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Straw hat worn during the 1966 March Against Fear

Straw hat with a cloth band around the crown. The cloth band is multi-colored with blue and green stripes and the word [FREEDOM] written around it in…

Little Rock Nine Being Escorted into Central High School

101st Airborne soldiers escort black students into Central High School.

"March on Washington" map

Photograph shows an aerial view of the "proposed route of the civil rights 'March on Washington', which is scheduled for August 28." Indicated on the…

March on Washington for Jobs & Freedom August 28, 1963

A collection of pins, stickers, and patches worn by individuals participating in the 1963 March on Washington. This political demonstration was held…

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.

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…

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.

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…

Segregation In Public Schools Ended by Court Newspaper Headline

A newspaper headline of the court ending segregation In public schools.