African-American students attending Little Rock Central High School are escorted to a waiting Army station wagon for their return home after classes,...
New Orleans, LA- Three Negro girls leave the previously all-white McDonogh elementary school after spending their second day in the integrated...
Group of high school students from north and Northwestern sections of Baltimore are shown grouped in front of City Hall shouting their demands that...
Clinton, TN: John Carter a Clinton High School junior, carries sign outside the school here August 27th. Protesting racial integration as the school...
National Guard troops deployed to the University of Alabama to force its desegregation, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, US, 11th June 1963.
Columbus, GA- Some of the estimated 10-14,000 pupils arrived at school 9/7 morning on Musogee County school buses. The schools are open under a...
African American students who had previously been banned from Little Rock Central High School were provided with portal-to-portal protection to enter...
New Orleans, LA- A number of Negro children have registered in several New Orleans public schools which will be desegregated for the first time this...
American students Vivian Malone and James Hood walk through the crowds as they become the first African American students to enrol at the University...
New Orleans, LA- Waving Confederate flags, two small children stand on chairs as they join adults in attending a meeting of the White Citizens...
Garfield Heights, Ohio: Students and their parents are set to ride the bus from the east-side Cranwood School to their new assignments at schools...
South Carolina National Guardsman meets a school bus as it arrives with African American students at the Lamar School. A little girl watches the...
Protesters gather at William Franz Elementary School in New Orleans, Louisiana to protest desegregation in schools. | Location: William Franz...
Army convoy moves past fraternity houses at the University of Mississippi as marshals arrive to enforce a Federal Court allowing African American...
The statement all interstate buses are required to display, reading 'Seating aboard this vehicle is without regard to race, color, creed, or national...
Federal troops on the roof of the Foster Auditorium of the University of Alabama after the university had abandoned its policy of segregation, in...
Armed U.S. National Guard troops stand outside Little Rock High School to halt enforcement of a court-ordered racial desegregation. Riots and...
White girl and an African American girl eat lunch together at a desegregated school in Bekeley, California.
Jim Hard of Framingham, and Joseph Reis of Roxbury, get acquainted on their first day of school at the Trotter School in Boston, Sept. 3, 1969
Confronted by U.S. Justice Department officials, Alabama Governor. George C. Wallace keeps his promise to Alabama voters "to stand in the schoolhouse...
Nettie Hunt and her daughter Nickie sit on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court. Nettie explains to her daughter the meaning of the high court's...
Nashville, TN- A Negro mother and her first grade child disregard segregationist as they enter a public school on the first day of classes. Negro...
Negro students arrived at Southern this morning and white students walk behind holding sigh, "Southern Don't want Negros", and "Milford did it, so...
Baltimore youngsters look on as parents picket a school yesterday in south west Baltimore in the City's first expression of protest against the end...
Race violence broke out in Baltimore yesterday as an estimated 2,000 white students stayed away from eight schools in protest against the end of...
Following the US Supreme Court's order for immediate integration , sixteen Black children, carrying signs and accompanied by four mothers, walk to...
Police in front of William Frantz public school are shown, as an African American woman and child exit the building. The New Orleans schools were...
Two children, the boy wearing a white hood, watch a Ku Klux Klan cross burning from a car, which is fixed with a sign protesting integration.
Students at Thompson Elementary School in Washington DC, formerly for white children only, study a poster urging all to work together during...
Protesters gather at William Franz Elementary School in New Orleans, Louisiana to protest desegregation in schools. | Location: William Franz...
Passenger points to one of the segregation signs removed from all Dallas Transit Company buses, following a Supreme Court ruling banning segregation...
Students protesting integrated schools march toward a segregated school during a pro-segregation protest in Birmingham, Alabama.
Mrs. Lee Hooks and other white housewives demonstrate against planned desegregation at William Franz Elementary School in New Orleans.
Cincinnati second grade teacher and her class pledge allegiance to the flag in their classroom. | Location: Near Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
Black students are provided with a military escort when entering and leaving Little Rock Central High School, Arkansas, following the school's...
Portrait of the children involved in the landmark Civil Rights lawsuit 'Brown V. Board of Education,' which challenged the legality of American...
Race Relations, Education, pic: 1974, Boston, Mass, Mounted police look on as buses carrying black students arrive for classes in the early days of...
Coretta Scott King leads a march in support of school desegregation down Part Street in Boston on Nov. 30, 1974.
Students enter a school in South Boston on the first day of federally imposed desegregation on Sep. 12, 1974. Twenty-thousand students have been...
Vivian Malone registers for her classes at the University of Alabama. Governor George Wallace famously blocked the doors of the registration center...
While two sign-carrying women pickets stand by, Negro students arrive at Baltimore's southern high school for classes. The Rev. Elder James L....
While top GOP officials attended the Republican fund raising banquet, pickets of the CIO union paraded around the building rearing placards and...
Dr. Martin Luther King is shown leading a group of black children to their newly integrated school in Grenada, Mississippi, escorted by folk singer...
Elizabeth Eckford ignores the hostile screams and stares of fellow students on her first day of school, 6th September 1957. She was one of the nine...
Ruby Nell Bridges at age 6, was the first African American child to attend William Franz Elementary School in New Orleans after Federal courts...
Englewood, NJ: Group of sign carrying pickets with Adam Clayton Powell at an Englewood Integration Rally.
Englewood, NJ: Penelope Patch of Englewood, NJ who spent 5 days in Albany, jail for desegregation activities.
Bryant Bowles , President of the National Association for the Advancement of White People, is shown as he urged a crowd in Milford last week to keep...
September 4, 1963 - Charleston, S.C.: Clarence Ford and his two small girls enter the gates of Simmons Elementary School for the integration of the...
Racial dissension flares up in Northwest Miami as white citizens picket the home of Negro entertainer Frank Legree who moved into the formerly...
Few weeks after the desegregation of Little Rock's Central High School, only six of the nine African American students are escorted into the school,...
Brigadier General Henry V. Graham, officer in charge of federalized Alabama National Guard units, salutes Alabama Governor George C. Wallace at the...
December 5, 1960 - New Orleans: Police and detectives watch as 5 white children leave intergrated William Frantz Elementary School after school ends...
December 5, 1960 - New Orleans: An unidentified woman throws an egg at a passing auto carrying white children from integrated William Frantz School...
Three African American girls leave the previously all-white McDonogh Elementary School after spending their second day in the integrated school. The...