xt741n7xpf3k https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt741n7xpf3k/data/mets.xml https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt741n7xpf3k/data/2015av010.dao.xml McCann, Calvert C. 1961-1964 collections 2015av010 English University of Kentucky The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.  Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. Calvert McCann photographs Civil rights demonstrations -- Kentucky Civil rights -- Kentucky -- Lexington. black-and-white photographs Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972 King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990 Walker, Wyatt Tee McCann, Calvert C. McCann, Calvert C. Armstrong, Louis Congress of Racial Equality Phoenix Hotel (Lexington, Ky.) Calvert McCann photographs text 3.7 Cubic Feet 7 boxes Calvert McCann photographs 1961 1961-1964 2016 true xt741n7xpf3k collection true 2015av010 2015av010 McCann, Calvert photographs Calvert McCann photographs, 1961-1964  2015av010 Finding aid prepared by Megan Mummey University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center 2015 January 5 Special Collections Research Center Margaret I. King Building, North Lexington 40506-0039 SCLREF@LSV.UKY.EDU URL:  This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on  2016-02-18 10:56:34 -0500 . Describing Archives: A Content Standard 
   
     
       English 
     
     
       University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center 
     
     Calvert McCann photographs 
     
       McCann, Calvert C. 
     
     2015av010 
     
       3.7 Cubic Feet 
       7 boxes 
     
     1961-1964 
   
   
     Conditions Governing Access 
 Collection is open to researchers by appointment.    
   
     Immediate Source of Acquisition 
 Transfer, 2015    
   
     Arrangement 
 Collection preserves numbering by the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center.    
   
     Biographical / Historical 
 Calvert McCann (1942-2014) was a teenager when he began participating in marches and demonstrations as part of the civil rights movement in Lexington in the 1960s. While a part time employee at Michael’s Photography Store in downtown Lexington, McCann began to document these experiences on a Pentax 35mm camera that he carried everywhere. He photographed demonstrations in downtown Lexington, sit-ins at lunch counters, protests at the Phoenix Hotel, and the March on Frankfort led by Martin Luther King, Jr. Much of the footage he took remained undeveloped until the early 2000s when McCann gave the film to Gerald Smith. Smith used the images in his book  Black America Series: Lexington, Kentucky .  Additionally, McCann worked for the Peace Corp in Nigeria during the 1960s. He attended many schools including the Tuskegee Institute, University of Kentucky, Kentucky State University, University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Wisconsin. He worked as a social worker for the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government. McCann died in Lexington, Kentucky, in 2014. Source: Ward, Karla.  Calvert McCann, whose photos chronicled Lexington's civil rights movement, dies at 72.   Lexington Herald-Leader . November 24, 2014. Accessed January 6, 2016. http://www.kentucky.com/news/local/obituaries/article44525868.html    
   
     Preferred Citation 
 2015av010: [identification of item], Calvert McCann photographs, 1961-1964, University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.    
   
     Scope and Contents 
 The Calvert McCann photographs (dated 1961-1964; 3.7 cubic feet; 7 boxes) consist of 20 black and white photographic prints depicting the Civil Rights Movement in Lexington and Frankfort, Kentucky. The photographs show sit-ins at lunch counters, demonstrations in downtown lexington, Louis Armstrong refusing to cross a picket line at the Phoenix Hotel, and the March on Frankfort led by Martin Luther King, Jr, Ralphy Abernathy, Wyatt Tee Walker, and Jackie Robinson. In 2004, Calvert McCann gave University of Kentucky faculty member Dr. Gerald L. Smith his undeveloped negatives from the 1960s. Smith used these images in his book  Black America Series: Lexington, Kentucky . These particular prints originally hung in UK's Martin Luther King Center housed in the Student Center. The photographs provide a glimpse into the Civil Rights Movement which was seldom covered by local newspapers and media.    
   
     Conditions Governing Use 
 The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.    
   
     Civil rights demonstrations -- Kentucky 
     Civil rights -- Kentucky -- Lexington. 
     black-and-white photographs 
     Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972 
     King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 
     Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990 
     Walker, Wyatt Tee 
     McCann, Calvert C. 
     McCann, Calvert C. 
     Armstrong, Louis 
     Congress of Racial Equality 
     Phoenix Hotel (Lexington, Ky.) 
   
   Demonstration at the Phoenix Hotel 1961 December 1 1 Scope and Contents Many of the demonstrators were students from Dunbar High School on Upper Street. Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) picket line at the Phoenix Hotel 1961 December 1 2 Scope and Contents The Phoenix Hotel was targed by the CORE for its racist policis. Demonstrators tried to enter the hotel but were ousted from the premises. Among the demonstrators in front of the WVLK van are Reverend Jones and his wife. Rev. Jones' church, Pleasant Green Missionary Baptist Church, hosted most of CORE's rallies. Louis Armstrong in his tour bus at the Phoenix Hotel 1961 December 1 3 Scope and Contents Pictured in the doorway of his tour bus, Louis Armstron came to Lexington to perform at the Phoenix Hotel in December 1961. After arriving in Lexington, he discovered that the hotel barred blacks from entering. The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) was demonstrating in front of the hotel. Armstrong did not want to cross the picket line but was afraid that he would be sued if he did not perform. Martin Luther King, Jr. leading the March on Frankfort 1964 March 5 2 4 March on Frankfort led by (from left) Martin Luther King, Jr.; Ralph Abernathy; Wyatt Tee Walker; and Jackie Robinson 2 5 Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) sit-in in front of the old Lexington City Hall on Walnut Street, pictured are students from the Lexington Theological Seminary and leaders of the Lexington chapter of CORE, Julia Lewis and Ronald Berry circa 1960s 2 6 Dunbar High School student, Deloris McDowel, at a lunch counter sit-in at the Lexington F.W. Woolworth's lunch counter circa 1960s 3 7 University of Kentucky student, Nieta Dunn, sitting in the all-white section at a dime store lunch counter circa 1960s 3 8 Sit-in at a downtown Lexington lunch counter, (from left) Reverend W. H. Howard, Reverend J. S. Beverly, and Reverend A. B. Lee circa 1960s 3 9 Women at a lunch counter sit-in circa 1960s 4 10 Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking on the steps of the Kentucky State Capitol at the March on Frankfort 1964 March 5 4 11 Demonstration in downtown Lexington with protester holding a sing  Marching for Freedom circa 1960s 4 12 Crowd at the March on Frankfort 1964 March 5 5 13 Children and adults marching down Lexington's Main Street in front of the stores Hymson's and Martin's circa 1960s 5 14 Henry Jones and his younger brother leading a demonstration on Lexington's Main Street circa 1960s 5 15 Demonstrator's marching past Main Street, Lexington stores circa 1960s 6 16 Demonstrator's holding signs reading  Bury Jim Crow  and  Make America for all Americans circa 1960s 6 17 Prayer vigil for justice in front of the Fayette County Courthouse on Main Street, Lexington, Kentucky circa 1960s 6 18 Scope and Contents Prayer vigils for justice were held in front of the Fayette County Courthouse on Main Street. They were usually held when Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) members were being tried for disorderly conduct for marching. Demonstrators marching along Lexington's Main Street circa 1960s 7 19 Dog with protest sign reading  Birmingham Now Lexington Next? circa 1963 7 20 Scope and Contents Violence in Birmingham, Alabama, in the summer of 1963 inspired the sign in this photograph.