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Photograph of members of the Ku Klux Klan, marching to protest the desegregation of an Atlanta, Georgia hotel, passing by a group of African Americans demonstrating against a segregated restaurant. A police officer stands between the protesters and the three Ku Klux Klan members. One of the African American protesters holds a sign that reads "Atlanta's image is a fraud."
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Keywords

  1. African American Civil Rights Workers
  2. African American Men
  3. African American Women
  4. African American Women Civil Rights Workers
  5. African Americans
  6. Atlanta
  7. Atlanta (Ga.)
  8. Buildings
  9. Buildings, Structures, Etc
  10. Civil Rights
  11. Civil Rights Demonstrations
  12. Civil Rights Workers
  13. Commercial Buildings
  14. Discrimination
  15. Georgia
  16. Ku Klux Klan (1915)
  17. Men
  18. Police
  19. Race Discrimination
  20. Race Relations
  21. Racism
  22. Restaurants
  23. Signs And Signboards
  24. Social Conditions
  25. White Supremacy Movements
  26. Women

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