Segregation Protest

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Students protest segregation at the state capitol building in Atlanta on February 1, 1962. The passage of the federal Civil Rights Act in 1964 and the Voting Rights Act in 1965 ended legal segregation across the nation.

Courtesy of Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Segregation Protest

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