Rep. John Lewis thanks anti-gun violence supporters following a rally outside the U.S. Capitol on Oct. 4, 2017. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images North America hide caption
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Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department on Aug. 2, 2022, as Attorney General Merrick Garland looks on. Drew Angerer/Getty Images hide caption
As she leaves DOJ, associate AG recalls the cases that will 'stick with me forever'
U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca, center, speaks to reporters after six white former law enforcement officers in Mississippi pleaded guilty to federal civil rights offenses in federal court in Jackson, Miss., Thursday, Aug. 3, 2023. Rogelio V. Solis/AP hide caption
Aaron Bowman cries during an interview at his attorney's office in Monroe, La., on Aug. 5, 2021, as he discusses his injuries resulting from a Louisiana State trooper pummeling him during a traffic stop in 2019. Rogelio V. Solis/AP hide caption
Foot soldier Paulette Roby stands in Birmingham's Kelly Ingram Park, one of the sites where students peacefully marched in the Spring of 1963 demanding equal rights. Debbie Elliot/NPR hide caption
Vice President Kamala Harris marches on the Edmund Pettus Bridge after speaking in Selma, Ala., on the anniversary of "Bloody Sunday," on March 6, 2022. Brynn Anderson/AP hide caption
This March 26, 1972 file photo shows the Rev. Jesse Jackson speaking to reporters at the Operation PUSH Soul Picnic in New York as Tom Todd, vice president of PUSH, from second left, Aretha Franklin and Louis Stokes. Jim Wells/AP hide caption
This image provided by A2H Engineers, Architects, Planners on Aug. 18, 2022, shows digital rendering of the National Rhythm and Blues Hall of Fame in Marks, Miss. AP hide caption
A new Maryland alert system named in honor of the late Emmett Till will aim to bring awareness to hate crimes across the state. Here, a mural featuring a portrait of civil rights icon Emmett Till is seen in Chicago. Scott Olson/Getty Images hide caption
Artist Branly Cadet's Arise sculpture at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Ala., portrays community activists. Debbie Elliott/NPR hide caption
A civil rights memorial in Alabama expands to document lynching victims' stories
Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., speaks during a news conference about the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act in 2020. Till, pictured at right, was a 14-year-old African-American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955. J. Scott Applewhite/AP file photo hide caption
Autherine Lucy Foster reacts during the dedication ceremony for Autherine Lucy Foster Hall in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on Feb. 25, 2022. Gary Cosby Jr./The Tuscaloosa News/via AP/File hide caption
From left to right, former Minneapolis police officers J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao provided by the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office in Minnesota on June 3, 2020. Hennepin County Sheriff's Office/AP hide caption
This image from video shows Minneapolis Police Officers Thomas Lane, left and J. Alexander Kueng, right, escorting George Floyd to a police vehicle outside Cup Foods in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020. Court TV/Pool/File/Via AP hide caption
Former Minneapolis Police Officer Thomas Lane testified at his federal trial that officers considered using a type of restraint known as the hobble because George Floyd was kicking and had hurt himself, but that it seemed "excessive" because an ambulance was on the way. Cedric Hohnstadt/via AP hide caption
Travis McMichael (left) speaks with attorney Jason B. Sheffield during his sentencing in state court last month for the 2020 murder of Ahmaud Arbery. Stephen B. Morton/Pool/AP hide caption
Autherine Lucy Foster, center, the first Black person to attend the University of Alabama, is shown discussing her return to campus following mob demonstrations in Birmingham, Ala., in 1956 with Ruby Hurley, right, Southeast regional secretary of the NAACP, and attorney Arthur Shores. Gene Herrick/AP file photo hide caption
Josephine Baker poses in Paris in the 1930s. HARCOURT/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Facebook's parent company, Meta, is studying whether its platforms treat users differently based on race. KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
In this Aug. 12, 2017, file photo, a vehicle drives into a group of protesters demonstrating against a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va. A trial is beginning in Charlottesville, Va., to determine whether white nationalists who planned the so-called Unite the Right rally will be held civilly responsible for the violence that erupted. Ryan M. Kelly/AP hide caption
Josephine Baker in uniform circa 1945. Hulton Deutsch/Corbis via Getty Images hide caption
Democratic senators, led by Cory Booker of New Jersey, say they worry about how Google's products and policies may perpetuate bias. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images hide caption
Federal law enforcement officers fire impact munitions and tear gas at protesters demonstrating against racism and police violence in front of the Mark O. Hatfield federal courthouse in Portland, Ore., on July 16, 2020. Through the end of 2020, the majority of last year's federal civil disorder charges were filed in Oregon. Jonathan Levinson/OPB hide caption
DOJ Uses Civil Rights-Era Law To Charge Protesters And Insurrectionists
Former civil rights lawyer-activist Floyd McKissick, poses with an architect's rendering of Soultech I, the first permanent building that will be part of the future "Soul City," to be built in Warren County, N.C., June 20, 1974. Harold Valentine/AP hide caption