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Photographer Billy Downs. Signs the demonstrators hold read "Separate is not equal" and "Segregation is not democratic."

In this interview, Emelda and Manuel Brown discuss their experiences raising a family as African Americans in Spokane in the 1960s.

A black and white image of a white firefighter spraying young civil rights protestors with a fire hose.

This image depicts a freedom schools instructor teaching black students in an unconventional setting in Indianola, Mississippi.

A list of teaching guidelines for Freedom Schools teachers in Mississippi during the Freedom Schools Movement (1964).

A white man volunteers to teach Black students in Hattiesburg, Mississippi during the Freedom Summer in 1964. His classes were held in Priest Creek Baptist Church.

A speech by Martin Luther King calling for equality in the United States between all races.

A sit-in by Junior NAACP activists at a segregated movie theater in Farmville, Virginia. The item was donated by Phyllis Padow-Sederbaum, a volunteer with the Virginia Student-Help Project in 1963.

This interview covers Kathryn’s experiences growing up in Carbondale, Illinois, her college years at Southern Illinois University and graduate school at the University of Illinois’s Library Sciences program.