In my free time, I often dive deep into photo archives and I decided to start sharing some of the images I find on my Substack as I rarely see them when reading the news or in art exhibits. Below are photos from the Library of Congress archives and The Associated Press showing prominent people and protests during the Civil Rights movement in the United States. Reading the captions of each image will serve as a history lesson of each moment captured.
A woman votes at Cardozo High School in Washington, D.C., in 1964. (Marion S. Trikosko / Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
From left: People marching to protest the admission of the "Little Rock Nine" to Central High School in 1959. (John T. Bledsoe / Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division) Marchers marching in Harlem, New York in 1965. (Stanley Wolfson / Library of Congress of Prints and Photographs)
From left: This photograph was the lead image in the USN&WR article “The March—Gains and Losses” on Sept. 9, 1963. (Marion S. Trikosko / Library of Congress of Prints and Photographs) African American woman being carried to police patrol wagon during demonstration in Brooklyn, New York in 1963. (Dick DeMarsico / Library of Congress of Prints and Photographs)
Crowd gathered at the Lincoln Memorial for a march to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans. (David L. Harris (David Lowell) / Library of Congress of Prints and Photographs)
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From left: Martin Luther King Jr. speaks after meeting with President Lyndon B. Johnson to discuss civil rights at the White House on Dec. 3, 1963. (Warren K. Leffler / Library of Congress of Prints and Photographs) Civil rights leader Martin Luther King standing on a balcony at the A. G. Gaston Motel overlooking a parking lot, during the Birmingham Campaign, Birmingham, Alabama. (Marion S. Trikosko / Library of Congress of Prints and Photograph)
From left: Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks, 85, smiles while being recognized at a news conference by several legislators and community leaders at the Fellowship Chapel Saturday, June 20, l998 in Detroit. (Richard Sheinwald / AP Photo) Rosa Parks visits an exhibit illustrating her bus ride of December, 1955 at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tenn. on July 15, 1995. (Troy Glasgow / AP Photo)
A crowd of African Americans behind a storm fence with police carrying a woman on the other side during the civil rights march on Washington, D.C. in 1962. (Marion S. Trikosko/ Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
From left: Coretta Scott King speaks at a 1988 event in which a time capsule holding some of Dr. King's possessions is lowered into the ground at Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C. (Carol M. Highsmith Archive / Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division) Malcolm X at a press conference given by Martin Luther King at the U.S. Capitol about the Senate debate on the Civil Rights Act of 1964. (Marion S. Trikosko / Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division)
Participants marching in the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965. (Marion S. Trikosko / Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Man in wheelchair at the March on Washington, 1963. (Warren K. Leffler / Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division)
