From Emmett Till to Barack Obama

The Supremacists
In many corners of America, the momentum built by the nascent civil rights movement only served to anger the advocates of white superiority. George Lincoln Rockwell, photographed here protesting a 1962 conference organized by Malcolm X, counter-protested many of the movement's marches and demonstrations.

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