by Natalie Mack | Dec 1, 2025
Bloody Sunday: Alabama Police Attack, an FBI photograph taken in March 1965, captures one of the most violent and consequential moments of the Civil Rights Movement. The image exhibits Alabama State Troopers in Selma, Alabama, attacking nonviolent protestors. These...
by Serena John | Dec 1, 2025
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom occurred on August 28, 1963, where over 250,000 people gathered for this movement. In the photograph by the Library of Congress, it shows this event from the Civil Rights Movement which captures the protesters marching...
by Aakash Arumugam | Nov 29, 2025
7 On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing the U.S. Army to designate “military areas” from which any person could be excluded. Though the order did not...
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 Kate Petrucelli | Dec 7, 2024
This photograph was taken on August 28, 1963, in Washington, D.C., during a notorious Civil Rights protest called the March on Washington[1]. As depicted in the photograph, thousands of people gathered to march. Many of these people were activists coming from...