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James Lawson James Lawson National Guard troops with rifles block Beale Street as civil rights marchers wearing signs reading I AM A MAN walk past during the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers' strike.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. (center), with other civil rights supporters lock arms on as they lead the way along Constitution Avenue during the March on Washington, Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963.
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