From the devastation caused by an atomic bomb, a new city rises in Hiroshima, with rows of homes cropping up along a highway

George Meany, President of the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations, chats with Cesar Chavez, President of the United Farm Workers of America, during a luncheon honoring farm workers, Washington, DC

Leander H. Perez, a lawyer from Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, tells the Senate Constitutional Rights Subcommittee that using federal power "to force racial integration upon an unwilling free people can only result in tragic consequences."

Representative Adam Clayton Powell (Democrat-NY) speaks informally to reporters in his Washington office

James Farmer, National Director of the Congress for Racial Equality, notified the Democratic Platform Committee that Civil Rights supporters will demonstrate at the national convention in Atlantic City

Mrs. Gloria Richardson, Director of the Cambridge, Maryland Nonviolent Action Committee, speaks at the Justice Department in Washington after she and other black leaders met with department officials

White students at Norview Senior High School line the sidewalk as the doors close on five of the black students assigned to the school, Norfolk, Virginia

Boyd Hamby (right), Grand Night Hawk of the North Carolina KKK, sits in the hearing room of the House Committee on Un-American Activities as former klansman Roy Woodle testifies

Joseph G. DuBois resigned from the Ku Klux Klan as he testified before the House Committee on Un-American Activities

Marion W. Millis, Sheriff of New Hanover County, North Carolina, sits in the hearing room before testifying at the House Un-American Activities Committee probe of Ku Klux Klan activities

James Robert Jones, North Carolina's Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, kept silent during questioning before the House Committee on Un-American Activities

Robert Shelton, Imperial Wizard of the nation's biggest Klan, looks over a paper while on the witness stand before the House Un-American Activities Committee

J. Stanley Pottinger, Director of the Civil Rights Division of the Health, Education and Welfare Department, goes over reports in his Washington office

Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard Robert M. Shelton denounces the current probe of the KKK as an "inquisition"

Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield (D-MT) and Senator Hubert Humphrey (D-MN) confer on Capital Hill before the Civil Rights bill was called before the Senate

Representative William L. Dickinson (R-AL) poses in his office with notes for a speech he made in the House regarding a Civil Rights march in Alabama

Donald T. Appell is the chief investigator for the House Committee on Un-American Activities in its investigation of the Ku Klux Klan

Senator Harry F. Byrd (D-VA) has a whispered word for Senator James O. Eastland (D-MS) during the filibuster against Civil Rights legislation

Sargent Shriver at a Washington news conference where announced two federal grants to sustain and broaden the war on poverty in Atlanta

Representatives Charles C. Diggs, Jr. (D-MI) and Shirley Chisholm (D-NY) announce a “shadow cabinet” that will monitor Civil Rights enforcement in government agencies

Members of the Attica Observers Committee at the witness table during hearings on penal reform before the House Select Committee on Crime

Congressmen gather around the House copy of a top secret Pentagon study of U.S. involvement in Vietnam

Housewife Louise Bruyn of Newton, Massachusetts arrives at the Capitol after her 44-day, 450-mile march to protest the Vietnam War

Demonstrators against U.S. policy in Vietnam sit in front of an East Executive Avenue gate to the White House grounds

John Kerry, a spokesman for the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, delivers remarks to a news conference on Capitol Hill