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Hand-drawn cover of a newsletter that shows a boy kneeling and praying next to his bed

NAACP Youth Council News Bulletin, excerpts
Booklet cover page

Your Child and Willowbrook, excerpt
Parent activists in front of a billboard that reads, "Retarded Children Can be Helped! They need Research, Schools, Clinics. Give to AHRC"

AHRC First Fundraising Billboard
A white middle-aged man sits next to his son. They hold drinks and look at each other. The father has his arm around his son, and both are smiling.

We Kept Our Retarded Child At Home, excerpt
Hand-drawn survey with questions about public school quality

Check Your School!
Introduction for the Commission on Integration's Subcommittee on Zoning report

Commission on Integration, Subcommittee on Zoning Draft Report, excerpt
Flyer calling for the resignation of William Jansen, Superintendent of Schools

Jansen Must Go!
Summer camp brochure cover

Camp Jened - Real Camping for the Handicapped, cover
Typed handout for camp counselors

Memorandum to Counselors
Newsletter clipping with a woman in a wheelchair, turned sideways and smiling for the camera

Camp Scholarships Will Be Awarded to Handicapped Adults
Newspaper clipping

“We’d Rather Go to Jail.”
Text of a court decision

In the matter of Charlene Skipwith, excerpt
A middle-aged Black woman holds the arm of her teenaged daughter. They stand in a doorway, likely at a school.

Mae Mallory and her daughter Patricia
A group of white women walk in the rain and hold signs protesting desegregation.

White Queens Mothers Protest Desegregation
A letter from A. Philip Randolf to President John F. Kennedy

A. Philip Randolph Letter to President John F. Kennedy
A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin in front of the Lincoln Memorial

Life Magazine Cover
Newspaper clipping

Claim Teachers Used Pupils as Shoe Shine Boys: DA Calls Charges “Serious”
Newspaper clipping

A Boycott Solves Nothing
Flyer that outlines a justification for the school boycott

Why the School Boycott?
Flyer for school boycott showing a young Black child looking through a broken window

School Boycott!
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