Browse Items (3357 total)
Segregation In Public Schools Ended by Court Newspaper HeadlineA newspaper headline of the court ending segregation In public schools.
Group shot of the Supreme Court for the Cooper v. Aaron court casePhotograph shows, sitting left to right: William O. Douglas, Hugo L. Black, Earl Warren, Felix Frankfurter, Harold H. Burton; standing left to right:…
Office of War InformationOffice of War Information office and workers
Production. Willow Run Bomber Plant. Experienced Women Workers at the Willow Run Bomber Operate Such Machines as this Rockwell Harness Tester (left). Beginners are Given Such Tasks as Numbering Small Machine Parts (right). Ford Plant, Willow Run
A policeman examines some of the ten school buses destroyed by fire and dynamite in late Aug. 30, 1971, just days before a court-ordered plan to desegregate schools in Pontiac, Michigan, by busing children went into effect.A Pontiac policeman examines some of the ten school buses destroyed late Aug. 30 by dynamite and fire in a school bus depot here. About 40 other buses…
President Lyndon B. Johnson speaks to the nation before signing the Civil Rights ActPresident Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973) speaks to the nation before signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, July 2, 1964.
Integrated busing in Charlotte, North CarolinaAfrican American and white school children on a school bus, riding from the suburbs to an inner city school, Charlotte, North Carolina.
George W. Watkins School (New Kent County School Board)A photo of George W. Watkins School in Virginia, an African American only institution in New Kent county.
"Rosie the Riveter," 1942
Ford Institutional Advertising on Military Vehicle Production, "Ford Announces New Models for 1943"The American automobile industry essentially shut down for the duration of World War II -- shut down its civilian production, that is. American…