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Most newspapers did not start printing in color until decades after the civil rights movement. In 1979, 12% of newspapers printed some of their photos in color.
" [The civil-rights movement] is such an important part of America's history and is often consigned to small black-and-white photos in textbooks and online." ...
There have been hundreds of exhibits about the civil rights movement in the 1950s and '60s. But the current show at the International Center for Photography in New York City is different.
60 years before the harrowing images of Philando Castile's and Alton Sterling's deaths, one photograph changed America's take on race ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats reintroduced a bill Tuesday to restore and expand protections enshrined in the Voting ...
Pictures from Black Lives Matter protests resemble Civil Rights era photography and serve many of the same crucial roles. Photographs documenting meetings, marches and demonstrations convey ...
Photographer Steve Schapiro captured the moment in an image of King linking arms with fellow civil rights activists John Lewis, the Rev. Jesse Douglas, James Forman and Ralph Abernathy.
A police dog jumps at a 17-year-old civil rights demonstrator in Birmingham, Alabama, on May 3, 1963. The image appeared on the front page of The New York Times the next day.
In addition to his photos of the Civil Rights Movement, Freed, the son of immigrants from Minsk in modern day Belarus, documented Jewish life in postwar Amsterdam. Danny Lyon (b. 1942) ...
In the '50s, a group of Montgomery, Ala., women baked goods to help fund the Montgomery bus boycott. Known as The Club from Nowhere, the group was led by Georgia Gilmore.
The Civil Rights Movement was the struggle for equal rights and freedom for African Americans in the United States. It was accomplished through a series of protests, social movements, and events ...
US News Gay journalist says LGBTQ movement has gone from civil rights success to ‘madness’ By Gabriel Hays, Fox News Published June 26, 2025, 4:24 p.m. ET ...