A scene from conclusion of the 1953 Masters Tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club (2604 Washington Rd, Augusta, GA 30904, United States) in Augusta, Georgia. Spectators on the golf course. Competitors at the award recognition ceremony. Winner Ben Hogan is congratulated by Bobby Jones, President of Augusta National, and, on the end with open collar, runner-up Ed Oliver. The men stand and shake each other’s hands. They smile as they pose.
Crowds at the 1953 Masters tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club (2604 Washington Rd, Augusta, GA 30904, United States) in Augusta, Georgia. Spectators on the golf course. Spectators walk across the golf course. A couple seated in a golf cart stops in front of the camera and they smile, and then the cart moves past many spectators.
Scenes from the 1953 Masters Golf tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club (2604 Washington Rd, Augusta, GA 30904, United States) in Augusta, Georgia. Spectators on the golf course. Golfers play golf. Spectators are seated on the course. Golfer Ben Hogan (the winner) being escorted by officers as they walk across the golf course.
Artist Impression of the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka in 1953. Image of Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Artist Impression of African-American boy reading a book inside a classroom. Image of young African American students studying in class. Image of an African American boy. Image of Chief Justice Earl Warren. Image of William L. Patterson, an African American lawyer who fought for black justice in American courts for years. Image of Martin Luther King Jr behind bars. Very brief images of Jim Crow era lunch counter sit in, and bus burning incident. Footage of whites protesting in favor of racial segregation. Image of Black Americans holding signs saying “Birmingham Merchants Unfair” and “Equal Opportunity and Human Dignity”. Image of white Americans holding placards saying “Close Mixed Schools”. Image of a black American couple running away from fire. Footage of black Americans walking to support civil rights while guarded by officers with shot guns in air. Brief footage of Ku Klux Klan (KKK) members parading and holding the United States and the Confederate flags. Image of Martin Luther King Jr. with young Black Americans. Footage of black and white students clapping together to support civil rights. Image of Thurgood Marshall with wife, Cecilia Suyat, and a friend in Washington DC. Image of Thurgood Marshall. Image of President John F. Kennedy. Footage of Senator James Eastland, Senator of Mississippi, raising a gavel in front of photographers. US senate in session. Image of Thurgood Marshall speaking to Robert Kennedy. Image of Thurgood Marshall as a Solicitor General, walking on the steps of the United States Supreme Court in Washington DC. Image of Thurgood Marshall as the United States Solicitor General.
Rapid flash and rapidly rising mushroom cloud seen in this test of 15 kiloton weapon on May 25, 1953,called "Grable", at the Nevada Test Site. It was shot from a M65 atomic cannon mobile artillery piece, sometimes called Atomic Annie.
A house constructed 3,500 feet from "ground zero" at the Nevada Test Site being destroyed by the "Annie" test shot. The only source of light was the blast itself, detonated on March 17, 1953.
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