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Photograph shows the Toda family posing by a car, with a barrack in the background; Henry Toda is holding a shovel. Inscription on back of photograph: "Henry Toda, Father, Honey, Daughter, Akira, Son, (____ )Toda, Mother, Roy, Son. Manzanar, CA,…

SILENT MARCHERS-Children are in foreground of group that staged a 'silent march' on Pasadena City Hall. They stand with heads bowed for four Negro girls killed in the Birmingham bombing.

Signs posted on a burned-out business, destroyed during the riots of 1992. Photo date: May 2, 1992.

Buildings going up in smoke on an unidentified street on April 30, 1992, as people watch.

This image shows burns on the legs of a victim of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima in 1945.

This is one in a series of issues of "Newsmap" that were published from 1942 to 1946 by the U.S. Army. This issue covers the week of December 4 to December 11, 1945, but summarizes the significant events of the year 1945 from January to December.…

Disability activists a part of ADAPT abandon their wheelchairs and mobility devices and crawl up the steps of the United States Capitol Building, demanding the passage of the Americans with Disability Act (ADA) on March 12, 1990. More than 1,000…

Governor Nelson Rockefeller recording (and possibly sending out a live radio broadcast) a message about "Operation Goodwill". Operation Goodwill was originally a Cold War operation that sent money and goods to foreign countries, as a form of global…

In April 1977, disability activists nationwide picketed or occupied the Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) offices to fight for the passage of Section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act. The largest and longest protest took place at the HEW offices…