Alabama Fire Department aims high-pressure water hoses at Civil Rights Demonstrators, Birmingham Protests, 1963
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Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph Abernathy walk toward their arrest, Birmingham, Alabama, April 16, 1963
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1960. Martin Luther King is pulling burnt cross from his lawn, with his little son at his side.
Image by: Corbis
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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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Gordon Parks, Police Brutality Must Go, 1963
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We call it non-violent when the violence is committed by the 'very fine' people.
May 28, 1963. Woolworth sit-in, Jackson, MS.
photo by Fred Blackwell
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The Memphis Sanitation Strike, 1968
with bayonets.
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Matt Herron, Washington, 1963
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‘I‘m sick and tired
of being sick and tired.’
— Fannie Lou Hamer
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Fannie Lou Hamer is one of my favorite Americans - favorite people - of the 20th century. She was as indefatigable as she was impassioned in the fight for freedom, equality, and racial justice. We need more people like Hamer in the world.
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Fannie Lou Hamer was a close colleague of an esteemed mentor of mine. I did not know this poem, and I thank you for it.
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