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Claude V. Henley, right, gets a handshake from unidentified well wisher as he enters court on May 29, 1961 in Montgomery, Ala. Henley is named in a...

Robert M. Shelton, an Alabama Ku Klux Klan leader, puts hand to face as he leaves federal courthouse on May 29, 1961 in Montgomery, Ala. Shelton is...

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Lucretia Collins, 21,

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Jack Young, attorney for the 27

Two white college professors, part of a group of

A Jackson police captain asks

Photo shows a long line of motorcycle patrolmen get set for escort duty as bus bearing

Troops of National Guardsmen stand on duty at the Trailways bus station on May 24, 1961 in Montgomery, Ala. as Freedom Riders plan to resume their bus...

Freedom riders board a bus on May 24, 1961 in Montgomery. Ala. to resume their ride through the south. (AP Photo)

Paul Dietrich, 29 year old ministerial student boards

A "Freedom Rider" is shown the way to the paddy wagon in Jackson, May 24, 1961, as a second bus load of the integration supporters arrived. Fifteen in...

Women of the Meo tribe carry supplies from a helicopter to their village of Pa Dong, about 19 miles from the Laotian rebel center of Xieng Khouang, M...

A detachment of National Guardsmen patrols past the Black First Baptist Church on May 23, 1961 in Montgomery after martial law was declared following...

Afro-Americans in the first Baptist Church get comfortable in the pews on May 23, 1961 in Montgomery, Ala. as they wait for their own safety to leave...

A National Guard sergeant passes out ammunition from a military truck on May 23, 1961 in Montgomery, Ala. after martial law was declared. (AP Photo/Ho...

National Guardsmen button up the tailgate of a military truck as they began taking Blacks home from the beleaguered church on May 22, 1961 in Montgome...

National Guardsmen stand across the street from the Black First Baptist Church in Montgomery on May 22, 1961 at sunrise following a night of racial vi...

Steel helmeted troopers armed with riot guns move in on a mob which gathered at the Black First Baptist Church on May 21, 1961 in Montgomery, Ala. wh...

Jim Zwerg, a

U. S. marshals armed with billy clubs and wearing gas masks are on duty on May 21, 1961 in Montgomery, Ala. as riot swirled around an Afro-American ch...

Several Blacks standing in the back of the congregation during church rally start out the front door after a tear gas bomb exploded nearby during mob...

A car burns after being overturned on a street a block from a Black church during racial violence on May 21, 1961 in Montgomery, Ala. (AP Photo/Horac...

Federal Marshals stand watch in Montgomery, Ala. on May 21, 1961 at the Black First Baptist Church as evening services start. The church, whose pas...

Three members of a racially mixed group of college student

** FILE ** In this May 20, 1961 file photo, three members of a racially mixed group of college student

The Rev. Fred .L. Shuttlesworth (pointing), Birmingham integration leader, talks with students in white waiting room on Wednesday, May 18, 1961 in Bi...

Members of an interracial group pose in Washington, with a map of a route they plan to take to test segregation in bus terminal restaurants and rest r...

A boy draws water from a well in the capital city Vientiane, Laos, May 1, 1961. (AP Photo/Fred Waters)

A young girl carries baskets balanced on a pole in a shell-damaged section of Vientiane, the capital city of Laos, May 1, 1961. Many people, their hom...

Holding out their begging bowls, Buddhist monks make their morning rounds, receiving the day's food from kneeling Buddhists in Vientiane, Laos, May 1,...

One of a fleet of helicopters which brought Pres. Kennedy and former Pres. Eisenhower to Camp David, near Thurmont, Md., comes in for a landing at the...

Electronic devices such as this gun type, listening in on the conversation of two men on the ground some distance away, are involved in controversy ov...

John H. Glenn, Jr, third from left, answers questions of reporters at press conference attended by six of the seven United States Astronauts, February...

Photo of Ray Lamphere, in connection wit female bluebeard Belle Gunness 1908. (AP Photo)

Photo of Andrew Helgelein, in connection wit female bluebeard Belle Gunness 1908. (AP Photo)

Belle Gunness, female bluebeard of 1908 i(AP Photo)

Photo shows Myrtle, Lucy and Philip (7-5-2-) with Belle Gunness Bell . (AP Photo)

President of the National Basketball Association Maurice Podoloff is shown as he appeared in Federal Court, Jan 11, 1961, New York. (AP Photo/Jacob Ha...

Marine Lt. Col. John H. Glenn, one of seven astronauts training for project Mercury, the first flight through space points, January 11, 1961 in Langle...

A Laotian woman and child are lifted by stretcher onto a truck for transport to a hospital in the capital city Vientiane, December 1960. They were inj...

Deposed Congo Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, hands manacled, sits in the bed of an army truck under guard of Congolese soldiers after his arrival at...

Elizabeth Taylor is shown, 1961. (AP Photo)

Actor Marlon Brando, who plays the role of Fletcher Christian, leader of the mutiny in

Freedom Riders arrested 1961. (AP Photo)

Michael Rockefeller, 23, youngest son of the New York Governor is pictured paddling a native Canoe in New Guinea where he has been reported missing, N...

Michael Rockefeller, 23, youngest son of the New York Governor Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, pictured in New Guinea, 1961. Young Rockefeller, a Harvard...

Michael Rockefeller, 23, youngest son of the New York Governor Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, left, shown in a canoe with a native in New Guinea where he...