Abstract The Associated Press (AP) is an American multinational nonprofit news agency headquartered in New York City. The AP, as well as other news organizations covered the Great Strike Wave of 1945-1946, a series of massive post-war labor strikes spanning numerous industries and public utilities. The collection includes twenty-five original Associated Press black-and-white photographs. They are 7x9" photographic prints on glossy paper, with printed captions included on the back of most of the...

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This collection consists of 21 press photographs of Black spiritual leader Father Divine and his wife Edna Rose Ritchings (also known as Mother Divine), as well as several of the properties Father Divine possessed and operated as "heavens" for International Peace Mission followers.

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This collection contains eleven black-and-white press photographs of incarcerated Black men at Trenton State Prison, San Quentin State Prison, Indiana State Prison, Mt. Meigs Medical and Diagnostic Center, Raiford Prison, and Monroe Reformatory. The images show the men working, exercising, speaking with reporters, resting, and being released from prison.

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The Johns Hopkins University collection of African American political activism in the United States consists of broadsides, photographs, and newspaper clippings that were primarily created around the time of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements between the 1950s and 1970s.