Exhausted marshals line the hallway of the Lyceum on the campus of the University of Mississippi, after a night of rioting

[Reporters at Civil Rights demonstration]

Suspects are rounded up following racial violence on the day U.S. Marshals escorted student James Meredith onto the University campus at Oxford

[Sharecropper Lonnie Fair and his wife sleeping in bed at home]

Yazoo City

[Sharecropper Lonnie Fair's daughter loading a bag with picked cotton]

[Delta and Pine Company African American sharecropper Lonnie Fair family picking cotton on their 22 acres]

14-year-old white boy working in a saw mill

[Voter registration]

[Sharecropper riding on mule. Mules are provided by employer Delta & Pine Land Company]

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. with Freedom Riders at bus terminal, probably in Jackson Miss.

U.S. marshals, helmeted and armed with tear-gas guns, roll into Oxford

Negro Baptizing Scene, Greenville, Miss.

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[John F. Kennedy addressing nation on television regarding integration of University of Mississippi, Oval Office, White House, Washington, DC]

[John F. Kennedy addressing nation on television regarding integration of University of Mississippi, Oval Office, White House, Washington, DC]

In a Show of Support that Brought Together Different Factions of the Movement, Civil Rights Leaders Joined the Funeral Procession for Medgar Evers, Mississippi

Medgar Evers, field secretary for NAACP in Mississippi, was shot and killed in his home state. This photograph shows some of the people who attended his funeral

[National Guard soldiers escort Freedom Riders along their ride from Montgomery to Jackson]

Newspaper: Bush: "Our Nation Saw Evil"