April 11, 1956, New York Times
View of the Crowd at the March on Washington, 1963, ABC-CLIO
In the 1950s, the fight against segregation came to a head with the Civil Rights Movement, and as black activism grew, as did the magnitude of white resistance to change.
Troops block Negro students at school, 1957.
Library of Congress
Alabama Fire Department Aims High-Pressure Water Hoses at
Civil Rights Demonstrators, May 1963. Smithsonian National
Museum of African American History and Culture
October 30, 1955, New York Times
African-American musicians were also denied the rights their white counterparts enjoyed.
Hot Lips Page, Apollo Theatre, Oct. 1946. Library of Congress
Discrimination in San Francisco. c. 1945. Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound
Nat King Cole, 1947, ABC-CLIO
