A History of the Civil Rights Movement

Top: Alabama’s segregationist governor, George Wallace, (left, in suit) blocks the entrance to the University of Alabama in an attempt to keep two African American students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, from enrolling in June 1963. Federal troops had to remove the governor so that the students could register. Bottom left: New York police men subdue a black man during a riot in Harlem, 1964. As tensions between black and white Americans rose, riots occurred in many cities during the 1960s.