Civil Rights Movement: Desegregation Images
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The bold cover of a 1954 issue of Jet, and three photographs published in Jet's September 15th, 1955 issue. Mamie Mobley and her son Emmett, the mutilated corpse of 14-year-old Emmett Till, and Mamie Mobley standing before the body of her murdered son.
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Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. on the cover of Time magazine, February 18th, 1957.
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Daisy Bates, president of the Arkansas NAACP and the Little Rock Nine who in September of 1957 desegregated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Seated left to right: Gloria Ray, Elizabeth Eckford, Minniejean Brown, Thelma Mothershed. Standing left to right: Jefferson Thomas, Daisy Bates, Carlotta Walls, Terrance Roberts, Melba Pattilo, Ernest Green.
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Birmingham police use attack dogs to remove a young protestor from the downtown business district. Other demonstrators, many soaked from the blast of firehoses, witness the attack.
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A view from the March on Washington on August 28th, 1963.