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This pairing of the slideshow and song displays the resilience and dedication of civil rights marchers as they marched for freedom.

This text contains sections of the Federal Housing Administration’s underwriting manual that detail valuations of property based on racial factors.

This text by bell hooks shares her experiences involving her upbringing, space, culture, family and more in order to reflect about her identity, community and aesthetics of Blackness. hooks also emphasizes freeing the creative spirit, supporting artistic expression and acknowledging social hierarchies, the African diaspora and cultural production.

This interview with NAACP lawyer Constance Baker Motley discusses her experience at the March on Washington and the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

A Ku Klux Klan newspaper from February 1923 published in Indianapolis, Indiana.

In her speech, Davis calls the people to deeply reflect about American patriotism, the lie that is rooted within this concept. She calls people to make the connection between the Vietnam war, the oppression of Black and Brown people and the exploitation of white workers in the United States.

The text is a letter from J.H. Adams to the Bethlehem Baptist Association written in 1918.

After a classmate died in Vietnam, a group of Black community members wrote and distributed this leaflet encouraging “Negro boys” to avoid the draft.

The article, written by Larry Neal, talks about the Black Arts Movement in depth: the beauty, the pain, the struggle and progress. Neal also talks about Black power, Black nationalism and the Black aesthetic.

This photograph captures a moment of negotiation between a cotton farmer and a cotton buyer.