10 March 1965

Associated Press

Photograph

Title: Scene of Racial Unrest

One wirephoto entitled, "Scene of Racial Unrest," taken by Associated Press dated March 10, 1965. Image is a map of locations in Selma, Alabama identifying areas of civil rights demonstrations. The identified areas were Browns Chapel A.M.E. Church, the city jail, the courthouse and routes. Wire transfer information describes a march route that was halted.

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10 March 1965

Associated Press

Photograph

Title: Freedom March On Capitol

One wirephoto entitled, "Freedom March On Capitol" taken by Associated Press dated March 10, 1965. Image is of students on a city street surrounded by state troopers, officials, and reporters in front of the Alabama State Capitol Building in Montgomery. Wire transfer information states that the students and faculty of the Tuskegee Institute staged a march at the Alabama State Capitol.

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11 March 1965

Associated Press

Photograph

Title: Police Break Up Demonstration

One wirephoto entitled, "Police Break Up Demonstration," taken by Associated Press dated March 11, 1965. Image is four police officers dragging two protestors from a demonstration. Wire transfer information states that the two men were carried off from a sit-down at Montgomery, Alabama.

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11 March 1965

Associated Press

Photograph

Title: Came the Dawn

One wirephoto entitled, "Came the Dawn" taken by Associated Press dated March 11, 1965. Image is of a line of protestors wrapped in blankets by a church. Police officers are photographed alongside of them. Wire transfer information states that the protesters staged a camp-in. Their plan was to march to the courthouse following the sleeping on the street in front of a church.

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7 March 1964

Associated Press

Photograph

Title: Civil Rights Demonstrators Block Bridge

One photograph entitled, "Civil Rights Demonstrators Block Bridge," taken by Associated Press dated March 7, 1964. Image is of five demonstrators from the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) sitting in the middle of the road blocking the Manhattan approach to the Triborough Bridge. CORE dumped garbage on the bridge in protest of conditions in East Harlem schools.

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18 May 1964

Associated Press

Photograph

Title: Picket Governors Office

One photograph entitled, "Picket Governors Office," taken by the Associated Press dated May 18, 1964. Image is of protesters with signs of New York Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller's office. Protestors march behind a police line holding/wearing signs that asking for schools to be integrated. Wire transfer information states that protests took place on the Brown v. Board of Education decision's tenth anniversary.

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13 March 1965

Associated Press

Photograph

Title: Far Enough

One wirephoto entitled, "Far Enough" taken by Associated Press dated March 13, 1965. Image is of a police officer holding a demonstrator back with a club as the demonstrator links arms with fellow protestors. Wire transfer information states that police officers attempted to stop the march headed for the courthouse in Selma, Alabama.

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13 March 1965

Associated Press

Photograph

Title: Baker Block the Way

One wirephoto entitled, "Baker Block the Way" taken by the Associated Press dated March 13, 1965. Image is of Wilson Baker stopping demonstrators headed towards a protest for voting rights. Wire transfer information states that protesters led by clergymen were en route to the courthouse for a prayer session.

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19 July 1964

Associated Press

Photograph

Title: Running From the Police

One photograph entitled, "Running from the Police," taken by the Associated Press dated July 19 1964. Image is of Black residents of Harlem standing back from police officers. The wire transfer information states that the police were using nightsticks to break up a crowd that gathered for the funeral of James Powell.

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15 March 1965

Associated Press

Photograph

Title: March Halted

One wirephoto entitled, "March Halted," taken by Associated Press dated March 15, 1965. Image is of C.T. Vivian linked in arms with Dana McLean Greely. Sheriff James Clark and other police officers blocks their path. Wire transfer information identifies C.T. Vivian as an integration leader and Dana McLean Greeley as the president of the Unitarian Universalist Association of North America.

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15 March 1965

Associated Press

Photograph

Title: Another Day, Another Confrontation

One wirephoto entitled, "Another Day, Another Confrontation," taken by Associated Press dated March 15, 1965. Images is of police officers blocking a large crowd of demonstrators with police cars. Wire transfer information states that Sheriff James Clark and state police prevented the demonstration from proceeding to the courthouse. Clark said protesters could proceed one by one if they had "voter registration business there."

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19 July 1964

Associated Press

Photograph

Title: Pistol Wielding Police Clear Harlem Riot Area

One photograph entitled, "Pistol Wielding Police Clear Harlem Riot Area" taken by Associated Press dated July 19, 1964. Image is of a scene during the 1964 Harlem Riot. Pictured are police officers running in front of a theatre while other bystanders run away from them. Two people are laying down on the ground.

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19 July 1964

Associated Press

Photograph

Title: Police Lead Negro From Harlem Riot Scene

One photograph entitled, "Police Lead Negro From Harlem Riot Scene" taken by Associated Press dated July 19, 1964. Image is of a police officer lading a cuffed Black man by the arm past a line of police officers. Wire transfer information states that the arrest followed riots in Harlem.

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21 March 1965

Associated Press

Photograph

Title: Tenting Tonight

One wirephoto entitled, "Tenting Tonight" taken by Associated Press dated March 21, 1965. Image is of a group of marchers resting on blankets on the ground as they prepare to continue the Selma to Montgomery March. Wire transfer information states that protesters were planning to completing the march in five days.

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April 30, 1961

Associated Press

Photograph

Title: Confirmation Delayed

One wirephoto entitled, "Confirmation Delayed," taken by the Associated Press dated April 30, 1961. Image is a press portrait of Thurgood Marshall. Wire transfer information states that Marshall's Supreme Court confirmation had been delayed.

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19 July 1964

Associated Press

Photograph

Title: Equality in Harlem

One photograph entitled, "Equality in Harlem" taken by Associated Press dated July 19, 1964. Image is of a barricade blocking residents on the corner of 7th Avenue and W. 133rd Street. Wire transfer information states that the barricade was an attempt to prevent further violence from riots.

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19 July 1964

Associated Press

Photograph

Title: Harlem Riot Scene

One photograph entitled, "Harlem Riot Scene" taken by Associated Press dated July 19, 1964. Image is of a crowd in Harlem. A police van and parked cars are in front of them and traffic is behind them. Wire transfer information states that the protest took place following the fatal shooting of James Powell, a Black teenager shot by a white off-duty police officer Thomas Gilligan.

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22 March 1965

Associated Press

Photograph

Title: [Demonstrators cross Edmund Pettus Bridge during a march for voting rights in Selma, Alabama]

One photograph taken by the Associated Press dated March 22, 1965. Image is an aerial view of a dense crowd of marchers crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March 21, 1965.

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19 July 1964

Associated Press

Photograph

Title: Steel Store Front Guard Ripped Off By Rioters

One photograph entitled, "Steel Store Front Guard Ripped Off by Rioters," taken by Associated Press dated July 19, 1964. Image is of a steel fence ripped off during a riot. Wire transfer information states that fence was in front of a pawnshop in Harlem.

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26 March 1965

Associated Press

Photograph

Title: Civil Rights Marchers Swarm On the Capitol

One wirephoto entitled, "Civil Rights Marchers Swarm On the Capitol," taken by Associated Press dated March 26, 1965. Image is of a crowd in front of the Alabama State Capitol on the final day of the Selma to Montgomery march. Wire transfer information states that state troopers were blocking the protestors from the steps of the capitol.

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01 September 1967

Associated Press

Photograph

Title: New Justice and Family

One wirephoto entitled, "New Justice and Family," taken by Associated Press dated September 1, 1967. Image is of Thurgood Marshall with his wife and two sons in front of the Supreme Court building. Wire transfer information states that the images was taken before his confirmation to the Supreme Court.

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19 July 1964

Associated Press

Photograph

Title: Clean-Up After Harlem Riot

One photograph entitled, "Clean-Up After Harlem Riot" taken by Associated Press dated July 19, 1964. Image is of three residents and police officers surveying the damage of a pawn shop, Isaac Leon Corp. Wire transfer information states that damages to the pawn shop followed riots after a 15-year old Black boy, James Powell, was fatally shot by an off-duty police officer, Thomas R. Gilligan.

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02 October 1967

Associated Press

Photograph

Title: Justice Marshall

One wirephoto entitled, "Justice Marshall," taken by Associated Press dated October 2, 1967. Image is a portrait of Thurgood Marshall in his judicial robes.

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11 October 1991

Associated Press

Photograph

Title: Calm and Resolute

One wirephoto entitled, "Calm and Resolute" taken by Associated Press dated October 11, 1991. Image is of Clarence Thomas testifying at his confirmation hearing. Wire transfer information refers to Thomas denying that he had sexually assaulted Anita Hill.

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11 October 1991

Associated Press

Photograph

Title: Denounces and Denies

One laserphoto entitled, "Denounces and Denies," taken by Associated Press dated October 11, 1991. Image is of Clarence Thomas testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Wire transfer information states that Thomas returned to his hearings after testifying that he had not sexually assaulted University of Oklahoma professor, Anita Hill.

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