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History of Civil Rights Movement

Browse through some of the key figures and important moments in Civil Rights history.

Photograph of Rosa Parks with Dr. Martin Luther King jr. (ca. 1955) Mrs. Rosa Parks altered the negro progress in Montgomery, Alabama, 1955, by the bus boycott she unwillingly began

Dr. Martin Luther King giving his "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington in Washington, D.C., on 28 August 1963.

W. E. B. Du Bois (1868 – 1963), co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), in 1918.

Crowds surrounding the Reflecting Pool, during the 1963 March on Washington. *Photo by Warren K. Leffler *Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Collection. *Public domain, per http://www.loc.gov/

Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. [Entertainment: Vocalist Odetta.]

Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. Close-up view of Actor and Vocalist Harry Belafonte.

Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. [Leaders of the march (from right to left) Mathew Ahmann, Executive Director of the National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice; (seated with glasses) Cleveland Robinson, Chairman of the Demonstration Committee; (beside Robinson is) A. Philip Randolph, organizer of the demonstration, veteran labor leader who helped to found the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, American Federation of Labor (AFL), and a former vice president of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO); (standing behind the two chairs) Rabbi Joachim Prinz, President of the American Jewish Congress; (wearing a bow tie and standing beside Prinz is) Joseph Rauh, Jr, a Washington, DC attorney and civil rights, peace, and union activist; John Lewis, Chairman, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; and Floyd McKissick, National Chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality.]

Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. [ Sammy Davis, Jr., actor and performer, with Roy Wilkins, Executive Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.], 08/28/1963

Martin Luther King, Jr. showing his medallion received from Mayor Wagner

Martin Luther King Jr. leaning on a lectern.

Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X meet before a press conference. Both men had come to hear the Senate debate on the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This was the only time the two men ever met; their meeting lasted only one minute.

President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Civil Rights leaders Martin Luther King, Jr., Whitney Young, James Farmer on 18 January 1964

President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the 1964 Civil Rights Act as Martin Luther King, Jr., and others, look on.

Civil Rights Movement Co-Founder Dr. Ralph David Abernathy and his wife Mrs. Juanita Abernathy follow with Dr. and Mrs. Martin Luther King as the Abernathy children march on the front line, leading the SELMA TO MONTGOMERY MARCH in 1965. The Children are Donzaleigh Abernathy in striped sweater, Ralph David Abernathy, 3rd and Juandalynn R. Abernathy in glasses. Name of the white Minister in the photo is unknown.

The civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965

Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King. 1964

President Lyndon B. Johnson and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. meet at the White House, 1966

Photograph of President Ronald Reagan and the Signing Ceremony for Martin Luther King Holiday Legislation in 1983

Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C.[Author James Baldwin and actor Marlon Brando.], 08/28/1963

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Photograph of Rosa Parks with Dr. Martin Luther King jr. (ca. 1955) Mrs. Rosa Parks altered the negro progress in Montgomery, Alabama, 1955, by the bus boycott she unwillingly began

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