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Editorial cartoon shows an African American man experiencing discrimination while trying to vote; holding books and carrying a briefcase bearing a Tuskegee pendent, he stands before three white males; one man is seated with his feet resting on top a…

African American demonstrators outside the White House, with signs "We demand the right to vote, everywhere" and signs protesting police brutality against civil rights demonstrators in Selma, Alabama

"To increase understanding of the process of military experimentation, this work examines some of these experiments; today, the technologies need no introduction, and the Second World War provides hindsight through which the experiments and their…

A photograph of Agnes Meyer Driscoll, the woman who broke the Japanese M-1 cipher machine.

A photograph of Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein, who played a crucial role in the decryption of the Japanese encryption machine codenamed "Purple" by the United States government.

Invasion Road. U.S. Coast Guardsmen and Marines build a temporary causeway as the invasion of Cape Gloucester, New Britain, gets underway.

American Federation for the Physically Handicapped's President Paul Strachan outlines his proposals for an inter-departmental committee on selective job placement of the handicapped, and for a one-year pilot program in Pennsylvania leading to a…