President Abraham Lincoln signing the Emancipation Proclamation, ca. 1864 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
President Abraham Lincoln, May 16, 1861 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Suffragists, New York, New York, February 11, 1913 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Alice Paul Describes Force Feeding, 1909 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Women's Consultative Committee at League of Nations, ca. 1931 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Suffragist Alice Paul, ca. June 1913 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Five officers of the Women's League, including Ida B. Wells, Newport, Rhode Island, ca. 1899 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Suffrage parade, March 1913 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Suffragists picket the White House, 1918 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Protest for Women's Suffrage, October 1916 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Ida B. Wells, 1891 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Crowd watching Suffrage parade, Washington, D.C., March 1913 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Suffragist Aimee Hutchinson, New York, between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Suffragist Alice Paul, ca. 1913 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Suffragist Lucy Burns, Occoquan Workhouse, Virginia, November 1917 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Suffragist Helena Hill Weed in prison, Washington, D.C., July 1917 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Florence Brewer Boeckel and Betty Mackaye at White House picket line for Suffrage, 1917 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Suffragist pickets at the White House, 1917 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
National Anti-Suffrage Association headquarters; ca. 1911 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Suffragist, H. Riordan, New York, January 10, 1910 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Suffragist, London, England, between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Suffragists Louis Hall and Susan Fitzgerald, Cincinnati, Ohio, between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Suffragists, between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Crowds gather at Suffrage Parade, Washington, D.C., March 3, 1913 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Suffrage parade, New York, March 3, 1913 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Suffragist E.R. Smith, September 1913 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Ku Klux Klan symbol, ca. 1923 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Picking cotton near Clarksdale, Mississippi, November 1939 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Convict leasing, Oglethorpe County, Georgia, May 1941 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Picking cotton, Mississippi Delta, November 1939 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Civil War veteran Robert Powell Scott, 1938 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Confederate Reunion of veterans, North Carolina, 1917 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Confederate Reunion of veterans, North Carolina, 1917 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Black sharecroppers, 1917 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Immigrants, ca. 1902 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Immigrants, Ellis Island, October 30, 1912 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Tenement, Jewish ghetto, New York City, New York, between 1905 and 1910 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Hiram Wesley Evans, Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, 1926 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Ku Klux Klan march, September 13, 1926 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Ku Klux Klan march, Washington, D.C., September 13, 1926 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Domestic Workers, 1899 (Courtesy National Archives)
Ku Klux Klan assembly, Washington, D.C., between ca. 1920 and ca. 1930 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
President John F. Kennedy and former President General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Camp David, Maryland, April 22, 1961 (Courtesy National Archives)
Anti-communist crowd on street to see Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, Des Moines, Iowa, September 23, 1959 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Lionel Stander testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee, May 1953 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Senator Joseph McCarthy, 1954 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Papers related to the Army-McCarthy hearings, 1954 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Members of the press at the Army-McCarthy hearings, 1954 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
The Army-McCarthy hearings, 1954 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Family watching television, circa 1950 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
McCarthy Censured, December 2, 1954 (Courtesy Daily News)
McCarthy Says Top Red Spy Is in State Dept., March 24, 1950 (Courtesy The Paducah Sun)
Telegram to President Harry S. Truman to Senator McCarthy, ca. December 1930 - ca. March 1955 (Courtesy National Archives)
McCarthyism End Seen When Red Menace Wanes, June 20, 1953 (Courtesy Daily Independent Journal)
McCarthy Names Another U.S. Official, March 13, 1950 (Courtesy Dunkirk Evening Observer)
McCarthy's Guns on Fresh Targets, March 9, 1950 (Courtesy The Monroe News-Star)
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are convicted of espionage, 1951 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Senator Joseph McCarthy, June 1954 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Cartoon of Senator Joseph McCarthy, 1950 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Cartoon of Senator Joseph McCarthy, 1950 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Senator Joseph McCarthy, 1950 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Senator Joseph McCarthy, 1950 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Tom Kobayashi at the Manzanar War Relocation Center, California, 1943 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
The USS West Virginia and the USS Tennessee, Pearl Harbor, HI December 7, 1941 (Courtesy National Archives)
Nursery school children, Tule Lake War Relocation Center, Newell, California, September 8, 1942 (Courtesy National Archives)
Two young Japanese-American boys en route to the Manzanar War Relocation Center, California, April 25, 1942
Two young Japanese-American boys en route to the Manzanar War Relocation Center California, April 25, 1942
People leaving Buddhist church at the Manzanar War Relocation Center, California, April 26, 1943 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Japanese-Americans behind barbed wire fence, Santa Anita, California, 1942 - 1945 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Japanese Americans arrive at Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, April 29, 1942 (Courtesy National Archives)
Japanese American woman at Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, April 29, 1942 (Courtesy National Archives)
Japanese Americans at Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, April 29, 1942 (Courtesy National Archives)
Entrance to a family apartment at Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, June 16, 1942 (Courtesy National Archives)
Students at Raphael Weill Public School, San Francisco, California, April 20, 1942 (Courtesy National Archives)
Newstand, San Francisco, California, December 8, 1941 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Store is closed following orders for Japanese-Americans to be sent to incarceration camps, Oakland, California, March, 1, 1942 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Shoppers reading US Army exclusion order No. 20, April 1, 1942 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Civilian exclusion order #5, San Francisco, California, April 1, 1942 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Baggage belonging to Japanese-Americans, Salinas, California, April 19, 1942 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Japanese Americans are forcibly removed, San Francisco, California, April 25, 1942 (Courtesy National Archives)
Japanese American family is focibly removed, Hayward, California, May 8, 1942 (Courtesy National Archives)
Young Japanese American boy en route to Tanforan Assembly Center, San Francisco, California, April 29, 1942 (Courtesy National Archives)
Japanese American field laborers, April 28, 1942 (Courtesy National Archives)
Kimiko Kitagiaki, Japanese American en route to incarceration center, Oakland, California, May 6, 1942 (Courtesy National Archives)
Japanese Americans transferred to Santa Anita incarceration center, April 5, 1942 (Courtesy National Archives)
American Legion and Boy Scouts at the Manzanar War Relocation Center, California, April 25, 1942 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Japanese Americans transferred to Santa Anita Assembly Center, April 5, 1942 (Courtesy National Archives)
San Francisco, California, November 1, 1936 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Florence Thompson, "Migrant Mother," March 1, 1936 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Young Oklahoma mother, Imperial Valley, California, March 1, 1937 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Migrant farm worker, Merrill, Oregon, September, 1939 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
San Francisco, California, February 1, 1937 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Job demand parade, December 7, 1933 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Bread line, Bowery Mission, New York, April 13, 1905 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Inauguration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Washington, D.C., March 4, 1933 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt, White House, Washington, D.C., March 4, 1933 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt, Hyde Park, New York, August 16, 1933 (Courtesy FDR Library)
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Warm Springs, Georgia, December 1, 1933 (Courtesy FDR Library)
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Washington, D.C., March 1, 1945 (Courtesy FDR Library)
Breadline during the Great Depression, Madison Square Park, New York, 1932 (Courtesy FDR Library)
Franklin Delano, Eleanor Roosevelt with their son, James, on Inauguration Day, Washington, D.C., March 4, 1933 (Courtesy FDR Library)
Soup kitchen, Chicago, Illinois, February 1931 (Courtesy National Archives)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, West Virginia, 1932 (Courtesy FDR Library)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Indianapolis, October 20, 1932 (Courtesy FDR Library)
Franklin D. Roosevelt, with Governor Lehman and Senator Wagner, at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden, October 31, 1936 (Courtesy FDR Library)
National Anti-Suffrage Association headquarters; ca. 1911 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt and John W. Davis, April 7, 1905 (Courtesy FDR Library)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Lake Placid, New York, September 11, 1929 (Courtesy FDR Library)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933 (Courtesy FDR Library)
Colored Waiting Room sign at Greyhound bus station, Rome, Georgia, September 1943 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Segregated Greyhound bus station, September 1943 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
John Lewis beaten by State Troopers on Bloody Sunday, Montgomery, Alabama, March 7, 1965 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Civil rights marchers en route to State Capitol during Selma to Montgomery March (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Youth protest for voting rights, Selma, Alabama, 1965 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Police officer and African-American protester, Nashville, Tennessee, April 27, 1964 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
School children take to jail for protesting voting rights, Selma, Alabama, February 3, 1965 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
NAACP protest for voting rights, Selma, Alabama, 1965 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
School integration, Little Rock, Arkansas, September 4, 1957 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Youth protest for voting rights, Selma, Alabama, 1965 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Rosa Parks, Montgomery, Alabama, February 22, 1956 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
NAACP youth marching to protest Texas segregation laws, 1947 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
March on Washington, August 28, 1963 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Martin Luther King, Jr., March on Washington, August 28, 1963 (Courtesy National Archives)
Marchers, Harlem, New York, March 1, 1965 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Demonstration against police brutality in Selma, Washington, D.C., March 12, 1965 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Spectacle lynching of Harry Smith, Paris, Texas, February 1893 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
