Civil Rights & Social Justice
Among CAH’s major research strengths is the history of social justice movements in the United States. The Center’s resources on this topic include a wide range of materials relating to civil rights, anti-war protest, prison reform, lesbian-gay rights, the anti-smoking movement, and environmental activism.
 Sears Christmas Show
Source: Bailey (Bob) Studios Photographic Archive
African-American choir from St. John Baptist church, under the direction of S. A. Pleasance [sp?]. The choir performs two hymns.
The first is unidentified, the second is "O Come, All Ye Faithful." Black and white picture with sound. | |  Shoe Shine Boy
Source: Jones (Jesse Holman) Papers
Film of shoe shiner Floyd Jackson arriving by plane, greeting [family], then shining the shoes of executives at the Bankers
Mortgage Building and the Commerce Building. Label on box [not from creator] reads: "Shoe Shine Boy, includes Jesse Jones, Fred Heyne and Oscar Holcomb, 1954". Title from 1985 finding aid was
"Shoeshine Box". An August, 27 1954 newspaper article from the Lubbock Morning Avalanche entitled "Shoeshine Anyone? All That’s Needed Is Million Dollars" seems to cover the same event, and
gives the additional information that Jackson made the trip as a contestant on the TV game show "Truth or Consequences", and received $100 for each shoe shine. The article also names R.E.
(Bob) Smith, W.A. (Bill) Smith, J.M. Rockwell, Ralph Johnston, George Brown, Harmon Whittington, John Jones and Curtis Japhet as executives receiving shoe shines at the Bankers Mortgage
Building. Black and white picture with no sound. Reel box was sent from Bob Gray at KPRC-TV in Houston to Jesse Jones at the Bankers Mortgage Building in Houston. Due to poor condition of the
original film, the digitized copy has some frame jumping and occasional blur, as well as emulsion breakdown visible throughout. A less damaged but more blurry version captured from an earlier
VHS transfer of the film can be found as dv_00095. |  Freedom Ride
Source: Farmer (James Leonard, Jr. and Lula Peterson) Papers
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Silent Night, Silent Day
