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Jules Jacot-Guillarmod
Black and white photograph of Jules Jacot-Guillarmod riding a horse during expedition to K2
Gettysburg Field Hospital
A Union Army hospital tent is shown on the battlefield of Gettysburg--based in Pennsylvania, America. An emergency amputation is seen being performed, the outcome of the procedure was never publicly released.
Three lawyers confer at the Supreme Court, 1953
Three lawyers confer at the Supreme Court, 1953 for the Brown v Board of Education court case.
Segregation In Public Schools Ended by Court Newspaper Headline
A newspaper headline of the court ending segregation In public schools.
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…
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.
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.
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…
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.