Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement -- Images of a Peoples' Movement

"A band of brothers and sisters in a circle of trust"

"The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out." — James Baldwin

In alphabetic order: A-G H-M N-Z

[photo by Jackson Police Dept.] Thomas Armstrong, Freedom Rider

Ella Baker. Our guide, our mentor, our example.

[photographer unknown]

Jim "Arkansas" Benston, SNCC & SCLC (AKA "Strider") on the Selma to Montgomery March.

James Bevel, SNCC & SCLC. [UPI Photo]

Mike Bibler and Willie Kinkaid, SCLC

Sam Block, SNCC, 1964.

[Little Rock Police ] Janet Braun-Reinitz, Freedom Rider

Jim Bullock, SCLC. On the line in Grenada MS. 1966. [Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photo]

Septima Clarke, SCLC.

Alma Mitchell Carnegie, COFO, Holmes County, MS.

Frank Cieciorka, Mississippi & Arkansas, 1964. [Collection of Frank Cieciorka]

[Photographer Unknown] Dorothy Cotton, SCLC.

[Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photo] R.B. Cottonreader, SCLC. Mugshot, Grenada, MS. 1966.

[from the collection of Connie Curry]

Connie Curry, SNCC, NSA, AFSC.

CORE leader Dave Dennis.

Mrs. Annie Devine, COFO & Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture), SNCC.

Dion Diamond, CORE. Freedom Rider mugshot, Jackson, MS. 1961. [Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photo]

Ralph Featherstone, SNCC, 1967.

Betty Mae Fikes, Selma Alabama. 1964.

[Jackson Police] Robert Filner, Freedom Rider

Jim Forman, SNCC.

[Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photo] Jo Freeman, SCLC. Meredith Mississippi March, 1966.

Hardy Frye of SNCC and Freedom Summer volunteer Bob Feinglass, Holly Springs, 1964.

[From the collection of Miriam Glickman]

Miriam (Cohen) Glickman, SNCC.

Victoria Jackson Gray, SNCC & MFDP.

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