• Pictured here, left to right, Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, William Smith, and Clarence Henderson, who sat at the Woolworth’s lunch counter on the second day of the sit-ins.
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  • Woolworths' Lunch Counter Sit-In in Greensboro, NC

  • "Freedom Riders" Protesting Segregated Buses

  • White Only Restroom Sign

  • Woman Drinking from Segregated Drinking Fountain

  • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Delivering "Dream" Speech

  • Rosa Parks Riding the Bus

  • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Headquarters

  • Brown vs. Board of Education

  • James Meredith Registering at the University of Mississippi

  • Segregation Protest March

  • Lunch Counter Protestors

  • The March on Washington Reaches the Lincoln Memorial