Racially Integrated Classroom, Barnard School, Washington, D.C., USA, photograph by Thomas J. O'Halloran, May 1955.
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...
For the first time in the city's history, black and white children are sharing class work and playgrounds at a dozen or more schools in Baltimore....
Philadelphia,PA - At Friends' Select School Playground, children work together as part of program of interracial relations prepared by American...
View of perticipants in an anti-integration rally on the steps of the Arkansas State Capitol, Little Rock, Arkansas, August 20, 1959. Several carry...
Police escorting African American mothers with grade school kids past jeering mob of demonstrators after the desegregation of the school.
An African-American girl sits in the back row of a classroom in a school in Charlotte, North Carolina as integration got underway, 7th September...
Marjorie Beach address an integrated kindergarten class after Federal courts ordered the enforcement of desegregation laws.
Teacher assists one boy while the rests work on their assignments in a classroom at Montefiore School in Chicago.
Baltimore youngsters look on as parents picket a school yesterday in south west Baltimore in the City's first expression of protest against the end...
Women at William Franz Elementary School yell at police officers during a protest against desegregation at the school, as three black youngsters...
Following the US Supreme Court's order for immediate integration , sixteen Black children, carrying signs and accompanied by four mothers, walk to...
President Harry Truman receives a report from his Special Committee on Civil Rights. The report, handed to the President by committee chairman...
Clinton, TN: John Carter a Clinton High School junior, carries sign outside the school here August 27th. Protesting racial integration as the school...
Police stand guard as a group of African American students, escorted by Reverend James L. Johnson, march past two demonstrators protesting...
Protesters gather at William Franz Elementary School in New Orleans, Louisiana to protest desegregation in schools. | Location: William Franz...
Nettie Hunt and her daughter Nickie sit on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court. Nettie explains to her daughter the meaning of the high court's...
The St. Louis Board of Education was picketed by the NAACP after the Board issued a modified enrollment plan which the NAACP did not go far enough in...
Group of high school students from north and Northwestern sections of Baltimore are shown grouped in front of City Hall shouting their demands that...
President Harry Truman proclaims February 1st, the anniversary of the passage of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution , as "National Freedom Day"....
Protesters gather at William Franz Elementary School in New Orleans, Louisiana to protest desegregation in schools. | Location: William Franz...
Black student, Nathaniel Steward recites his lesson in a desegregated classroom at the Saint-Dominique school. The Brown v Board of Education...
The Arkansas National Guard prepare to prevent African American students from entering Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas,...
Black and white people chain themselves and sit in front of the New York City Hall, on August 23 during a protest against segregation in some of...
Nashville, TN- A Negro mother and her first grade child disregard segregationist as they enter a public school on the first day of classes. Negro...
Negro students arrived at Southern this morning and white students walk behind holding sigh, "Southern Don't want Negros", and "Milford did it, so...
Race violence broke out in Baltimore yesterday as an estimated 2,000 white students stayed away from eight schools in protest against the end of...
Police in front of William Frantz public school are shown, as an African American woman and child exit the building. The New Orleans schools were...
African-American students attending Little Rock Central High School are escorted to a waiting Army station wagon for their return home after classes,...
New Orleans, LA- Bible carrying mother joins the screaming crowd in front of the Rev. Andrew Foreman home shortly after Rev. Andrew and his daughter...
Baltimore, MD: Police restrain some 2,000 white teenagers, bearing slogans against racial integration who marched on City Hall and shouted in vain...
Lawyer Thurgood Marshall and civil rights activist Daisy Bates join several members of the "Little Rock Nine", the first students to integrate...
Black students are provided with a military escort when entering and leaving Little Rock Central High School, Arkansas, following the school's...
Former American soldier Silas Herbert Hunt looking up at the sign above the entrance of the University of Arkansas's School of Law building in...
Anti-busing demonstrators, some dressed in colonial costume, march down Bunker Hill Street in Boston's Charlestown section, 9/30. A white boycott of...
Fiery crosses of the Ku Klux Klan are blazing at night again in the South as protests increase over the prospect of ending racial segregation in the...
Rock Hill, SC - Scene at St. Anne Parochial School, the only integrated school in South Carolina. Joyce Dunne, of Boston, is the teacher in the...
Two children, the boy wearing a white hood, watch a Ku Klux Klan cross burning from a car, which is fixed with a sign protesting integration.
New Orleans, LA- Three Negro girls leave the previously all-white McDonogh elementary school after spending their second day in the integrated...
New Orleans, LA- A number of Negro children have registered in several New Orleans public schools which will be desegregated for the first time this...
New Orleans, LA- Waving Confederate flags, two small children stand on chairs as they join adults in attending a meeting of the White Citizens...
Mrs. Lee Hooks and other white housewives demonstrate against planned desegregation at William Franz Elementary School in New Orleans.
Members of the American Nazi Party carry racist placards during a counter protest against desegregation in Washington DC, US, 18th June 1963....
Marjorie Watts Uses Blackboard To Explain Her Desegregation Plan Her proposal to divide the city into four north-south strips was rated high by ad...
One of the first ten African American students admitted to the University of Missouri eats in the dining hall alongside Caucasion students following...
While two sign-carrying women pickets stand by, Negro students arrive at Baltimore's southern high school for classes. The Rev. Elder James L....
An unidentified Georgia Tech student battles an Atlanta police officer during a demonstration by some 2,000 students protesting efforts by Georgia...
Philadelphia, PA: Negro and white children work together on posters as part of program prepared by the American Junior Red Cross in the Southeastern...
Englewood, NJ: Penelope Patch of Englewood, NJ who spent 5 days in Albany, jail for desegregation activities.
Atlanta, GA: Airman Second Class Philip Wagner, of New York City, en route to the Warner Robbins Air Force Base Near Macon, GA, pauses to examine the...
Bryant Bowles , President of the National Association for the Advancement of White People, is shown as he urged a crowd in Milford last week to keep...
Anti-busing demonstrators parade in front of the Federal Court Building 4/26. Busing foes were also circulating petitions for ousting federal Judge...
Three African American girls leave the previously all-white McDonogh Elementary School after spending their second day in the integrated school. The...
Black students in Woodville, Mississippi board a school bus for their first day at a formerly white school that, thanks to "white flight", has become...
Columbia, SC- Students watch 3 Negroes who intregrated the University of South Carolina leave the Administration building after they registered for...