Georgia Gilmore
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Georgia Theresa Gilmore was an American civil rights activist from Montgomery, Alabama, who participated in the Montgomery bus boycott through her fund-raising organization, the club from Nowhere, whi
Georgia Gilmore waving, photo taken January 1978
Georgia Gilmore in her kitchen making a box lunch. She used her culinary skills to support the Montgomery bus boycott.
Georgia Gilmore seated in the audience at Holt Street Baptist Church.
Civil rights movement
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The civil rights movement was a social movement in the United States from 1954 to 1968 which aimed to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement in the country, which
The 1963 March on Washington participants and leaders marching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial
13th Amendment in the National Archives, bearing the signature of Abraham Lincoln
The mob-style lynching of Will James, Cairo, Illinois, 1909
Lynching victim Will Brown, who was mutilated and burned during the Omaha, Nebraska race riot of 1919. Postcards and photographs of lynchings were popular souvenirs in the U.S.