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Key Individuals in the African-American Civil Rights Movement (Sept 2019) Music and Image details from the Historical Association Film: Key Individuals in the African-American Civil Rights Movement (Sept 2019). Music: 1. Reach Beyond by Paul Werner. Licensed through Jamendo: https://www.jamendo.com/track/1626410/reach-beyond 2. Piano Sequenza 3 by Madi. Licensed through Jamendo: https://www.jamendo.com/track/1435558/piano-sequenza-3 3. Pace of life by Paul Werner. Licensed through Jamendo: https://www.jamendo.com/track/1590727/pace-of-life-extended-version Images: Martin Luther King: 1. Shutterstock Royalty-free stock photo ID: 134176970 - I have a Dream, Martin Luther King on Lincoln's Memorial steps with George Washington Monument on the horizon, Washington DC, United States 2. Dr. Martin Luther King giving his "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington in Washington, D.C., on 28 August 1963. US National Archives. 3. View from the Lincoln Memorial toward the Washington Monument on August 28, 1963. Public Domain. 4. Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. (Leaders of the march posing in front of the statue of Abraham Lincoln). US National Archives. 5. The high school that King attended was named after African-American educator Booker T. Washington. Public Domain. 6. King's graduate work was at the Crozer Theological Seminary (pictured in 2009). Public Domain. 7. Sign for the "colored" waiting room at a bus station in Durham, North Carolina, May 1940 – Library of Congress. 8. An African-American man drinking at a "colored" drinking fountain in a streetcar terminal in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1939. Library of Congress. 9. Shutterstock Royalty-free stock photo ID: 165731147 - Restored bus Rosa Parks sat in December 1, 1955 from Montgomery Alabama on Cleveland Avenue, is seen in Washington, D.C. National Mall, for the 50th Anniversary of the march on Washington. 10. Rosa Parks being fingerprinted by Deputy Sheriff D.H. Lackey. Public Domain. 11. Martin Luther King showing his medallion, which he received from Mayor Wagner. Library of Congress. 12. King at the 1963 Civil Rights March in Washington, D.C. US National Archives. 13. Bayard Rustin (left) and Cleveland Robinson (right), organizers of the March, on August 7, 1963. Library of Congress. 14. Leaders of the march on Washington leading marchers down the street. US National Archives. 15. Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. US National Archives. 16. National Basketball Association player, Bill Russell at the March on Washington. US National Archives. 17. Governor Wallace standing against desegregation while being confronted by Deputy U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach at the University of Alabama in 1963. Public Domain. 18. Vivian Malone registering for classes at University of Alabama. Library of Congress. 19. White parents rally against integrating Little Rock's schools. Little Rock 1959. Library of Congress. 20. Operation Arkansas: A Different Kind of Deployment Photo by Courtesy of the National Archives September 20, 2007 Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division escort the Little Rock Nine students into the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Ark. Public Domain. 21. Diane Nash and Kelly Miller Smith review a prepared statement in response to the Biracial Committee's recommendations concerning lunch counter desegregation in Nashville, Tennessee. Photographed April 9, 1960; published April 10, 1960. Photographed by Gerald Holly, staff photographer for The Tennessean. Fair Use. 22. Three African American Civil Rights protesters and Woolworth's Sit-In, Durham, NC, 10 February 1960, as part of a series of protests that led to the end of legal segregation. From the N&O Negative Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, NC. Public Domain. 23. Bayard Rustin at news briefing on the Civil Rights March on Washington in the Statler Hotel, half-length portrait, seated at table. Library of Congress. 24. Bayard Rustin and Dr. Eugene Reed at Freedom House / World Telegram & Sun photo by Al Ravenna. Library of Congress. 25. Bayard Rustin, half-length portrait, facing front, microphones in foreground / World Telegram & Sun photo by Stanley Wolfson. Library of Congress. 26. The 16th Street Baptist Church, headquarters and rendezvous point for the campaign. Library of Congress. 27. Martin Luther King Jr., a year later in 1964, promoting the book Why We Can't Wait, based on his "Letter from Birmingham Jail". Library of Congress. 28. King was arrested in 1963 for protesting the treatment of blacks in Birmingham. Public Domain. 29. Wreckage at the Gaston Motel following the bomb explosion on May 11, 1963. Library of Congress. 30. John F. Kennedy addressing the nation about Civil Rights on June 11, 1963. JFK Library. 31. Birmingham residents view the bomb-damaged home of NAACP attorney Arthur Shores on September 5, 1963. Library of Congress. 32. Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Among the guests behind him is Martin Luther King, Jr. Public Domain. 33. White House Meeting with Civil Rights Leaders. June 22, 1963. Library of Congress. 34. James Forman in Montgomery, March 1965. Library of Congress. 35. SNCC protesters in Montgomery, March 17, 1965. Library of Congress. 36. Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. [Four young marchers singing. US National Archives. 37. President Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Rosa Parks at the signing of the Voting Rights Act on August 6, 1965. LBJ Library. 38. King and Malcolm X, March 26, 1964. Library of Congress. 39. Mural on the wall of row houses in Philadelphia. The artist is Parris Stancell, sponsored by the Freedom School Mural Arts Program. Phote by Tony Fischer. Creative Commons 2.0. 40. Ralph David Abernathy and his wife Mrs. Juanita Abernathy follow with Dr. and Mrs. Martin Luther King as the Abernathy children march on the front line, leading the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965. Copyright Abernathy Family. Public Domain. 41. Resurrection City Washington D.C. 1968 by Henry Zbyszynski. Creative Commons 2.0. 42. Demonstrators participating in the Poor People's March at Lafayette Park and on Connecticut Avenue, Washington, D.C. Library of Congress. 43. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with King in the White House Cabinet Room in 1966. Library of Congress. Malcolm X: 1. Malcolm X, after his 1964 pilgrimage to Mecca. Library of Congress. 2. Cassius Clay (in dark suit) watches Elijah Muhammad speak, 1964. Library of Congress. 3. Robert F. Kennedy and Patricia Kennedy Lawford following Jacqueline Kennedy as she leaves the United States Capitol with John F. Kennedy Jr. and Caroline Kennedy, after viewing John F. Kennedy lying in state. Abbie Rowe White House Photographs. Public Domain. 4. Martin Luther King Jr. delivering his "I Have a Dream" speech – US National Archives. 5. Joan Baez and Bob Dylan performing at the March on Washington – US National Archives. 6. Sammy Davis Jr., with Roy Wilkins, Executive Secretary of NAACP – US National Archives. Rosa Parks: 1. Highlander Folk School - Historical Marker Back by Brian Mackinnon. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0. 2. Photograph of Rosa Parks with Dr. Martin Luther King jr. (ca. 1955) Mrs. Rosa Parks altered the negro progress in Montgomery, Alabama, 1955, by the bus boycott she began. National Archives record ID: 306-PSD-65-1882 (Box 93). Source: Ebony Magazine. US National Archives. 3. Shutterstock Royalty-free stock photo ID: 165731147 - Restored bus Rosa Parks sat in December 1, 1955 from Montgomery Alabama on Cleveland Avenue, is seen in Washington, D.C. National Mall, for the 50th Anniversary of the march on Washington. 4. Claudette Colvin, aged 13, in 1953. On March 2, 1955, she was the first person arrested for resisting bus racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama. Public Domain. 5. Rosa Parks being fingerprinted by Deputy Sheriff D.H. Lackey. Public Domain. 6. Fingerprint card of Rosa Parks. Public Domain. 7. Suburban homeowners in Detroit installed this sign in 1942. The legacy of housing segregation continued long afterwards, and most whites resisted fair housing measures in the years before the riot. Library of Congress. 8. Black Bottom, a center of the black community, was replaced by Lafayette Park. Its loss resulted in racial tensions, due to the dislocation of community networks as well as loss of housing. Photo by Mike Russell. Creative Commons. 9. July 24, 1967. President Lyndon B. Johnson (seated, foreground) confers with (background L- R): Marvin Watson, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, Sec. Robert McNamara, Gen. Harold Keith Johnson, Joe Califano, Sec. of the Army Stanley Rogers Resor, on responding to the riots. Library of Congress. 10. U.S. President Barack Obama sitting on the bus. Parks was arrested sitting in the same row Obama is in, but on the opposite side. Public Domain. 11. Jo Ann Gibson Robinson (1912–1992), civil rights activist and educator in Montgomery, Alabama – Library of Congress. 12. Gloria Richardson faces National Guard troops at a 1963 Cambridge, MD civil rights protest. Library of Congress. 13. Rosa Parks c.1978 Public Domain. 14. Rosa Parks in 1993 - Kingkongphoto & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0. .
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