Durham Civil Rights Heritage Project

Photo Gallery - 1960s

"King kleagle" of the Ku Klux Klan displays displeasure at what a North Carolina Central University professor has to say.

Malcom X speaks in a Durham lodge hall April 18, 1963.

Students from North Carolina College (now NCCU) and Hillside High School demonstrate at City Hall on May 18, 1963.

Organizers Howard Fuller (left) and Ben Ruffin were major figures in late-1960s actions.

Campaign manager Nathan Thomas (left) stands with Durham City Council candidate Eugene Hampton, April 1969.

Virginia Williams travels from Durham to a student organizing conference in Mississippi.

The Royal Ice Cream strikers pray before going to court.

Durham Committee on Black Affairs meets with Governor Luther Hodges, 1955.

White ushers block black worshippers from Sunday-morning services at a Durham church.

Andree McKissick and Henry Vickers integrate Carr Junior High.

Howard Fuller sits at the Malcolm X Liberation University registration table.

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