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Glimpses at the freedmen -The freedmens union industrial School,Richmond ,va./ from a sketch by Jas E .Taylor .18666.

[PHOTO] Freedom in America; A Struggle for Civil Rights

July 13, 2022
This political cartoon from an 1875 issue of Harpers Weekly was a response to calls for removing federal troops from the South during the Reconstruction period. It was printed with a quote from a Birmingham News editorial threatening extermination of African Americans in the South and depicts a United States Army soldier standing between a cowering African American and a threatening former Confederate.Courtesy of the Library of Congress

[PHOTO] Were The Freed People Free

July 5, 2022
Mrs. Nettie Hunt, sitting on steps of Supreme Court, holding newspaper, explaining to her daughter Nikie the meaning of the Supreme Courts decision banning school segregation. Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division LC-USZ62-127042

[PHOTO] Integration Efforts of the South

April 16, 2016
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[PHOTO] The Age Of Jackson

March 24, 2015
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[PHOTO] World War 1 Propaganda

January 30, 2015
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[PHOTO] Jim Crow Laws

December 5, 2014
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[PHOTO] The Lend Lease-Act

June 9, 2014
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