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The photographs of Charles Brittin reveal the struggle for civil rights in Los Angeles presented in new book ,

"We Support Wally Nelson - in jail on a trumped up charge," and "Black and White Together," ca. 1965 -- Wally Nelson was an American civil rights activist and war tax resister. He spent three and a half years in prison as a conscientious objector during World War II, he was on the first of the “freedom rides” that sought to enforce desegregation in 1947, and he was the first national field organizer for the Congress of Racial Equality. Photo credit: MPI / Getty Images

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