Malcolm X
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Malcolm X was an American civil rights activist and Muslim minister who came from a background of poverty, family disruption, and criminal activity to a prominent figure during the civil rights moveme
Malcolm X in 1963
A Boston police mug shot of Malcolm taken in 1944, following his arrest for larceny
Malcolm X speaking to members of the African-American Students Foundation. (1959)
Muhammad Ali (second row, in dark suit) watches Elijah Muhammad speak, 1964
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.