by Gabriel Hoffman | Dec 4, 2023
Duck and cover was a film created by the Federal Civil Defense Administration (FCDA) in 1952 to provide children throughout the 1950s and 1960s the proper actions to take in the event of a nuclear attack. As a result of the Soviet Union’s...
by Leslie Chan | Nov 29, 2023
Emmett Till was a 14 year old, African American boy, who was born in Chicago, Illinois.[1] Although he was from the North, he spent the summer with his family in Mississippi in 1955,[2] where racial segregation was still very prevalent in the Southern States. While in...
by Tamara Wijesinghe | Dec 4, 2022
This image pictures Louis Armstrong playing a trumpet in from of a large group of people in Mascot, Sydney((Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong Plays for Fans on Arrival at Mascot, Sydney, 27 October 1954. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Louis_%22Satchmo)). Louis...
by Tory James | Nov 30, 2021
Imagine living in the United States as a Black male in the 21st century. Suppose you are with a group of friends and dare you to ask a white woman out on a date. The dare seems simple enough, right? Chances are the white woman responds with a “yes” or “no.” No harm...
by Lauren Conahan | Nov 30, 2021
This image pictures an excited Helen Keller holding two-year old and fellow passenger Donald Hart on board the ocean linear Independence after the ship docked in New York. It was captured by photographer, Ed Ford in 1956. The 1950s in the United States were a decade...