Images of the Civil Rights Movement

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james meredith hanged
An effigy of James Meredith, a civil rights leader and the first African American student admitted to the segregated University of Mississippi in 1962, hangs outside a window in Oxford, Mississippi. Photo by Art Shay. © Art Shay Archives Project, LLC.

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