Group of top African American athletes from different sporting disciplines gather to give support and hear the boxer Muhammad Ali give his reasons...
Marchers wear signs that read 'Honor King: End Racism!' and 'Union Justice Now' as they participate in the Sanitation Workers march, soon after the...
Demonstrators and marchers carry American flags on the Selma to Montgomery march held in support of voter rights, Alabama, late March, 1965.
View of two young boys as they eat during a free breakfast for children program sponsored by the Black Panther Party, New York, New York, winter 1969.
Supporters of US Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Rally to protest his having been stripped of the chairmanship of the Education and Labor...
Nation of Islam members stand on the steps of Muhammad's Temple No. 2 with bundles of the NoI newspaper, Muhammad Speaks, under their arms, Chicago,...
March on Washington Deputy Director Bayard Rustin and Administrative Committee Chairman Cleveland Robinson talk on either side of a sign , at 170 W...
Cabinet members, gathered to hear Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, Washington DC, September 22nd 1862. President Abraham Lincoln, Solomon...
Elevated view of demonstrators, many of whom carry signs, during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Washington DC, August 28, 1963. Among...
Portrait of the children involved in the landmark Civil Rights lawsuit 'Brown V. Board of Education,' which challenged the legality of American...
View of hands held together, and the front line of demonstrators during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Washington DC, August 28, 1963....
Photograph of African American men, women, and children who participated in the Great Migration to the north, with suitcases and luggage placed in...
Some of the more than 100,000 people demonstrating in protest at racial discrimination, jam Woodward Avenue, from curb to curb in a huge, but orderly...
An unidentified man bars a group of African-American children and young adults from entering Bishop's Restaurant at 113 North Broadway in downtown...
Civil Rights sit-in led by Clara Luper to desegregate the lunch counter at Katz Drug Store at Main and Robinson in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma,...
Black Panther Party co-founder Huey P. Newton reclines on the grass as he answers questions from a Liberation News Service reporter on the campus of...
View of a line of Black Panther Party members as they demonstrate, arms folded, outside the New York County Criminal Court , New York, New York,...
At a rally in support of the Black Panther Party, two young men hold poster of Panther leader Bobby Seale under the heading 'Kidnapped,' New Haven,...
Mrs Daisy E Lampkin, Field Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People holding an Anti-Lynching Poster, New York, New...
President Lyndon B Johnson with US Civil Rights leader Dr Martin Luther King Jr at the White House,Washington DC, December 1963. Dr King, head of the...
Portrait of American Civil Rights activist Ella Baker , the NAACP Hatfield representative, as she sits behind a desk covered with paperwork,...
Nannie Burroughs a campaigner for the education of women, civil rights and womens political rights, Washington DC, 1930.
Blacks and whites, for the first time in Alabama, wait in line together to vote at a small town's city hall after enactment of the Voting Rights Act,...
Long lines of African Americans wait to register to vote in a makeshift office in Alabama after passage of the Voting Rights Act, 1966.
Martin Luther King Jr. Speaks to a crowd at the March Against Fear rally on the steps of the Mississippi State Capitol. The march began in Memphis,...
Marchers cheer after civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech at the conclusion of the March on Washington on...
Martin Luther King Jr. Speaks at the Lincoln Memorial, surrounded by a crowd and next to two American flags. He gave his "I Have A Dream" speech from...
, an orator, civil rights leader, journalist, writer, editor and publisher, Timothy T Fortune, editor of the leading African-American newspaper in...
Selma marchers on one of the Selma to Montgomery protest marches for voting rights, Alabama, USA, 1965.
Civil Rights Leader Fred Shuttlesworth at one of the Selma to Montgomery protest marches for voting rights, Alabama, USA, 1965.
Black and a white hand holding the US flag, as Civil rights activists march from Selma to Montgomery to protest the denial of voting rights to...
During the March on Washington, a man carries a United Auto Workers sign reading, "Government of All People, By All the People, For All the People,"...
Woman carrying sign reading, "Civil Rights Plus Full Employment Equals Freedom." More than 200,000 people participated in the March on Washington...
Members of CORE singing together at the March to Washington. More than 200,000 people participated in the March on Washington demonstrations. The...
Members of CORE join in the March to Washington, Washington DC, August 28, 1963. More than 200,000 people participated in the March on Washington...
More than 200,000 people participated in the March on Washington demonstrations. The throng marched to the Mall and listened to Civil Rights leaders,...
More than 200,000 people participated in the March on Washington demonstrations. The throng marched to the Mall and listened to Civil Rights leaders,...
More than 200,000 people participated in the March on Washington demonstrations. The throng marched to the Mall and listened to Civil Rights leaders,...
Close-up of participants in the March on Washington Civil Rights rally, Washington DC, August 28, 1963. More than 200,000 people participated in the...
Martin Luther King Jr leading a march from Selma to Montgomery to protest the lack of voting rights for African Americans. Beside King is John Lewis,...
More than 200,000 people participated in the March on Washington demonstrations. The throng marched to the Mall and listened to Civil Rights leaders,...
Young man holds the American flag during one of the Selma to Montgomery protest marches for voting rights, Alabama, USA, March 1965.
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...
American Religious and Civil Rights leader Dr Martin Luther King Jr shaking hands with the crowd during the Freedom March on Washington, Washington...
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...
Illustration depicting freedmen voting in New Orleans, after being herded to the polls by carpetbaggers. Woodcut, dated 1867, from a series of...
Martin Luther King speaks to protesters from the Congress of Racial Equality at the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, protesting the...
