"Operation Windowshop" flyer, 1961

Item — Box: 5, Folder: 2, Item: 1

Identifier: 1

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Series:

This series contains materials from the Black Civil Rights movement in the United States, including a 1938 advertisement for an event featuring Duke Ellington, Juanita Hall, Georgia Burke, and others, put on by the Negro Cultural Committee, and a poster advocating for the freedom of Black Panther prisoners, like David Hilliard.

Dates

Creation: 1961

Langauge of Materials

From the Collection:

Languages represented in the collection: English, Spanish.

Access

This collection is open for research.

Extent

From the Collection: 7.5 Linear Feet (4 document boxes, 1 oversize doc box, 1 half-size document box, 4 flat oversize boxes)

Additional Description

Note

8.5" x 11" flyer encouraging black families to participate in a "window shop" of apartments and homes, whether they desire to move or not, in order to demonstrate their right to equal housing. Events like windowshopping aimed to show those "who rent or sell housing that we will no longer tolerate limitations based on race, color or national origin."