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Memorandum to Counselors

Memorandum to Counselors
Newsletter clipping showing 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
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”
Flyer that outlines a justification for the school boycott

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

School Boycott!
Newspaper clipping

“A Boycott Solves Nothing”
Black boycotters holding signs outside of Kings County Trust Company in downtown Brooklyn.

Freedom Day March on Film
Newspaper clipping

“What a ‘Fizzle’!”
Two young people sing at a protest

JHS 103, PS 194, and City Hall
Newspaper clipping

The Will and the Way of the Boycotters
Hand-drawn flyer

Change the Status Crow
Protestors march, carrying signs and the Puerto Rican flag

Puerto Rican Civil Rights March
White women carry signs protesting desegregation

“Parents and Taxpayers” March to City Hall
Malcolm X is interviewed while standing in front of a crowd of people.

Malcolm X Comments on the Boycotts
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