Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Abernathy lead demonstrators to a confrontation with police

Truman Purdy, 61, lifts weights in the Hamilton Aged and Infirmed prison exercise yard. His 25 year sentence for sexual abuse and sodomy began in 1992.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is arrested for loitering outside a courtroom where his friend and associate Ralph Abernathy is appearing for a trial

Black shoppers are attacked by white men

Poet-Professor injured in Selma demonstration

Trained to cooperate with arresting officers, most demonstrators do so

Children of the rural South

From Calhoun School and Settlement

[Group Dining]

[Unidentified Bride]

Mounted deputies club demonstrators in Montgomery

Selma March

[Voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery]

[Martin Luther King, Jr.]

Birmingham Riots

[Unidentified Freedom Rider recovering after police beating]

Martin Luther King, Jr.

[A woman sits to protest racial discrimination in schools]

[Freedom marcher followed by a group of taunters, Selma]

[Firemen control a crowd of demonstrators with high pressure water]

[Maxwell and Willard Schaver working on turpentine farm]

As various people watch, a pair of deputy sheriffs carry an anti-segregation demonstrator along a sidewalk during an arrest, Montgomery, Alabama

[Robert Kennedy listening to brother John F. Kennedy ordering Alabama National Guard response to potential renewed rioting in Birmingham, Washington, DC]

[John F. Kennedy speaking at news conference regarding University of Alabama's admission of African Americans students, Oval Office, White House, Washington, DC]