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Plate 2 The Brown v. Board of Education plaintiffs and their children: (front row left-right) Vicki Henderson, Donald Henderson, Linda Brown, James Emanuel, Nancy Todd, and Katherine Carper; (back row left-right) Zelma Henderson, Oliver Brown, Sadie Emanuel, Lucinda Todd, and Lena Carper, Topeka, Kansas, 1953. Source: Getty Images

Plate 4 The first Greensboro sit-in demonstrators. From left to right: David Richmond, Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair Jr, and Joseph McNeil. Source: Corbis

Plate 3 Rosa Parks, accompanied by NAACP leader E.D. Nixon, and attorney Fred Gray, leaves the Montgomery City Court after being fined $10 for violating the city segregation ordinance for buses. Source: Associated Press

Plate 7 The FBI searched for weeks to find the bodies of Mississippi Freedom Summer Project volunteers Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner (left to right), all of whom had been murdered by Klansmen on the night of June 21, 1964. Photo by the FBI. Source: Corbis