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Four free, five in prison, on the same evidence: what the nation's press says about the Scottsboro Case Anonymous Credit: Scottsboro Defense Committee and Special Collections, Michigan State University Libraries Media type: book cover Year: 1937 - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Lynching Negro Children in Southern Courts: (The Scottsboro Case) Joseph North Credit: International Labor Defense and Special Collections, Michigan State University Libraries Media type: book cover Year: 1931 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Scottsboro Limited Prentiss Taylor Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Year: 1931 - - - - - - - - - - - - -	The New Deal Conrad A. Albrizio Credit: Media type: fresco Year: 1934 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
The Negro Speaks of Rivers Aaron Douglas Credit: Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Art Media type: illustration Year: 1941 - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Aspects of the Negro Life: Song of the Towers Aaron Douglas Credit: The New York Public Library Media type: mural Year: 1934 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Depression Dorothea Lange Credit: Media type: mural Year: 1935 - - - - - - - - - - - - -	350,000 Mexican Americans Deported - Segment From the Great Wall of Los Angeles Judith F. Baca Credit: Social and Public Art Resource Center Media type: mural Year: 1980 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
In the Crowd Mabel Dwight Credit: Library of Congress Media type: painting Year: 1931 - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Study For Aspects of Negro Life: the Negro in an African Setting Aaron Douglas Credit: The Art Institute of Chicago Media type: painting Year: 1934 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Shooting Star Joan Miro Credit: National Gallery of Art and Artist Rights Society Media type: painting Year: 1938 - - - - - - - - - - - - -	The Market Virginia Darce Credit: Portland Art Museum Media type: painting Year: 1938 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Midsummer Night in Harlem Palmer Hayden Credit: Media type: painting Year: 1930 - - - - - - - - - - - - -	La Condition Humaine Rene Magritte Credit: National Gallery of Art and Artist Rights Society Media type: painting Year: 1933 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Part of an Impoverished Family of Nine On a New Mexico Highway Dorothea Lange Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1936 - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Migrant Mother Dorothea Lange Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1936 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Photograph From Migrant Mother Series Dorothea Lange Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1936 - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Bud Fields and His Family at Home Walker Evans Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1935 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Toward Los Angeles, California Dorothea Lange Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1936 - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Negro Drinking at "Colored" Water Cooler Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1939 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Negro Going in Colored Entrance of Movie House on Saturday Afternoon, Belzoni, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi Marion Wolcott Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1939 - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Plantation Overseer. Mississippi Delta, Near Clarksdale, Mississippi Dorothea Lange Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1936 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Louis Armstrong, Half-Length Portrait, Facing Left, Playing Trumpet Anonymous Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1937 - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Jitterbugging in Juke Joint, Memphis Tennessee Marion Post Wolcott Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1939 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
People Living in Miserable Poverty, Elm Grove, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma Dorothea Lange Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1936 - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Power Farming Displaces Tenants. Childress County, Texas Panhandle Dorothea Lange Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1938 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Squatter Camp in California Dorothea Lange Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1936 - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Klan Meets in California Anonymous Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1940 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Napa Valley, Ca. More Than Twenty-Five Years a Bindle-Stiff. Walks From the Mines to the Lumber Camps to the Farms Dorothea Lange Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1938 - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Mexican Woman Cleaning Her Backyard. San Antonio, Texas Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1939 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Mexican Woman Cuttng Spinach, La Pryor, Texas Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1939 - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Mexican Section. Eagle Pass, Texas Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1939 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Single Filipino Working in Field James Earl Woods Credit: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley Media type: photograph Year: - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Labor Strikes: NYC Dorothea Lange Credit: Media type: photograph Year: 1934 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
12-Year Old Cotton Worker Dorothea Lange Credit: Media type: photograph Year: 1940 - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Cotton Camp Outhouse Dorothea Lange Credit: Media type: photograph Year: 1940 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Cotton Pickers at Noontime Credit: Media type: photograph Year: 1940 - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Filipinos Working in Field James Earl Woods Credit: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley Media type: photograph Year: - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Filipinos Working in Field James Earl Woods Credit: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley Media type: photograph Year: - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Filipino Man Processing Fruit Anonymous Credit: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley Media type: photograph Year: 1930 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Ryer Island, Sacramento County, California. Company Camp For Crew of Filipino Asparagus Field Worker Dorothea Lange Credit: Media type: photograph Year: 1940 - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Forgotten Women World-Telegram Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1933 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Making Link Sausages H.C. White Co. Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1905 - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Frank Lloyd Wright Home & Studio Anonymous Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1933 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
New York City Views. Financial District, Framed By Brooklyn Bridge Samuel H. Gottscho Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1934 - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Portrait of a Coal Miner Jack Delano Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1940 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Members of the Women's Club Making A Quilt. Granger Homesteads, Iowa John Vachon Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1940 - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Day Laborers Picking Cotton Near Clarksdale Marion Post Wolcott Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1939 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Cotton Camp Irrigation Ditch Dorothea Lange Credit: Media type: photograph Year: 1940 - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Ozzie Powell, Defendant in the Scottsboro Case, Full Length Portrait Anonymous Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1936 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
New York City Views. Lower New York From Foot of Brooklyn Bridge Samuel H. Gottscho Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1932 - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Turpentine Worker's Family Near Cordele, Alabama Dorothea Lange Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1936 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Evicted Sharecroppers along Highway 60, New Madrid County, Missouri Arthur Rothstein Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1939 - - - - - - - - - - - - -	African American Children Playing Singing Games, Eatonville, Florida Alan Lomax Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1935 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
African American Children Playing Singing Games, Eatonville, Florida Alan Lomax Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1935 - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Gabriel Brown And Rochelle French, Eatonville, Florida Alan Lomax Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1935 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Gabriel Brown And Rochelle French, Eatonville, Florida Alan Lomax Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1935 - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Pinal County, Arizona. Mexican Boy Age 13, Coming in From Cotton Fields at Noon. Dorothea Lange Credit: Media type: photograph Year: 1940 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Two African American Men. Lynched, Hanging From Tree, Marion, Indiana A.P. Glover Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1930 - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Filipino Migrant Workers Dorothea Lange Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1939 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Negro Boys at Gee's Bend, Alabama Arthur Rothstein Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1937 - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Immigrant Family Looking at The Statue of Liberty Anonymous Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1930 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Stavin' Chain Playing Guitar And Singing The Ballad Alan Lomax Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1934 - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Sharecropper's Wife and Children Arthur Rothstein Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Sharecropper Plowing Montgomery County, Alabama Arthur Rothstein Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1937 - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Produce Market George Herlick Credit: Media type: photograph Year: 1937 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Sharecropper's Children Arthu Rothstein Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1937 - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Saturday Afternoon, Belzoni, Mississippi Arthur Rothstein Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1939 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Negro laborer's family being moved from Arkansas to Mississippi by white tenant Dorothea Lange Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1938 - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Picking Cotton Outside Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta Marion Post Wolcott Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1939 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
New York City, Northeast view from the Empire State William France Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1931 - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Erosion on a Missouri Farm Arthur Rothstein Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1936 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Negroes Brought In By Truck From Nearby Towns as Day Labor for Cotton Picking. Marcella Plantation, Mileston, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi Marion Post Wolcott Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1939 - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Men Loafing in Crossville, Tennessee Ben Shahn Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1937 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Mexican Mother in California Dorothea Lange Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1935 - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Baptist Preacher, Alma Plantation, False River, Louisiana Alan Lomax Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1934 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles Lewis W. Hine Credit: Media type: photograph Year: 1937 - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Thousands of Migrant Workers Are Employed For Harvesting the Potato Crop of Kern County, California Dorothea Lange Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1938 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Migrant Agricultural Worker Picking Potatoes Near Shafter, California Dorothea Lange Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1938 - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Outskirts of Salinas, California. Father and Son Picking Potatoes Dorothea Lange Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1939 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Street Scene, Muskogee, Oklahoma Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1939 - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Free Classes in English!: Learn To Speak, Read, & Write the Language of Your Children [...] Special Classes For Educated Foreign Born. N.Y.C. Anonymous Credit: Library of Congress Media type: poster Year: 1936 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Empire State Building Anonymous Credit: Library of Congress Media type: print Year: 1931 - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Chrysler Building, New York City Anonymous Credit: Library of Congress Media type: print Year: 1930 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Separate But Not Equal: Broken school bus in Louisa County, Virginia Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1935 - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Separate and Unequal: Segregated School Building in Louisa County, Virginia Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1935 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Separate and Unequal: Segregated School Building in Camden, Massachusetts Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1935 - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Separate and Unequal: African American Students in Seat Pleasant, Maryland Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1935 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
The NAACP Legal Team, 1933 Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1933 - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Murray v. Maryland, 1936: Thurgood Marshall and Charles Houston with their client Donald Gaines Murray during court proceedings Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1935 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Mexican girls, San Antonio, Texas Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1934 - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Children chopping cotton. Carl Mydans Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1936 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Migrant cotton pickers at lunchtime. Dorothea Lange Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1936 - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Child of sharecropper cultivating cotton Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1938 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Bus Station in Durham, North Carolina Jack Delano Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Year: 1940 - - - - - - - - - - - - -