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Buildings going up in smoke on an unidentified street during the riots of 1992, as police stand in the street. Photo date: April 30, 1992.

Straw hat with a cloth band around the crown. The cloth band is multi-colored with blue and green stripes and the word [FREEDOM] written around it in white letters that have the background colors showing through.

Looking east on Olympic from Hobart in Koreatown Asians now make up 40% of newcomers to U.S.

Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Pre-school children on the way to their barrack homes from morning class at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.

New York newspaper reports early details about the Battle of Antietam on the day after the battle

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Journalist Ari Berman says both the Supreme Court and the lower courts are working to dismantle the 1965 law that's considered one of the most…

Film footage of the historic Native American occupation of Alcatraz Island.The occupation lasted for nineteen months, from November 20, 1969 to June 11, 1971, and was forcibly ended by the U.S. government. The event had a brief but somewhat direct…

The sound of Korea, Koreatown, Los Angeles, 1993, Baks Lawn Mower Shop, exterior, 11th Street at Western Avenue, Koreatown. Acrylic, by Kuk Chol Han, assisted by Nayon Kang and Julie Park. Sponsored by Social and Public Art Resource Center. --…

Three flags, for South Korea, the United States, and California, hang from a flagpole at Koreatown Plaza, located at 928 South Western Avenue #300.

Three lawyers confer at the Supreme Court, 1953 for the Brown v Board of Education court case.