Historical Juxtapositions

Juxtapositions of Historical Images

How does adding color to black and white historical photos change our understanding of the past?

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Juxtapositions

African American demonstrators outside the White House, with signs
Angela Davis, half-length portrait
An African American man enters a movie theatre through the colored entrance
Civil rights march on Washington, DC
Demonstrators at the March on Washington
Demonstrators sit, with their feet in the Reflecting Pool
Drinking fountain on the county courthouse lawn, Halifax, North Carolina
John Lewis speaking at a meeting of American Society of Newspaper Editors
Malcolm X waits at Martin Luther King press conference, head-and-shoulders
Marchers with signs at the March on Washington, 1963
Martin Luther King press conference
Negro voting in Cardoza [ie, Cardozo] High School in [Washington,] DC
Poor Peoples March at Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial
Thurgood Marshall, attorney for the NAACP
View of the huge crowd from the Lincoln Memorial to the Washington Monument
Young women with signs raised behind them at the March on Washington, 1963

The black and white images are from the Library of Congress digital collections. The color images are from the Unseen Histories Unsplash page. I've lined them up and cropped them as best I could to fit in Juxtapose.

Special thanks to:

Library of Congress
Unseen Histories
Knight Lab's Juxtapose - North Western University