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A woman is arrested for peacefully protesting during a civil rights rally.

The Chaney family as they depart for the funeral of James Chaney, Philadelphia, Mississippi, 1964.

I Am a Man/ Union Justice Now campaign, Memphis, Tennessee, 1968

Taylor Washington arrested in Leb’s Delicatessen, Atlanta, 1964.

Andrew Young, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and John Lewis in Selma, Alabama, 1965.

A manifestation of what Dr. King dreamt about.

A man marches for his civil rights while holding the American flag.

Kelly Ingram Park, Birmingham, 1963

Dr. King and Coretta Scott King leading marchers, Montgomery, Alabama, 1965

Woman kneeling with her sign during a demonstration, 1963.

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