Segregation in Chicago schools: Pickets at Du Sable High School, 4934 South Wabash

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Segregation in Chicago schools: Pickets at Du Sable High School, 4934 South Wabash
Segregation in Chicago schools: Pickets at Du Sable High School, 4934 South Wabash
Artist/Maker
DateFebruary 25, 1964
MediumVintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall: 9 7/8 × 7 7/8 in. (25.1 × 20 cm) Image: 9 1/8 × 7 7/8 in. (23.2 × 20 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2022.15.263
Not on view
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Provenance 2022: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art)
Markings Verso, top center: "RSF 01315"
Verso, top right: "077"
Verso, center: RIGHT: "The other side / of the boycott picture: / Pickets at Du Sable / High School, 4934 S. / Wabash. / Story on Page 1. (typed on pasted piece of paper)"
Verso, center: "[PROPERTY OF / NEWSPAPER DIVISION / FIELD ENTERPRISES]"
Verso, center: "[DAILY NEWS / FEB 15 1964]"
Inscribed Verso, top left corner: "CVL-IL-066A 1500"
Verso, top center: "Segregation Chicago Schools / Freedom Day II, Boycott / Feb-25-1964"
Verso, center: "117"
Scores of pickets marched through the Loop in silent procession Friday in protest over the fatal beating of the Reverend James Reeb in Selma, Alabama. They were led by six men bearing a gray mock coffin, which was labeled with a sign: "God-- go South." Demonstrators carried other cardboard signs. By the time the demonstrators reached the Federal Building, the procession had grown to nearly 90 people, about half Negro and half white.
Scores of pickets marched through the Loop in silent procession Friday in protest over the fatal beating of the Reverend James Reeb in Selma, Alabama. They were led by six men bearing a gray mock coffin, which was labeled with a sign: "God-- go South." Demonstrators carried other cardboard signs. By the time the demonstrators reached the Federal Building, the procession had grown to nearly 90 people, about half Negro and half white.
Unknown artist
Date: March 12, 1965
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2022.15.265
Crowd of demonstrators kneel in prayer outside city hall after march from Soldier Field in protest to alleged school segregation in Chicago. March took place two-day (of) school boycott when court order blocked it
Crowd of demonstrators kneel in prayer outside city hall after march from Soldier Field in protest to alleged school segregation in Chicago. March took place two-day (of) school boycott when court order blocked it
Unknown artist
Date: May 2, 1962
Medium: Vintage United Press International telephoto
Object number: 2022.15.262
Crowd of demonstrators kneel in prayer outside city hall after march from Soldier Field in protest to alleged school segregation in Chicago. March took place two-day (of) school boycott when court order blocked it
Crowd of demonstrators kneel in prayer outside city hall after march from Soldier Field in protest to alleged school segregation in Chicago. March took place two-day (of) school boycott when court order blocked it
Unknown artist
Date: June 10, 1965
Medium: Vintage United Press International telephoto
Object number: 2022.15.264
Police move in with night sticks to break up group of demonstrators who tried to break police lines after marching on Central High School August 12th. Firemen with high pressure hoses and police put down the riotous protest
Police move in with night sticks to break up group of demonstrators who tried to break police lines after marching on Central High School August 12th. Firemen with high pressure hoses and police put down the riotous protest
Unknown artist, American
Date: 1959
Medium: Vintage United Press International Telephoto with airbrushing
Object number: 2022.15.117
Protest School Superintendent with Sit-down: Marchers representing various civil rights groups stage a sit-down in La Salle Street in front of City Hall today to protest retention of Benjamin C. Willis as Chicago school superintendent. An earlier scheduled boycott of classes was prohibited by court order
Protest School Superintendent with Sit-down: Marchers representing various civil rights groups stage a sit-down in La Salle Street in front of City Hall today to protest retention of Benjamin C. Willis as Chicago school superintendent. An earlier scheduled boycott of classes was prohibited by court order
Date: June 10, 1965
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.285
New York City policeman stationed in city high school in Harlem, armed police are needed to protect teachers, NYC
New York City policeman stationed in city high school in Harlem, armed police are needed to protect teachers, NYC
Leonard Freed
Date: 1972
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.163
Our Common Schools as They Are and as They May Be, from "Harper's Weekly"
Our Common Schools as They Are and as They May Be, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published February 26, 1870
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.114
The Foreign Church (Roman) Declaring War Upon Our National Public Schools, from "Harper's Weekly"
The Foreign Church (Roman) Declaring War Upon Our National Public Schools, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published November 8, 1873
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.222
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Pho…
High school graduation celebrants, Red Square, Moscow
Dmitri Baltermants
Date: unknown (printed 2003)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2016.17.3
Photograph by John Bentham.
The Freedom Choir in the Tabernacle Baptist Church. High school students and children helped start the Selma movement
Danny Lyon
Date: 1963, printed 2010
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2016.17.37
Druids Circle #111 is the auxilliary of the Druids Grove. The luncheon is our fund-raiser for high school scholarships. White Shrine Lunch Hall (woman serving plates). Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, from the series "Our Kind of People"
Druids Circle #111 is the auxilliary of the Druids Grove. The luncheon is our fund-raiser for high school scholarships. White Shrine Lunch Hall (woman serving plates). Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, from the series "Our Kind of People"
Bill Owens
Date: 1969-75
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2019.18.67
Some 200 civil rights marchers protesting retention of School Superintendent Benjamin C. Willis were carted off to jail in police vans and squadrols Friday.
Some 200 civil rights marchers protesting retention of School Superintendent Benjamin C. Willis were carted off to jail in police vans and squadrols Friday.
Unknown artist
Date: June 12, 1965
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.286