Group of people viewing the bomb-damaged home of Arthur Shores, NAACP attorney, Birmingham, Alabama
September 5, 1963
Marion S. Trikosko, photographer
U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection, Library of Congress
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These are the images and accounts of how people worked, raised families, built communities, worshiped, maintained relationships, expressed themselves and coped with changes and challenges in the past. Most of the subjects are Americans of African descent.
"Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go." — James Baldwin
