1. A woman who stayed at the riot scene in Dixmoor, IL, August 17, 1964, is carried to a police van. Police had ordered all persons indoors in the
race riot area. Those who didn't, were taken into custody in Dixmoor, a Chicago suburb. More than twelve were arrested. A number of large
cities across the eastern U.S. experienced race-related riots during the summer of 1964. (AP Photo)

2. Fifty years ago, the civil rights movement in the
United States made huge strides among continued
setbacks. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed
into law, banning discrimination based on race,
color, religion, sex, or national origin -- but
segregation remained the norm in many
establishments. Sit-in protests were held in cafes,
restaurants and hotels, opposing discriminatory
service and hiring practices. Small town all-white
schools were required to integrate, and big-city
schools began large scale efforts to integrate by
bus. Segregationists, angered by the Civil Rights Act,
took to the streets as well, often attacking African
American demonstrations across the South.
Decades of police brutality, capped off by several
incidents in the summer of 1964 led to a series of
racially-motivated riots in New York, Philadelphia,
Chicago, and Jersey City. The year ended hopefully
though, as activist Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
was presented with the Nobel Peace Prize for his
ongoing efforts to promote peaceful change amid
harsh opposition and threats of violence. This is the
second of five entries focusing on events of the year
1964 this week (and next Monday). Later entries
will feature images from Beatlemania, Alaska's
Good Friday earthquake, and the New York World's

4. In this January 18, 1964 photo, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, right, talks with civil
rights leaders in his White House office in Washington. The black leaders, from left, are,
Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People (NAACP); James Farmer, national director of the Committee on Racial
Equality; Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference;
and Whitney Young, executive director of the Urban League. (AP Photo)

5. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gives a young protester a pat on the back as
a group of youngsters started to picket St. Augustine, Florida, on June
10, 1964. (AP Photo

6. Several Ku Klux Klan members, most in white robes and unmasked hoods, carry placards stating: "Please stay out, Negroes and Whites mix here".
(Library of Congress)

7. Ivory Ward, 43, sits in his car, with a hole in his windshield that he said was made by a bullet fired from a truck driven by white men, after
African Americans marched in an integration demonstration, June 10, 1964, in St. Augustine, Florida. (AP Photo/JK)

8. Integration demonstrators, after a long march through the white business and residential section of St. Augustine, Florida, held prayer sessions
at the Monson Motor Lodge Restaurant on June 18, 1964, The restaurant has been the target of many sit-in attempts by the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference. (AP Photo/JK)

9. A Toddle House restaurant in Atlanta, Georgia, occupied during a sit-in. In the room are Taylor
Washington, Ivanhoe Donaldson, Joyce Ladner, John Lewis behind Judy Richardson, George Green, and
Chico Neblett. (Danny Lyon/Library of Congress)

10. An unidentified African American demonstrator crouches for protection against blows from white man in front of segregated Nashville
restaurant on May 1, 1964. Three or four African Americans were hurt in a series of scuffles between demonstrators and white men and white
youths. (AP Photo/JB)

11. Civil rights marchers walk through the streets of downtown Cambridge, Maryland, on May 12, 1964. The National Guard were deployed to
keep order after a violent confrontation the night before. (AP Photo)

12. National Guard troops with upthrust bayonets surround integrationists kneeling in prayer as approximately 100 made a peaceful attempt to
challenge the no-demonstration edict of the military commander in Cambridge, Maryland on May 13, 1964. (AP Photo)

13. A police officer carrying a young girl walks past three civil rights demonstrators on the ground next to the Tulsa, Oklahoma, police station on
April 2, 1964. The demonstrators were part of 54 arrested at a Tulsa restaurant. Members of the group, backed by the Congress of Racial
Equality, went limp when arrested and forced officers to carry them from the restaurant and the paddy wagon. (AP Photo)

14. J.B. Stoner, segregationist from Atlanta, Georgia, holds a confederate flag as he addresses a large crowd of whites at a slave market in St.
Augustine, Florida, on June 13, 1964 and then leads them on a long march through an African American residential section. At right is sign that
read "Kill Civil Rights Bill." (AP Photo)

15. Andrew Young leans into a police car to talk to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in the back seat with a police dog as he is returned to jail in St.
Augustine, Florida, after testifying before a grand jury investigating racial unrest in the city on June 12, 1964. (AP Photo)

16. New York City
policemen
tangle with
demonstrators
at a subway
station on the
opening day of
the New York
World's Fair,
April 22, 1964.
Youths
attempted to
stall the train,
which was
headed from
the city to the
fairgrounds, as
a form of
protest on
behalf of civil
rights for
blacks. (AP
Photo/Charles
Gorry)

17. When a group of white and black integrationists refused to leave a motel swimming pool in St. Augustine, Florida, this man dove in and cleared
them out on June 18, 1964. All were arrested. (AP Photo/Horace Cort)

18. When a group of white and black integrationists refused to leave a motel swimming pool in St. Augustine, Florida, this man dove in and cleared
them out on June 18, 1964. All were arrested. (AP Photo/Horace Cort)

19. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in St. Augustine, Florida, reacts after learning that the U.S. senate passed the civil rights bill on June 19, 1964. (AP
Photo)

20. The public swimming pool has been changed into a "private pool" in order to remain segregated, in Cairo, Illinois. (Danny Lyon/Library of
Congress)

21. New York firemen, backed up by police, turn fire hoses on rioters in Rochester, New York, on July 25, 1964 in an effort to quell street
disturbance. Set off by reports of police brutality during an arrest on July 24, the Rochester riot lasted several days. (AP Photo)

22. A police officer falls to pavement as he struggles to apprehend a man
in Rochester, New York, July 25, 1964. (AP Photo/Alvan Quinn)

23. This is the beginning of a clash between African Americans and police officers in Rochester, New York, July 27, 1964. Fire hoses turned on
house's porch. A woman stands her ground as companions duck behind porch's wall. (AP Photo/Dozier Mobley)

24. Police lead a man away during clash in Rochester, New York, on July 27, 1964. (AP Photo/Dozier Mobley)

25. On June 29, 1964, the FBI began distributing these pictures of three missing civil rights workers, from left, Michael Schwerner, 24, of New York,
James Chaney, 21, from Mississippi, and Andrew Goodman, 20, of New York, who disappeared near Philadelphia, Mississippi, on June 21, 1964.
The three civil rights workers, part of the "Freedom Summer" program, were abducted, killed and buried by KKK members, in an earthen dam in
rural Neshoba County. (AP Photo/FBI)

26. Federal and State investigators recovered the station wagon of a missing civil rights trio in a swampy area near Philadelphia, Mississippi, on June
29, 1964. The interior and exterior of the late model station wagon was heavily burned. (AP Photo)

27. The Reverend Martin Luther King addresses a crowd estimated at 70,000 at a civil rights rally in Chicago's Soldier Field, on June 21, 1964. King
told the rally that congressional approval of civil rights legislation heralds "The dawn of a new hope for the Negro." (AP Photo/Charles E.
Knoblock)

29. On July 15, 1964, a 15-year-old African American named James Powell was shot and killed
by New York Police Lieutenant Thomas Gilligan. The fatal shooting stirred rioters to race
through Harlem streets carrying pictures of Gilligan, starting what would turn into six days
of chaos, leaving one dead, 118 injured, and more than 450 arrested. (Dick De
Marsico/World Telegram & Sun/Library of Congress)

31. Members of New York's Harlem community run from steel-helmeted police swinging
night sticks in effort to break up street gathering on July 19, 1964. The mood of the crowd
was ugly following demonstrations during the night from July 18 to 19 and funeral
services on July 19 for James Powell. (AP Photo)

32. President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Bill in the East Room of the White House in Washington on July 2, 1964. The law outlawed
discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, and ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial
segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public. (AP Photo)

34. President Lyndon Johnson shakes hands with Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., on July 3, 1964
in Washington, D.C., after handing him a pen during the ceremonies for the signing of the civil
rights bill at the White House. (AFP/Getty Images

35. A state police officer with club in hand overtakes a white segregationist, as African Americans attempted to swim and were attacked by a large
group of whites at St. Augustine Beach, Florida, on June 25, 1964. The state police arrested a number of whites and African Americans. (AP
Photo)

39. A man, his shirt stained by blood running down his face, is cornered in
a doorway by club-wielding police early August 30, 1964 in North
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The man had been clubbed for refusing to
move along. (AP Photo)

40. This view looking west from 15th Street on Columbia Ave. shows Main Street was involved in rioting in the predominantly black area of North
Philadelphia during the previous night and continuing into August 29, 1964. At left, firemen clear smoldering rubble from wrecked store.
Demonstrators, bystanders and police line street in background. Looting was widespread and damage heavy. At least 50 persons were injured
including 27 policemen. (AP Photo)

41. Workmen move a cash register off the sidewalk in front of smashed store, wrecked during wild night of looting and rioting in North Philadelphia,
on August 29, 1964. (AP Photo/John F. Urwiller)

42. Two white students watch as African American children enter the
previously all-white Rosewood Elementary School in Columbia, South
Carolina, on August 31, 1964. (United Press International/Library of
Congress)

44. Holding their clubs in their hands, two Elizabeth policemen struggle with a man as they try to move
him from area of rioting in Elizabeth, New Jersey, on August 12, 1964. Police had to fire shots in the
air and use their clubs to break up the crowd of 300 to 400 white and black youths tossing bricks,
bottles and gasoline bombs. It was the second night of violence in Elizabeth and Paterson, New
Jersey. (AP Photo/John Lent)

45. An unidentified woman argues with a policeman in Paterson, New
Jersey, on August 12, 1964 while a clergyman, center, tries to
intervene. (AP Photo/Matty Zimmerman)

47. A black youth who was shot either in the neck or shoulder during a flare-up of racial violence in
Jersey City, lies on a sidewalk while battle-helmeted policemen stand by to aid him on August 3,
1964. The youth, identified as Louis Mitchell, was among group of young people standing near a
housing project who were hurling objects at the police. It was not determined how the youth was
shot. At least one other resident was shot and several police officers and rioters were injured in the
outburst. (AP Photo)

48. Demonstrators shout at policemen who ask them to move on along City Hall in New York, Sept. 24, 1964 as they protest a Board of Education
busing program aimed at increasing racial balance in New York City schools. (AP Photo/Harry Harris)

50. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. receives the Nobel Peace Prize from the hands of Gunnar Jahn,
Chairman of the Nobel Committee, in Oslo, Norway, on December 10, 1964. The 35-year-old
Reverend King was the youngest man ever to receive the prize. In the presentation speech, King
was praised as a "man who has never abandoned his faith in the unarmed struggle he is waging,
who has suffered for his faith, who has been imprisoned on many occasions, whose home has
been subject to bomb attacks, whose life and the lives of his family have been threatened, and
who nevertheless has never faltered." (AP Photo)
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