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African American demonstrators outside the White House, with signs "We demand the right to vote, everywhere" and signs protesting police brutality against civil rights demonstrators in Selma, Alabama

A photograph of Agnes Meyer Driscoll, the woman who broke the Japanese M-1 cipher machine.

A photograph of Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein, who played a crucial role in the decryption of the Japanese encryption machine codenamed "Purple" by the United States government.

Photograph of Fr. Leo Steinbach, MM, and Maryknoll Sisters Bernadette and Susanna with a group of children. They stand in front of a tar paper building. There are three small trees behind them.

Aaron v. Cooper appellees file supplemental information, 1957.

Photograph shows dead soldiers, view taken at the edge of the Rose woods, July 5.

Refugees from Nazi Germany on board the St. Louis en route to Cuba. The passengers were denied entry into Cuba and the US and were forced to return to Europe.

Following her arrest, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. organized a boycott of the Montgomery bus system. On Nov. 13, 1956, the Supreme Court struck down Alabama state and Montgomery city bus segregation laws as being in violation of the equal protection…

Drawing of a dove in outer space (wearing a space helmet) hovering over planet Earth.

Black and white photographic print depicting Consolidated B-24 Liberators being constructed at Willow Run.