High School principal R. Wiley Brownlee was tarred and feathered by the KKK after he left a board meeting where he proposed the school district honor MLK, Jr. A student took this photo of Brownlee when he returned to the school for help. April 3, 1971
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Bob Wood, “An African-American woman watches as Ku Klux Klansmen walk in Montgomery, Alabama prior to a cross burning rally that night, Nov 24, 1956”
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Last day women were able to walk streets of Tehran with heads uncovered.
Iranian women rebel against 1979 hijab law
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Garment workers at Abe Schrader Shop listen to funeral services for MLK on a portable radio, April 9, 1968
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Gordon Parks: Malcolm X in an LA courtroom, displaying photographs of Ronald Stokes who was killed by the LAPD (1963)
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The Ku Klux Klan at a carnival in Canon City, Colorado, 1925
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Cornell Capa, Inmates playing chess from their prison cells, 1972
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Headquarters of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage (sic)
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'Who said we are satisfied?' High School picketer. Unidentified photographer, Houston, Texas, 1965
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Malcolm X trying to calm Ali?
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Édouard Boubat, Plutôt la Vie (Choose Life), graffiti, Paris, May 1968
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Henri Cartier-Bresson
Paris, May 1968
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Raymond Depardon, Children playing 'Build The Wall', West Berlin. 1962
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Thomas Hollyman, Belfast, Ireland
1960s
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Vivian Maier, Untitled, New York
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Walker Evans
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Charles Brittin, Arrest at Los Angeles Federal Building Protest, 1965
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