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Sources for Images

Digital Public Library of America - Incredible resource for all types of digital media from libraries and museums around the country. 


Wikimedia Commons - This is the image/media storage file for all the images you see on Wikipedia. 

Photos for Class - Search Flickr, Pixabay and other resources all at once. 

Ku Klux Klan

“Ku Klux Klan Street Parade.” Gsu.edu, 2019. 

Sharecropping

“Record Albumen Print of a Sharecropping Family | Collections Search Center, Smithsonian Institution.” Si.edu, 2024,

Supreme Court Cases

Loving v. Virginia

Telegram to Bernard Cohen Announcing the Verdict of Loving v. Virginia.  Supreme Court Records. National Archives. 1967. 

Brown v. Board of Education

Presidential Tweet on 60th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education. Office of Digital Strategy. National Archives. 2014.

Plessy v. Ferguson

Sports

Althea Gibson

Naylor, Genevieve. Althea Gibson. National Portrait Gallery.  1957.


Negro Baseball League

Unidentified Birmingham Black Barons player. Digital Archive of Memphis Public Library. 1940's. 

Harlem Renaissance 

Millionaire, Tony. “Harlem Renaissance : One Hundred Years of History, Art and Culture,” AGSL Digital Map Collection. 

Harlem Renaissance - START HERE

Music & Dance

C 1932.

This is only a partial list. Read some of the Harlem Renaissance  sources above for more information. 

Visual Artists

Carl Van Vechten. Langston Hughes. National Portrait Gallery. 1932.

This is only a partial list. Read some of the Harlem Renaissance  sources above for more information. 

Great Migration

The Arthurs. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The New York Public Library.  c1920.

Langston Hughes

Carl Van Vechten. Langston Hughes. National Portrait Gallery. 1932.

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