Charlotte, North Carolina: Dorothy Geraldine Counts, 15 is followed by a crowd of jeering teenagers as she leaves Harding high school with her...
President Lyndon B Johnson shakes the hand of Dr Martin Luther King Jr at the signing of the Civil Rights Act while officials look on, Washington DC.
April 15, 1960 Little Rock, Arkansas: Mrs. Daisy Bates, State President of the N.A.A.C.P joined in the picketing of three downtown department stores,...
Crowd of over 10,000 civil rights marchers gathers in the Manhattan Garment Center as Harry Belafonte sings at spiritual at a civil rights rally.
President Johnson shakes hands with civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., and hands him a pen to sign the Civil Right Act on July 2, 1964.
Washington, DC: The hands of President Lyndon Johnson rest on the signed Civil Rights bill after the Chief Executive signed the measure into law at...
National Guard troops block off Beale Street as Civil Rights marchers wearing placards reading, "I AM A MAN" pass by on March 29, 1968. It was the...
Procession of African Americans carrying signs for equal rights, integrated schools, decent housing, and an end to bias.
Outside the opening session of the 1960 Republican National Convention, an orderly crowd of demonstrators urges the party at adopt a strong civil...
Gay rights march in New York in favour of the 1968 Civil Rights Act being amended to include gay rights.
Civil rights march on Washington, D.C; African Americans behind a storm fence with police carrying a woman on the other side.
American Baptist minister and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Gives a press conference regarding an agreement reached on a 'limited...
Eleanor Roosevelt presents Marian Anderson the NAACP 1939 Spingarn Medal, at the 30th annual meeting of the civil-rights group, held in June, 1939 in...
New York, NY: James Peck marches in a picket line outside the Trailways Bus Station, in the Port Authority Terminal. Peck was severely beaten on May...
More than 15,000 white and colored persons met here today on behalf of school integration and civil rights legislation . Part of the group are shown...
American muslim and civil rights leader Malcolm X , born Malcolm Little he took his new name in 1952 to symbolize the lost surname of his African...
Two female protesters are shown holding signs marching for civil rights and protesting a play depicting 'Gone With The Wind,' March 9, 1940.
Civil Rights +áArchibald J. Cary, Chicago Negro lecturer, Is flanked by Mason K. Knuckles, Republican candidate for congress, and Gov. Dan Thornton...
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that LGBTQ people can not be disciplined or fired based on their sexual orientation June 15, 2020 in Washington, DC....
Joseph Fons holding a Pride Flag, walks back and forth in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building after the court ruled that LGBTQ people can not be...
National guardsmen and state troopers shield black marchers from onlookers near Denham Springs during their 1967 trek from Bogalusa to Baton Rouge....
Civil rights march on Washington, D.C. Photograph shows a crowd of African Americans behind a storm fence with police carrying a woman on the other...
Rows of African-American people wearing white caps and arm bands printed with the letter 'M' marching with placards in a civil rights demonstration,...
Picture shows the closed door of Palestinian NGO Defence for Children International after it was raided by Israeli forces in the West Bank city of...
Labor union members join civil rights activists in a march by the Lorraine Motel one year after Martin Luther King Jr. Was assassinated.
Screen capture of US president Lyndon B. Johnson as he signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Washington, DC, July 2, 1964.
Picture shows the premises of Palestinian NGO Women's Union building in the West Bank city of Ramallah after it was raided by Israel forces, on...
Prichard, AL: Leaders of a march of about 255 persons stare at police officers who stopped the predominately Negro group from marching on city hall....
Police and journalists look upon a group of African American protestors holding signs outside the White House, Washington, DC, March 12, 1965....
Group of demonstrators of all ages protest against segregation in schools near the 16th Street Baptist Church, headquarters of the American Civil...
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was the pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement. He pioneered...
The Civil Rights Act of being enacted by President Lyndon Johnson, July 2, 1964. Civil rights legislation in the United States, that outlawed major...
American clergyman and civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Marches with hundreds of supporters and members of the Chicago Freedom Movement...
Politics, Personalities, USA, pic: April 1968, Washington D,C, President Lyndon B,Johnson signs the document to make the Civil Rights Act of 1968...
Supporters of Iranian President and presidential candidate Hassan Rouhani hold purple and green balloons, purple the symbol of his movement and green...
During the 1960s and 1970s, Native Americans joined in the political activism inspired by the African-American civil rights movement. This protest...
Workers carry signs for full employment during a civil rights march commemorating the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. In an Atlanta neighborhood.
Workers carry signs for full employment during a civil rights march commemorating the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. In an Atlanta neighborhood.
Two young protesters in Birmingham try to avoid the blast of a fire hose, without much success, during a civil rights protest in Birmingham.
Civil Rights activists are blocked by National Guardsmen brandishing bayonets while trying to stage a protest on Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee....
Lawyer Thurgood Marshall and civil rights activist Daisy Bates join several members of the "Little Rock Nine", the first students to integrate...
Palestinian prime minister Mohammad Shtayyeh speaks at the Palestinian Al-Haq Foundation in the West Bank city of Ramallah after Israel raided and...
Palestinian prime minister Mohammad Shtayyeh speaks at the Palestinian Al-Haq Foundation in the West Bank city of Ramallah after Israel raided and...
Member of the Israeli security forces arrests a demonstrator, as Palestinian left-wing Israeli and foreign activists gather to protest near the West...
Israeli left wing activists gather with Palestinian activists at the Al-Haq Foundation in the West Bank city of Ramallah to denounce Israel's...
Atlantic City, NJ: Some 100 civil rights demonstrators kept an all-night vigil before the Democratic Convention Hall in an attempt to seat members of...
Marchers holding signs gather at school athletic field in Tallahassee, Florida before a Civil Rights march.
North Little Rock, AR: Four negro students ignore taunts of white students and adults as they attempted to enter North Little Rock High School...
Alabama State troopers "frisk" Negro youths arrested during demonstrations here 2/4 prior to boarding them on buses. More than 130 were arrested. UPI...
President Lyndon Johnson hands several fountain pens to Attorney General Robert Kennedy during the signing ceremony of th Civil Rights Act. The bill...
American civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King and his wife Coretta Scott King lead a black voting rights march from Selma, Alabama, to the...
Martin Luther King and his wife Coretta Scott King lead a civil rights march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital in Montgomery. On the left is...
Joseph Fons holding a Pride Flag in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building after the court ruled that LGBTQ people can not be disciplined or fired...
Actress Andrea Frye Ashmove attends "Behind The Movement" Atlanta screening at National Center for Civil and Human Rights on February 2, 2018 in...
South Carolina representative Robert B. Elliott's famous speech in favor of the Civil Rights Act, delivered in the House of Representatives on...
Members of the South African farming community and civil society organisations prepare to march to the Union Buildings to raise awareness on farm...