Picturing Black History

Photographs and stories that changed the world

A collaboration of and

education

View of students and teachers outside what is thought to be a Freedmen's school, Beaufort, South Carolina, late 1860s.

Learning in Secret Places

Susie Baker and the drive for education equality before Brown v. Board of Education

A Kentucky State police officer stands by as Black students board a school bus, Okolona, Louisville, Kentucky, September 11, 1975. The police were carrying out court-ordered busing to achieve racial balance in schools in Louisville and Jefferson County.

Busing and School Segregation

White people raged against school busing in Louisville, KY (September 1975)