![Demonstrators outside the White House protest police brutality in Selma, Alabama.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/outside%20whitehouse.jpg?itok=f0LcKVmF)
Demonstrators outside the White House protest police brutality in Selma, Alabama, 1965
![This 1964 cartoon by Herblock suggested police culpability for violence against black citizens.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/HerblockCartoon_1964.jpg?itok=ymO-DXVx)
Cartoon by Herblock suggested police culpability for violence against black citizens, 1964
![African Americans protest against police brutality in Harlem, New York.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Black-Muslim-protest-vs-police-brutality-Gordon-Parks-1963.jpg?itok=8AVTOoDz)
African Americans protest against police brutality in Harlem, New York, 1963
![Sam Milai’s 'Police Brutality? . . Not Me!' appeared in the Pittsburgh Courier.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Milai%201968.png?itok=T94lOX3N)
Sam Milai’s cartoon that appeared in the Pittsburgh Courier on January 20, 1968
![Illustration of New York City Police officers publicly beating the unemployed.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/early%20police%20violence.jpg?itok=TjVvZbW0)
Illustration of New York City Police officers publicly beating the unemployed, 1874
![Black Lives Matter protest in Manhattan, New York.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Black_Lives_Matter_protest_0.jpg?itok=Ul3y24dc)
Black Lives Matter protest in Manhattan, New York, November 2014
![Black Lives Matter protest on the Metro Green Line in St. Paul, Minnesota.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Black_Lives_Matter_protest_against_St._Paul_police_brutality_%2821587635011%29.jpg?itok=dtcaBcG3)
Black Lives Matter protest on the Metro Green Line in St. Paul, Minnesota, 2015
![September 1977 Texas Monthly cover.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Texas%20Monthly%20cover.jpg?itok=JtCjCume)
September 1977 Texas Monthly cover
![Lynching graphic.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/tstr21.jpg?itok=nun6lGeF)
Lynching graphic, part the “Report of the President’s Committee on Civil Rights,” 1946
![Paul Robeson and other members of the Civil Rights Congress submit 'We Charge Genocide.'](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Paul%20Robeson%20and%20the%20Civil%20Rights%20Congress.jpg?itok=YmpOjMuS)
Paul Robeson and other members of the Civil Rights Congress submit a report to the United Nations Secretariat in New York in 1951
![Charles White’s 'The Return of the Soldier.'](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Charles%20White%20cartoon.jpg?itok=McA9Smpr)
Charles White’s “The Return of the Soldier” depicts a sinister collusion between an armed police officer and a Ku Klux Klansman, 1946
![A man in bleeds on the sidewalk after he is shot by police in Watts.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Watts%20man%20bleeds.jpg?itok=XfN5CHQr)
A man in bleeds on the sidewalk after he is shot by police in Watts, 1965
!['Justice' was one of five civil-rights issues studied by the Civil Rights Commission.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Justice_commission.jpg?itok=tjsr7dXx)
“Justice,” one of five civil-rights issues studied by the Civil Rights Commission in 1961
!['Hands Up, Don’t Shoot,' protestors in Ferguson, Missouri.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/ferguson.png?itok=OtOOIRtn)
“Hands Up, Don’t Shoot,” Protestors in Ferguson, Missouri, 2014
![Editorial cartoonist Pat Oliphant used Martin Luther King, Jr.’s famous words in this darkly ironic illustration of the verdict’s injustice.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/free%20at%20last.jpg?itok=8-hCt8TM)
Cartoon of Los Angeles police officers beating African American Rodney King, 1992