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Moakley with Representatives Jack Kemp and Bill Clay, and Moakley on the Energy Crisis [audio recording and transcript]
In the first segment, Moakley and Representative Jack Kemp discuss the controversy over the football television blackouts and proposed changes to the way the broadcasting rights for football games in the U.S. In the second segment, Representative…
Members of Suffolk University's Afro-American club, 1969
Pictured: Charles Olmstead, Inez Patten, Keith George, Eugent Herrington, Richard S. Brown
Julian Bond and Suffolk University President John E. Fenton (1965-1970) walk down hallway before Bond's address to students.
An activist in the civil rights movement, Bond served as publicity director for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), as chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and as first president of the…
Judge Ivorey Cobb (JD '60), receives an honorary degree at the 1965 Suffolk University Law School commencement
Ivorey Cobb, a 1960 Suffolk University Law School graduate became the first African American to be appointed as a judge in New Hampshire in 1964.
John Joseph Moakley at a meeting with members of the Massachusetts congressional delegation and the Congressional Black Caucus, 1980s
Pictured: Joseph Kennedy, Edward Boland, John Joseph Moakley.
Event related to Suffolk University's African American Literature Collection
Pictured: Edward Clark, Dorothea Powell (BOAF), Daniel Perlman, Byron Rushing, Ted Hamann
Episode of the New American Gazette featuring Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 speech at the Ford Hall Forum, " Desegregation and the Future" [audio recording and transcript]
Three weeks before he was jailed for leading peaceful protesters in Birmingham, Alabama, Dr. King addressed the Ford Hall Forum in Boston on March 24 1963. His address, "The Future of Desegregation," coincided with the centennial of the Emancipation…
Correspondence between John Joseph Moakley and the Massachusetts Black Legislative Caucus regarding busing including a list of demands, April-May 1976
The letter from the Massachusetts Black Legislative Caucus discusses the attack on Theodore Landsmark and other violent incidents in Boston, and is signed by representatives Mary H. Goode, Royal Bolling Jr., Doris Bunte, Robert Fortes, Raymond…
Boston Massacre Trial re-enactment at Suffolk University Law School
Pictured: student Anthony Dellorfano (black robes)
Boston busing debate from an episode of “A Left and a Right” [audio recording and transcript]
The Boston Busing Debate was an episode of the television show “ A Left and a Right” which originally aired on Boston’s Channel 5 and was co-hosted two broadcast personalities, the conservative Avi Nelson and the outspoken “Dean of Talk Radio” Jerry…
Beyers Naudé's speech at the Ford Hall Forum, "South Africa," Parts 1 and 2 (audio recording and transcript)
Reverend Beyers Naudé, an Afrikaner and General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches, discusses the future of apartheid in South Africa.
Attendees at Suffolk University Law School's Black American Law Students Association (BALSA) dinner, 1985
Pictured left to right: Beverly Roby, Malcolm M. Donahue, Jack Robinson, Keesler H. Montgomery, Daniel H. Perlman
Allan Rohan Crite donating a print of his work, "Summer Madonna", to the Sawyer Library, 1979
L to R: President Thomas Fulham, Allan Rohan Crite, Collection Librarian Edmund Hamann, and English Professor Dr. Edward Clark. Crite received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters at commencement in 1979.
