Selected Images
![Photograph of a Young Woman (Edith Lee-Payne) at the Civil Rights March on Washington, DC, with a Banner](images/Young-Woman-at-the-Civil-Rights-March.png)
Photograph of a Young Woman at the Civil Rights March on Washington, DC, with a Banner. August 28, 1963. National Archives
![John Lewis speaking to the American Society of Newspaper Editors](images/Selected_Images/john-lewis-large.jpg)
John Lewis speaking at a meeting of American Society of Newspaper Editors, Statler Hilton Hotel, Washington, D.C.
![Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas](images/Selected_Images/clarence-thomas-small.jpg)
Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
![Ray Charles. Drawing by Anita Kunz](images/Selected_Images/ray-illustration-th_for-image-page.jpg)
Ray Charles. Drawing by Anita Kunz, [1982].
![National Museum of African American History and Culture Photograph by Richard Karchmer](images/Selected_Images/museum-th.jpg)
National Museum of African American History and Culture
![Souvenir program autographed by Marian Anderson](images/Selected_Images/anderson-cover-th.jpg)
Promotional and souvenir program autographed by Marian Anderson
![Hand tinted portrait of Pauline C. Cookman in uniform](images/Selected_Images/polly-th.jpg)
Hand tinted portrait of Pauline C. Cookman in uniform
![Photographic print of Robert Scurlock holding a camera](images/Selected_Images/photographer-th.jpg)
Photographic print of Robert Scurlock holding a camera. Photograph by: Scurlock Studio.
![Photograph of African American students in a science lab](images/Selected_Images/students-th.jpg)
Photograph of students in a science lab. Created by: Lewis Wickes Hine
![Abstract image of an African American girl wearing a red dress, seated in front of a window.](images/Selected_Images/girl-in-red-th.jpg)
“Girl in Red.” Lithograph by Robert Blackburn, [1950].
©The Robert Blackburn Trust. Used with permission.
![Harriet Tubman, full-length portrait, seated in chair](images/Selected_Images/tubman-th.jpg)
Harriet Tubman, full-length portrait, seated in chair, facing front, probably at her home in Auburn, New York
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![Head-and-shoulders portrait of Martin Luther King leaning on a lectern. 1964](images/Selected_Images/mlk-th.jpg)
Martin Luther King press conference / [MST].
![Official portrait of President Barack Obama in the Oval Office](images/Selected_Images/obama-th.jpg)
Official portrait of President Barack Obama in the Oval Office, Dec. 6, 2012. Official White House photo by Pete Souza.
![Dr. Carla Hayden, 14th Librarian of Congress](images/Selected_Images/hayden-gallery-thumb.jpg)
Dr. Carla Hayden, 14th Librarian of Congress.
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![Rosa Parks seated in the front of a public bus, likely a staged photograph](images/Selected_Images/parks-gallery-thumb.jpg)
Rosa Parks seated in the front of a public bus, likely a staged photograph representing the end of segregated buses and her role in the Montgomery bus boycott from 1955 to 1956
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![Official portrait of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall](images/Selected_Images/marshall-th.jpg)
Official portraits of the 1976 U.S. Supreme Court: Justice Thurgood Marshall
![Louis Armstrong playing trumpet at Carnegie Hall 1947](images/Selected_Images/armstrong-th.jpg)
Portrait of Louis Armstrong, Carnegie Hall, New York, N.Y., ca. Apr. 1947
![18th century engraving of servant Phillis Wheatley seated at a table with quill pen and paper.](images/Selected_Images/wheatley-th.jpg)
Phillis Wheatley, Poet
![Susie King Taylor](images/Selected_Images/taylor-th.jpg)
Susie King Taylor
![Mary Church Terrell, three-quarter length seated portrait](images/Selected_Images/terrell-th.jpg)
Mary Church Terrell, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front
![Singer Marian Anderson being congratulated by Interior Secretary Ickes at a concert in Washington, D.C., April 9, 1939](images/Selected_Images/anderson-th.jpg)
Interior Secretary Ickes congratulates Marian Anderson at concert. Washington, D.C., April 9. Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, who introduced Marian Anderson at her open-air concert at the shrine of the president who freed her race from slavery, congratulating her after the concert to which an estimated 75,000 listened
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![Poster of singer Madame M. Sissieretta Jones, known as The Black Patti.](images/Selected_Images/jones-th.jpg)
The Black Patti, Mme. M. Sissieretta Jones the greatest singer of her race.
![Photograph of African American woman in red headscarf and blue coveralls working on a “Vengeance” dive bomber with a hand drill. 1943](images/Selected_Images/ddrill-th.jpg)
Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a “Vengeance” dive bomber, Tennessee
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![Tintype photograph of unidentified African American Union soldier with a rifle and revolver, Benton Barracks, Saint Louis, Missouri](images/Selected_Images/union-soldier-th.jpg)
Unidentified African American Union soldier with a rifle and revolver in front of painted backdrop showing weapons and American flag at Benton Barracks, Saint Louis, Missouri
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![Tintype photograph of unidentified African American soldier in Union uniform with wife and two daughters](images/Selected_Images/family-th.jpg)
Unidentified African American soldier in Union uniform with wife and two daughters
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![Tintype photograph of unidentified African American sailor in Union uniform sitting with arm resting on table](images/Selected_Images/sailor-th.jpg)
Unidentified African American sailor in Union uniform sitting with arm resting on table.
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![Tintype photograph of unidentified African American soldier in Union cavalry uniform with cavalry saber](images/Selected_Images/cavalry-th.jpg)
Unidentified African American soldier in Union cavalry uniform with cavalry saber in front of painted backdrop showing landscape.
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![Photograph of African American Soldier John Sharper in Union army uniform.](images/Selected_Images/sharper-th.jpg)
John Sharper
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![Colored army teamsters, Cobb Hill, Virginia](images/Selected_Images/teamsters-th.jpg)
Colored army teamsters, Cobb Hill, Virginia
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![Soldiers of the 79th New York at camp](images/Selected_Images/79th-th.jpg)
Soldiers of the 79th New York at camp.
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![Life in Camp Cameron](images/Selected_Images/cameron-th.jpg)
Life in Camp Cameron
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![Young African American woman, three-quarter length portrait](images/Selected_Images/young-woman-th.jpg)
Young African American woman, three-quarter length portrait, facing slightly right, with hands folded on her lap
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![Portrait of Mary McLeod Bethune](images/Selected_Images/bethune-th.jpg)
Portrait of Mary McLeod Bethune
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![Civil rights march on Washington, D.C.](images/Selected_Images/march-th.jpg)
Civil rights march on Washington, D.C.
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![Wood engraving of slaves wearing handcuffs and shackles passing the United States Capitol, around 1815.](images/Selected_Images/coffle-th.jpg)
A slave-coffle passing the Capitol
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![Ralph Abernathy, head-and-shoulders, at National Press Club luncheon](images/Selected_Images/abernathy-th.jpg)
Ralph Abernathy, head-and-shoulders, at National Press Club luncheon.
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![Map of Liberia from the office of the American Colonization Society. 1845](images/Selected_Images/liberia-th.jpg)
Map of Liberia 1845
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![Band of 107th U.S. Colored Infantry](images/Selected_Images/band-th.jpg)
Arlington, Va. Band of 107th U.S. Colored Infantry at Fort Corcoran
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![A segregated drinking fountain. Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland.](images/Selected_Images/fountain-th.jpg)
Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. A drinking fountain
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