstrations, Negro Employment, Willard Wirtz Memo on Education and Training, Equal Accommodations Bill, S. 1732, Negro Situation, Attitudes, Equal Employment Opportunity Program, Ramsey Clark’s Proposals of a Community Relations Service and Racial Arbitration, Equal Education Opportunity Act, Civil Rights Act of 1963, Abe Fortas Comments on the Civil Rights Act and Civil Rights 1963, Selected Civil Rights Files–George Reedy, 1963, 1963

Records from the Presidential Library of Lyndon Baines Johnson White House Central Files on Civil Rights: St. Augustine, Florida, Selected Office Files Related to Civil Rights–Lee C. White, 1965, 1965

From the Presidential Library of John F Kennedy: Civil Rights–“March on Washington.” June-August 1963, covering Public Opinion, Planning and Crowd Control, June-August 1963, and Business Council Meeting of July 11, 1963. March-June 26, 1963, 1963

Burke Marshall Papers: Civil rights violations in Mississippi, public accommodations, equal employment, and other issues before the Commission on Civil Rights., 1963

List of civil rights protests throughout the United States., 1963

List of civil rights protests throughout the United States, 1963-1964

Burke Marshall Papers: Civil rights protests and arrests throughout the United States, and preparations for the March on Washington, August 28, 1963., 1963

Burke Marshall Papers: Civil rights protests and arrests throughout the United States, and preparations for the March on Washington, August 28, 1963., 1963

List of civil rights protests throughout the United States, 1963

Burke Marshall Papers: Civil rights protests and arrests throughout the United States, and memorial services and demonstrations following the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama, September 15, 1963, in which four girls died., 1963

National Archive Records: Department of Justice memos pertaining to the 1964 sit-in cases that arose from the wave of sit-in demonstrations during the early 1960s, from the files of assistant attorney general Burke Marshall, 1963-1964, 1963-1964

From the Presidential Library of John F Kennedy: March on Washington, Policy regarding Administrative Leave during Demonstrations, Congressional Relations, Housing and Voluntary Desegregation of Commercial Establishments The White House Central Files, January 5, 1961-August 30, 1963, 1961-1963

From the Presidential Library of John F Kennedy: March on Washington Movement, Meeting with Lawyers and News Releases, May 13-September 10, 1963, 1963

From the Presidential Library of John F Kennedy: March on Washington, Administrative Leave during Demonstrations, Congressional Relations and Committee for Nonviolent Action, October 12, 1962-October 30, 1963, 1963

Records from the Presidential Library of John F. Kennedy: The Civil Rights Files of Lee C. White on racial discrimination in Atlanta, Georgia, May 18, 1962-June 27, 1963, 1962-1963

National Archive Records: Department of Justice memos regarding the sit-in cases that arose from the wave of sit-in demonstrations during the early 1960s, including the 1962 sit-in case, Avent v. North Carolina, from the files of assistant attorney general Burke Marshall, 1962-1963, 1962-1963

National Conference on Religion and Race, Talladega, Alabama sit-in , voting rights, and other civil rights matters, from Burke Marshall’s Justice Department correspondence, June 1962., 1962

The Claude A. Barnett Papers: Coverage of the civil rights movement and other news from the Associated Negro Press, 1965

Federal Government Records: Union Station restaurant, in the Houston Belt and Terminal Railway Co. terminal, alleged racial discrimination against Dorothy M. Henry and Loretta M. Thompson in Houston, Texas, as part of a series of sit-ins ., 1961-1962

National Archive Records: Report of the Solicitor General regarding racial discrimination and sit-in cases, from the files of assistant attorney general Burke Marshall, 1962-1964, 1962-1964

FBI folder on ass arrest of juveniles, and civil rights demonstrations in St. Augustine, Florida, April-July 1964, 1964

Congressional Hearing: Considers H.R. 6400 and related bills, to enforce 15th amendment safeguards guaranteeing the right to vote to black Americans. Includes registration and voting statistics for 11 southern states (p. 129-257)., 1965