Civil Rights Movement (48 images)

Activist Angela Davis in San Rafael court room, 1970.

Coretta Scott King, wife of slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. meets backstage in Atlanta, Georgia, with singer Harry Belafonte (L) and boxing champion Muhammad Ali at a January 15, 1975 benefit concert for the Martin Luther King Center for Social Change. The concert marked the end of a four-day celebration of Dr. King's 46th birthday. (UPI Photo/Files)

Chicago,IL December 19, 1975 --- The Reverend Jesse Jackson said 12/18/1975 that two new thrusts for his Operation Push in 1976 will be awakening the black "sleeping giant" in Washington DC and buying stock in corporate America. "We've been terribly naive about Washington," he said. "It's the heartbeat of the nation and without a heartbeat you're dead." (UPI Photo)

Eldridge Cleaver and his wife Kathleen emerge from polling place in San Francisco on November 2, 1976, after the 41-year old Cleaver voted for the first time in his life. Cleaver is a former convicted felon who served over 9 years in various prisons, and was on parole for over 2 years. He is voting today because there are special circumstances in which convicted felons are permitted to vote, and he qualified. (UPI Photo/jh/Files)