![]() Paul Robeson and Civil Rights Congress supporters present the "We Charge Genocide" petition to the United Nations, December 17, 1951. |
![]() Septima Clark and Rosa Parks at Highlander Folk School just before the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955. |
![]() 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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Walking for freedom. |
Waiting for rides at a carpool pickup point.
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![]() Ministers & leaders arrested for boycotting (l-r): |
![]() Dr. King arrested for boycotting the busses, Montgomery, 1956. |
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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.) |
![]() Reunion at Highlander after the boycott. From left: Ralph Helstein, Myles Horton, Rosa Parks, unidentified, Septima Clark. |
![]() Removing bus segregation notices after Supreme Court victory, 1956. |
![]() 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." |
![]() 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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"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. |
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Equipment used to monitor police brutality and suppression of civil rights, Movement office, Orangeburg, SC. |
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![]() Picketing the Royal Ice Cream parlor, Durham, NC. 1957. See Royal Ice Cream Sit-in for background. |
![]() A lone counter-picket tries to stem the freedom tide. |
![]() First Oklahomna sit-in, at Katz Drugstore, 1958 |
![]() Clara Luper, Oklahoma NAACP and sit-in leader. |
![]() Boycotting white-owned stores on Dryades Street, New Orleans. 1959 |
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![]() Fayette County Tennessee, tent city for Black farmers thrown off their land for trying to register to vote (1959-1963). |
![]() Teaching, training, educating, organizing, the hard work behind the headlines. |
![]() Citzenship program founder Septima Clark teaches a man how to write his name, Camden Alabama, 1966 |
Septima Clark teaching reading, writing, voter registration, and social revolution at a Citizenship School in the South Carolina Sea Islands (date of photo unknown). Standing in the background is Citizenship School teacher and dedicated organizer Bernice Robinson. |
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