Experience LIFE's visual record of the 20th century by exploring the most iconic photographs from one of the most famous private photo collections in the world.

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LIFE chronicled the Black students’ courage in the face of resistance as they made they way to class, and returned the next year when the first of those Black students graduated. And in 1967 LIFE was back to Central High to ask—ten years later, how’s it going? The answer was more complicated than the question.

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See how fashion, family life, sports, holiday celebrations, media, and other elements of pop culture have changed through the decades.

The following is from the introduction to LIFE’s special tribute issue, Jimmy Carter: A Noble Life, which is available online and at newsstands.

Visit some of the world's most desirable and desolate locations on Planet Earth through LIFE's extensive natural photography collection.

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As a weekly magazine LIFE covered it all, with a breadth and open-mindedness that looks especially astounding today, when publications and websites tailor their coverage to ever-narrowing audiences. LIFE chronicled the lives of presidents, and also followed a …

George Silk/Life Picture Collection/Shutterstock Muhammad Ali, then known as Cassius Clay and criticized for talking too much, theatrically had his mouth taped by trainer Angelo Dundee before a fight with Doug Jones, 1963.