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James Meredith walking on the campus of the University of Mississippi.
The image show James Meredith walking on the University of Mississippi campus as he's accompanied by U.S. marshals.
African Americans at a mass meeting during a campaign to integrate the buses in Birmingham, Alabama.
Fred Shuttlesworth spoke during a campaign to integrate the buses in Birmingham, Alabama.
Fair housing at its worst, Report four The Flagrant violation of Title VIII of the 1968 Civil Rights Act in Greater Hartford, Connecticut
A series of reports on equal housing opportunity from the Education/Instruction, an organization led by Ben Dixon, Boyd Hinds, and Julia Ramos. Report 6 includes sections on racial blockbusting, segregated housing, and federally-financed…
George W. Watkins School (New Kent County School Board)
A photo of George W. Watkins School in Virginia, an African American only institution in New Kent county.
Integrated busing in Charlotte, North Carolina
African American and white school children on a school bus, riding from the suburbs to an inner city school, Charlotte, North Carolina.
President Lyndon B. Johnson speaks to the nation before signing the Civil Rights Act
President Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973) speaks to the nation before signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, July 2, 1964.
A policeman examines some of the ten school buses destroyed by fire and dynamite in late Aug. 30, 1971, just days before a court-ordered plan to desegregate schools in Pontiac, Michigan, by busing children went into effect.
A Pontiac policeman examines some of the ten school buses destroyed late Aug. 30 by dynamite and fire in a school bus depot here. About 40 other buses in the depot were undamaged. The city of 85,000 persons has been divided over a plan to bus a third…
Group shot of the Supreme Court for the Cooper v. Aaron court case
Photograph shows, sitting left to right: William O. Douglas, Hugo L. Black, Earl Warren, Felix Frankfurter, Harold H. Burton; standing left to right: William J. Brennan, Jr., Tom C. Clark, John M. Harlan, Charles E. Whittaker.
Segregation In Public Schools Ended by Court Newspaper Headline
A newspaper headline of the court ending segregation In public schools.