1950s-1970s: Social Reform > The Civil Rights Movement


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Title: Martin Luther King Memorial Rally - 1968
Creator/Contributor: Joe Rosenthal
Contributing Institution: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
These images show the Civil Rights movement through the lens of California news photographers. Photographs of leaders, supporters, and dissenters show that people far from the South were involved in this struggle.
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