Today marks the 40th anniversary of the start of hearings by the Senate Watergate Committee that investigated criminal activity by White House officials and the Committee for the Re-Election of the President. While the hearings played out on national television and radio, President Richard M. Nixon continued to carry on with his job and enjoy […]
Although the Oliver F. Atkins Photograph Collection contains tens of thousands of prints, negatives, and slides, there is also a small amount of papers that consist of handwritten notes, correspondence, and caption guidance forms. These documents assist with identification, such as the Ku Klux Klan photographs from December 1965 for a Saturday Evening Post story. […]
Agnes McCall Parker was the founder and director of the Parker School of Etiquette, Personality, and Speech in Washington, D.C. In this photograph from August 1953, Ms. Parker shows a group of her students the proper way to pour tea from a correctly set tea table. This photograph is from the Oliver Atkins Photograph collection, […]
This photograph of Martin Luther King Jr. was taken in January of 1964 when he spoke to reporters outside of the White House. Later that year King would return to the White House to witness the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This photograph is part of the Oliver Atkins Photograph Collection. Oliver […]
In December of 1967, when nearly 15 percent of all Americans and 40 percent of African Americans lived below the poverty line, Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) began organizing a national campaign against poverty. The Poor People’s Campaign was to inaugurate a new phase of civil rights extending the struggle […]
