Mountain highway vista

Arthur Rothstein

Migrant family, highway 10, Montana

Arthur Rothstein

1937

Migrant to Oregon from South Dakota

Arthur Rothstein

1936

Line of marchers in front of Capitol, March on Washington

Flip Schulke

August 28, 1963

Ellis Island Madonna

Lewis Hine

ca. 1905

Jan Rose Kasmir with flower, Peace March, Pentagon, Washington D.C.

Marc Riboud

October 21, 1967

Segregated drinking fountains in the county courthouse in Albany, Georgia

Danny Lyon

1962

Martin Luther King, Jr., arrested on a loitering charge

Charles Moore

1958

Man leaning on fence with pipe at the Civil Rights March on Washington

Ivan Massar

1963

One-room schoolhouse (raising flag)

Ken Heyman

1974

John Lewis in Cairo

Danny Lyon

1963

Students Minnie Brown, 15 and Thelma Mothershed, 16; and Mrs. L.C. Bates, President of the Arkansas Chapter of the NAACP, are shown in a court corridor as Federal Judge Ronald Davies denied the petition of the Little Rock School Board to delay integration. Brown and Mothershed are two of the nine negro students barred from the Little Rock Central High School. Little Rock, AK.

Sonnee Gottlieb

1958

We Demand an End to Bias Now! Huddle of demonstrators, March on Washington

Flip Schulke

August 28, 1963

Suffrage March

Artist Unknown

1958

Integration of Little Rock Central High School: Heckling and insulting, a gang of whites start to follow two colored youths, John Williams and Laurence Coley

Burt Glinn

September, 1957

James Meredith can relax now on the Ole Miss campus. Ten years ago it was a different story. Meredith says he holds no ill feelings. He may even send his son to Ole Miss. Ten years ago he broke the color barrier at the University of Mississippi. The state and federal governments were thrown into direct confrontation. His diploma cost the federal government $5 million. Bill Crider, Associated Press reporter, was among those injured in the riot. He met Meredith on campus recently to compare memories. A bearded Meredith, now 10 years older, returned earlier this year to visit a tranquil University of Mississippi campus

Unknown

September 17, 1972

Wants in University: Vivian Malone, twenty-year-old student at Alabama A&M here, has applied for admission to the University of Alabama. Called a very good student here, she wants to study a general business course. The university has had only one Negro student, Autherine Lucy, expelled soon after she entered in 1956

Unknown

November 27, 1962

Miner’s relief station, Penn – Ohio – W. VA.

Lewis Hine

ca. 1908

Emancipated Slaves

M.H. Kimball

1863

A Committee of the Osage Council which is in Washington to urge legislation to have the name "Amerind" which is a word composed of the first syllables of "American Indian" adopted as the official design designation of the original inhabitants of this continent. It is the contention of the Osage tribe that the name Indian is a misnomer as shown in the World War when American Indian members of the A.E.F. were referred to by the foreign press as Red Indians to distinguish them from the Hindu, or East Indian. Right to left are Arthur Bonnicastle, Chief of the e Osage Tribe, John Abbott, O.W. Kenworthy, Wah Sho Shoh, Fred Lookout, Perry King

Unknown

1920

The Grapes of Wrath: Members and supporters of Cesar Chavez' United Farm Workers picketed along a dirt road in South-Central California's Coachella Valley yesterday at one of 40 vineyards whose owners have announced contracts with the Teamsters Union. Chavez, who called the rival pacts "sweetheart contracts," said time is his union's best friend in the long-standing struggle with the Teamsters

Unknown

April 1973

Selma, Alabama, "Marchers continue their hike"

Unknown

March 22, 1965

Walking Boots: James Meredith tries on the walking boots he will be wearing when he resumes his 200-mile march from near Hernando, Mississippi to Jackson. Meredith, who was shot from ambush during the second day of a similar walk last year, said he will began the 10-day hike on Saturday, Jackson, Mississippi

Jack Thornell

June 22, 1967

Hoe Squad

Danny Lyon

1968/1969

Police Officer and Protesters at May Day Rally, San Francisco

Dorothea Lange

-

The Niagara, New York, power project was opposed by the Tuscarora Indians who didn't want to give up land. More than 500 acres of a 1,880-acre reservoir built back of the power station was owned by the Tuscaroras. The Supreme Court ruled the land was not properly a reservation

Unknown

April 1958

Cotton Pickers

Danny Lyon

1968/1969

New York Stock Exchange

Ian Berry

1973

Farmer pouring out corn cobs from basket

Edward W. Quigley

1940

Construction workers in line

Jacques Lowe

ca. 1955

On the way to the “I Have a Dream” speech given by Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Washington D.C.

Flip Schulke

August 28, 1963

Demonstrators with pamphlets at Gay Liberation March, New York City

Leonard Freed

1970

The Selma to Montgomery Marches: marchers crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge on "Bloody Sunday," Selma

Unknown

March 7, 1965

Racial turmoil in Selma on "Bloody Sunday" as would-be marchers are assaulted by Alabama state troopers as they attempt the march to Montgomery. A state trooper beats SNCC Chairman John Lewis as other marchers run toward the Edmund Pettus Bridge

Spider Martin

March 7, 1965

San Francisco Waterfront, the General Strike

Dorothea Lange

1934

Mobile's Poor People's March: Shown is a segment of the Poor People's March here in Mobile today. The predominately Negro crowd obtained a parade permit and marched through a white residential neighborhood trying to demonstrate their poverty in Mobile. There were no incidents in connection with this singing, placard carrying demonstration, Mobile, Alabama

Unknown

May 25, 1968

First Negro Congresswoman: Mrs. Shirley Chisholm gives the V for Victory sign in her Brooklyn, New York, headquarters early Wednesday morning, after learning she ahs been elected the first Negro woman ever to sit in the U.S. House of Representatives. Mrs. Chisholm, a Democrat, defeated her Republican opponent, James Farmer, New York,

Unknown

November 5, 1968

Lithuanian Woman Just Arrived at Ellis Island

Lewis Hine

1905

The Rev. Martin Luther King addresses a crowd estimated at 70,000 at a civil rights rally in Chicago's Soldier Field June 21, 1964. King told the rally that congressional approval of civil rights legislation heralds "The dawn of a new hope for the Negro."

Charles Knoblock

June 21, 1964

Cry Freedom

Herb Snitzer

1958

Women Strike For Peace at the White House with Bella Abzug, Washington D.C.

Dorothy Marder

July 8, 1977

Gay rights demonstrators on steps of Criminal Courts Building, New York

Unknown

ca. 1970's

Studies in Expressions during the Mass Funeral Services of the Steel Workers Slain in South Chicago, Memorial Day

Gordon Coster

1937

Only Playing

Herb Snitzer

1959

A few Added Thoughts: This is one of the sign-decorated plywood shanties making up "Resurrection City U.S.A." near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. Officials of the Poor People's Campaign said yesterday that weekend construction helped fill two thirds of the encampment with the tent-like shelters being erected for housing the demonstrators

Unknown

May 20, 1968

Strikers Behind Bars: Some of the workers from the International Harvester Twine Plant in Chicago, wind up behind bars, after police broke up the demonstrations lasting 2 days, Chicago

Unknown

July 31, 1952

You've come a long way, baby!

Leonard Freed

1970

Indians and government officials walked around a tepee before entering it for a powwow over the weekend. The meeting of Indians, their attorney and Justice Department officials at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, was part of weekend efforts to end the Indian occupation of the settlement

Unknown

March 4, 1973

Height of battle between police and strikers in the Central Market at Minneapolis, shows C. Arthur Lyman, business and civic leader who was serving as a special deputy, being beaten to death. Minneapolis, MN

Anonymous/ ACME Photo

May 23, 1934

A bank that failed, Southwest Kansas

Arthur Rothstein

1936

Mothers Protesting

Ruth Orkin

ca. 1943

Windows of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, where four fourteen-year-old girls were killed by a KKK bomb

Danny Lyon

1963

Singing "freedom songs" under police guard, hundreds of schoolchildren march down the middle of the street toward a detention compound after their mass arrest in front of the Dallas County courthouse, Selma, Alabama

Unknown

February 3, 1965

“Better dead than red” sign at pro-Vietnam War demonstration, New York City

Leonard Freed

1970

Windows of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, where four fourteen-year-old girls were killed by a KKK bomb

Danny Lyon

1963

Demonstrators

Dorothea Lange

1940

Pressing for Freedom: demonstrators and passers-by watch a man portray the death of freedom of the press as he lies with a camera on his chest near the Federal Building. A newly imposed court order prohibits broadcasting and photographing in or near the building. At least nine newsmen were arrested on charges they openly defied the ban, which went into effect September 17, a week before the trial of eight persons accused of inciting riots during the Democratic National Convention last year, Chicago,

Unknown

September 17, 1969

The Road to Yazoo City

Danny Lyon

1963

Gay rights, AIDS memorial, San Francisco, CA

Unknown

ca. 1980's

Crowd gathered around Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, March on Washington

Flip Schulke

August 28, 1963

On strike, garment district, New York City

Henri Cartier-Bresson

1957

Die wolken kratzer der Wall-Street (the skyscrapers of Wall Street)

Fritze Henle

ca. 1950's

Rapt workers at an election meeting

David Seymour

1954

Construction worker in hardhat with "Bethlehem Steel" label and toolbox

Jacques Lowe

ca. 1955

Washington D.C.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

1957

Demonstration of the Gay Liberation Movement in New York City

Leonard Freed

1970

City Government

Herb Snitzer

1996

"...And to you as well"

Herb Snitzer

1961

The whole force of workers in the cotton mills of Stevenson, Alabama. Several of them are apparently under twelve, but I could not get the ages. Photo posed by the general manager.

Lewis Hine

December, 1913

Ollie “Widow” Combs standing in front of bulldozer, Honey Gap, Knott County, Kentucky

Bill Strode

November, 1965

Mountainous landscape with boulders in the foreground

Lloyd Ullberg

-

Highway with electrical wires

Lloyd Ullberg

1961

Road in Nevada

Erich Hartmann

-

Sheriff Jim Clark arrests two demonstrators who displayed placards on the steps of the federal building in Selma

Danny Lyon

1963

Civil rights demonstrators held hands as they marched down Chicago's Balboa Drive en route to city hall to protest alleged school segregation. Originally, the march leaders had planned a two day school boycott in protest of the rehiring of school superintendent Benjamin Willis, but they were blocked by a court order

Unknown

June 11, 1965

Civil Rights Marchers, Harlem, New York

WEEGEE (Fellig, Arthur)

ca. 1940

Anti-pornography demonstration, Times Square, New York City, USA

Herb Snitzer

1979

"Don’t Ride Here!" Harlem bus boycott led by orchestra leader Don Redman and women from the chorus at the Apollo Theater

Unknown

1941

Their March Has Ended: civil rights marchers, who massed at the Alabama State capitol at Montgomery to end their five-day march from Selma, leave the capitol after hearing Dr. Martin Luther King tell them the rights protests would continue

Unknown

March 26, 1965

Marching On In Civil Rights Protest: marchers, led by Dr. Martin Luther King, waving at right center, with his wife Coretta to the right, move on to the capitol at Montgomery, Alabama. To left of King is Dr. Ralph Bunche, another Nobel Peace Prize winner

Unknown

March 25, 1965

Constitution Avenue during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Washington D.C.

Fred Ward

August 28, 1963

New Citizen, Carmel, NY

George Zimbel

ca. 1960's

DEMANDING CHANGE,
BEARING WITNESS