Lynching of Laura Nelson and her son Lawrence Nelson
Laura Nelson, an African American woman, and her son Lawrence were residents of Okemah, a small town in the Indian Territory of Oklahoma. The early…
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An African-American family duing the Great Migration
An African-American family leaves Florida for the North during the Great Depression (1930s).
A Great Day in Harlem (Harlem 1958)
A Great Day in Harlem or Harlem 1958 is a black-and-white photograph of 57 jazz musicians in Harlem, New York, taken by freelance photographer Art…
Elizabeth Eckford of the Little Rock Nine
Elizabeth Eckford, age 15, pursued by a mob, with Hazel Bryan Massery directly behind, at Little Rock Central High School on the first day of…
U.S. Marshals with Young Ruby Bridges on School Steps
On November 14, 1960, Ruby Bridges is escorted from her first day of school as a first grader at William Frantz Elementary School in New…
Lynching of Jesse Washington (1916)
Lynching of Jesse Washington in Waco, Texas, on May 15, 1916. He was repeatedly lowered and raised onto a fire for about two hours. A…
Omaha courthouse lynching
A group of white men pose for a 1919 photograph as they stand over the black victim Will Brown who had been lynched and had…
The Lynching of Roosevelt Townes and Robert McDaniels
Pictures of the lynching of Roosevelt Townes and Robert McDaniels in 1937 were the first photos of lynchings to be published by the national press.