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 Amaal Elsammak | Nov 29, 2025
The photo of Sojourner Truth titled, I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance, was her way of taking control of society’s view of her as a black woman. This photo is a carte de visite, or calling card, which is a small card that people used to carry around during...
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 Madalynn Ramos | Nov 21, 2025
The source I chose consists of a black-and-white image by Charles Howard Johnson titled For the benefit of the girl about to graduate, created in the 1890s. Johnson’s image is published in American Women: A Library of Congress guide for the study of...