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Gallery: Civil Rights Movement

  • Woman watching as Klan members walk by.

     Credit: Bettmann/Corbis

  • Jimmy Lee Jackson preaching.

     Credit: Bettmann/Corbis

  • Student protesting the integration at Montgomery High School.

     Credit: Flip Schulke/Corbis

  • Martin Luther King Jr. after leaving court with Coretta Scott King greeting him.

     Credit: AP/Wide World Photos

  • Young women running from the police.

     Credit: Bettmann/Corbis

  • Police officer arresting a man on the street.

     Credit: Bettmann/Corbis

  • Young men and women singing.

     Credit: Joe Alper

  • Governor George Wallace attempting to block racial integration in the University of Alambama.

     Credit: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division

  • Jesse Jackson marching.

     Credit: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division
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