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City of Memphis v. Martin Luther King, Jr

This exhibit is a flyer distributed to sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, asking them to "March for Justice and Jobs." Included are directions…

Civil disobedience

Update on different regions of India and their reaction to what is happening

Civil Rights Act of 1964

The Act enforced the constitutional right to vote, conferred jurisdiction upon the district courts of the United States, provided injunctive relief…

Civil rights demo. / David Johnson.

Photograph shows Jackie Robinson and others leading a large civil rights march in San Francisco. The sign supporting William Scranton represents the…

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.

Civil rights march on Washington, D.C

Photograph shows a procession of African Americans carrying signs for equal rights, integrated schools, decent housing, and an end to bias.

Civil rights picketers in Atlanta

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