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Burke Marshall Personal Papers
BMPP-037-006-p0005
Photograph of Burke Marshall (left) and Robert F. Kennedy (right) seated at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on civil rights legislation. Caption at the bottom of the photograph reads, "Washington, Aug. 1 -- HUDDLE UNDER QUESTIONING--Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy confers with his civil rights deputy, Burke Marshall, left, while being questioned before the Senate Judiciary Committee today. It was Kennedy's sixth appearance during hearing [sic] on civil rights legislation." A hand-made caption above Mr. Marshall reads, "And put down a chapter on the problems of the average American Negro by Lena Horne." Verso contains a "World Wide Photos" stamp.
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Burke Marshall Personal Papers
BMPP-028-001-p0018
Photograph of an unidentified man standing in front of a billboard on United States Route 1 near Richmond, Virginia. The billboard was erected by the Virgina Council on Human Relations and reads, "Be color blind, hire the best man."
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Burke Marshall Personal Papers
BMPP-004-011-p0030
Photograph of an unidentified woman holding a bag containing two dolls that says, "New Front Tears." The photograph accompanies a letter sent to Burke Marshall, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, from Henry Cabirac, Jr. of the Southern Field Service, National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice. According to Mr. Cabirac, the photograph was taken the day Archibishop Joseph Francis Rummel announced the desegregation of all Catholic schools in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Burke Marshall Personal Papers
BMPP-037-006-p0011
Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy holds a press conference in his office upon signing the Treaty of Cambridge, an agreement between civil rights activists and city leaders to end segregation and put an end to violence in Cambridge, Maryland. (L-R, seated) Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Burke Marshall; Attorney General of Maryland Thomas B. Finan; civil rights activist Gloria Richardson; Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy; and Mayor of Cambridge Calvin W. Mowbray. (L-R, standing) Unidentified man (with bow tie); Dr. Arthur S. Parker, Cambridge City Commissioner; Charles Awdry Thompson, counsel for Commissioners of Cambridge; and Reginald Robinson, field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
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Burke Marshall Personal Papers
BMPP-037-006-p0010
Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy holds a press conference in his office upon signing the Treaty of Cambridge, an agreement between civil rights activists and city leaders to end segregation and put an end to violence in Cambridge, Maryland. (L-R, seated) Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Burke Marshall; Attorney General of Maryland Thomas B. Finan; civil rights activist Gloria Richardson; Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy; and Mayor of Cambridge Calvin W. Mowbray. (L-R, standing) Unidentified man (with bow tie); Dr. Arthur S. Parker, Cambridge City Commissioner; Charles Awdry Thompson, counsel for Commissioners of Cambridge; and Reginald Robinson, field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
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Burke Marshall Personal Papers
BMPP-037-006-p0008
Photograph of a certificate of manumission for a boy named Jambo, written and signed by Isaac Rushmore of Queens County, New York.