by Valentina Restrepo | Nov 21, 2025
“Strange Fruit,” recorded in 1939 by Billie Holiday, is one of the most well-known and powerful protest songs. Originally written as a poem in 1937 by Abel Meeropol (under the name Lewis Allan), it protested the lynching of Black Americans and systemic racism.[1] The...
by Vada Leaver | Dec 7, 2024
This is an image of the Vietnam Soldiers actively fighting in the Vietnam War[1]. The Vietnam War was a historical war that included not only the country of Vietnam split into North and South, but also surrounding countries, mainly the United States and the Soviet...
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...