#fromthearchives

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Through The Doorway, hand drawn lines -colors in Artstudio pro on my phone #fromthearchives #throughtthedoorway #personalwork #drawing #illustration #runefisker (at Copenhagen) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl8WpyHs0qa/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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March for Jobs and Freedom, On This Day in 1963

#OnThisDay Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” Speech in 1963 at the March for Jobs and Freedom in Washington D.C. to thousands of union members.

Lost to history is the emphasis on the March for the fight for jobs that paid a living wage and the role of the labor movement in organizing this massive demonstration.

Images above depict members of the International Ladies’ Garment Worker Union (ILGWU) packing Pennsylvania Station in New York City, standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial, heading on buses to Washington D.C., and marching through the capitol with ILGWU signs.

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“CASSIUS CLAY REFUSES OATH”1967, Universal Pictures.

#OTD 1978: ALI BEATS SPINX! Wins world heavyweight championship

By Miriam Kleiman, Public Affairs

‘’Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on other innocent brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?’’ -Muhammad Ali.

#OTD 1978, boxer Muhammad Ali defeated Leon Spinks at the Louisiana Superdome, winning the world heavyweight boxing title for an unprecedented 3rd time.

Explore our records to discover how Ali fought inside and outside the boxing ring: as a Civil Rights activist, a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War, and a humanitarian; from accused draft dodger -- stripped of his title, banned from boxing and sentenced to prison -- to Presidential Medal of Freedom winner.

Muhammad Ali with President Ford, 12/10/1974. NARA ID 45644181.

Jordan's King Hussein and President Ford greet Ali, 3/30/1976, NARA ID 7840017.

Boxing gloves inscribed to Senator Ed Kennedy from "Your friend Muhammad Ali 7-8-88" online here. Courtesy of Mrs. Edward M. Kennedy, JFK Library and Museum.

President Reagan "Punching" Ali in The Oval Office, 1/24/1983, NARA ID 75852623.

Ali with President Clinton, 10/28/2000, NARA ID 5899875.

Ali received Presidential Medal of Honor from President George W. Bush, 11/9/2005, NARA ID 7431423.

More online:

Mohammad Ali's Fight for Justice 1967, Records of Rights

Tribute to “The Greatest”, Rediscovering Black History

African American History - Muhammad Ali

See State Department reports on the 1974 Rumble in the Jungle Part I & Part II by archivist David Langbart, The Text Message

Ali's Criminal Case Files, 1908-1973, NARA ID 563137.

Related Ali Case Files 1967-1969, NARA ID 22930205.

Ali Draft Evasion Court Case, NARA ID 5604069

Ali Appearance Bond, NARA ID 5897836

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[sunnyrizvi]

Hello. I'm a dragon, can you fly? #old #photograph #fromthearchives #phonephotography #nofilter (at Banjara Hills) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChCJBFqMnFX/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[whateverwhimsy]

Over-head

Flowers of your mindless words, hope to cure and hope to preserve some little bits of passion in my head.

Still and silent, growing in the violent intentions instead of processing proper form, formulaic symmetry of a force too obtuse to grasp.

Yet some light, some eyes and life still shine and still provide a certain map for a curious way to escape, if you wait for it to appear.

The sheer magnitude of hoops and of loose-ends to tie and jump through, to pry a screw from the sky and let the world fly away from above you....

[thefullerview]

Waiting. Waiting for what lies ahead, what’s around the corner. Waiting for things known and unknown. Waiting is the activity I must endure between here and there, between now and then. Waiting is the obstacle between the life I have and the life I want. Ever notice how much of life is spent waiting. For elevators, traffic lights, pedestrians, events, celebrations, deliveries, contractors, repairmen. We wait for broken bones and wounded feelings to mend. We wait for life to begin. We wait for life to end. We have rooms and parking lots where our only task is to wait. Entire industries are dedicated to making things that distract us while we wait. We spend more time waiting for the thing than we spend doing the thing. Ours is a productivity-obsessed, box-checking, accomplishment-measured society. But what if waiting IS the thing that matters. Maybe how we wait matters. Maybe it is all that matters. With whom do we wait. Are we good company to those doing their own waiting? On this morning, as I enter the third hour of waiting for people and institutions to do the the things i want done, I realize that my capacity for waiting is directly linked to the remaining battery life of my phone; which after wordsmith-ing this post umpteen times is on fumes. #waiting #fromthearchives #westportma https://www.instagram.com/p/CXwKiTRuHLW/?utm_medium=tumblr

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