41st Annual NAACP Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, 1950 June 20-25
PhotographerPhotographed by
Metropolitan Photo Studio
American
Date1950 June 20-25
MediumPhotography
Dimensions(a) Primary Dimensions (overall length x height of photograph): 35 1/2 × 8in. (90.2 × 20.3cm)
(b) Primary Dimensions (overall length x diameter of container): 8 × 1 5/8in. (20.3 × 4.1cm)
(b) Primary Dimensions (overall length x diameter of container): 8 × 1 5/8in. (20.3 × 4.1cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineGift of Annette Shack
Description(a) Panoramic photograph of the 41st Annual NAACP Conference in Boston, Massachusetts, 1950 June 20-25 and (b) container.
A panoramic photograph of a group of individuals attending the 41st Annual Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Boston, Massachusetts on June 20-25, 1950. NAACP staff in the photograph include Walter White, James McClendon, Lillian Jackson, Arthur Spingarn, and Roy Wilkins. The photograph was taken outside the Union Methodist Church which hosted the conference that year. It was at this conference that the NAACP voted to pursue Brown v. Board of Education and decided that it was time to attack codified segregation wherever it persisted.
A panoramic photograph of a group of individuals attending the 41st Annual Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Boston, Massachusetts on June 20-25, 1950. NAACP staff in the photograph include Walter White, James McClendon, Lillian Jackson, Arthur Spingarn, and Roy Wilkins. The photograph was taken outside the Union Methodist Church which hosted the conference that year. It was at this conference that the NAACP voted to pursue Brown v. Board of Education and decided that it was time to attack codified segregation wherever it persisted.
Object number2022.26.72a-b
CopyrightIn Copyright
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17 June 1961
17 June 1961
17 June 1961
