| Civil Rights Movement in Pictures |
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| President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964. |
| Little Rock's Central High School: Ground zero over the debate on school integration. |
| The result of Plessy v. Ferguson: A system of segregated facilties in America. |
| University students, in North Carolina, protesting segregated facilities. In this case it was at dime store lunch counters. |
| The students, who became known as the "Little Rock Nine", we constantly harrassed and threatened by angry mobs who wanted to keep school in Little Rock segregated. It got so bad that at one point, the 101st Airborne Division had to be called in to escort them from class to class. |
| Hate groups, like the Ku Klux Klan, protested equal treatment for minorities expressly ensured by the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. Many violent episodes errupted as the klan attempoted to keep Blacks from exercising their constitutionally protected right to vote. |
| The march on Washington. D.C. |
| Alabama state troopers club and gas marchers in Selma, Alabama. |
| Martin Luther Knig, Jr. |
| Civil Rights March, one of many designed to bring the issue to the front of the nation's attention. |
| Mr. Jarzynski's Civil Rights Links: |