Two police officers escort American religious and Civil Rights leader Dr Martin Luther King Jr away from the Montgomery Recorder's Court where he had...
Demonstrator looks back as a police dog, held by an officer with a billy club, tears his trouser leg, Birmingham, Alabama, May 3, 1963. Police...
Participants in a black voting rights march in Alabama. Dr Martin Luther King led the march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital in Montgomery.
American civil rights activist Rosa Parks sits in the front of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, after the Supreme Court ruled segregation illegal on the...
Elizabeth Eckford ignores the hostile screams and stares of fellow students on her first day of school, 6th September 1957. She was one of the nine...
Passengers of this smoking Greyhound bus, some of the members of the "Freedom Riders," a group sponsored by the Congress of Racial Equality , sit on...
National Guard troops block off Beale Street as Civil Rights marchers wearing placards reading, "I AM A MAN" pass by on March 29, 1968. It was the...
The medal presentation for the Men’s 200 metres final at the 1968 Summer Olympics, American athletes, gold medalist Tommie Smith and bronze medalist...
Young Emmett Till wears a hat. Chicago native Emmett Till was brutally murdered in Mississippi after flirting with a white woman.
Nation of Islam National Minister Malcom X addresses a rally on May 14 in Harlem in support of desegregation in Birmingham, Alabama.
President Lyndon B Johnson shakes the hand of Dr Martin Luther King Jr at the signing of the Civil Rights Act while officials look on, Washington DC.