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Civil Right activist Harry Morre and wife, Harriet Moore, were killed Chrismas Day, 1951 when their Mims, Florida house was fire-bombed. This photograph was taken the day after the bombing.
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On Dec. 1, 1955, a woman named Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man. Parks died Oct. 24, 2005, at the age of 92.
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A Ku Klux Klan robe on display at the National Voting Rights Museum in downtown Selma, Alabama represents the segregation of the South during the time of the Civil Rights Movement.
Lara Solt / Dallas Morning News
The gravestone of Emmett Till in the Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois, is shown on May 4, 2005 Till, visiting from Chicago, was kidnapped and murdered in Mississippi in 1955.
Ed Wagner / Chicago Tribune
Rev. Martin Luther King delivers his famous "I have a dream" speech, August 28, 1963, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
William J. Scott Jr. / MCT
Undated file photo of black Muslim and Nation of Islam leader, Malcolm X, who was assassinated in 1965.
Detroit Free Press / MCT
Ellie Dahmer and her stepson Vernon Dahmer Jr. attend Vernon Sr.'s funeral in 1966. Vernon Sr. died when his house in Mississippi was firebombed on January 11, 1966.
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Black civil rights leader, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., met with President Lyndon Johnson (in background) in 1966.
Yoichi Okamoto / National Archives
The Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot outside of rooms 306 and 307 of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968.
Ben Noey Jr. / Fort Worth Star-Telegram / MCT
Julian Bond, now NAACP National Board of Directors Chairman, talks about the NAACP on June 9, 2005. During the 1960s, Bond lead protests against segregation in Georgia where he was a student at Morehouse College.
Jack Orton / Milwaukee Journal Sentinal
Bayard T. Rustin, shown here in this 1970 file photo, is credited for, among other things, schooling Martin Luther King in the virtues of nonviolence and civil disobedience and pulling together the broad national coalition of churches, liberals, elements of organized labor that formed the backbone of the civil rights movement and provided its marchers for the 1965 March on Washington.
Philadelphia Inquirer / MCT
Black Panther leader the late Eldridge Cleaver at the University of La Verne in 1998. Cleaver was a controversial figure in the civil rights movement.
Cindy Yamanaka / Orange County Register / MCT
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