The Civil Rights Era in the U.S. News & World Report Photographs Collection
Selected Images from the Collections of the Library of Congress
These images were selected from the U.S. News
& World Report Magazine Photograph Collection
to meet requests regularly received by the
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Division.
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overview.) This list
represents a modified form of a printed "illustrated
list"
made available for many years by the Division.
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![Integration at Ole Miss](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20121031042149im_/http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/ppmsca/04200/04292t.gif)
Oxford, Mississippi, October 1, 1962. Integration at University of Mississippi--James Meredith accompanied to class by U.S. marshals
LC-DIG-ppmsca-04292 |
![Bomb-damaged trailers at the Gaston Motel, Birmingham, Alabama](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20121031042149im_/http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/ppmsca/04200/04293t.gif)
Birmingham, Alabama, May 14, 1963. Aftermath of bombing at Gaston Motel, Martin Luther King's headquarters
LC-DIG-ppmsca-04293 |
![Governor George Wallace attempting to block integration at the University of Alabama](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20121031042149im_/http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/ppmsca/04200/04294t.gif)
Tuscaloosa,
Alabama, June 11, 1963. Governor George Wallace
attempting to block integration at the University
of Alabama by "standing in the door"--scene
outside Foster Auditorium
LC-DIG-ppmsca-04294 |
![Negro demonstration in Washington, D.C. Justice Dept. Bobby Kennedy speaking to crowd](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20121031042149im_/http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/ppmsca/04200/04295t.gif)
Washington, D.C., June 14, 1963. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy speaks to a crowd at demonstration at Justice Department
LC-DIG-ppmsca-04295 |
![Civil rights march on Washington, D.C.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20121031042149im_/http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/ppmsca/03100/03130t.gif)
Washington, D.C., August 28, 1963. Civil Rights March on Washington--looking towards Washington Monument
LC-DIG-ppmsca-03130 |
![Civil rights march on Washington, D.C](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20121031042149im_/http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/ppmsca/04200/04297t.gif)
Washington, D.C., August 28, 1963. Civil Rights March on Washington--march leaders, including Martin Luther King, walking abreast amid the crowd
LC-DIG-ppmsca-04297 |
![Congress of Racial Equality conducts march in memory of Negro youngsters killed in Birmingham bombings, All Souls Church, 16th Street, Washington, D.C.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20121031042149im_/http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/ppmsca/04200/04298t.gif)
Washington, D.C., September 22, 1963. Congress of Racial Equality conducts march in memory of four girls killed in Birmingham, Ala., Baptist church bombing
LC-DIG-ppmsca-04298 |
![Photograph shows Henry seated at a table reading from a document](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20121031042149im_/http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/ppmsca/04200/04299t.gif)
Atlantic City, New Jersey, August 1964. Aaron Henry, Chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party delegation, speaking before the Credentials Committee at the Democratic National Convention
LC-DIG-ppmsca-04299 |
![Photograph showing a young African American woman casting her ballot.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20121031042149im_/http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/ppmsca/04300/04300t.gif)
Washington, D.C., November 3, 1964. African American woman casting vote in presidential election, Cardoza High School
LC-DIG-ppmsca-04300 |
![Photograph showing a soldier standing guard in a Washington, D.C., street with the ruins of buildings that were destroyed during the riots that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20121031042149im_/http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/ppmsca/04300/04301t.gif)
Washington, D.C., April 8, 1968. Soldier directing traffic in aftermath of riot that broke out after the assassination of Martin Luther King
LC-DIG-ppmsca-04301 |
![Lyndon Baines Johnson signing Civil Rights Bill](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20121031042149im_/http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3b40000/3b41000/3b41600/3b41629t.gif)
Washington, D.C., April 11, 1968. President Lyndon Johnson signing 1968 Civil Rights Bill surrounded by members of Congress
LC-U9-18984-24 |
![Photograph showing people marching and carrying signs.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20121031042149im_/http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/ppmsca/04300/04302t.gif)
Washington, D.C., June 18, 1968. Poor People's March on Washington--marchers on Connecticut Avenue
LC-DIG-ppmsca-04302 |
![Photograph showing people gathered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial with a banner for the Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20121031042149im_/http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/ppmsca/04300/04303t.gif)
Washington, D.C., June 19, 1970. Black Panther Convention, Lincoln Memorial--banner being displayed
LC-DIG-ppmsca-04303 |
![Photograph showing a man on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial holding a banner for the Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention; statue of Lincoln in the background.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20121031042149im_/http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/ppmsca/04300/04304t.gif)
Washington, D.C., June 19, 1970. Black Panther Convention, Lincoln Memorial--close-up of participant
LC-DIG-ppmsca-04304 |
![Photograph shows a group of people, one holding a Confederate flag, surrounding speakers and National Guard, protesting the admission of the "Little Rock Nine" to Central High School.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20121031042149im_/http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/ppmsca/03100/03120t.gif)
Little Rock, Arkansas. August 20, 1959. Rally at State Capitol
LC-DIG-ppmsca-03120 |
![[Group of African Americans viewing the bomb-damaged home of Arthur Shores, NAACP attorney, Birmingham, Alabama]](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20121031042149im_/http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/ppmsca/03100/03194t.gif)
Birmingham, Alabama. September 5, 1963. Group of African Americans Viewing the Bomb-Damaged Home of Arthur Shores, NAACP Attorney
LC-DIG-ppmsca-03194 |
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