Thurgood Marshall leaving Federal Court after the court ruled Autherine Lucy to be admitted to the University of Alabama. Lucy was later expelled (by the university) for her own safety due to riots and outrage, Birmingham, 1956

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In 1957, President Eisenhower responded to Governor Orval Faubus using his state’s National Guard to block integration, by sending U.S. Army paratroopers to Little Rock Central High School to protect students

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Thurgood Marshall leaving Federal Court after the court ruled Autherine Lucy to be admitted to the University of Alabama. Lucy was later expelled (by the university) for her own safety due to riots and outrage, Birmingham, 1956

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U.S. Navy to name a destroyer after WWII hero, Charles Jackson French, who tied a raft with 15 wounded shipmates to his waist and towed them out of enemy fire in shark filled waters, 1940s

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Gwendolyn Brooks in 1950. She was the first Black American to win a Pulitzer Prize. She wrote poetry that captured the beauty and struggle of Black life without apology.

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Young couple posing for their photo. Gentleman dressed with his full uniform. circa 1940s, Defender safety film.

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Mothers showing off their little baby girls as they compete in a little contest. May 1957

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Japanese-American farmer Near San Jose California completes the leasing his acreage, buildings, and equipment for the duration of his evacuation to a War Relocation Authority center. His sisters can be seen in the background. 27 of March 1942.

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Nannie Doss, an American serial killer who killed four of her husbands, two children, two sisters, her mother, two grandsons, and a mother-in-law from the 1920s to the 1950s. She was nicknamed the "Giggling Granny" because she kept bursting into fits of laughter while confessing.

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My Great Grandmother (center) with some of her friends, Middle School, Illinois, 1956

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Japanese-American farmer Near San Jose California completes the leasing his acreage, buildings, and equipment for the duration of his evacuation to a War Relocation Authority center. His sisters can be seen in the background. 27 of March 1942.

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Marcus Wayne Chenault Jr., who killed the mother of Martin Luther King Jr. at a Sunday service in Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta in 1974. He was arrested for Alberta's murder and the murder of church deacon Edward Boykin.

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Husband and Wife, Sunday Morning, Detroit, Michigan, 1950.