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Civil Rights Movement: Desegregation Images

Civil Rights Movement: Desegregation Images

The Murder of Emmett Till

The bold cover of a 1954 issue of Jet, and three photographs published in Jet's September 15th, 1955 issue. Mamie Mobley and her son Emmett, the mutilated corpse of 14-year-old Emmett Till, and Mamie Mobley standing before the body of her murdered son.

Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.

Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. on the cover of Time magazine, February 18th, 1957.

Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine

Daisy Bates, president of the Arkansas NAACP and the Little Rock Nine who in September of 1957 desegregated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Seated left to right: Gloria Ray, Elizabeth Eckford, Minniejean Brown, Thelma Mothershed. Standing left to right: Jefferson Thomas, Daisy Bates, Carlotta Walls, Terrance Roberts, Melba Pattilo, Ernest Green.

Birmingham Protests Confront Police

Birmingham police use attack dogs to remove a young protestor from the downtown business district. Other demonstrators, many soaked from the blast of firehoses, witness the attack.

The 1963 March on Washington

A view from the March on Washington on August 28th, 1963.