Press print with caption "(B11)BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Sept. 4--SPREAD EAGLE--Police officers carry off a white demonstrator following protests at Ramsay High in Birmingham which was scheduled to be integrated today. (AP Wirephoto) (JL41115stf) See AP Wire Story 1963"

Birmingham, Alabama—Spread Eagle

September 4, 1963

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Protractor series
Black and white press print of a National Guardsman (left) standing in front of a multiple story high school building while two white girls in dresses look on from behind. Includes caption "On Guard, Little Rock, Arkansas: A National Guardsman continues his vigilance at the Central High School in Little Rock to bar entrance to Negroes. It was the second day in a row guardsman were stationed around the school on orders of Gov. Orval Faubus. The Justice Department has ordered a full probe in Little Rock for the Federal Judge whose integration order has twice been ignored."
Bridge Over the Alcan Sara, Joseph Pennell, etching
Hand-carved wooden frame in the so-called "whirlwind" pattern. According to Virginia Couse Leavitt, the artist's granddaughter, his earliest frame design "incorporates a scroll (whirlwind) at the center of each side, from which a barbed feather motif extends to the corners."