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Civil Rights protesters were often sprayed with high pressure fire hoses or had police dogs let...

This is a photo of 14 year-old Emmitt Till from his funeral. His mother Mamie held an open casket...

Four African-American college students staged a "sit-in" at a Woolworth's lunch counter...

Martin Luther King, Jr., an advocate for nonviolent protest, is led away by the police after staging a rally in Mississippi.

Aides to Martin Luther King point to the area from where they heard the shot that killed King, lying...

Rosa Parks, inspired by Emmitt Till's death, decided to take a stand against racism and segregation....

Emmitt Louis Till, 14, with his mother, Mamie Bradley, shortly before he was lynched in...

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