Dr. King & The Civil Rights Movement
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Martin Luther King Jr.’s mission to achieve civil rights
http://mlknationalparade.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/teacheraide1-e1294762671465.jpgMartin Luther King Jr.’s mission to achieve civil rights for each American citizen, regardless of race, is newly realized this week with the inauguration of the first African-American president of the United States, Barack Obama. Magnum looks back at King’s leadership and the fruits of his efforts during the last decade of his life. UNITED STATES—A portrait of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., 1968. © Bob Adelman / Magnum Photos
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Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom
http://mlknationalparade.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/teacheraide2.jpgWASHINGTON, D.C.—King walks to the podium during the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom to the cheers of the crowd, May 17, 1957. © Bob Henriques / Magnum Photos
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Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom May 17, 1957
http://mlknationalparade.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/teacheraide3.jpgASHINGTON, D.C.—Crowds gather at the reflecting pools by the Washington Monument for the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom led by King, May 17, 1957. © Bob Henriques / Magnum Photos
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Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, May 17, 1957
http://mlknationalparade.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/teacheraide4.jpgWASHINGTON, D.C.—King speaks to the crowd at the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, May 17, 1957. © Bob Henriques / Magnum Photos
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Press Conference, 1962
http://mlknationalparade.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/teacheraide5.jpgBIRMINGHAM, Ala.—King at a press conference, 1962. © Bruce Davidson / Magnum Photos
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Back to Jail, 1962
http://mlknationalparade.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/teacheraide6.jpgALBANY, Ga.—King and the Rev. Ralph Abernathy are escorted back to jail, 1962. © Danny Lyon / Magnum Photos
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A Boy Protests
http://mlknationalparade.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/teacheraide7.jpgENGLEWOOD, N.J.—A boy protests segregated education, 1966. © Bob Adelman / Magnum Photos
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Home with his wife, Coretta, 1961
http://mlknationalparade.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/teacheraide8.jpgATLANTA—King, as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, at home with his wife, Coretta, 1961. © Henri Cartier-Bresson / Magnum Photos
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King at Ebenezer Baptist Church 1961
http://mlknationalparade.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/teacheraide9.jpgATLANTA—King in the pastor's study of Ebenezer Baptist Church, 1961. © Henri Cartier-Bresson / Magnum Photos
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King declares that the Freedom Rides will continue
http://mlknationalparade.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/teacheraide10.jpgMONTGOMERY, Ala.—King at a press conference declares that the Freedom Rides will continue. John Lewis (with bandaged head) had been beaten by the Ku Klux Klan, 1961. © Bruce Davidson / Magnum Photos
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National Guard soldiers escort Freedom Riders
http://mlknationalparade.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/teacheraide11.jpgMONTGOMERY, Ala.—National Guard soldiers escort Freedom Riders along their route from Montgomery to Jackson, Miss., 1961. © Bruce Davidson / Magnum Photos
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Students are held in a makeshift jail, 1963
http://mlknationalparade.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/teacheraide12.jpgBIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Thousands of students are held in a makeshift jail as the police turn a sports stadium into a holding pen, 1963. © Bob Adelman / Magnum Photos
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King after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, Oct. 31, 1964
http://mlknationalparade.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/teacheraide13.jpgBALTIMORE, Md.—King is greeted on his return to the United States after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, Oct. 31, 1964. © Leonard Freed / Magnum Photos
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King at memorial service for the Rev. James Reeb, 1965
http://mlknationalparade.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/teacheraide14.jpgSELMA, Ala.—King attends a memorial service for the Rev. James Reeb, a white clergyman from Boston who was killed by white thugs in Selma, 1965. © Bob Adelman / Magnum Photos
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Protestors and police face off, 1965
http://mlknationalparade.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/teacheraide15.jpgSELMA, Ala.—Protestors and police face off a few hundred feet from Brown Chapel. The police blockade was called "the Selma Wall" and "the 38th parallel" by protestors, 1965. © Bob Adelman / Magnum Photos
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Police dogs at demonstration, 1963
http://mlknationalparade.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/teacheraide16.jpgBIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Police dogs are brought out to control demonstrators, 1963. © Bob Adelman / Magnum Photos
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High-powered hoses used against peaceful demonstrators, 1963
http://mlknationalparade.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/teacheraide17.jpgBIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Firemen turned high-powered hoses against peaceful demonstrators, who were knocked down in Kelly Ingram Park. By coming together and holding on to one another, they were able to stand up to the fire hoses, 1963. © Bob Adelman / Magnum Photos
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Arrests on Freedom Day, Selma federal building, Oct. 7, 1963
http://mlknationalparade.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/teacheraide18.jpgSELMA, Ala.—On Freedom Day, police arrest demonstrators from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee for holding placards, urging black people to register to vote, in front of the Selma federal building, Oct. 7, 1963. © Danny Lyon / Magnum Photos
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Granted permission to begin the Selma to Montgomery march, 1965
http://mlknationalparade.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/teacheraide19.jpgSELMA, Ala.—King smiles triumphantly after a Montgomery federal judge granted permission to begin the Selma to Montgomery march, 1965. © Bob Adelman / Magnum Photos
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King leads a group of marchers from Selma to Montgomery, 1965
http://mlknationalparade.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/teacheraide20.jpgSELMA, Ala.—King leads a group of marchers from Selma to Montgomery. On the second day, marchers awoke to a light drizzle. Those who did not have raincoats made some out of plastic, 1965. © Bruce Davidson / Magnum Photos
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March from Selma to Montgomery, 1965
http://mlknationalparade.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/teacheraide21.jpgSELMA, Ala.—Led by King, a group of civil rights demonstrators march from Selma to Montgomery, 1965. © Bruce Davidson / Magnum Photos
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March from Selma to Montgomery, 1965
http://mlknationalparade.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/teacheraide22.jpgALABAMA—King leads the march from Selma to Montgomery, 1965. © Bob Adelman / Magnum Photos
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"I Have a Dream" speech, Lincoln Memorial, 1963
http://mlknationalparade.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/teacheraide23.jpgWASHINGTON, D.C.—At the climax of his "I Have a Dream" speech, King, the final speaker at the March on Washington, raises his arm on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and calls out for deliverance with the electrifying words of an old Negro spiritual hymn: "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God almighty, we are free at last!" 1963. © Bob Adelman / Magnum Photos
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March on Washington, Aug. 28, 1963
http://mlknationalparade.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/teacheraide24.jpgWASHINGTON, D.C.—Members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee sing freedom songs during the March on Washington, Aug. 28, 1963. © Danny Lyon / Magnum Photos
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Woman weeps at memorial for slain civil rights leader King, 1968
http://mlknationalparade.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/teacheraide25.jpgMEMPHIS, Tenn.—A spectator weeps at a memorial for slain civil rights leader King, 1968. © Bob Adelman / Magnum Photos
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The King Family, Ebenezer Baptist Church, 1968
http://mlknationalparade.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/teacheraide26.jpgATLANTA—The family of King looks into his casket at Ebenezer Baptist Church, 1968. © Bob Adelman / Magnum Photos
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Martin Luther King Day, 1990
http://mlknationalparade.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/teacheraide27.jpgST. PETERSBURG, Fla.—Martin Luther King Day, 1990. © Carl De Keyzer / Magnum Photos
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Young boy at Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, 1995
http://mlknationalparade.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/teacheraide28.jpgMONTGOMERY, Ala.—The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, 1995. © Eli Reed / Magnum Photos
