Keep Your Eyes on the Prize,
Hold On! Hold On!
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Billboards showing Dr. King and Rosa Parks attending an integrated event at the Highlander Folk School in 1957 are erected across the South. To the white power structure, integration is a "communist plot" against the "Southern way of life." Therefore, anyone attending an integrated event was — by definition — a "communist." |
![[© UPI photo]](../crmpics/mlk-billboard1.jpg)
Montgomery Bus Boycott
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Septima Clarke and Rosa Parks at Highlander Folk School just before the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955.
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Rosa Parks, arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, December, 1955.
![[Montgomery County]](../crmpics/rosaparks-a.jpg)
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Mass meeting at Holt Street Baptist Church calls for a bus boycott, December, 1955.
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Dr. King arrested for boycotting the busses, Montgomery, 1956.
![[Time/Life photo]](../crmpics/mbb4.jpg)
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My feet is tired, but my soul is rested. |
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Rosa Parks sitting at the front of desegregated bus, Montgomery, 1956. (John Seigenthaler seated behind her.)
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Autherine Lucy and NAACP attorneys Thurgood Marshall and Arthur Shore outside Federal Court in Birmingham during her struggle to integrate the University of Alabama. February, 1956. |
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Orangeburg, South Carolina![[© Cecil J. Williams]](../crmpics/williams/56wms-hunger.jpg)
South Carolina State College students on hunger strike to protest raciscm, 1956. |
![[© Cecil J. Williams]](../crmpics/williams/56wms-march.jpg)
Freedom march by Claflin and South Carolina State College students, 1956. |
![[© Cecil J. Williams]](../crmpics/williams/63wms-equip.jpg)
Equipment used to monitor police brutality and suppression of civil rights, Movement office, Orangeburg, SC. |
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![[© Richmond Times-Dispatch]](../crmpics/prayerpilgramage59.jpg)
1959 CORE "Pilgrimage of Prayer" from Richmond, VA to Washington, DC
to protest the closing of public schools in Virginia to avoid court-
ordered desegregation.
Citizenship Schools |
![[© Eve Arnold]](../crmpics/citschool.jpg)
Teaching, training, educating, organizing, — the hard work behind the headlines. |
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Septima Clarke teaching reading, writing, voter registration, and social revolution at a "Citizenship School," South Carolina Sea islands under the asupices of first Highlander and then SCLC, date unknown. Standing in the background is Citizenship School teacher and dedicated organizer Bernice Robinson. |
![[© Ida Berman]](../crmpics/septima.jpg)
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