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B2021.004.261
Photographs from May 1981 Visit to Anchorage NAACP members by Virna Canson, national representative of NAACP
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Virna Canson, National Representative, NAACP, Anchorage, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.265
Photographs from May 1981 Visit to Anchorage NAACP members by Virna Canson, national representative of NAACP
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Virna Canson, National Representative, NAACP, Anchorage, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.266
Photographs from May 1981 Visit to Anchorage NAACP members by Virna Canson, national representative of NAACP
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Virna Canson, National Representative, NAACP, Anchorage, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.267
Photographs from May 1981 Visit to Anchorage NAACP members by Virna Canson, national representative of NAACP
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Virna Canson, National Representative, NAACP, Anchorage, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.Box6.Page10
.262-.267 [Photographs from May 1981 Visit to Anchorage NAACP members by Virna Canson, national representative of NAACP]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans, NAACP, Virna Canson
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.262
Photographs from May 1981 Visit to Anchorage NAACP members by Virna Canson, national representative of NAACP [Virna and Ed Wesley]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Virna Canson, National Representative, NAACP, Anchorage, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.Box6.Page9
.261 [Photographs from May 1981 Visit to Anchorage NAACP members by Virna Canson, national representative of NAACP]; "Wesley Elected"
Keywords: Ed Wesley, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans, Anchorage, NAACP, President, Virna Canson
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.263
Photographs from May 1981 Visit to Anchorage NAACP members by Virna Canson, national representative of NAACP [Virna center, Ed Wesley on right]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Virna Canson, National Representative, NAACP, Anchorage, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.264
Photographs from May 1981 Visit to Anchorage NAACP members by Virna Canson, national representative of NAACP [Virna center, Ed Wesley on right]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Virna Canson, National Representative, NAACP, Anchorage, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.Box6.Page6
Bramstedt to address NAACP, 4/8/1981; .258-260 [Photographs from April 8, 1981 Anchorage NAACP meeting with Alvin O. Bramstedt Sr.]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans, NAACP, Alvin O. Bramstedt Sr., Anchorage
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.Box6.Page8a
"NAACP representative suggests Alaskans look for local benefits" 5/15/1981
Keywords: Ed Wesley, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans, Anchorage, Virna Canson, NAACP
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2022.002.40
Cal Williams, center in blue choir robe, at NAACP event
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B2021.004.Box6.Page1
"Porter faces NAACP questioning" 3/14/1980; .248-250 [Photographs from March 14, 1980 NAACP meeting with Anchorage Police Chief Brian Porter]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans, NAACP, Brian Porter, Anchorage, Police Chief
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2022.002.33
(Left to right) Darrel Hess, Jewel Jones, Richard Watts, Cal Williams after NAACP Anchorage event [Cal Williams with other NAACP Anchorage volunteer leaders]
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B2021.004.Box6.Page7
"Mayor declares Sunday NAACP day" 5/14/1981; "Ham it up for your mother" 5/8/1981; "NAACP will celebrate" 5/8/1981, "The Anchorage N.A.A.C.P. Presents Spring Festival May 15, 1981"
Keywords: Ed Wesley, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans, NAACP, NAACP Day, Anchorage
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.205
Cal Williams, Ed Wesley, Celeste Hodge Growden, and Antonio Lewis at C.T. Lewis NAACP Freedom Fund Banquet, Anchorage Alaska. Note on Back: “2017 NAACP Freedom Fund Banquet”
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Cal Williams, Celeste Hodge Growden, Antonio Lewis, C.T. Lewis NAACP Freedom Fund Banquet, NAACP, Banquet, Anchorage, 2017, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.248
Photographs from March 14, 1980 NAACP meeting with Anchorage Police Chief Brian Porter
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Anchorage, Police Chief, Brian Porter, NAACP, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.249
Photographs from March 14, 1980 NAACP meeting with Anchorage Police Chief Brian Porter
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Anchorage, Police Chief, Brian Porter, NAACP, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.250
Photographs from March 14, 1980 NAACP meeting with Anchorage Police Chief Brian Porter
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Anchorage, Police Chief, Brian Porter, NAACP, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.258
Photographs from April 8, 1981 Anchorage NAACP meeting with Alvin O. Bramstedt Sr.
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Anchorage, NAACP, Meeting, Alvin O. Bramstedt Sr., History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.259
Photographs from April 8, 1981 Anchorage NAACP meeting with Alvin O. Bramstedt Sr.
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Anchorage, NAACP, Meeting, Alvin O. Bramstedt Sr., History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.260
Photographs from April 8, 1981 Anchorage NAACP meeting with Alvin O. Bramstedt Sr.
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Anchorage, NAACP, Meeting, Alvin O. Bramstedt Sr., History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.Box6.Page8b
"'Olympics of mind' Saturday" [Afro-American Cultural Technological Scientific Olympics, ACT-SO, NAACP]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans, Afro-American Cultural Technological Scientific Olympics, ACT-SO, NAACP, Black is Brilliant, Anchorage
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.274
Photographs from 1980 parade with Anchorage NAACP members on horseback, in and atop mobile home, and youth participating in 1981 ACT-SO Competition. Banners on mobile home: "Freedom Ain't Free Let's Support the NAACP" and "Denver Bound NAACP 1981 National Convention" [ACT-SO: Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, 1980, Parade, Anchorage, NAACP, ACT-SO, Academic Cultural Technological and Scientific Olympics, Banners, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2022.001.054
Left to right: Barry Evans, Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich, Mayfield Evans, NAACP event
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B2022.002.15
Cal Williams when he was President of NAACP Anchorage, 1968 [Cal Williams smoking a cigarette, wearing a dashiki, Condition note: photograph torn near Cal Williams’s lips, handwritten note on back: 1968 President of Anchorage NAACP]
Collection: B2022.002 Cal Williams
B2021.004.276
Photographs from 1980 parade with Anchorage NAACP members on horseback, in and atop mobile home, and youth participating in 1981 ACT-SO Competition. Banner: "Freedome Ain't Free Let's Support The NAACP" [ACT-SO: Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, 1980, Parade, Anchorage, NAACP, ACT-SO, Academic Cultural Technological and Scientific Olympics, Banner, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.251
Photographs from July 10, 1981 Anchorage NAACP meeting with Robert B. Atwood, editor and publisher of The Anchorage Times
Keywords: Ed Wesley, NAACP, Robert B. Atwood, Editor, Publisher, The Anchorage Times, Anchorage, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.252
Photographs from July 10, 1981 Anchorage NAACP meeting with Robert B. Atwood, editor and publisher of The Anchorage Times
Keywords: Ed Wesley, NAACP, Robert B. Atwood, Editor, Publisher, The Anchorage Times, Anchorage, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.253
Photographs from July 10, 1981 Anchorage NAACP meeting with Robert B. Atwood, editor and publisher of The Anchorage Times
Keywords: Ed Wesley, NAACP, Robert B. Atwood, Editor, Publisher, The Anchorage Times, Anchorage, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.197
M. Ashley Dickerson [NAACP "Black is Brilliant" ACT-SO (Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics) banner in background]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, M. Ashley Dickerson, NAACP, Black is Brilliant, ACT-SO, Afro-Academic Cultural Technological and Scientific Olympics, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.269
Photographs from August 1981 Anchorage NAACP meeting with Bob Hughes, a mediator for the U.S. Department of Justice, and Brian Porter, Anchorage Police Chief
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Anchorage, NAACP, Meeting, Bob Hughes, Mediator, U.S. Department of Justice, Brian Porter, Police Chief, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.Box6.Page5
"African violets to go on display" 3/27/1981; "Black students will compete" 3/27/1981 [Afro-American Cultural Technological Scientific Olympics, ACT-SO, NAACP]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans, Afro-American Cultural Technological Scientific Olympics, ACT-SO, NAACP
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2022.001.141
Certificate of Recognition from National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to Mayfield Evans, signed by Loretta Jenkins, President, February 2, 1990
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B2021.004.270
Photographs from August 1981 Anchorage NAACP meeting with Bob Hughes, a mediator for the U.S. Department of Justice, and Brian Porter, Anchorage Police Chief [Ed Wesley on left]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Anchorage, NAACP, Meeting, Bob Hughes, Mediator, U.S. Department of Justice, Brian Porter, Police Chief, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.Box6.Page2
.251-253 [Photographs from July 10, 1981 Anchorage NAACP meeting with Robert B. Atwood,
editor and publisher of The Anchorage Times] ; "Publisher to be speaker" 7/8/1981
Keywords: Ed Wesley, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans, Anchorage, NAACP, Robert B. Atwood, Publisher, The Anchorage Times
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.268
Photographs from August 1981 Anchorage NAACP meeting with Bob Hughes, a mediator for the U.S. Department of Justice, and Brian Porter, Anchorage Police Chief [Ed Wesley second from left]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Anchorage, NAACP, Meeting, Bob Hughes, Mediator, U.S. Department of Justice, Brian Porter, Police Chief, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.275
Photographs from 1980 parade with Anchorage NAACP members on horseback, in and atop mobile home, and youth participating in 1981 ACT-SO Competition [ACT-SO: Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, 1980, Parade, Anchorage, NAACP, Members, ACT-SO, Academic Cultural Technological and Scientific Olympics, Horseback, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.187
Ed Wesley and others with M. Ashley Dickerson [Ed Wesley at podium with Rosa Parks to his left. NAACP "Black is Brilliant" ACT-SO (Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics) banner in background]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, M. Ashley Dickerson, Rosa Parks, NAACP, ACT-SO, Afro-Academic Cultural Technological and Scientific Olympics, Black is Brilliant, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2022.001.080
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Academic, Cultural, Technological & Scientific Olympics (ACT-SO), in appreciation to Mayfield Evans, May 20, 2012 [Condition Note: slight crinkling of right edge]
Collection: B2022.001 Mayfield Evans Collection
B2021.004.194
Ed Wesley, Tony Knowles and others with Rosa Parks [Rosa Parks in center with Knowles and Wesley to right. NAACP "Black is Brilliant" ACT-SO (Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics) banner in background]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Rosa Parks, Tony Knowles, NAACP, Black is Brilliant, ACT-SO, Afro-Academic Cultural Technological and Scientific Olympics, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.272
Photographs from 1980 parade with Anchorage NAACP members on horseback, in and atop mobile home, and youth participating in 1981 ACT-SO Competition [Children with winners banner. ACT-SO: Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, 1980, Parade, Anchorage, NAACP, ACT-SO, Academic Cultural Technological and Scientific Olympics, Children, Youth, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.Box6.Page12
"Police, minorities agree to work together" 8/6/1981; .268-270 [Photographs from August 1981 Anchorage NAACP meeting with Bob Hughes, a mediator for the U.S. Department of Justice, and Brian Porter, Anchorage Police Chief]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans, Anchorage, NAACP, Bob Hughes, U.S. Department of Justice, Brian Porter, Police Chief
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley
B2021.004.189
Ed Wesley, M. Ashley Dickerson and others with Rosa Parks [Rosa Parks next to Ed Wesley in bowtie. NAACP "Black is Brilliant" ACT-SO (Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics) banner in background]
Keywords: Ed Wesley, Rosa Parks, M. Ashley Dickerson, NAACP, Black is Brilliant, ACT-SO, Afro-Academic Cultural Technological and Scientific Olympics, History Makers, HistoryMakers, African Americans, Black Alaskans
Collection: B2021.004 Wesley