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Activists & Reformers Cesar Chavez Born: March 31, 1927 Died: April 23, 1993 Cesar Chavez was a Mexican American labor activist and leader of the United Farm Workers. During the 20th century he was a Grapes of leading voice for migrant Wrath farm workers (people who move from place to place in Life in the Mexican American labor leader order to find work). His Cesar Chavez Fields tireless leadership focused national attention on these laborers' terrible working conditions, which eventually led to improvements. NEW SEARCH HELP ABOUT COLLECTION TITLE: Palestine & "Israel" subjects of 1953. Eastern Mediterranean CALL NUMBER: LC-M33- 13589[P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-matpc-12995 (digital file from original photo) RIGHTS INFORMATION: No known restrictions on publication. MEDIUM: 1 negative : safety film ; 4 x 5 in. CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1953. CREATOR: Matson Photo Service, photographer. NOTES: Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978. Title and date from: photographer's logbook: Matson Registers, v. 2, [1940-1946]. FORMAT: Safety film negatives. PART OF: G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID: (digital file from original photo) matpc 12995 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/matpc.12995 CONTROL #: mpc2005009427/PP PREVIOUS NEXT NEW SEARCH [Dwight D. Eisenhower taking oath of office in a private ceremony in the East Room of the White House : Left to right are: Sen. William Knowland, Chief Justice Earl Warren, Frank San[...], Mrs. Patricia Nixon, Mamie Eisenhower, President Eisenhower, and Richard Nixon]. CREATED/PUBLISHED [1957 Jan. 20] NOTES United Press photo. No. WAP 012404. SUBJECTS Eisenhower, Dwight D.--(Dwight David),--1890-1969--Inauguration, 1957. Knowland, William F.--(William Fife),--1908-1974--Public appearances. Warren, Earl,--1891-1974--Public appearances. Presidential inaugurations--Washington (D.C.)--1950-1960. Oaths--Washington (D.C.)--1950-1960. Portrait photographs--1950-1960. Group portraits--1950-1960. Photographic prints--1950-1960. MEDIUM 1 photographic print. CALL NUMBER PRES FILE - Eisenhower, Dwight D.--Inauguration, 1957 REPRODUCTION NUMBER LC-USZ62-114910 DLC (b&w film copy neg.) DIGITAL ID (original) ppmsc 02885 (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3c14910 Architecture and Interior Design Item Title Hilda Kassell, E. 53rd St., New York City. Father reading newspaper, two children viewing television. Gottscho-Schleisner, Inc., photographer. Created/Published 1950 July 12. Subjects Advertising. United States--New York (State)--New York. Acetate negatives. Medium 1 negative : safety ; 4x5 in. Call Number LC-G613- 57609 <p&p> </p&p> REPRODUCTION NUMBER LC-G613-T01-57609 DLC (b&w film dup. neg.) Special Terms of Use No known restrictions on publication. Home - Introduction - Online Exhibition - Learn More - Checklist of Objects - Acknowledgments ONLINE EXHIBITION ENVIRONMENT "And now some more official information on the accident at Chernobyl" The disastrous nuclear power plant accident on April 25-26, 1986, at Chernobyl in the Ukraine area of the Soviet Union, cost lives and released masses of polluted air that endangered the health of thousands and contaminated millions of acres of land. In this cartoon, Herb Block drew a family of skeletons, representing the Published in The Washington Post, May 6, 1986. unverified numbers of people who Ink, graphite, and opaque white with paste-on died immediately, or soon afterward, over blue pencil underdrawing accompanied by graphite sketch. of radiation sickness. Block included a Herbert L. Block Collection portrait of President Mikhail Prints and Photographs Division (1) Gorbachev and a television set to Digital ID # ppmsca-11965 allude to the failure of the government Rough Sketch Digital ID # ppmsca-12398 and media to communicate timely information to their own people and the world. During the 1960s, extensive news coverage of the Vietnam War contributed to growing antiwar sentiment in the United States. The strength of that sentiment divided the nation and the Democratic Party and convinced President Lyndon Baines Johnson to withdraw from the 1968 election campaign. The tensions of the period are reflected in two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Szep's unforgettable image of LBJ haunted by the ghosts of dead American soldiers. To create the drawing Szep used the scratchboard technique, in which the artist scrapes away black ink from a white surface, simulating the strong contrasts of a wood engraving with a fraction of the time, effort, and expense. Paul Szep, [Vietnam Specters], India ink with scraping out on scratchboard, 1967. Published in The Boston Globe, 1967 Caroline and Erwin Swann Collection of Caricature and Cartoon Prints and Photographs Division (4) Mrs. Rosa Parks being fingerprinted in Montgomery, Alabama, 1956. Gelatin silver print. New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection, Prints and Photographs Division (119) Mrs. Rosa Parks Fingerprinted in Montgomery, Alabama On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, forty-three, was arrested for disorderly conducted for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. Her arrest and fourteen dollar fine for violating city ordinance, led African American bus riders and others to boycott the Montgomery city buses. It also helped to establish the Montgomery Improvement Association led by a then unknown young minister from the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Martin Luther King, Jr. The boycott lasted for one year and brought the Civil Rights Movement and Dr. Martin King to the attention of the world. Baseball and Jackie Robinson Item Title [Back cover of Jackie Robinson comic book]. Created/Published c1951. Summary Half-length portrait of Jackie Robinson in Brooklyn Dodgers uniform, posed, holding baseball bat. Notes Restricted access: Material extremely fragile Serial and Government Publications Division. Illus. in: Jackie Robinson. Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett Publications, c1951, v. 1, no. 5, back cover. Subjects Robinson, Jackie,--1919-1972--Associated objects. Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team)--1950-1960. Magazine covers--1950-1960. Comic books--1950-1960. Halftone photomechanical prints--Color--1950-1960. Medium 1 photomechanical print : halftone, color. Call Number Comics box 166a PREVIOUS NEXT NEW SEARCH Words and Deeds in American History: Selected Documents Celebrating the Manuscript Division's First 100 Years Letter, Franklin D. Roosevelt to J. Robert Oppenheimer thanking the physicist and his colleagues for their ongoing secret atomic research, 29 June 1943. (J. Robert Oppenheimer Papers) In the midst of World War II when the United States was engaged abroad in a major conflict with Germany and Japan, it was also working furiously at home toward the completion of the Manhattan Project. This huge research and development project was begun in June 1942 to develop a superexplosive weapon based on the nuclear fission process. It was hoped that such a superweapon would end the war. Two years before such an experimental atomic bomb was detonated successfully near Alamogordo, New Mexico, President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882- 1945) wrote to J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), the scientist in charge of its development. In this otherwise oblique note of confidence and appreciation, Roosevelt's understanding of the project's significance is made perfectly clear, and he ends his letter with an upbeat morale- booster, suggesting that American science is up to anything the enemy can offer. His confidence was proven justified, as the United States followed its experimental detonation of 16 July 1945 by dropping atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima (6 August 1945) and Nagasaki (9 August 1945), resulting shortly thereafter in Japan's surrender. Leonard C. Bruno, Manuscript Division Nixon hanging between the tapes Even more damning than President Richard Nixon's profiting from public office were the disclosures of his corruption and attempts at corruption of the government itself including the CIA, the FBI, the Pentagon and even the Secret Service. A taping system that had recorded most of President Nixon's conversations in the Oval Office provided the "smoking gun" that spoke of crime and corruption. Nixon refused to release the tapes until the Supreme Court ordered him to do so. [Nixon hanging between the tapes], May 24, 1974 Reproduction of original drawing Published in the Washington Post (79) Nixon, with sign, "I am not a crook" On November 17, 1973, President Richard Nixon told 400 Associated Press managing editors that he had not profited from public service. "I have earned every cent. And in all of my years in public life I have never obstructed justice. People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook," he declared. On April 3, 1974, the White House announced that Nixon would pay $432,787.13 in back taxes plus interest after an investigation by the Internal Revenue Service and a congressional committee. Among Nixon's benefits to himself were improvements in his properties, supposedly necessary for his protection. These included a security ice maker, a security swimming pool heater, security club chairs and table lamps, security sofa and security pillows. [Nixon, with a money-bag for a face, carries a sign, "I am not a crook"], April 4, 1974 Ink, graphite, and opaque white over graphite underdrawing on paper Published in the Washington Post (78) LC-USZ62-126921 Leaders & Statesmen George C. Marshall Marshall and McCarthyism Two of Marshall's harshest critics were U.S. Senators Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin and William Jenner of Indiana. Both men fed the anti- communist hysteria of the era that became known as "McCarthyism." In one Senate speech Jenner said "General George C. Marshall is a living lie" and asserted that "he is eager to play the role of a front man for traitors." An even more vicious assault came from McCarthy, who published two books attacking Marshall's entire career and Senator Joseph McCarthy delivered a 60,000-word Senate speech that displaying a document, 1950. accused Marshall of being part of "a conspiracy on a scale so immense as to dwarf any previous such venture in the history of man." page 2 of 3 Leaders & Statesmen George C.