Lincoln’s “The Gettysburg Address”

THE CIVIL WAR

[Gettysburg, Pa. Confederate dead at the edge of the Rose woods, July 5, 1863].

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Officers of 50th Regiment Pennsylvania Infantry.

Incidents of the War -- Harvest of Death

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg.

The Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter.

A Sharpshooter's Last Sleep.

[Gettysburg, Pa. Three Confederate prisoners].

[Gettysburg, Pa. John L. Burns, the "old hero of Gettysburg," with gun and crutches].

Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms” Speech

THE GREAT DEPRESSION

Painter Norman Rockwell’s Four Freedoms posters

Japanese Internment Camp in US during WWII

Manzanar street scene, winter, Manzanar Relocation Center / photograph by Ansel Adams.

Toward Los Angeles, California

Painter Norman Rockwell’s Four Freedoms posters

Pearl Harbor

U.S. forces liberate Buchenwald in 1945

Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California (Migrant Mother)

Painter Norman Rockwell’s Four Freedoms posters

Hoovervilles and the Great Depression

Washington, D.C. Government charwoman

One of the Wilkins family making biscuits for dinner on cornshucking day at Mrs. Fred Wilkins' home near Tallyho, Granville County. North Carolina

Painter Norman Rockwell’s Four Freedoms posters

Billy Sunday revival

King’s “I Have a Dream” speech

THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Little Rock, 1959. Rally at state capitol

[Group of African Americans viewing the bomb-damaged home of Arthur Shores, NAACP attorney, Birmingham, Alabama]

“Integration at Ole Miss[issippi] Univ[ersity]”

Civil rights march on Wash[ington], D.C.

“MLK gives “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington D.C.”

Civil rights march on Wash[ington], D.C.

“Negro voting in Cardoza [i.e., Cardozo] High School in [Washington,] D.C.”

Black Panther Convention, Lincoln Memorial

“D.C. riot. April '68. Aftermath”