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Linda Brown Smith, 9, was a third-grader when her father started a class-action suit in 1951, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kan., which led to the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 landmark decision against school segregation.
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Hecklers follow Elizabeth Eckford as she walks away from Little Rock's Central High School on Sept. 4, 1957. Eckford was turned away by Arkansas National Guardsmen, who were instructed by Gov. Orval Faubus not to allow nine black students to enter the school, despite federal court orders.
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Governor Orval E. Faubus of Arkansas holds a copy of the Manchester N.H. Union-Leader newspaper in 1957.
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Maurice Johnson
In an undated photo, Rosa Parks rides on the Montgomery Area Transit System bus. Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus on Dec. 1, 1955, and ignited the boycott that led to a federal court ruling against segregation in public transportation.
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Rosa Parks is fingerprinted by Deputy Sheriff D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Ala., in this Feb. 22, 1956, photo. Parks was among about 100 people charged with violating segregation laws.
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A Montgomery, Ala., Sheriff's Department photograph of Rosa Parks taken Feb. 22, 1956. Parks was among those arrested during the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955-56.
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The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is welcomed with a kiss by his wife, Coretta, after leaving court in Montgomery, Ala., in this March 22, 1956, photo.
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The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., center, under arrest by Atlanta Police Capt. R. E. Little, left rear, passes through a picket line in front of a downtown department store in 1960. King was among the 48 African Americans arrested following demonstrations at several department and variety stores protesting lunch counter segregation.
Freedom Ride Greyhound bus passengers are carried to an ambulance in Anniston, Ala., on May 14, 1961.
Joseph "Little Joe" Postiglione
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A new busload of "freedom riders," including four white college professors and three African American students, arrived in Montgomery, Ala., under the protection of police and National Guard members in this May 24, 1961, photo.
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The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., front left, walks in the funeral procession for slain civil rights activist Medgar Evers in June 1963 in Jackson, Miss.
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The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., third from left, marches in a line of men with arms linked during the March on Washington for civil rights on Aug. 28, 1963.
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More than 250,000 people gather in front of the Lincoln Memorial seen in the aerial view on Aug. 28, 1963. The gathering, the closing of the March on Washington, concluded with the "I Have a Dream" speech by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
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The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. acknowledges the crowd at the Lincoln Memorial for his "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington, D.C., on Aug. 28, 1963.
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President Abraham Lincoln's statue at the Lincoln Memorial overlooks the crowd at the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson reaches to shake hands with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. after presenting the civil rights leader with one of the 72 pens used to sign the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in Washington, D.C., on July 2, 1964.
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Alabama state troopers swing nightsticks to break up a civil rights voting march in Selma, Ala., on March 7, 1965. John Lewis, front right, of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee is put on the ground by a trooper.
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The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., center, leads thousands of civil rights demonstrators out on the last leg of their Selma to Montgomery 50-mile hike.
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Signing of the Voting Rights Act in the Capitol Rotunda, Washington, D.C., on Aug. 6, 1965.
Yoichi R. Okamoto
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Fannie Lou Hamer of Ruleville, Miss., speaks to Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party sympathizers outside the Capitol in Washington on Sept. 17, 1965, after the House of Representatives rejected a challenge to the 1964 election of five Mississippi representatives.
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In her first splash into politics, Ella J. Baker, a dapper, spirited woman who had been fighting uphill battles most of her life, directed the Washington Office of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
Malcolm X, the Black Muslim leader, is shown in New York in this March 5, 1964, photo.
Eddie Adams
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Black Panther leader Huey Newton is shown holding a shotgun in this undated photo.
Judge Thurgood Marshall during hearings of his nomination to be a Supreme Court justice.
Wally McNamee
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The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rev. Ralph Abernathy, right, lead a march on behalf of striking Memphis sanitation workers on March 28, 1968.
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The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gives a speech on the evening before the Last March, Mason Temple, on March 27,1 968.
Earnest C. Withers
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Aides stand on a balcony over the mortally wounded Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and signal to police below the direction from which the assassin's bullet came.
Joseph Louw
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An estimated 150,000 men, women and children gather in Atlanta on April 9, 1968, to pay final homage to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., slain at age 39.
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Metro dedicated an antique 1957 bus in honor of Rosa Parks. This is the same bus that was used as part of her memorial service in D.C.
Marvin Joseph
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From the east steps of the Capitol, the D.C. National Guard carries the body of Rosa Parks to lie in state in the Capitol's rotunda while the public pays its last respects.
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The Rev. Bernice King, daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., speaks during the funeral service for her mother, Coretta Scott King, at the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church on Feb. 7, 2006 in Lithonia, Ga. Coretta Scott King, the wife of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., died at age 78.
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