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 Madison Jones | Dec 2, 2024
The historical source displayed above is a propaganda poster created in 1918 during World War I by the artist Ernest Hamlin Baker. The poster shows a parade of women dressed in masculine uniforms, holding traditional men’s tools such as an axe, with the title,...
by Marianna Iliadis | Dec 4, 2023
The fight for women’s suffrage was an ongoing struggle throughout American history and came after many years of effort by many different people. The right to vote did not come easy for American women, and this picture illustrates the continual opposition that women...