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American Singer and Actor Elvis Presley Performing Outdoors on a small Stage to a Young Screaming Crowd (1957).

American Singer and Actor Elvis Presley Sits in the Driver's Seat of a Car with his Arm Around an Unidentified Young Woman (1955).

American Musicians Elvis Presley and Liberace Exchange Personal Trademarks While Standing Together. Presley Holds a Candelabra while Liberace Plays Guitar (1955).

Rock 'n' roll singer Elvis Presley With Six Babies (Three Sets of Twins) During the Making of the Film 'GI Blues', in which he Plays a Soldier. Due to Employment Laws in California, Three Sets of Baby Twins are Required so that One Set can be Filmed at a Time (October 1960).

American Rock n' Roll Singer Elvis Presley Stands with a Group of Young Men at an Induction Center, Raising their Right Hands as they are Sworn into the United States Army by an Officer Standing Next to an American Flag. (1958)

Letter from Lt Colonel Verne L. Bowers to the Honorable Frank Kowalski, Member of Congress, Explaining that Elvis Presley Will not be Given an Early Release for "Good Behavior" (September 8, 1959).

Sit-In at a Woolworth's Lunch Counter

Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X

Martin Luther King, Jr. at the March on Washington (August 28, 1963).

Civil Rights March on Washington: A Wide-angle View of Marchers Along the Mall, Showing the Reflecting Pool and the Washington Monument (August 28, 1963).

Background Map: 1961 Freedom Rides (1962).

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