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This is American minister and civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., going over plans for segregated bus boycotts with advisors and organizers. Sitting in front of him are Rosa Parks and Reverend Ralph Abernathy.
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This is American Civil Rights activist Rosa Parks riding a bus at the end of the Montgomery bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, on December 26, 1956.
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This is the “Little Rock Nine” in a study group after being stopped from entering Little Rock’s racially segregated Central High School on September 13, 1957, in Arkansas.
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This is an African-American student sitting at a lunch counter reserved for white customers during a sit-in to protest segregation in March, 1960. The napkin packages were placed on nearby stools to deter other protesters from joining the sit-in.
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These are Black college women in a female detention room at the city jail. This is after they were arrested in a series of restaurant sit-down demonstrations protesting segregation in 1960.
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This is a crowd of over 10,000 civil rights marchers gathering in the Manhattan Garment Center as musician and actor Harry Belafonte sang at a civil rights rally in May, 1960.
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These are the “Freedom Riders” staging a sit-in at a Montgomery, Alabama, waiting room reserved for White customers on May 29, 1961.
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These are passengers of a smoking Greyhound bus, some of them Freedom Riders sitting on the ground after the bus was set on fire on May 14, 1961, by a mob of white people who followed the bus from the city.
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This is Harry Belafonte with Freedom Riders, Diane Nash and Charles Jones discussing the Freedom Riders movement on July 14, 1961.
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This is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. after delivering his “I Have a Dream” speech to a crowd of more than 200,000 at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in Washington, DC, on August 28, 1963.
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This is American author James Baldwin during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in Washington, DC, on August 28, 1963.
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This is Malcolm X addressing a Harlem rally in support of integration efforts in Birmingham, Alabama, on May 14, 1963.
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This is Malcolm X in Harlem, New York, addressing a meeting in preparation for a school boycott protesting segregation in schools in March, 1964.
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This is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., his wife, Coretta Scott King, and other civil rights leaders arriving in Montgomery, Alabama, leading about 10,000 civil rights marchers on the Selma to Montgomery march in March, 1965.
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This is James Baldwin in Alabama, addressing the crowd from the speaker’s platform after participating in the Selma to Montgomery marches in March, 1965.
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This is singer Nina Simone singing for a crowd of supporters and marchers during a rally before the last day of the Selma to Montgomery march on March 24, 1965.
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And finally, this is the Poor People’s March on Washington in 1968.