Village of Zari: fifteen hundred aboriginals gather under a banyan tree for a red flag meeting

[LIFE photographer Margaret Bourke-White (L) with LIFE edit reporter Lee Eitingon, posing in Hindu saris]

Sinking new mine shaft.

Inside the cave the victim's kinfolk leaving flowers to lay on the unmarked graves of the 500 dead men.

[physician in lane holding lamp, gesturing to woman]

At the Allen Gilbert School of Undressing, Professor Connie Fonzlau begins her lecture on "Bedroom Don'ts" by demonstrating the worst possible method of undressing

Medgar Evers, slain NAACP official, lying in Jackson, Mississippi

[Cassius Clay training at Sir John Hotel pool, Miami]