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Mugshot of Bayard Rustin
Bayard Rustin was a gay civil rights activist who was particularly passionate about racial equality. He helped to organize the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, of which Martin Luther King Jr. was a president and which influenced the Civil [...]
Photograph of Drag Performers
During World War II, soldiers put on theater performances that consisted of all-male casts. During these performances, select soldiers dressed in drag to impersonate women. These performances helped to boost morale across the army, providing [...]
Frederick Douglass Works at a Desk in Haiti
Frederick Douglass escaped from slavery and became a leader of the anti-slavery movement in the North, editor of the abolitionist newspaper the North Star, and, after the Civil War, a diplomat for the U.S. government. This photograph was taken in [...]
Mass Extermination of Buffalo (1892)
This image, taken in Rougeville, Michigan, depicts one man standing on top of thousands of buffalo skills, with another standing in front of the pile with his foot on one skull. White settlers exterminated buffalo near the end of the 19th century [...]
Black Residents Plead for Help After Hurricane Katrina (2005)
Hurricane Katrina made landfall on August 28, 2005, causing extensive damage in New Orleans and surrounding areas. City, state, and federal agencies responded slowly and unevenly, leaving around 100,000 New Orleans residents stranded in the flooded [...]
Warren County Protests against PCB dumping
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Indigenous Activists During the Occupation of Alcatraz (1969)
On November 20, 1969, eighty-nine Native Americans, led by activist Richard Oakes, seized control of Alcatraz. Originally occupied by Native Americans, from 1934 until 1963 this small island in San Francisco Bay had been home to the federal prison [...]
Vanguard Street Sweep
In 1966, youth from the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco, urban ministers, anti-poverty activists, and homophile activists helped organize Vanguard, the earliest known queer youth organization in the United States. In June of 1966, Vanguard [...]