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"Don't work" sign promoting a holiday to honor the anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., on a shop on H Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.: photo by Marion J. Trikosko, 3 April 1969







Birmingham, Alabama: average Negro homes: photo by Marion J. Trikosko, 14 May 1963







Group of African Americans viewing the bomb-damaged home of Arthur Shores, NAACP attorney, Birmingham, Alabama: photo by Marion S. Trikosko, 5 September 1963







Bomb-damaged trailers at the Gaston Motel, Birmingham, Alabama: the wreckage of a bomb explosion near the Gaston Motel where Martin Luther King, Jr., and leaders in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference were staying during the Birmingham campaign of the Civil Rights movement: photo by Marion J. Trikosko, 14 May 1963







Riot damage in D.C.: the ruins of a store in Washington, D.C., that was destroyed during the riots that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.: photo by Warren K. Leffler, 16 April 1968







Washington D.C. riot, April '68, Aftermath: members of the D.C. National Guard patrolling streets as pedestrians walk by: photo by Warren K. Leffler, 8 April 1968







Montgomery, Alabama: four African American students speaking to a white reporter on Alabama State College on campus: photo by Thomas J. O'Halloran, 10 March 1960







Integration at Ole Miss[issippi] Univ[ersity]: James Meredith walking to class accompanied by U.S. marshals: photo by Marion S. Trikosko, 1 October 1962







Clinton, Tennessee school integration conflicts. (Photographer's note: "A line of African American boys walking through a crowd of white boys during a period of violence related to school integration."): photo by Thomas J. O'Halloran, 4 December 1956







African American school children entering the Mary E. Branch School at S. Main Street and Griffin Boulevard, Farmville, Prince Edward County, Virginia. (Photographer's note: "Farmville, Prince Edward County, Va., 'Free' schools open. Children arriving, opening ceremony, flag raising and assembly at Free School #2. Mary E. Branch School is the second Robert R. Moton school built 1939 on S. Main Street and Griffin Blvd. assoc. with desegregation."): photo by Thomas J. O'Halloran, 16 September 1963







School integration. Barnard School, Washington, D.C.: photo by Thomas J. O'Halloran, 27 May 1955







A crowd of African Americans behind a storm fence with police on the other side at Civil Rights march on Washington, D.C.: photo by Marion J. Trikosko, 28 August 1963

Photos from U.S. News & World Report Magazine Collection, Library of Congress