NAACP Youth and the Fight for Black Freedom, 1936–1965

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Attorneys Thurgood Marshall (left) and Charles Hamilton Houston (right) with their client Donald Gaines Murray (center) during court proceedings, Maryland, 1935. NAACP youth and delegates at the twenty-seventh annual NAACP conference held at the Sharpe Street Memorial M.E. Church Community House, Baltimore, Maryland, 1936. New York City NAACP Youth Council members picketing to support antilynching legislation in front of the Strand Theater in Times Square, 1937. Juanita Jackson (fourth from left), NAACP national youth director, visits the Scottsboro boys in prison, 1937. Also shown are Laura Kellum, secretary of the Birmingham, Alabama, Youth Council and Dr. E. W. Taggert (far right), president of the Birmingham NAACP. Charlotte, North Carolina, NAACP Youth Council members with adult advisors, who are holding signs that read, “Join NAACP Youth Council,” 1942. Chicago NAACP Youth Council’s float in the Bud Billiken Parade, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1940s. Detroit, Michigan, NAACP Youth Council members in a meeting at the Detroit NAACP branch office, ca. 1940s. Judge William Hastie and Louisville, Kentucky, NAACP Youth Council members: L. N. Sedwick, Violet Beard, Katherine Burton, Minnie Harrison, Mary E. James, Lina Belle Laine, and Mary Anna Woolfolk, ca. 1940s. NAACP youth marching with signs protesting Texas segregation laws. Houston, Texas, 1947. Santa Clara, California, NAACP Junior Youth Council drummers and majorettes posed on steps in front of a church. Santa Clara County, California, ca. 1940s. Arthurine Lucy (left) leaves federal court in Birmingham with her attorneys, Thurgood Marshall (center) and Arthur Shores (right), 1956. Ruby Hurley (left), NAACP national youth director, Eleanor Roosevelt (center), unidentified man, and Walter White (right), NAACP executive secretary, at an NAACP program or meeting, ca. 1950s. Flushing, New York, NAACP Youth Council baseball team, ca. 1950s. NAACP Youth Council delegates from Indiana and Illinois, along with NAACP attorney Leslie S. Perry (left), meet with Senator Joseph Ball of Minnesota (center), who discussed his support for abolishing the poll tax, ca. 1950s. Sit-in at Woolworth’s department store in Greensboro, North Carolina, 1960. Sit-in at a downtown department store in Nashville, Tennessee, 1960. ...