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A sit-in by Junior NAACP activists at a segregated movie theater in Farmville, Virginia. The item was donated by Phyllis Padow-Sederbaum, a volunteer with the Virginia Student-Help Project in 1963.

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…

According to the Zentrale Stelle in Germany (Zst. II 204 AR 1218/70), these Jews were collected by the German Gendarmerie and Ukrainian Schutzmannschaft during the liquidation of the Mizocz ghetto, which held roughly 1,700 Jews. On the eve of the…

War uniform image of Civil War, Confederate Captain Henry Wirz.

L to R: Views on industrial aid to ease Marshall Plan costs were outlined by International Harvester Company Vice-President Jarchow, of Chicago, while former AFL official and National Planning Commission Vice-Chairman Hedges waits to speak along…

Italian Americans celebrating the 4th of July

"So what are you? Go back where you belong!" Majority white American culture has historically marginalized people of color, who at times feel invisible and alienated and at other times are traumatized by oppression and public discrimination. This…

Areas of the sketch are numbered, the labels at the bottom are transcribed below:

1. Head Quarters,
2. Rebel Camp.
3. Hospital,
4. Cook House,
5. Death House,
6. Death Line,
7. The Island,
8. Sutler's Camp,
9. Police Quarters.

10.…