More than 15,000 White and Colored Persons Met Here 4/18 on Behalf of School Integration and Civil Rights Legislation – Antique Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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More than 15,000 White and Colored Persons Met Here 4/18 on Behalf of School Integration and Civil Rights Legislation
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More than 15,000 people, the caption says, gathered on April 18, 1959, both white and Black, to press for school integration and civil rights legislation, a mixed crowd that the title itself highlights. The photograph came over United Press International's telephoto wire and was later kept in the files of the New York World-Telegram, which shows how quickly news pictures moved to newspapers in that era. The rally took place years after the Supreme Court's 1954 *Brown v. Board of Education* decision, while school desegregation remained bitterly contested, particularly in the South.
| Notes | 1959 April 18. United Press International Telephoto. New York World-Telegram |
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| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,780 × 2,989 px · prints to 13 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-209972 |
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