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San Francisco, California: September 21, 1972 Lawyer, activist, feminist, and civil rights leader Florynce Kennedy.
California Gov. Jerry Brown spoke to final session of Operation Push. At right is Rev. Jess Jackson, leader of Operation Push...
California Gov. Jerry Brown spoke to final session of Operation Push. At right is Rev. Jess Jackson, leader of Operation Push. July 14, 1975.
Civil rights march on Washington DC, photograph shows civil rights leaders, including Martin Luther King Jr. (center left, to...
Civil rights march on Washington DC, photograph shows civil rights leaders, including Martin Luther King Jr. (center left, to right of sign reading 'No U.S. dough to help Jim Crow Grow'), surrounded by crowds carrying signs, photograph by Warren K. Leffler, August 28, 1963.
George Wallace stepping aside as President John Kennedy walks to the speakers platform at Muscle Shoals, Alabama. JFK keeps h...
George Wallace stepping aside as President John Kennedy walks to the speakers platform at Muscle Shoals, Alabama. JFK keeps his head down, avoiding eye contact or communication with the segregationist governor. May 18, 1963.
12th Annual Conference of the NAACP. Detroit, Michigan, June 1921. James Weldon Johnson is fifth from right in the front row.
Graffiti, portrait of the civil rights leader Malcolm X in Harlem, West 147th Street, New York City, New York, USA, North Ame...
Graffiti, portrait of the civil rights leader Malcolm X in Harlem, West 147th Street, New York City, New York, USA, North America
Martin Luther King addresses Selma demonstrators. The previous day 2,500 protested the police violence of 'Bloody Sunday,' on...
Martin Luther King addresses Selma demonstrators. The previous day 2,500 protested the police violence of 'Bloody Sunday,' on March 7, 1965,
March on Washington. Martin Luther King delivers his famous 'I Have a Dream' speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. B...
March on Washington. Martin Luther King delivers his famous 'I Have a Dream' speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Behind King are two Black Muslims who provided security in spite of Elijah Muhammad's call for a boycott of the demonstration. Aug. 28, 1963.
Bayard Rustin, Mrs. Bowen Jackson, and Mrs. Earl Williams picket the segregated Ford's Theatre in Baltimore, Maryland. 1948.
USA, Washington DC: Martin Luther King Memorial to the negro Civil Rights leader on the National Mall
Frederick DOUGLASS, 1818-95, American abolitionist, writer and reformer, born into slavery, photographed c. 1879.
Medgar Evers, NAACP leader in Mississippi, being interviewed by Bill Peters. Peters (right) was an award-winning journalist w...
Medgar Evers, NAACP leader in Mississippi, being interviewed by Bill Peters. Peters (right) was an award-winning journalist who reported on the American civil rights movement. 1963.
Montgomery Bus Boycott leaders are cheered. Reverend Ralph D. Abernathy calms the audience at the First Baptist Church follow...
Montgomery Bus Boycott leaders are cheered. Reverend Ralph D. Abernathy calms the audience at the First Baptist Church following a standing ovation for leaders of the bus boycott. The leaders were indicted for violating a statue barring boycotts without just cause. Feb. 23, 1956.
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters group. President Asa Philip Randolph is in the center and Vice President Milton P. Webste...
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters group. President Asa Philip Randolph is in the center and Vice President Milton P. Webster is on his left. 1930s.
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters group. L-R: Ashley Totten, union official for the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, an...
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters group. L-R: Ashley Totten, union official for the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, an unidentified man, Asa Philip Randolph, and Maida Springer-Kemp, union official for International Packing House workers. 1950s.
Legal retaliation for Montgomery Bus Boycott. Ninety bus boycott leaders gather outside the courthouse in Montgomery, Alabama...
Legal retaliation for Montgomery Bus Boycott. Ninety bus boycott leaders gather outside the courthouse in Montgomery, Alabama, after arraignment for participation in the bus boycott. They were charged with violating a statue barring boycotts without just cause. February 25, 1956.
United States: 1918 Portrait of W.E.B. DuBois, historian, sociologist, and civil rights activist.
Fayette, Mississippi: July 7, 1969 Civil rights leader Charles Evers is sworn in as mayor of Fayette, Mississippi by Justice ...
Fayette, Mississippi: July 7, 1969 Civil rights leader Charles Evers is sworn in as mayor of Fayette, Mississippi by Justice of Peace Willie Thompson. Mrs. Evers holds the Bible for her husband. Charles is the brother of slain rights activist Medgar Evers.
Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977), African-American civil rights leader and vice-chairperson of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic...
Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977), African-American civil rights leader and vice-chairperson of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) challenged the legitimacy of the all-white Mississippi Democratic Party at the Democratic National Convention Atlantic City, New Jersey, August 1964.
Martin Luther King, removes a KKK cross burned on lawn of his home, as his son Martin stands next to him, Atlanta, Georgia. A...
Martin Luther King, removes a KKK cross burned on lawn of his home, as his son Martin stands next to him, Atlanta, Georgia. April 27, 1960.
Woman tourist in front of the Granite wall of The Martin Luther King Jr Memorial, West Potomac Park, Washington DC, USA
Communist mass meeting in New York City. A truck and individuals display signs welcoming leaders Israel Amter and William Pos...
Communist mass meeting in New York City. A truck and individuals display signs welcoming leaders Israel Amter and William Poster after their release from jail. Another reads, 'For Full Political and Social Equality for Negro Masses'. Oct. 21, 1930
Paris, France: November 17, 1975 Ex Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver holds a news conference to proclaim that he will re...
Paris, France: November 17, 1975 Ex Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver holds a news conference to proclaim that he will return to the United States after seven years in exile because America has changed. He says he is ready to face possible arrest when he returns.
Profile of Stokely Carmichael speaking and gesturing in midst of crowd demonstrating near the Capitol in Washington, DC. Janu...
Profile of Stokely Carmichael speaking and gesturing in midst of crowd demonstrating near the Capitol in Washington, DC. January 10, 1967.
USA, Washington DC: Martin Luther King Memorial to the negro Civil Rights leader on the National Mall
Dixieland is Nixonland', reads a big sign behind Republican Presidential candidate, Richard Nixon. Nixon's 'Southern Strategy...
Dixieland is Nixonland', reads a big sign behind Republican Presidential candidate, Richard Nixon. Nixon's 'Southern Strategy' took advantage of the Southern white voters resistance to 1960's Democratic Civil Rights legislation. May 31, 1968.
Reverend Paul Schenck Challenging Pro-Choice Activist,Reverend Paul Schenck of the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue argue...
Reverend Paul Schenck Challenging Pro-Choice Activist,Reverend Paul Schenck of the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue argues with pro-choice supporters during an abortion rights protest in Buffalo. One pro-choice supporter holds up a sign reading ""Keep Abortion Legal.""
USA, Washington DC: Martin Luther King Memorial to the negro Civil Rights leader on the National Mall
Mufti Zadeh in Tehran,The Iranian government arrested Zadeh during an ongoing campaign for religious freedom for Sunni Muslim...
Mufti Zadeh in Tehran,The Iranian government arrested Zadeh during an ongoing campaign for religious freedom for Sunni Muslims in Iran.
Audience at the First Baptist Church of Montgomery, Alabama during a standing ovation for the leaders of the Montgomery Impro...
Audience at the First Baptist Church of Montgomery, Alabama during a standing ovation for the leaders of the Montgomery Improvement Association in the early months of the year long bus boycott on February 23, 1956. Among the MIA leaders were Martin Luther King, Fred Shuttleswoth, and E. D. Nixon.
Mrs. Claire Cumberbatch, leader of the Bedford-Stuyvesant group protesting alleged 'segregated' school, leads oath of allegia...
Mrs. Claire Cumberbatch, leader of the Bedford-Stuyvesant group protesting alleged 'segregated' school, leads oath of allegiance.
Tourists in front of The Martin Luther King Jr Memorial, West Potomac Park, Washington DC, USA
Black Panther Party members show their support for leader Huey Newton at the Alameda County Courthouse in Oakland, California...
Black Panther Party members show their support for leader Huey Newton at the Alameda County Courthouse in Oakland, California. Huey was charged with killing a police officer, 1968
View at dusk of the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington, Monument, and the United States Capitol dome (left to right) in Washing...
View at dusk of the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington, Monument, and the United States Capitol dome (left to right) in Washington, DC.
Racist Murder in Mississippi. Bulah Melton, widow of shotgun-victim Clinton Melton, talks with NAACP field secretary Medgar E...
Racist Murder in Mississippi. Bulah Melton, widow of shotgun-victim Clinton Melton, talks with NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers. Clinton Melton, a gas station attendant was shot on December 3, 1955 by Elmer Kimbell. Mrs. Melton drowned in a suspicious car accident on Dec. 21, 1955, the week before the Kimbell's trial began. Kimbell was acquitted.
Demonstrators in the Bronx show their support for civil rights leader James Meredith after he was shot during his March Again...
Demonstrators in the Bronx show their support for civil rights leader James Meredith after he was shot during his March Against Fear
H. Rap Brown, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) holding a news conference on July 27, 1967. Hi...
H. Rap Brown, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) holding a news conference on July 27, 1967. His militant rhetoric provoked a criminal charge of inciting riot in Cambridge, Maryland. He made the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List when went underground avoid prosecution.
Profile of Stokely Carmichael speaking and gesturing in midst of crowd demonstrating near the Capitol in Washington, DC. Janu...
Profile of Stokely Carmichael speaking and gesturing in midst of crowd demonstrating near the Capitol in Washington, DC. January 10, 1967.
Nora Stanton Blatch (1883-1971), was the first U.S. woman to earn a degree in civil engineering and gain admission to the Ame...
Nora Stanton Blatch (1883-1971), was the first U.S. woman to earn a degree in civil engineering and gain admission to the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). She also followed her grandmother, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, as a leader in the campaign for women's rights.
Low angle view of a statue of Mahatma Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi's Monument, Goubert Avenue, Beach Road, Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu,...
Low angle view of a statue of Mahatma Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi's Monument, Goubert Avenue, Beach Road, Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu, India
Beatrice Young, victim of police beating. Young talks with Clarence Mitchell of NAACP after testifying before the Senate Subc...
Beatrice Young, victim of police beating. Young talks with Clarence Mitchell of NAACP after testifying before the Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights. Feb. 28, 1957.
Martin Luther King, Atlanta, GA, MLK, Sweet Auburn, Georgia, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s crypt illuminated in the evening in...
Martin Luther King, Atlanta, GA, MLK, Sweet Auburn, Georgia, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s crypt illuminated in the evening in the reflecting pool at The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Non-violent Social Change at the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site in Atlanta.
NYC Memorial service for Medgar Evers. On June 12, 1963, Evers was assassinated by White racist Byron De La Beckwith, because...
NYC Memorial service for Medgar Evers. On June 12, 1963, Evers was assassinated by White racist Byron De La Beckwith, because of Evers NAACP leadership in Mississippi.
Eleanor Roosevelt in the last decade of her life. In the 1950s she attempted to make the Democratic Party publically support ...
Eleanor Roosevelt in the last decade of her life. In the 1950s she attempted to make the Democratic Party publically support civil rights for African Americans. She served on the national boards the NAACP, CORE, and Ku Klux Klan had placed a bounty on her head. Ca. 1960.
John Lewis (left) and Hosea Williams, leaders of the Voting Rights campaign in Selma Alabama in February-March 1965. Both men...
John Lewis (left) and Hosea Williams, leaders of the Voting Rights campaign in Selma Alabama in February-March 1965. Both men were later elected to the US House of Representatives from Georgia.
President Lyndon Johnson signing the 1965 Civil Rights Bill, also known as the Voting Rights Act. The law came seven months a...
President Lyndon Johnson signing the 1965 Civil Rights Bill, also known as the Voting Rights Act. The law came seven months after Martin Luther King's Selma, Alabama campaign, which pressured Congress to pass the legislation. Aug. 6, 1965.
Listening to Booker T. Washington. An African American audience, some standing on railroad box cars, in New Orleans, Louisian...
Listening to Booker T. Washington. An African American audience, some standing on railroad box cars, in New Orleans, Louisiana. 1912.
Memorial for Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone,A gay pride rainbow banner hangs over a memorial in honor of Paul Wellstone, th...
Memorial for Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone,A gay pride rainbow banner hangs over a memorial in honor of Paul Wellstone, the Minnesota Senator who died in a place crash just before the 2002 elections.
Malcolm X speaks in support of the Harlem school boycott at a rally. In 1964 there were a series of public school boycotts an...
Malcolm X speaks in support of the Harlem school boycott at a rally. In 1964 there were a series of public school boycotts and protests against segregated schools and inferior education. Seated at right is Jesse Gray.
Students Demonstrating on Affirmative Action Proposition,California State University students stage a demonstration during a ...
Students Demonstrating on Affirmative Action Proposition,California State University students stage a demonstration during a speech given by former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. Duke is speaking in support of Proposition 209, which, if passed, would abolish affirmative action in the state of California.
USA, Washington DC: Martin Luther King Memorial to the negro Civil Rights leader on the National Mall
USA, Washington DC: Martin Luther King Memorial to the negro Civil Rights leader on the National Mall
Atlanta, Martin Luther King, GA, MLK, Sweet Auburn, Georgia, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s crypt illuminated in the evening in...
Atlanta, Martin Luther King, GA, MLK, Sweet Auburn, Georgia, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s crypt illuminated in the evening in the reflecting pool at the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Non-violent Social Change at the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site in Atlanta.
Monument by Branly Cadet in honour of the black Harlem civil rights leader Adam Clayton Powell Jr., 125th Street in Harlem, N...
Monument by Branly Cadet in honour of the black Harlem civil rights leader Adam Clayton Powell Jr., 125th Street in Harlem, New York City, New York, USA, North America
Empty seats of the Mississippi delegation at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Led by Fannie Lou Hamer, the Mississipp...
Empty seats of the Mississippi delegation at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Led by Fannie Lou Hamer, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party challenged the credentials of the all-White and anti-civil rights delegation. Aug. 24, 1964.
Coretta Scott King, Andrew Young, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Nobel Peace Prize Ceremonies, Oslo, Norway, December 10, 1...
Coretta Scott King, Andrew Young, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Nobel Peace Prize Ceremonies, Oslo, Norway, December 10, 1964
Pickets protest in front of Baltimore's Ford's Theater in 1948. At Center is Parren Mitchell an NAACP activist and later a Co...
Pickets protest in front of Baltimore's Ford's Theater in 1948. At Center is Parren Mitchell an NAACP activist and later a Congressman from the 7th congressional district of Maryland.
Elijah Muhammad addressing an assembly of white gowned Muslim followers in New York City in 1964. Above him a sign reads, 'Th...
Elijah Muhammad addressing an assembly of white gowned Muslim followers in New York City in 1964. Above him a sign reads, 'There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his Apostle'.
Frederick DOUGLASS, 1818-95, American abolitionist, writer and reformer, born into slavery, photographed c. 1879.
Byron de la Beckwith (1920-2001), Ku Klux Klan member under arrest for the murder of NAACP Civil Rights leader, Medgar Evers....
Byron de la Beckwith (1920-2001), Ku Klux Klan member under arrest for the murder of NAACP Civil Rights leader, Medgar Evers. Two juried failed to convict him in 1964, but he was found guilty in 1994, and spent the final years of his life in prison.
Leader s in the disability community speaking to a gathering of people with disabilities at an activists conference.
Ghana's President, Kwame Nkrumah, speaks in front of the Hotel Theresa, in Harlem. In the 1960s, some international leaders s...
Ghana's President, Kwame Nkrumah, speaks in front of the Hotel Theresa, in Harlem. In the 1960s, some international leaders stayed at the Hotel Theresa to show solidarity with the African American civil rights struggle. Oct. 6, 1960.
Dorothy Height and Rosa Gragg meet with LBJ. During the first month of his presidency, Johnson met with many African American...
Dorothy Height and Rosa Gragg meet with LBJ. During the first month of his presidency, Johnson met with many African American leaders as he developed his Great Society programs. Dec. 13, 1963.
NAACP leaders during press conference at their New York City headquarters. L-R: Roy Wilkins, Heman Sweatt, Robert L. Carter. ...
NAACP leaders during press conference at their New York City headquarters. L-R: Roy Wilkins, Heman Sweatt, Robert L. Carter. 1950.
SNCC leader John Lewis (light coat in center) cringes as an Alabama State Trooper swings his club at Lewis' head. Lewis was h...
SNCC leader John Lewis (light coat in center) cringes as an Alabama State Trooper swings his club at Lewis' head. Lewis was hospitalized for a head injury. March 7, 1965.
Martin Luther King Jr. and other leaders, March on Washington, Constitution Avenue, Washington DC, USA, August 28, 1963
Chandler Owen (1889–1967), was an African-American writer and activist. He spoke out during the Red Scare of 1919, and reject...
Chandler Owen (1889–1967), was an African-American writer and activist. He spoke out during the Red Scare of 1919, and rejected Booker T. Washington's vision of slow progress. He wrote speeches for many prominent politicians including Wendell Willkie, Thomas Dewey, Dwight Eisenhower, and Lyndon Johnson.
E.D. Nixon, one of the leaders of the Montgomery Alabama Bus Boycott is cheered by New York City crowds. Congressman Adam Cla...
E.D. Nixon, one of the leaders of the Montgomery Alabama Bus Boycott is cheered by New York City crowds. Congressman Adam Clayton Powell stands at his right. 1956.
Reverend Paul Schenck Holding Stillborn Fetus,Reverend Paul Schenck displays a 25-week-old still born fetus to the press duri...
Reverend Paul Schenck Holding Stillborn Fetus,Reverend Paul Schenck displays a 25-week-old still born fetus to the press during an Operation Rescue demonstration.
Byron de la Beckwith under questioning by the House on Un-American Activities. He took the Fifth Amendment when asked about h...
Byron de la Beckwith under questioning by the House on Un-American Activities. He took the Fifth Amendment when asked about his involvement with the Klan. Tried twice in 1964, but freed due to hung juries, he was finally convicted of the murder of NAACP leader, Medgar Evers in 1994. Jan. 12, 1966.
Stokely Carmichael speaking at the University of California at Berkeley. A large 'Black Power' sign and SDS initials for the ...
Stokely Carmichael speaking at the University of California at Berkeley. A large 'Black Power' sign and SDS initials for the leftist 'Students for a Democratic Society' are on the podium. Ca. 1965-67.
Alabama Gov. George Wallace talks to residents of an African American neighborhood that was bombed. In the 1960's, Birmingham...
Alabama Gov. George Wallace talks to residents of an African American neighborhood that was bombed. In the 1960's, Birmingham was called, 'Bombingham', because of the frequency of white racist terrorism against integrationists. April 1, 1965.
James Peck, bleeding on a hospital gurney in Birmingham, Alabama, following attack on a 'Freedom Riders' bus. May 14, 1961.
Fred Shuttlesworth, points a finger in warning to Birmingham city officials during the 1963 Civil Rights campaign in the 'mos...
Fred Shuttlesworth, points a finger in warning to Birmingham city officials during the 1963 Civil Rights campaign in the 'most segregated city in the United States.'.
President Lyndon Johnson signs the 24th Amendment to the Constitution. It prohibits payment of a poll tax or other types of t...
President Lyndon Johnson signs the 24th Amendment to the Constitution. It prohibits payment of a poll tax or other types of tax as a requirement for voting in federal elections. Standing, L-R: Bernarde Boutin, John McCormack, George Smathers, Andrew Biemiller, Spessard Holland, Joseph Rauh. Feb. 4, 1964.
John Lewis, founder of the Student Nonviolence Coordinating Committee (SNCC). In 1964 he organized SNCC’s efforts for 'Missis...
John Lewis, founder of the Student Nonviolence Coordinating Committee (SNCC). In 1964 he organized SNCC’s efforts for 'Mississippi Freedom Summer', a multi-organization Civil Rights drive to register Black voters across the south. April 16, 1964.
FBI agents escort Byron De La Beckwith into the Jackson city jail after his arrest for the killing of civil rights leader Med...
FBI agents escort Byron De La Beckwith into the Jackson city jail after his arrest for the killing of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, 1963
Charles H. Houston (1895-1950), lawyer and Howard University legal scholar, was the mastermind behind the NAACP's strategy to...
Charles H. Houston (1895-1950), lawyer and Howard University legal scholar, was the mastermind behind the NAACP's strategy to overturn the 1896 Supreme Court decision, Plessy vs. Ferguson, that legitimized segregation. 1939 photo.
United States: c. 1946 William E. B. DuBois, sociologist, scholar, and cofounder of the NAACP in 1909.
President-elect Richard Nixon meets with Civil Rights leaders. L-R: Ralph Abernathy, Southern Christian Leadership Conference...
President-elect Richard Nixon meets with Civil Rights leaders. L-R: Ralph Abernathy, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Hobson Reynolds, Philadelphia, head of the Negro Elks, John Murphy, Baltimore, National News Paper Association, Nixon, John H. Johnson, Chicago, Johnson publishing Co., Sandy F. Ray, Brooklyn, National Baptist Convention, Robert Brown, and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Nixon's adviser on urban affairs. Jan. 13,1969.
President Lyndon Johnson with Supreme Court nominee, Thurgood Marshall. Marshall was life-long legal advocate for Civil Right...
President Lyndon Johnson with Supreme Court nominee, Thurgood Marshall. Marshall was life-long legal advocate for Civil Rights and was the first African-American Supreme Court Justice. June 13, 1967.
John Lewis being ushered into a police patrol wagon during a demonstration in Nashville, Tennessee. April 29, 1964.
Stanley S. Scott interviewing Stokely Carmichael at Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) headquarters in New Yor...
Stanley S. Scott interviewing Stokely Carmichael at Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) headquarters in New York in 1966. Scott was the first full-time African American specialist reporter at the United Press International (UPI). Later he would serve as President Ford's Special Assistant to the President for Minority Affairs.
Police officer seizing Martin Luther King by the seat of his trousers, jailing him for leading an anti-segregation march. Bir...
Police officer seizing Martin Luther King by the seat of his trousers, jailing him for leading an anti-segregation march. Birmingham, Ala. April 12, 1963.
Convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, June 24-30, 1925, Denver, Colorado. Sitters inc...
Convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, June 24-30, 1925, Denver, Colorado. Sitters include NAACP staff: Walter White, Robert Bagnall, and James Weldon Johnson.
William Henry Hastie (1904-1976), a civilian aid to the War Department meeting with Robert Patterson in 1942. He was the firs...
William Henry Hastie (1904-1976), a civilian aid to the War Department meeting with Robert Patterson in 1942. He was the first African-American to serve as Governor of the US Virgin Islands, as a Federal judge, and as a Federal appellate judge.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Portrait of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, better known as Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948, Indian spiritua...
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Portrait of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, better known as Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948, Indian spiritual master and politician. Chromolithography 1936.
Civil Rights leader Fred Shuttlesworth being booked at the Birmingham Police Station in connection with attempts to desegrega...
Civil Rights leader Fred Shuttlesworth being booked at the Birmingham Police Station in connection with attempts to desegregate buses. May 19, 1961.
Attorney General Robert Kennedy addresses civil rights demonstrators. He denied that the Justice Department discriminated aga...
Attorney General Robert Kennedy addresses civil rights demonstrators. He denied that the Justice Department discriminated against Blacks, and hired on the basis of ability and integrity. He added that ' I'm not going to go out and hire a Negro just because he is not White.' June 14, 1963
A Ku Klux Klan 'Security Patrol' walk behind Jeremiah X (left in light suit), leader of Atlanta's Black Muslim sect. Jeremiah...
A Ku Klux Klan 'Security Patrol' walk behind Jeremiah X (left in light suit), leader of Atlanta's Black Muslim sect. Jeremiah X and an aide, were turned away when they attempted to tour downtown Hurt Park where Klan was having rally. March 22, 1964.
Fist and last pages of the 1968 Civil Rights. The law prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental, and financing of...
Fist and last pages of the 1968 Civil Rights. The law prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental, and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin, or sex. It is also known as the Fair Housing Act of 1968. April 11, 1968.
Pastor H.C. McClain looking over the burned ruins of his High Hope Baptist Church, Dawson, Georgia. It was the fourth in a se...
Pastor H.C. McClain looking over the burned ruins of his High Hope Baptist Church, Dawson, Georgia. It was the fourth in a series of African American church burnings, presumably to discourage Civil Rights activism. September 17, 1962
WASHINGTON, DC: Leaders of the March on Washington, lock hands & arms together as they move along Constitution Ave, August 28...
WASHINGTON, DC: Leaders of the March on Washington, lock hands & arms together as they move along Constitution Ave, August 28, 1963. A. Philip Randolph, march director, (R), Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the NAACP, 2nd from R. The Rev. Martin Luther King, is 7th from L.
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