They Say That Freedom Is A Constant Struggle

Danville, VA. 1963

"I'm a demonstrating GI, from Fort Bragg. 
And the way they treat my people, 
Lord it makes me mad. 
You know, that I couldn't sit still, 
Because my home is in Danville." 

[© Ken Thompson]

In 1963, when a soldier on leave participates in the Danville protests while wearing his uniform, Secretary of Defense McNamara (architect of the Vietnam War) says: "You can go overseas and fight in a uniform, but you can't come back over here picketing and demonstrating in your uniform. That's un-American."  —  Sing for Freedom

[Photographer Unknown]

Left, protesters singing on City Hall steps. Below, a wounded demonstrator at a make-shift, first-aid station in a local church after police attack with clubs and firehoses.

[Photographer Unknown]

 
[© Alex Brown]

Bernard LaFayette, SNCC & SCLC. Photo taken June 1963, Selma Alabama, after a brutal Klan beating that almost killed him. That same night they gunned down Medgar Evers in his driveway in a multi-state KKK conspiracy to murder Movement leaders in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.

[© John Kouns]

 

"Freedom Day" in Selma, October, 1963. Blacks line up at the courthouse to apply to register to vote.

[© John Kouns]

 

"Freedom Day" in Selma, October, 1963. SNCC Field Secretaries Avery Williams and Chico Neblett arrested for trying to bring water to voter applicants waiting for hours in line at the courthouse.

[© John Kouns]

 

SNCC members arrested for holding up signs urging voter registration.

 
[Institute of Social Medicine and Community Health]

 

Medical Committee for Civil Rights doctors picketing the AMA convention in Atlantic City to protest segregated health facilities, 1963.

 

Durham, NC
Rev. Douglas Moore, Dr. King, and Rev. Ralph Abernathy in Durham during the sit-ins of 1960. See Durham Sit-ins & Protests for background. [© Durham Herald-Sun]
[© Durham Herald-Sun]

 

Picketing the Royal Ice Cream parlor
Durham, NC. 1962
(The woman at far left below is a counter-picket)
See Royal Ice Cream Sit-in for background.

 

[© Durham Herald-Sun]
[© Durham Herald-Sun]

 

Roy Wilkens of the NAACP and
Floyd McKissckk & James Farmer of CORE
leading protests at the Howard Johnson's
restaurant in Durham, NC. 1962.
See Freedom Highways Campaign in Durham and Greesboro for background.

 

[© Durham Herald-Sun]

 

[Photographer unknown] Freedom march in Tallahassee.

 

Orangeburg, SC. 1963
[© Cecil J. Williams]

 

Mass meeting, Orangeburg, SC. 1963.

[© Cecil J. Williams]

 

Prayer protest, Orangeburg, SC. 1963.

[© Cecil J. Williams]

 

Orangeburg, SC. Fall, 1963. So many students from Claflin College and South Carolina State are in jail for protesting that classrooms are almost empty.

[© Cecil J. Williams]

 

Boycott picketers, Orangeburg, SC. 1963.

 

Jail Can't Stop Us Now

[SNCC Photo]


We have served our time in jail
With no money for to go our bail
But we'll never turn back
No, we'll never turn back
[photographer unknown]

 

 

Morgan State students in jail after protests at Baltimore's segregated Northwood theater, 1963.

 

Gadsden, AL, 1963. Young protesters surrounded by white mob.
[© Birmingham News]

 

Tuscaloosa, AL, 1964.
Rev. Richard Boone, SCLC field staff.
Off to jail!

[© Birmingham News]
[© Birmingham News] Under arrest for the crime of defying segregation in Tuscaloosa.

 

[© Bob Fitch Photo]

 

Shout for Freedom!

 

[© Library of Congress]

 

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