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Fighting
for Individual Rights: The Civil Rights Struggle |
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following images are courtesy of the Library
of Congress in Washington, D.C. You can find a wealth of information
about these images, as well as many others, by searching its Web site.
(Please click each image for a larger view.) |
 Civil
rights marchers take to the streets of Washington, D.C., in
August 1963.
Source: Library of Congress |
 Following
a 1962 federal court order for integration, Air Force veteran
James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi escorted
by U.S. Marshals. Source: Library of Congress |
 The
Little Rock Nine. On Sept. 25, 1957, President Eisenhower federalized
the Arkansas National Guard and deployed U.S. paratroopers to
carry out the federal court’s desegregation orders that
allowed the first African American students to enter Little
Rock’s Central High School. Source: Library of Congress |
 Marchers
on the Mall. At the height of civil rights demonstrations, hundreds
of thousands of marchers convene at the Mall in Washington,
D.C., in August 1963.
Source: Library of Congress |
 Segregation
signs. Segregated facilities, shown in this 1938 photo of the
Manchester, Ga., bus station, were a hated fact of life for
African Americans before the Civil Rights era. Source: Library
of Congress |
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