The Emmett Till Generation
Youth Activism in Jim Crow Jackson, Mississippi, 1963.
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Untold stories and rarely seen images of the Black experience
Youth Activism in Jim Crow Jackson, Mississippi, 1963.
The revolutionary look of the Afro hairstyle during the Black Power era.
Despite Anita Hill accusing Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment in 1991, the controversy surrounding him now is mainly about his politics. Yet, the story of Justice Thomas exemplifies a longstanding irony of racial uplift efforts: the elevation of Black figures who perpetuate the silencing or mistreatment of Black women.
Students at Jackson State stood together in 1970 to display their power and resilience after being attacked by law enforcement.
Photos from the 1965 Selma to Montgomery March often downplay the transformative role of community-rooted power in securing voting rights for all Americans.
Ledger Smith roller skated 700 miles from Chicago to Washington, D.C. in August 1963 to join the March on Washington. His journey, supported by the NAACP, drew national media attention and was an act of resistance against segregation and racism.
A symbol of hope and resilience, NC Mutual provided essential financial support to African American and working-class communities for more than a century.
Assata Shakur is a lasting symbol of resistance, political commitment, and global struggles for liberation.
Years after breaking the color barriers that surrounded baseball and tennis, Jackie Robinson and Althea Gibson changed yet another sport.
The Gold Dust Twins advertising campaign used caricatured Black children to sell cleaning products, which reinforced racist stereotypes and white nostalgic myths of Black servitude in the 20th-century United States.