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 President Barack Obama Barack Obama Photograph (Untitled) Photo by Pete Souza Obama Transition Team |
 Miles Davis He plays it cool Photograph from WCBS-TV. Library of Congress |
 Langston Hughes Portrait of Langston Hughes Parks, Gordon, 1912- photographer. Library of Congress |
 Rev. Jesse Jackson IVU w/ [i.e., interview with] Rev. Jesse Jackson Leffler, Warren K., photographer. Library of Congress |
 Malcolm X Malcolm X waits at Martin Luther King press conference, head-and-shoulders portrait Trikosko, Marion S., photographer. Library of Congress |
 Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Martin Luther King press conference Trikosko, Marion S., photographer. Library of Congress |
 Zora Neale Hurston [Portrait of Zora Neale Hurston] Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964, photographer. Library of Congress |
 Ella Fitzgerald Ella Fitzgerald, head-and-shoulders portrait, singing Library of Congress |
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 For Teachers: The public swimming pool has been changed into a "private pool" in order to remain segregated Lyon, Danny, photographer. Library of Congress |
 Images: Heroes of the Colored Race. J. Hoover. Library of Congress |
 Collections: Mustered Out. Alfred R. Waud. Library of Congress |
 Images Used: European Theater of Operations, Nurses in England, 1944. Photograph by U.S. Signal Corps Courtesy of the NAACP |
 Audio/Video: The Little Rock Nine, ca 1957-60 Layne, Cecil, photographer Courtesy of the NAACP |
![Civil rights march on Wash[ington], D.C. 1963 Aug. 28](images/thumbs_iu/subheaders/about.jpg) About: Civil rights march on Wash[ington], D.C. 1963 Aug. 28. Leffler, Warren K., photographer. Library of Congress |
 Profiles: Barack Obama Whitehouse.gov |