North Little Rock, AR: Four negro students ignore taunts of white students and adults as they attempted to enter North Little Rock High School...
Singer Mahalia Jackson speaking at the Illinois Rally for Civil Rights at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois. Over 70,000 persons attended the rally.
Alabama State troopers "frisk" Negro youths arrested during demonstrations here 2/4 prior to boarding them on buses. More than 130 were arrested. UPI...
African-American Protestors removed from Steps of U.S. Capitol Building by Police during Civil Rights Protest, Washington, D.C., USA, Warren K....
Bishop Smallwood Williams delivers a prayer during a civil rights movement demonstration in front of the White House, Washington DC, US, 18th June...
President Johnson shakes hands with civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., and hands him a pen to sign the Civil Right Act on July 2, 1964.
African-Americans line up to vote outside Bethel Missionary Baptist Church in the presidential election November 4, 2008 in Birmingham, Alabama....
Charlotte, North Carolina: Dorothy Geraldine Counts, 15 is followed by a crowd of jeering teenagers as she leaves Harding high school with her...
View of people gathered outside various businesses along the route of the 'Walk for Understanding' march through the Central Ward neighborhood on the...
The House of Representatives met today to affirm seating of its Mississippi members, as Civil Rights demonstrators massed in silent support of their...
The Civil Rights Act of being enacted by President Lyndon Johnson, July 2 civil rights legislation in the United States, that outlawed major forms of...
Poster calling for support for the strikers is displayed in 1946 amid books in the window of the "Ben Davis Club", the political office of Benjamin...
Young African American woman listens during a civil rights rally at the Lincoln Memorial August 28, 1963 in Washington.
Procession of African Americans carrying signs for equal rights, integrated schools, decent housing, and an end to bias.
Ten-year-old Mishaew Washington of Hyattsville, Maryland sits in a vintage 50's era bus in front of the Metropolitan AME Church during a memorial...
View of the crowd marching during the March on Washington, Washington, DC, August 28, 1963. Some carry banners and signs. Some of the signs read We...
African-Americans line up to vote in a school gymnasium in the presidential election November 4, 2008 in Birmingham, Alabama. Birmingham, along with...
Washington, DC: Placard-bearing demonstrators march down Constitution Avenue from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial during the civil...
Reverend Joseph Lowery, President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, his wife Evelyn, and John Lewis led several thousand civil rights...
American singer and Civil Rights activist Oscar Brown Jr performs onstage at the Black Aesthetic Festival held Museum of Science & Industry, Chicago,...
Nannie Helen Burroughs, was an African-American educator and civil rights activist, Washington DC, 1930.
Holding their fingers in a victory salute, civil rights supporters Senator Hubert Humphrey , Senator Philip A. Hart , Rev. Ralph Abernathy, Dr....
View of nine-year-old African-American student Linda Brown sits with her classmates at the racially segregated Monroe Elementary School, Topeka,...
Police officers attack civil rights marchers in Selma, Alabama who were attempting to begin a 50 mile march to Montgomery to protest race...
African-Americans line up to vote in a recreation center in the presidential election November 4, 2008 in Birmingham, Alabama. Birmingham, along with...
Civil rights marchers arrive at the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama after a 50 mile march from Selma to protest race discrimination in...
Black and white US people demonstrate during the "March on Washington for jobs and freedom" on August 28, 1963 on Constitution Avenue in Washington...
African-American writer, feminist, poet and civil-rights activist Audre Lorde poses for a photograph during her 1983 residency at the Atlantic Center...
Marchers cheer after civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech at the conclusion of the March on Washington on...
Selma, Alabama: End Of The March. SNCC leader John Lewis , attempts to ward off the blow as a burly state trooper swings his club at Lewis' head...
New York, NY-ORIGINAL CAPTION READS: Negro nationalist Malcolm X, during press conference in offices of the National Memorial African Book Store here...
Surrounded by a crowd of jeering pro-segregationists, former police officer Benny G Oliver kicks Civil Rights activist and college student Memphis...
Sen. Barack Obama supporters celebrate as his win of the presidential election is announced November 4, 2008 in Birmingham, Alabama. Birmingham,...
African-Americans line up to vote in Bethel Missionary Baptist Church in the presidential election November 4, 2008 in Birmingham, Alabama....
Civil Rights leader James Armstrong cuts Spencer Hill's hair in his barber shop where he also cut Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s hair October 31, 2008...
President-elect Donald Trump shakes hands with Martin Luther King III after meeting at Trump Tower in New York City on January 16, 2017. The eldest...
Montgomery, AL: Dr. Martin Luther King leads thousands of civil rights demonstrators out on the last leg of their Selma to Montgomery 50-mile hike....
Civil Rights activists are blocked by National Guardsmen brandishing bayonets while trying to stage a protest on Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee....
National Guard troops block off Beale Street as Civil Rights marchers wearing placards reading, "I AM A MAN" pass by on March 29, 1968. It was the...
American religious and Civil Rights leader Reverend Martin Luther King Jr speaks at Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, May 3, 1964. Reverend King...
Memphis, Tennessee: An unidentified woman has difficulty holding back her tears as she watches the casket of slain Civil Rights leader, Dr. Martin...
Civil Rights activist Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr. And his wife Coretta, daughter Yolanda & Martin Luther III sitting together as they play piano in...
Back view of American civil rights leader and Baptist minister Martin Luther King, Jr. , dressed in black robes and holding out his hands towards the...
The Civil Rights Act of being enacted by President Lyndon Johnson, July 2, 1964. Civil rights legislation in the United States, that outlawed major...
Portrait of Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune , civil rights activist and president and founder of Bethune Cookman College, ca.1920s.
African-Americans line up to vote in the presidential election November 4, 2008 in Birmingham, Alabama. Birmingham, along with Selma and Montgomery,...
College students on the NAACP's "Vote Hard" bus tour encourage people to vote in the George Washington Carver Homes housing project next to the...
During a Civil Rights demonstration, police officers drag a woman along the grass to a waiting paddy wagon, Birmingham, Alabama, 1963.
San Francisco civil rights activist Tracy Sims leads a demonstration against the Harbor Court Hotel for its refusal to hire African Americans.
South African doctor and civil rights campaigner G. M. 'Monty' Naicker , president of the Natal Indian Congress and chairman of the Passive...
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. With John Lewis, of SNCC, King's aide, Rev. Ralph Abernathy , Dr. Ralph Bunche , Mrs. King , and Rev. Hosea Williams...
Dorothy Ferebee, educator and Civil Rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune and educator and Civil Rights activist Dorothy Height sitting at a table...
Policeman applies an arm lock on comedian Dick Gregory after he left the Leflore County Court House to help Negroes register to vote, Greenwood,...
American Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr speaks from a lecturn at the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, Washington DC, February 6,...
