Aftermath of the Washington Riots in Washington DC, United States, following shooting death of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Damaged stores on a street after the riots. Signs on the stores read 'Gospel Hour', 'Cavalier', 'Surplus Outlet' and 'DC surplus'.
Riot and unrest scenes in Washington DC following the assassination death of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Smoke rises from a building due to a fire. American civilians look on. United States soldiers loaded in a truck. Civilians rush to the other side of a road as a gas grenade goes off. Smoke rises. The soldiers exit the truck. Another gas grenade explodes and smoke rises. An injured photographer lying on a sidewalk as a soldier examines him. The soldiers help the photographer.
Aftermath of the Washington Riots in Washington DC, United States, following assassination death of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. A picture of Martin Luther King. Two African Americans cross a road. Soldiers patrol streets. Civilians walk past the soldiers. The soldiers direct the civilians. An African American woman talks to a soldier. Soldiers in a jeep.
Riots in Washington DC following death of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.. A building on fire and water is sprayed on it by firemen to extinguish the fire. African Americans watch the fire fighting operations on a street. A huge column of smoke rises from a building as water is being sprayed to fight fire.
Scenes from Washington DC riots following death of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Military and civilian vehicles on a street with a building in the background. Soldiers around military trucks. Two soldiers look at a paper. Smoke rises from a building. A store on fire.
Artist impression of the House of Representatives as the United States Congress passes the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution. Images of Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner, the leaders of the Radical Republican faction of the Republican Party during the 1860s. African-American student, victim of the Lamar High School School Bus Attack, listens to Frank Jackson, the attorney defending him, as he lectures him about the history of African-American rights and freedom. Off camera, Jackson quotes the 14th Amendment, saying, "no state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens." Image of Senator Benjamin Tillman of South Carolina. Off camera, Jackson quotes Tillman's comment about "virus of equality..." Artist impression of Black Americans in court during Reconstruction. Students inside the school bus on their way to Lamar High School School before bus attack. Image of Black-Americans inside a moving bus during the 1960s-1970s. Jim Crow signs seen, including a sign reading “White only Ladies Rest Room”. Image of a doctor standing in a door labeled “COLORED” while talking to patient with baby. Image of door with sign that says “White-Trade”. Image of door with sign that says “Colored-Trade”. Image of President Rutherford Hayes. Fire burning. Artist impression of Ku Klux Klan members in costume hanging (lynching) a Black American. Man menacingly holds a bat and says “They’ll gonna wish they was never born”. A view of the United States Supreme Court. Artist Impression of Homer Plessy refusing to move from the White people coach to the Jim Crow train coach in 1896. “Equal justice under law” engraved on the front of the United States Supreme Court Building in Washington DC. Artist impression of John Marshall Harlan, former Attorney General of Kentucky and great dissenter of cases that restricted civil rights such as “Plessy v. Fegurson”. “But until a majority of judges on the Supreme Court would agree, Black Americans would find little justice” says Frank Jackson.
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