View the following images of the unfolding story. There are two pages of images.
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Image 1:
Rosa Parks sits in the front of the bus in 1956 as a Supreme Court ruling banning segregation on city buses goes into effect. |
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Image 2:
Federal troops stand guard at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, after federal courts order the enforcement of school desegregation laws. |
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Image 3:
Freedom Riders organized by the Congress of Racial Equality evacuate a bus set afire by a mob outside of Anniston, Alabama, in 1961. |
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Image 4:
During a protest against segregation practices in 1963, demonstrators brace themselves against the force of water sprayed by riot police in Birmingham, Alabama. |
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Image 5:
A 1963 lunch counter sit-in in Jackson, Mississippi, leaves three demonstrators splattered with food. |
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Image 6:
Hundreds of thousands gather in front of the Washington Monument at the 1963 March on Washington. |
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Image 7:
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech at the 1963 March on Washington. |
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Image 8:
The charred vehicle of three murdered civil rights workers, who had been working on voter registration, is towed from a spot 15 miles northeast of Philadelphia, Mississippi. |
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Image 9:
Alabama Governor George Wallace in 1967 blocks a deputy U.S. attorney's attempt to allow two black students to pass and enroll at the University of Alabama. |
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Image 10:
Protesters on Beale Street in Memphis in 1968 walk quietly
past a row of National Guard riflemen with bayonets, wearing
signs that say simply, "I am a man." Tanks skirt the
marchers on the other side. |
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