Picturing Black History

Photographs and stories that changed the world

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Musicians Joseph Witherspoon (fore left), on saxophone, and Alan Clipper Sr (fore right), on trumpet, perform 'We Shall Overcome' after a wreath laying at the African-American Civil War Memorial

At War with Memory

How race has shaped our memory of the Civil War and Emancipation

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