March Representatives File Toward Exit From State Capitol: Delegation was unable to deliver petition to Governor Wallace, Montgomery, Alabama, March 29, 1965
A protestor faints, Selma, Alabama, March 16, 1965
Apparently the Center of Trouble: Smoke pours from an area about three miles west of downtown Chicago today after fire swept through a large area in a predominantly Negro neighborhood. Looting has also been reported in the area, April 5, 1968
Merit Employee: Martha R. Buford, 5803 S. Michigan, secretary in the salary administration division of Inland Steel Company, is merit employee of the week. Inland is one of more than 200 Chicago area employer members of the Chicago Merit Employment Committee. Members have reaffirmed their policies of hiring and promoting solely on merit, Chicago, February 1966
A crowd of yelling sign waving teenagers gather in front of Raney High School to listen to a Bible-waving 15 year-old, Bob Thomas as he asks the crowd not to integrate. Little Rock's four High Schools open 8/12, on a partial integration basis, Little Rock, Arkansas, August 10, 1959
Unknown Maker
Hunting Hanger with Scabbard Locket, c. 1750
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory
Mercury, from Gods and Goddesses, 1592
Crispijn van de Passe, I
Flames Sweep Building: On Chicago's west side Friday, fire broke out in Madison Street dwellings and stores. By late afternoon fires and looting had spread west for about two miles, April 6, 1968
Tear gas in small containers was used by the Cook county sheriff's department to break up a crowd of unruly students at Provisco East high school Friday in Maywood, a suburb of Chicago. The troubles tarted with a feud between white and Negro students in the school's cafeteria and spread outdoors, October 21, 1967
Dogs held the crowd at bay, but not before one man, identified as Juan Millan, 20 (slumped over), said he was bitten. The disorders broke out in a Latin American neighborhood in Chicago after a man was shot in the leg when a policeman tried to break a gang fight in an alley, 1960s
Leading march on Capitol: The United Front of Cairo was to march on the Capitol in Springfield today, according to Charles Koen, director, to confront Governor Richard Ogilvie on the tense racial situation in Ciaro. Charles Koen, above, spoke to a rally in East St. Louis Thursday, where the group of 100 people from Ciaro stopped on the way to Springfield, Illinois, July 11, 1969
Three clergymen experiencing a weekend of poverty in Chicago took part in a rally at Grant park before a civil rights protest march. They were the Reverends John Braun (second from left), Elkhard, Indiana, of the Mennonite church; David Hall (center), South Norwalk, Connecticut, and John Fischer (second from right), Minneapolis, both of the United Church of Christ. Mr. Fischer wore a sweatband around his forehead, June 14, 1965