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Psychedelic Rock Festival Woodstock, shows a picture of hippies enjoying music.

The Woodstock Festival which was held in August 1969, brought together over 400,000 people for three days of peace, music, and unity, symbolizing the…

Arrest Record for sit-in

Handwritten arrest record for Huldah Elizabeth Taylor on May 15, 1963 for trespassing during at Greensboro, North Carolina sit-in demonstration.

Civil rights demonstration outside the Princess Theatre in downtown Gadsden, Alabama

Young black demonstrators in the image are lined up outside the theater while a group of white teenage boys make a line in front of them.

Boston Freedom Schools freedom diploma

Certificate of participation in the Boston Freedom Schools by the Ryan Family.

Firemen spraying civil rights demonstrators with a hose during a protest in downtown Birmingham, Alabama

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

The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Axis: Bold As Love

It is a very abstract album even looking kind of Hindu spiritually, which really showcases the psychedelic part of rock at the time.

Sit-in demonstrators

Two sit-in demonstrators from the Congress of Racial Equality are seen being dragged from the Federal Building by deputy US marshals.

Police officers arresting Charles Butler and John Lewis after the Freedom Riders arrived at the Greyhound station in Birmingham, Alabama

White police officers are shown holding the arms of the Freedom Riders outside of the Greyhound station

In a press conference, Roy Wilkins makes the claim that the NAACP was the first organization to execute sit-in protests and that the phenomenon did…