1887—The U.S. Supreme Court declares the Civil Rights Act of 1885 unconstitutional. The decision was spurred by the end of ...
The narrative of the current New Orleans Museum of Art exhibit “Dawoud Bey: Elegy” follows the movement of Africans into and ...
On the 50th anniversary of the upheaval, we look at images that one brave photographer hid from the government.
An 1863 photograph of ‘Gordon,’ (also known as Peter) an enslaved man whose scars from being beaten have become infamous. According to the National Portrait Gallery, abolitionists use the image to ...
A copy of the 1863 image 'The Scourged Back,' depicting the scars on the back of a formerly enslaved man, was ordered to be removed from Georgia's Fort Pulaski National Monument by the Trump ...
It shows a formerly enslaved man in Louisiana displaying whipping scars on his back during the Civil War. Made in May 1863 ...
A House hearing erupted in anger following a decision by the Trump administration to remove a photo at a Georgia national monument. House Democrats accused the Trump administration of sanitizing ...
An 1863 photograph entitled "Scourged Back," depicts an enslaved man named Peter with prominent whip scars. Per the Washington Post, the Department of Interior ordered this photo removed from at least ...
In the two centuries since the medium was invented, few photographs have had a more powerful impact on the American conscience than a series of images made in 1863 of a formerly enslaved man known by ...
HARPERS FERRY, W.Va. (WBOY) — The American Civil Liberties Union of West Virginia has spoken out against a move by the Trump administration to remove references to slavery from exhibits in the state’s ...
Claims that federal officials ordered the removal of a the infamous 1863 image sparked concern over the Trump administration’s efforts to eradicate what it calls “corrosive ideology,” despite the US ...
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