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Riding Freedom: 10 Milestones in U.S. Civil Rights History
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Selma March Poor People's Campaign Emancipation Proclamation Thirteenth Amendment Jackie Robinson in a baseball uniform stands on a field holding a bat over his shoulder, looking into the distance, 1946. United States Army Rosa Parks Greensboro sit-in Martin Luther King, Jr. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the 1964 Civil Rights Act at a desk in the White House, surrounded by Martin Luther King, Jr. and a group of witnesses.
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Selma March
Selma March, Alabama, March 1965.
Peter Pettus/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-ppmsca-08102)
Poor People's Campaign
Participants in the Poor People's March in Washington, D.C., 1968.
U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-ppmsca-04302)
Emancipation Proclamation
Man reading a newspaper report of the Emancipation Proclamation, painting by Henry...
Henry Louis Stephens/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (CaLC-USZC4-2442)
Thirteenth Amendment
The ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States...
NARA
Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson, 1946.
UPI/Bettmann Archive
United States Army
American soldiers during the Korean War.
Pfc. James Cox—Army/NARA
Rosa Parks
Civil rights activist Rosa Parks sitting on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, 1956.
Underwood Archives/UIG/REX/Shutterstock.com
Greensboro sit-in
The Woolworth's lunch counter where the Greensboro sit-in was held in 1960; on display...
AP/Shutterstock.com
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr., at the March on Washington, 1963.
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
U.S. Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson signing the 1964 Civil Rights Act as Martin Luther King,...
Lyndon B. Johnson Library and Museum; photograph, Cecil Stoughton