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A photo of officials standing with a group of braceros by a Southern Pacific train in California, 1942.

After going through the processing center in Mexico, workers were transported by train or bus to processing centers in the United States and then to…

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…

A Proposal for a College of Sciences at the University of Santa Clara

This document was written by Father Terry and was asking for the separation of the College of Arts and Sciences into two colleges, the College of the…

A Sewing Class of Mexican Girls

This is an image of Mexican girls in sewing class, a forced attempt to assimilate Mexican immigrants.

A sign of satire posted outside a restaurant

A satirical sign posted outside the Crawdad Hole restaurant in Flowood, Mississippi. Hippies, demonstrative members of a disaffected youth subculture,…

A SOLDIER GREETS LIBERATED PRISONERS

A US soldier with liberated prisoners of the Mauthausen concentration camp. Austria

A squelcher for woman suffrage / C.J. Taylor.

Print shows a woman being denied the opportunity to vote because she is wearing a dress and a hat that are too wide for the narrow booths labeled…