Sarah Jean Collins
Bomb-blast victim Sarah Jean Collins, 12, is shown in the hospital in this 1963 photo. A dynamite explosion in the basement of church blinded her and killed her sister and three other girls as her Sunday school class was ending.
Emmett Till
Emmett Louis Till is shown in this undated photo. Till’s weighted-down body was found in the Tallahatchie River near the Delta community of Money, Miss., August 31, 1955. Local residents Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam were accused of kidnapping, torturing and murdering Till for allegedly whistling at Bryant’s wife.
Black Students Sitting-In at Woolworth’s
North Carolina A & T students are shown at the F.W. Woolworth lunch counter reserved for white customers during a sit-in protest, in Greensboro, N.C., Feb., 1960.
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