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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 is by definition a "Communist." |
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Septima Clark 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.
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Mass meeting at Holt Street Baptist Church calls for a bus boycott, December, 1955. |
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Waiting for rides at a carpool pickup point.
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Rosa Parks sitting at the front of desegregated bus, Montgomery, 1956. (John Seigenthaler seated behind her.) |
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. |
A white mob is mobilized in Tuscaloosa to block her admission.
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"Kill her! Kill her!"
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South Carolina State College students on hunger strike to protest raciscm, 1956. |
Freedom march by Claflin and South Carolina State College students, 1956. |
Equipment used to monitor police brutality and suppression of civil rights, Movement office, Orangeburg, SC. |
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Teaching, training, educating, organizing, the hard work behind the headlines. |
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Septima Clark teaching reading, writing, voter registration, and social revolution at a Citizenship School in the South Carolina Sea Islands under the asupices of first Highlander and then SCLC (date of photo unknown). Standing in the background is Citizenship School teacher and dedicated organizer Bernice Robinson. |
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