Beside King is John Lewis, Reverend Jesse Douglas, James Forman and Ralph Abernathy. King addressed crowds during the March On Washington at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, where he gave his seminal "I Have A Dream" speech, Aug. 28, 1963. She was one of the nine African-American students whose integration into Little Rock's Central High School was ordered by a federal court. A group of demonstrators are blasted with water from a firehose in Birmingham, Alabama, May 3, 1963. Left to right: Yolanda, 12; Bernice, 5; Martin 3rd, 11; and Dexter, 33, with Mrs. Martin Luther King, Jr. King was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis in April 4,1968. Civil Rights . John Lewis, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (in the foreground) was beaten by a state trooper. image to display the photographer's name. An estimated 250,000 people attended the march, and the event focused on employment discrimination, civil rights abuses against African Americans, Latinos, and other disenfranchised groups, and support for the Civil Rights Act that the Kennedy Administration was attempting to pass through Congress, according to the National Park Service. The third march attempt was successful in reaching the Alabama state capitol in Montgomery. 1. prohibited without the express written permission of the photographer. The demonstrators, who belonged to a civil rights organization known as CORE (Congress of Racial Equality), urged Harlem residents not to patronize Woolworth stores until discrimination ended in the stores in the three Southern cities. IMPORTANT NOTE — Copyrights © to these photographs Mrs. Rosa Parks, a seamstress, was fingerprinted after her refusal to move to the back of a bus to accommodate a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955. Mourners and onlookers surround the entrance to Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ in Chicago, Sept. 3, 1955, during funeral services for Emmett Till. National Guard troops block off Beale Street in Memphis, Tenn., as civil rights marchers wearing placards reading, "I AM A MAN" pass by, March 29, 1968. “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal," he said. Demonstrators gathered in front of a Woolworth store in Harlem, New York, Feb. 13, 1960, to protest lunch counter discrimination in Greensboro, Charlotte and Durham, North Carolina. webmaster@crmvet.org Civil rights movement footage. To A line of Alabama State Police faced down a line of civil rights activists who stand with arms linked in unity. In Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional. Following her arrest, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. organized a boycott of the Montgomery bus system. B&W civil rights movement, African American protests, Martin Luther King Jr. A demonstration turns violent as the police forcibly remove protesters and use tear gas in Cambridge, Md., 1964. Explore Civil Rights Movement within the LIFE photography vault, one of the most prestigious & privately held archives from the US & around the World. Bob Henriques/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images. The Voting Rights Act, which prohibited racial discrimination in voting, was signed into law that August. The first was coined "Bloody Sunday," after it was marked by violence against the civil rights activists was perpetrated by the local and state police. Civil Liberties Cases in NARA's Southeast Region, Atlanta ; Civil Rights Records available in electronic format; Martin Luther King Jr. and the "I Have a Dream Speech", display from the New York Region The Civil Rights Act of 1964 Following “Bloody Sunday,” President Lyndon B. Johnson called for legislation protecting the voting rights of African Americans. It was the third consecutive march held by the group in as many days. John Kouns Spurred to action by the death of Emmett Till, African-American students at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College participated in a sit-in at a F. W. Woolworth's lunch counter reserved for white customers in Greensboro, N.C., in 1960. Shot 1962 (BW) Civil rights riots in Georgia; black man in suit shoved by police (at night); repeatedly hit; middle aged black man arrested brutally; people chant non-violently; clap; black man with sunglasses sings and … Don Hogan Charles/The New York Times, via Redux. 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