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...
Civil rights marchers arrive at the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama after a 50 mile march from Selma to protest race discrimination in...
African-Americans line up to vote outside Bethel Missionary Baptist Church in the presidential election November 4, 2008 in Birmingham, Alabama....
Civil Rights activists are blocked by National Guardsmen brandishing bayonets while trying to stage a protest on Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee....
Sen. Barack Obama supporters celebrate as his win of the presidential election is announced November 4, 2008 in Birmingham, Alabama. Birmingham,...
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...
Civil rights leaders meet with U.S. President John F. Kennedy, Oval Office, White House, after the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom,...
Civil rights marchers protest in front of the White House for District of Columbia Home Rule in April of 1965.
Former United States First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and educator and Civil Rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune, 1937.
African American children participating in a Civil Rights protests wait for a police van to take them to jail in Birmingham, Alabama.
American Civil Rights leaders lead a protest march through the streets towards City Hall, Chicago, Illinois, July 10, 1966. Among those visible are...
African-American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr listening to a transistor radio in the front line of the third march from Selma to...
African-American Protestors removed from Steps of U.S. Capitol Building by Police during Civil Rights Protest, Washington, D.C., USA, Warren K....
Alabama State troopers "frisk" Negro youths arrested during demonstrations here 2/4 prior to boarding them on buses. More than 130 were arrested. UPI...
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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...
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....
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...
Young African American woman listens during a civil rights rally at the Lincoln Memorial August 28, 1963 in Washington.
Prichard, AL: Leaders of a march of about 255 persons stare at police officers who stopped the predominately Negro group from marching on city hall....
American Civil Rights leader Dr Martin Luther King Jr. And his wife Coretta Scott King lead others during on the Selma to Montgomery marches held in...
Trainees Richard Siller and Lois Bonzell of the Congress of Racial Equality maintain their stoic posture as they submit to an egg shampoo for civic...
Police officers in Albany, Georgia carry a demonstrator down the steps of the Albany Carnegie Library during a civil rights protest.
Civil rights marcher suffering from exposure to tear gas, holds an unconscious Amelia Boynton Robinson after mounted police officers attacked...
Protesters are lying at the entrance of the building site of a medical center on April 23, 1964 in New York to protest against the discrimation in...
View of American Religious and Civil Rights leader Dr Martin Luther King Jr as he stands on a balcony at the AG Gaston Motel during the Southern...
Bishop Smallwood Williams delivers a prayer during a civil rights movement demonstration in front of the White House, Washington DC, US, 18th June...
American civil rights campaigner, and widow of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King and civil rights leader Reverend Ralph Abernathy lead a...
Nannie Burroughs a campaigner for the education of women, civil rights and womens political rights, Washington DC, 1930.
Mourners march through Jackson, Mississippi in a funeral procession for slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
Mourners march and sing through Jackson, Mississippi in a funeral procession for slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
Coretta Scott King , wife of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., joins Women Strike for Peace founder Dagmar Wilson in a march on the United...
Group of African American anti-segregation demonstrators run for safety as they are sprayed with high-pressure water from fire hoses during a civil...
Chicago, IL- Civil rights demonstrators duck in an effort to avoid flying rocks and firecrackers hurled at them during a protest march against...
Chicago Defender publisher John H. Sengstacke , left, shakes the hand of civil rights activist Jesse Jackson at the Afro-American Patrolmen's League...
People holding hands at a civil rights demonstration in Washington, DC, in the aftermath of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham,...
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...
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...
African-Americans line up to vote in a school gymnasium in the presidential election November 4, 2008 in Birmingham, Alabama. Birmingham, along with...
Reverend Joseph Lowery, President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, his wife Evelyn, and John Lewis led several thousand civil rights...
Nannie Helen Burroughs, was an African-American educator and civil rights activist, Washington DC, 1930.
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...
Group of demonstrators of all ages protest against segregation in schools near the 16th Street Baptist Church, headquarters of the American Civil...
This carte-de-visite has a photographic print depicting Sergeant Jacob Johns seated, facing the viewer with his gloved hands resting on his lap. His...
African-Americans line up to vote in Bethel Missionary Baptist Church in the presidential election November 4, 2008 in Birmingham, Alabama....
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...