Walking Boots
Mothers Protesting
Protest, California
Cry Freedom
Indians and Goverment Officials
Civil Rights Demonstrators
John Lewis in Cairo, Illinois
Miner's Relief Station
Police Officer and Protestors at May Day Rally, San Francisco
The Grapes of Wrath...
Jan Rose Kasmir with flower, Peace March...
One of high school student Taylor Washington's numerous...
Water Battle: A policeman [James Hewitt]...
Mother with baby at Ring Around Congress...
The first sit-in arrests I see and photograph...
Pressing for Freedom: Demonstrators and passer by...
Sheriff Jim Clark arrests two demonstrators who displayed....
1963
Height of battle between police and strikers in the...
The Battle is On: Police and anti-war demonstrators...
Views of the Selma March
Charles Moore
Strikers Behind Bars
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Leesburg Stockade, Leesburg, Georgia
Danny Lyon
Singing "freedom sings" under police guard...
Anonymous
Selma, Alabama, "Marchers continue their hike"...
Anonymous
The Selma to Montgomery Marches...
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Mountain highway vista
Migrant family, highway 10, Montana
Migrant to Oregon from South Dakota
Line of marchers in front of Capitol, March on Washington
Ellis Island Madonna
Jan Rose Kasmir with flower, Peace March, Pentagon, Washington D.C.
Segregated drinking fountains in the county courthouse in Albany, Georgia
Martin Luther King, Jr., arrested on a loitering charge
Man leaning on fence with pipe at the Civil Rights March on Washington
One-room schoolhouse (raising flag)
John Lewis in Cairo
Students Minnie Brown, 15 and Thelma Mothershed, 16; and Mrs. L.C. Bates, President of the Arkansas Chapter of the NAACP, are shown in a court corridor as Federal Judge Ronald Davies denied the petition of the Little Rock School Board to delay integration. Brown and Mothershed are two of the nine negro students barred from the Little Rock Central High School. Little Rock, AK.
We Demand an End to Bias Now! Huddle of demonstrators, March on Washington
Suffrage March
Integration of Little Rock Central High School: Heckling and insulting, a gang of whites start to follow two colored youths, John Williams and Laurence Coley
James Meredith can relax now on the Ole Miss campus. Ten years ago it was a different story. Meredith says he holds no ill feelings. He may even send his son to Ole Miss. Ten years ago he broke the color barrier at the University of Mississippi. The state and federal governments were thrown into direct confrontation. His diploma cost the federal government $5 million. Bill Crider, Associated Press reporter, was among those injured in the riot. He met Meredith on campus recently to compare memories. A bearded Meredith, now 10 years older, returned earlier this year to visit a tranquil University of Mississippi campus
Wants in University: Vivian Malone, twenty-year-old student at Alabama A&M here, has applied for admission to the University of Alabama. Called a very good student here, she wants to study a general business course. The university has had only one Negro student, Autherine Lucy, expelled soon after she entered in 1956
Miner’s relief station, Penn – Ohio – W. VA.
Emancipated Slaves
A Committee of the Osage Council which is in Washington to urge legislation to have the name "Amerind" which is a word composed of the first syllables of "American Indian" adopted as the official design designation of the original inhabitants of this continent. It is the contention of the Osage tribe that the name Indian is a misnomer as shown in the World War when American Indian members of the A.E.F. were referred to by the foreign press as Red Indians to distinguish them from the Hindu, or East Indian. Right to left are Arthur Bonnicastle, Chief of the e Osage Tribe, John Abbott, O.W. Kenworthy, Wah Sho Shoh, Fred Lookout, Perry King
The Grapes of Wrath: Members and supporters of Cesar Chavez' United Farm Workers picketed along a dirt road in South-Central California's Coachella Valley yesterday at one of 40 vineyards whose owners have announced contracts with the Teamsters Union. Chavez, who called the rival pacts "sweetheart contracts," said time is his union's best friend in the long-standing struggle with the Teamsters
Selma, Alabama, "Marchers continue their hike"
Walking Boots: James Meredith tries on the walking boots he will be wearing when he resumes his 200-mile march from near Hernando, Mississippi to Jackson. Meredith, who was shot from ambush during the second day of a similar walk last year, said he will began the 10-day hike on Saturday, Jackson, Mississippi
Hoe Squad
Police Officer and Protesters at May Day Rally, San Francisco
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The Niagara, New York, power project was opposed by the Tuscarora Indians who didn't want to give up land. More than 500 acres of a 1,880-acre reservoir built back of the power station was owned by the Tuscaroras. The Supreme Court ruled the land was not properly a reservation
Cotton Pickers
New York Stock Exchange
Farmer pouring out corn cobs from basket
Construction workers in line
On the way to the “I Have a Dream” speech given by Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Washington D.C.
Demonstrators with pamphlets at Gay Liberation March, New York City
The Selma to Montgomery Marches: marchers crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge on "Bloody Sunday," Selma
Racial turmoil in Selma on "Bloody Sunday" as would-be marchers are assaulted by Alabama state troopers as they attempt the march to Montgomery. A state trooper beats SNCC Chairman John Lewis as other marchers run toward the Edmund Pettus Bridge
San Francisco Waterfront, the General Strike
Mobile's Poor People's March: Shown is a segment of the Poor People's March here in Mobile today. The predominately Negro crowd obtained a parade permit and marched through a white residential neighborhood trying to demonstrate their poverty in Mobile. There were no incidents in connection with this singing, placard carrying demonstration, Mobile, Alabama
First Negro Congresswoman: Mrs. Shirley Chisholm gives the V for Victory sign in her Brooklyn, New York, headquarters early Wednesday morning, after learning she ahs been elected the first Negro woman ever to sit in the U.S. House of Representatives. Mrs. Chisholm, a Democrat, defeated her Republican opponent, James Farmer, New York,
Lithuanian Woman Just Arrived at Ellis Island
The Rev. Martin Luther King addresses a crowd estimated at 70,000 at a civil rights rally in Chicago's Soldier Field June 21, 1964. King told the rally that congressional approval of civil rights legislation heralds "The dawn of a new hope for the Negro."
Cry Freedom
Women Strike For Peace at the White House with Bella Abzug, Washington D.C.
Gay rights demonstrators on steps of Criminal Courts Building, New York
Studies in Expressions during the Mass Funeral Services of the Steel Workers Slain in South Chicago, Memorial Day
Only Playing
A few Added Thoughts: This is one of the sign-decorated plywood shanties making up "Resurrection City U.S.A." near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. Officials of the Poor People's Campaign said yesterday that weekend construction helped fill two thirds of the encampment with the tent-like shelters being erected for housing the demonstrators
Strikers Behind Bars: Some of the workers from the International Harvester Twine Plant in Chicago, wind up behind bars, after police broke up the demonstrations lasting 2 days, Chicago
You've come a long way, baby!
Indians and government officials walked around a tepee before entering it for a powwow over the weekend. The meeting of Indians, their attorney and Justice Department officials at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, was part of weekend efforts to end the Indian occupation of the settlement
Height of battle between police and strikers in the Central Market at Minneapolis, shows C. Arthur Lyman, business and civic leader who was serving as a special deputy, being beaten to death. Minneapolis, MN
A bank that failed, Southwest Kansas
Mothers Protesting
Windows of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, where four fourteen-year-old girls were killed by a KKK bomb
Singing "freedom songs" under police guard, hundreds of schoolchildren march down the middle of the street toward a detention compound after their mass arrest in front of the Dallas County courthouse, Selma, Alabama
“Better dead than red” sign at pro-Vietnam War demonstration, New York City
Windows of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, where four fourteen-year-old girls were killed by a KKK bomb
Demonstrators
Pressing for Freedom: demonstrators and passers-by watch a man portray the death of freedom of the press as he lies with a camera on his chest near the Federal Building. A newly imposed court order prohibits broadcasting and photographing in or near the building. At least nine newsmen were arrested on charges they openly defied the ban, which went into effect September 17, a week before the trial of eight persons accused of inciting riots during the Democratic National Convention last year, Chicago,
The Road to Yazoo City
Gay rights, AIDS memorial, San Francisco, CA
Crowd gathered around Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, March on Washington
On strike, garment district, New York City
Die wolken kratzer der Wall-Street (the skyscrapers of Wall Street)
Rapt workers at an election meeting
Construction worker in hardhat with "Bethlehem Steel" label and toolbox
Washington D.C.
Demonstration of the Gay Liberation Movement in New York City
City Government
"...And to you as well"
The whole force of workers in the cotton mills of Stevenson, Alabama. Several of them are apparently under twelve, but I could not get the ages. Photo posed by the general manager.
Ollie “Widow” Combs standing in front of bulldozer, Honey Gap, Knott County, Kentucky
Mountainous landscape with boulders in the foreground
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Highway with electrical wires
Road in Nevada
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Sheriff Jim Clark arrests two demonstrators who displayed placards on the steps of the federal building in Selma
Civil rights demonstrators held hands as they marched down Chicago's Balboa Drive en route to city hall to protest alleged school segregation. Originally, the march leaders had planned a two day school boycott in protest of the rehiring of school superintendent Benjamin Willis, but they were blocked by a court order
Civil Rights Marchers, Harlem, New York
Anti-pornography demonstration, Times Square, New York City, USA
"Don’t Ride Here!" Harlem bus boycott led by orchestra leader Don Redman and women from the chorus at the Apollo Theater
Their March Has Ended: civil rights marchers, who massed at the Alabama State capitol at Montgomery to end their five-day march from Selma, leave the capitol after hearing Dr. Martin Luther King tell them the rights protests would continue
Marching On In Civil Rights Protest: marchers, led by Dr. Martin Luther King, waving at right center, with his wife Coretta to the right, move on to the capitol at Montgomery, Alabama. To left of King is Dr. Ralph Bunche, another Nobel Peace Prize winner
Constitution Avenue during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Washington D.C.
New Citizen, Carmel, NY