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This document outlines the Boston branch of the NAACP's list of seven goals for its youth program.

This is a poster from WWI encouraging women to plan victory gardens to help the war effort.

The Act enforced the constitutional right to vote, conferred jurisdiction upon the district courts of the United States, provided injunctive relief against discrimination in public accommodations, authorized the Attorney General to institute suits to…

This speech was given by Secretary of State George C. Marshall at Harvard University when he received an honorary degree on June 5, 1947. It describes the plan for European recovery after the second world war, a massive economic aid program later…

Sinchon, Korea. North Korean prisoners were captured just south of Uijeongbu.

Two workmen looking over a chart. Behind them is a large sign which reads "Berlin/Bautauf, ERP, ...Mit Hilfe Des Marshall-Plans."

A group of German and Austrian Jewish refugee children arrives in New York on board the SS President Harding. New York, United States

Jewish refugees from Europe arrive at the emergency refugee shelter at Fort Ontario, in the United States. A father, holding his daughter, checks his tags. Oswego, New York, United States

On April 19, 1945, a freight train with nearly 4,500 prisoners from Buchenwald pulled onto the railroad siding at Nammering. The train had been destined for Dachau, but at Plattling it was diverted towards Nammering because of damage to the railroad…

The construction of the atomic bomb, Little Boy, soon to be dropped on Japan