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Bay Employers Troubled Over Disabilities ActBay Area employers expressed concern yesterday that the landmark Americans With Disabilities Act could hamper their flexibility in making personnel…
Photograph of a group of Civil War veterans taken ca. 1900. Front row: Tom Patterson, George Knapp, Smith Compton, unknown, ? Foxworthy. Back row: unknown, John Turner, Jim Long, unknown, James Garrison.
President Lyndon B. Johnson greeting Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and other civil rights leaders after signing the Voting Rights Act into law, 1965 (Public Domain)
John Rostek driving his Mercedes Benz 300SL ("Gullwing") around George's Corner past spectators. Car has sign for Buckley Bros. Denver.
Pace Car and Car #68, 1951
The pace car sits next to Carl Forberg's #68 Automobile Shippers Special in the pit area.
U.S. Reports: Brown v. Board of Education, 344 U.S. 141 (1952).Description of the U.S. Reports Volume 344; October Term, 1952; Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al.
Back to a Coast Guard assault transport comes this Marine after two days and nights of Hell on the beach of Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands. His face is grimey with coral dust but the light of battle stays in his eyes.Pvt Theodore James Miller (12 February 1925 – 24 March 1944) from Minnesota returns to attack transport USS Arthur Middleton (APA-25) at 14:00 after…
Confederate DeadGardner's title for this image is "Confederate soldiers as they fell near the Burnside bridge."
Veterans pose with their catch on the Malibu Pier, 1946In May of 1946, Paul Ellis sponsored a day of fishing on a charter boat off of Point Dume for disabled veterans housed at the Birmingham Veteran's…
African American picketers outside of the Atlanta Public Schools building in Atlanta, Georgia.Signs read: "Letson [Board of Education superintendent John W. Letson] Must Go," "Atlanta Board of Education 1954 Segregation Segregated Segregate,"…