Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement: Media
The who, what, when, and where of the civil rights movement.
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Protestors call for better treatment for African Americans, including protecting...
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(From left) George E.C. Hayes, Thurgood Marshall, and James Nabrit, Jr., smiling...
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American civil rights activist Rosa Parks being fingerprinted following protest activities,...
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White students shouting at Elizabeth Eckford, one of nine African American students...
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Black students sitting-in at the F. W. Woolworth department store lunch counter,...
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Ruby Bridges (left) and Pres. Barack Obama viewing Norman Rockwell's painting The...
Pete Souza—Official White House Photo/Norman Rockwell, “The Problem We All Live With,” 1963. Oil on canvas, 36” x 58”. Story illustration for “Look,” January 14, 1964. Norman Rockwell Museum Collections. ©Norman Rockwell Family Agency. All rights reserved.
Collage of mug shots of Mississippi Freedom Riders, Jackson, Mississippi, July 2–4,...
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Firefighter attacking protestors with a high-pressure water hose, Birmingham, Alabama,...
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Hundreds of thousands of individuals gathering on the National Mall in Washington,...
National Archives, Washington, D.C.
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
Mourners lining the sidewalk outside the Unity Funeral Home in the Harlem neighborhood...
Orlando Fernandez—NYWT&S/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-USZ62-136551)
Selma March participants, Alabama, March 1965.
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Police searching men in the Watts district of Los Angeles in March 1966, seven months...
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Mildred and Richard Loving celebrating their victory in the case Loving...
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Memorial march following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., Memphis, Tennessee,...
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