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Description of Pictures: In time for the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, the Newseum will open "Make Some Noise: Students and the Civil Rights Movement," an exhibit that explores the new generation of student leaders in the early 1960s who fought segregation by making their voices heard and exercising their First Amendment rights.

The exhibit will feature a section of the original F.W. Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., where in 1960 four African-American college students launched the sit-in movement by refusing to leave their counter stools after being denied service in the whites-only section.

"Make Some Noise" will spotlight key figures in the student civil rights movement, including John Lewis, now a U.S. representative from Georgia, and Julian Bond, who later became chairman of the NAACP. Through the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the young activists took direct action to end segregation and break down racial barriers in voting rights, education and the workplace by organizing sit-ins, marches and voter registration drives.

The exhibit also will feature a bronze casting of the Birmingham, Ala., jail cell door behind which civil rights leader the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. penned his famous "Letter From Birmingham Jail" in 1963.

In addition to "Make Some Noise," the Newseum will launch a three-year changing exhibit, "Civil Rights at 50," which will be updated each year to chronicle milestones in the civil rights movement from 1963, 1964 and 1965 through historic front pages, magazines and news images. "Civil Rights at 50" will be on display through 2015.

Building on our popular civil rights movement classes, the Making a Change learning module, launching Aug. 30, 2013, uses the Newseum's expertise to present a fresh, unique perspective on this topic by examining the role of the press and the First Amendment throughout the movement.

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1. NEWSNS_130825_005.JPG: Make Some Noise Students and the Civil Rights Movement
2. NEWSNS_130825_009.JPG: "You've got to get out there and push and organize and agitate and stand up and make some noise." -- Civil rights leader John Lewis One hundred years after the Emancipation Proclamation, much of the country was still segregated. In the South, unfair laws kept many African Americans from voting. Black people couldn't sit next to white people on interstate buses and trains. Even lunch counter seats were reserved for whites. In the 1960s, a new generation rose up in protest. They made their voices heard by taking direct action. Four black college freshmen sat down at a "whites-only" lunch counter in Greensboro, NC, and refused to leave. Within days, sit-ins spread across the South. Within weeks, the growing student movement found a voice in a powerful new organization -- the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. The students were the "shock troops" of a new American revolution televised on the nightly news. Their methods were peaceful, but their opponents were armed and dangerous. From the Freedom Rides to Freedom Summer, from the Children's Crusade to Bloody Sunday, thousands of young people exercising their constitutional rights were attacked, arrested and jailed. But still they marched, and still they made some noise, until segregation was defeated.
3. NEWSNS_130825_014.JPG: Ezell Blair, Jr., age 18: "I'd like a cup of coffee, please." Waitress: "I'm sorry. We don't serve colored here." The Sit-Ins North Carolina college students (from left) Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, Billy Smith and Clarence Henderson wait for service at the "whites-only" lunch counter of the FW Woolworth store in Greensboro, NC, on day two of the landmark 1960 sit-in. Greensboro, NC / Feb 1, 1960: Civil rights history was made at this FW Woolworth lunch counter on Feb. 1, 1960, in Greensboro, NC. Four students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College sat in the "whites-only" section. Denied service, they came back the next day with more students. By the sixth day, nearly 1,000 protesters and their opponents filled the store, and protests spread to other cities. Television crews and reporters followed. On July 25, the Greensboro lunch counter opened to black customers for the first time. Gradually, lunch counters across the country were desegregated. By the end of 1961. more than 70,000 people had joined sit-in protests, and thousand had been arrested. A moment had ignited a movement.
4. NEWSNS_130825_018.JPG: The Greensboro Four: North Carolina college students David Richmond, Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair Jr., and Joseph McNeil were only 17 and 18 years old, but they started the sit-in protests in Greensboro, NC, that launched a movement. They sat up one night talking in their dorm. Fed up with not being able to eat at the Woolworth lunch counter, they dared each other to be bold. The next morning, they marched into history.
5. NEWSNS_130825_025.JPG: Woolworth Lunch Counter: The stools are just vinyl, wood and metal, part of an ordinary lunch counter. But these seats and this counter became part of history. They are from the FW Woolworth store in Greensboro, NC, where four students inspired a movement in 1960.
6. NEWSNS_130825_028.JPG: Signs of Segregation: Signs such as these separated blacks from whites at segregated facilities in the South.
7. NEWSNS_130825_038.JPG: Violent Backlash: The San Francisco Chronicle's Sunday magazine featured a cover story on the hostile response to the growing sit-in movement in the South.
8. NEWSNS_130825_050.JPG: Nashville, Tenn. / Feb. 13, 1960: Nashville's black college students launched their own protests at downtown lunch counters on Feb 13, 1960. Two weeks later, violence broke out. White mobs attacked the protesters, punching and kicking them and drenching them in mustard and ketchup. Police arrested and jailed the protesters, but not their attackers. New waves of students came to take their place. The turning point came on April 19, when the home of a prominent black lawyer was destroyed by dynamite. Thousands of students and supporters marched to City Hall, where 21-year-old student leader Diane Nash asked the mayor to publicly concede that segregation was wrong. On May 10, Nashville became the first major Southern city to begin desegregating its public facilities. But the struggle was far from over.
9. NEWSNS_130825_053.JPG: Student activist Diane Nash, center, leads an April 1960 march to Nashville's City Hall where she asked Mayor Ben West to concede that segregation was wrong.
10. NEWSNS_130825_058.JPG: Waitresses at a Nashville lunch counter spray insecticide to disrupt a sit-in protest by students in November 1960.
11. NEWSNS_130825_063.JPG: Protester John Lewis struggles to breathe after the spraying of insecticides by waitresses on lunch counter protesters.
12. NEWSNS_130825_075.JPG: Three years after the Nashville sit-ins, some lunch counters remained segregated. In May 1963, activists in Jackson, Miss., were assaulted by a white mob.
13. NEWSNS_130825_088.JPG: Students are pulled from their seats during a February 1960 sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in Nashville, Tenn.
14. NEWSNS_130825_091.JPG: This recruitment poster for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee features activist John Lewis, left, and two other students protesting at an all-white swimming pool in Cairo, Ill., in 1962.
15. NEWSNS_130825_096.JPG: Raleigh, NC / April 1960: In April 1960, a new generation of activists formed the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, pronounced "snick"). Activist Ella Baker helped launch the group, with funding from the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The lunch counter sit-ins were about something "bigger than a hamburger or even a giant-sized Coke," Baker said. Through grass-roots activism, SNCC fought to end discrimination in housing, education, employment and voting. Many of the student leaders later became prominent in politics and public service.
16. NEWSNS_130825_099.JPG: Fighting for the Right to Vote: This page from a SNCC pamphlet illustrates the hurdles black citizens faced to register to vote in Mississippi.
17. NEWSNS_130825_106.JPG: SNCC pamphlet featuring a fractured Statue of Liberty on its cover
18. NEWSNS_130825_110.JPG: SNCC Newsletter: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's newsletter, The Student Voice, reported on efforts to register black voters in Mississippi and a clash with the Ku Klux Klan in Atlanta.
19. NEWSNS_130825_117.JPG: This SNCC button used the words "We Shall Overcome" from a gospel song that became an anthem for the civil rights movement.
20. NEWSNS_130825_120.JPG: Student leaders in Nashville, Tenn., drew up this code of conduct for sit-in protests. RULES OF ACTION PROPOSED BY SIT-IN PARTICIPANTS DO NOT: (1) Strike back nor curse if abuse. (2) Laugh out. (3) Hold conversations with floor walker. (4) Leave your seat until your leader has given you permission to do so. (5) Block entrances to stores outside nor the aisles inside. DO: (1) Show yourself friendly and courteous at all times. (2) Sit straight; always face the counter. (3) Report all serious incidents to your leader. (4) Refer information seekers to your leader in a polite manner. (5) Remember the teachings of Jesus Christ, Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King. Love and nonviolence is the way. MAY GOD BLESS EACH OF YOU
21. NEWSNS_130825_129.JPG: These mug shots of student activists (clockwise from top left) James Bevel, John Lewis, Diane Nash, and Stokely Carmichael were published in a book of "individuals active in civil disturbances" used by Alabama police.
22. NEWSNS_130825_134.JPG: "Ain't Scared of Your Jails" Their elders in the civil rights movement used legal action to fight segregation. The new generation of leaders took direct action. Inspired by Martin Luther King Jr.'s philosophy of nonviolence, Nashville divinity student James Lawson held training sessions on how to react to confrontations with segregationists. SNCC students faced the ferocity of a dying power structure, especially as they pushed into the Deep South where states fought to preserve white supremacy. Racist authorities, the Ku Klux Klan and white vigilantes were their adversaries. Clubs, pipes, cattle prods and attack dogs were the attackers' weapons. Fractured skulls, broken ribs and long jail sentences were the prices the students paid. Demanding "jail, no bail," the students kept the focus on the injustice of segregation.
23. NEWSNS_130825_138.JPG: Folk singer and SNCC supporter Bob Dylan visits SNCC's Greenwood, Miss., office in July 1963. He performed at their voter registration rally.
24. NEWSNS_130825_149.JPG: The Freedom Rides "We cannot let violence overcome nonviolence." -- Freedom Rider Diane Nash A white mob firebombed a Freedom Riders bus near Anniston, Ala., on May 14, 1961.
25. NEWSNS_130825_152.JPG: Washington, DC / May 4, 1961: Segregation of interstate public transportation and facilities was illegal, but the law was largely ignored in the South. In the spring of 1961, the Congress of Racial Equality organized the first "Freedom Ride" to pressure the federal government to enforce the law. On May 4, students and other activists in Washington DC, boarded two buses bound for New Orleans. Danger stalked the buses as they moved South, and tensions exploded when the buses reached Alabama. A Mother's Day mob viciously assaulted the riders and firebombed the first bus outside Anniston. In Birmingham, the second bus was terrorized by a Ku Klux Klan mob backed by the police department. News footage of the burning bus and photographs of the beaten victims shocked the country.
26. NEWSNS_130825_155.JPG: National Guardsmen escort Freedom Riders on a bus from Montgomery, Ala., to Jackson, Miss., on May 24, 1961.
27. NEWSNS_130825_161.JPG: Blood-spattered Freedom Riders John Lewis, left, and James Zwerg were beaten by a white mob in Montgomery, Ala., on May 20, 1961.
28. NEWSNS_130825_164.JPG: Nashville, Tenn. / May 17, 1961: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee leaders sent a second group of Freedom Riders to Alabama to May 17, 1961, to continue the journey through the South. The night before they left, students made out their wills, deciding who would get their clothes and books if they were killed. Arrested in Birmingham and forced out of town, the protesters would not quit. Back on the bus, they continued to Montgomery, where a violent mob of several hundred people attacked them, injuring riders and reporters. When the bus pulled into Jackson, Miss., the students were arrested, and many were sent to the state penitentiary.
29. NEWSNS_130825_171.JPG: A group of segregationists tries to block a bus carrying Freedom Riders in Anniston, Ala., on May 14, 1961. The bus was firebombed shortly after leaving town.
30. NEWSNS_130825_175.JPG: Life's May 26, 1961, issue on the Freedom Riders featured images of a flaming bus near Anniston, Ala., and student James Zwerg after he was beaten by a white mob.
31. NEWSNS_130825_182.JPG: The civil rights group Congress of Racial Equality issued this "Freedom Ride Edition" of its newsletter in May 1961.
32. NEWSNS_130825_190.JPG: The Children's Crusade: "Fight for freedom first, then go to school." -- Fliers distributed to students in Birmingham
33. NEWSNS_130825_194.JPG: Birmingham, Ala. / May 2, 1963: In 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and his supporters joined local activists to launch boycotts and protests in Birmingham, the most segregated city in America. King was arrested and jailed. As the campaign faltered, activist James Bevel devised a controversial plan to recruit schoolchildren to lead a mass protest. Students watched films of the Nashville sit-ins and were coached to overcome their fear of dogs and jails. On May 2, more than a thousand students -- some as young as 6 -- gathered at the 16th Street Baptist Church to march for their rights. Hundreds were arrested and jailed. Police Chief Eugene "Bull" Connor -- the face of Birmingham's brutal repression -- ordered fire hoses and police dogs turned on the children, but still they marched. Within days, thousands of students had been jailed. Press coverage made Birmingham's cruelty the shame of the nation and sparked a dramatic shift in public opinion about segregation. The "Children's Crusade" became one of the pivotal events of the civil rights movement.
34. NEWSNS_130825_198.JPG: A police dog lunges at Walter Gadsden, 15, during a children's march for civil rights in Birmingham, Ala., in May 1963.
35. NEWSNS_130825_202.JPG: Birmingham police take children to jail for marching against segregation in May 1963.
36. NEWSNS_130825_215.JPG: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Jail Cell Door: This is a bronze casting of the jail cell door that imprisoned civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in Birmingham, Ala., in April 1963 after he was arrested for protesting segregation. King's leadership opened doors for a new generation of activists to enter the civil rights struggle. During his eight days in jail, King used scraps of paper smuggled into his cell to write his classic defense of civil disobedience, "Letter From Birmingham Jail."
37. NEWSNS_130825_221.JPG: "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Birmingham police arrest civil rights leader Ralph Abernathy, left, and Martin Luther King Jr. for trying to march on City Hall in April 1963.
38. NEWSNS_130825_226.JPG: Eyes on Birmingham: Media coverage of the protests in Birmingham brought intense international focus on racial segregation in America. Televised images of black children doubled over by the powerful blasts of fire hoses or with clothes ripped by police dogs shocked the world and spurred action. By July, most of Birmingham's segregation ordinances had been overturned by a new city council. That summer, President John F. Kennedy, who had been reluctant to alienate Southern politicians, delivered his first major speech on civil rights. He appeared on national television urging Congress to take action to ban segregation and protect voting rights for black people. After Kennedy's death, President Lyndon B. Johnson pushed the Civil Rights Act through Congress, signing it into law on July 2, 1964.
39. NEWSNS_130825_229.JPG: The spectacle of racial turbulence in Birmingham: They fight a fire that won't go out Life featured 11 pages of photos by Charles Moore showing fire hoses and police dogs turned on young protesters in Birmingham in its May 17, 1963, issue.
40. NEWSNS_130825_241.JPG: Mississippi / Summer 1964: The Civil Rights Act of July 1964 didn't go far enough. African Americans still faced discrimination at the polls. Racist laws and fear of white retribution kept Southern blacks from voting. That summer, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee organizer Robert Moses led a coalition of civil rights groups in a massive voter registration project in Mississippi that became known as "Freedom Summer." The voter registration campaign recruited hundreds of activists, many of them white college students from the North, to register voters and organized schools to teach black children. Reporters from across the country came to Mississippi to cover the campaign, but soon they were documenting a wave of terror. Hundreds of activists were jailed, dozens of black churches and homes were burned, and many volunteers were attacked and injured. On June 21, three volunteers -- one black and two white -- were murdered by members of the Ku Klux Klan. Their bodies were found buried in an earthen dam 44 days later.
41. NEWSNS_130825_244.JPG: Freedom Summer: "Bring the nation's children, and the parents will have to focus on Mississippi." -- Freedom Summer organizer Robert Moses Freedom Summer volunteers join hands and sing as they prepare to leave Ohio to register black voters in Mississippi.
42. NEWSNS_130825_248.JPG: Images of missing Freedom Summer volunteers Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner dominated the front page of the Chicago Daily Defender, a leading black newspaper, on June 25, 1964. They were found murdered more than a month later.
43. NEWSNS_130825_252.JPG: Young volunteers talk with a Mississippi woman about voter registration. In 1964, less than 7 percent of the state's eligible black voters were registered.
44. NEWSNS_130825_256.JPG: Bloody Sunday, Selma, Ala. / March 7, 1965: By the end of Freedom Summer, national attention was focused on the repression of black voters in the South, but there was still resistance to change. A dramatic turning point occurred the following year. On March 7, 1965 -- which became known as "Bloody Sunday" -- SNCC leader John Lewis led a voting rights march in Selma, Ala., that drew a fury of violence. State troopers attacked the marchers, including Lewis, whose skull was fractured. Eight days later, an outraged President Lyndon B. Johnson demanded in a nationally televised speech that Congress pass legislation guaranteeing African Americans the right to vote. Johnson called on Americans to "overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice." Echoing the anthem of the civil rights movement, he vowed, "And we shall overcome." The president signed the Voting Rights Act on Aug. 6, 1965.
45. NEWSNS_130825_270.JPG: The Dallas Morning News showed a state trooper beating SNCC chairman John Lewis, in foreground, on Bloody Sunday.
46. NEWSNS_130825_274.JPG: Student Power NOW This 1963 SNCC poster, showing students singing at the March on Washington, stressed the urgency of their cause.
47. NEWSNS_130825_277.JPG: Students Who Led the Way: Student activists paved the way for the civil rights victories of the 1960s. Empowered by the freedoms of the First Amendment, they took direct action to defeat segregation. They organized sit-ins, mass protests of voter registration campaigns and formed the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party to challenge the all-white political establishment. Their bold tactics captured the world's attention. Their leadership brought about change. These eight students were among the hundreds whose work made a difference.
48. NEWSNS_130825_290.JPG: Julian Bond: The grandson of a slave and the son of a college president, Julian Bond was 20 when he started a civil rights group at Morehouse College in Atlanta. Inspired by the Greensboro sit-ins, he and fellow students protested segregation in Atlanta. A founding member of SNCC, Bond was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives at age 25 and later served in the state Senate. He became chairman of the NAACP, the nation's oldest civil rights group, in 1998.
49. NEWSNS_130825_292.JPG: James Lawson: As a child, James Lawson renounced violence after his mother scolded him for slapping a white boy who had insulted him. After college, he traveled to India, where he studied Mahatma Gandhi's doctrine of nonviolent protest. As a 31-year-old divinity student at Nashville's Vanderbilt University, he trained students in nonviolence and helped launch their sit-in campaign. He played a leading role in the Freedom Rides and other civil rights milestones.
50. NEWSNS_130825_294.JPG: Diane Nash: Raised in Chicago, Diane Nash was stunned by "whites only" signs she saw when she enrolled at Fisk University in Nashville. She decided to take action against segregation. Nash studied nonviolence techniques and helped organize the Nashville sit-ins at age 21, fearlessly challenging the city's leaders to end segregation. A founder of SNCC, she was one of the few women to play a formal leadership role in the organization.
51. NEWSNS_130825_297.JPG: John Lewis: Growing up poor in rural Alabama, John Lewis listened to Martin Luther King Jr. on the radio and yearned to join the cause. At Nashville's American Baptist Theological Seminary, Lewis became a leader of the student sit-in movement at age 20 and was one of the original Freedom Riders. He led SNCC at the height of its influence, spoke at the March on Washington and led the Bloody Sunday march in Selma, Ala. He was elected to the US Congress in 1986.
52. NEWSNS_130825_306.JPG: Stokely Carmichael: Born in Trinidad, Stokely Carmichael joined SNCC after graduating from Howard University in Washington DC, and helped organize voter registration efforts across the South. Carmichael became chairman of SNCC in 1966 at age 24 and advocated for "black power." Under his leadership, the organization moved in a more militant direction as the decade grew more turbulent. In 1967, he left SNCC and joined the Black Panther Party.
53. NEWSNS_130825_312.JPG: Robert Moses: The gifted son of a Harlem janitor, Robert Moses earned a graduate degree from Harvard, but news of the sit-in protests in the South set him on a new path at age 26 as a field organizer for SNCC. He spent years traveling the dirt roads of Mississippi organizing voter registration drives in the face of violence and repression, and was instrumental in the success of the Freedom Summer project.
54. NEWSNS_130825_316.JPG: Marion Barry: A 24-year-old graduate student in chemistry at Fisk University, Marion Barry impressed the Nashville students as a natural leader. Born to Mississippi sharecroppers and raised in segregated Memphis, Barry once asked his mother what the difference was between colored water and white water. An Eagle Scout with political skills that set him apart, Barry became the first chairman of SNCC and later served as mayor of Washington DC.
55. NEWSNS_130825_320.JPG: James Bevel: James Bevel, one of 17 children born to a family of Mississippi sharecroppers, was one of the student movement's most influential tacticians. A Baptist minister who wore a yamulke, Bevel was both charismatic and eccentric. He helped found SNCC at age 23 as a student at the American Baptist Theological Seminary. In 1963, he organized the Children's Crusade in Birmingham, Ala.
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Description of Subject Matter: Make Some Noise
By Dinah Douglas, assistant Web writer

WASHINGTON — The Newseum opened two new exhibits Aug. 2 on the U.S. civil rights movement that highlighted the contributions and struggles of students.
With the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington approaching on Aug. 28, the timely exhibits underscore how organizers in the movement used the media to garner public support.
"Make Some Noise: Students and the Civil Rights Movement" takes visitors through a timeline of events that defined the movement and its student organizers, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). ....
Adjacent to "Make Some Noise," the "Civil Rights at 50" exhibit of newspaper front pages and magazine covers, captures the turbulence of the 1963 through events such as the Children's Crusade in Birmingham, Ala., and the assassination in Mississippi of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. The display shows media coverage as it really happened, including press biases and prejudices. "Civil Rights at 50" will be updated in 2014 and 2015.
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2013 photos: Equipment this year: I mostly used my Fuji XS-1 camera but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000 and Nikon D600. Trips this year: three Civil War Trust conferences (Memphis, TN, Jackson, MS [to which I added a week to to visit sites in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Tennessee], and Richmond, VA), and my 8th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including sites in Nevada and California). Ego Strokes: Aviva Kempner used my photo of her as her author photo in Larry Ruttman's "American Jews & America's Game: Voices of a Growing Legacy in Baseball" book. Number of photos taken this year: just over 570,000.
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