Picturing Black History

Photographs and stories that changed the world

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US Civil War

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

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

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