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Abraham Joshua Heschel Marching with Martin Luther King in Selma, Alabama, March 21, 1965
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In what became an iconic image of the civil rights movement, Abraham Joshua Heschel was photographed marching with other civil rights leaders from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, on March 21, 1965.…

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Photographer Unknown

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1965

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Photography, Cities, Class, Black-Jewish relations, Activism

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Photography
Photograph of men marching down the street with arms linked wearing white double carnation leis.
We Will Never Die! Constitution Hall, Washington D.C., poster
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In 1942, Arthur Szyk produced this poster, called Tears of Rage, for a series of pageants mounted by Hollywood screenwriter Ben Hecht and militant Zionist leader Peter Bergson to protest inaction…

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Arthur Szyk

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1943

Subjects:

Activism, War, Violence, Holocaust, Cities

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Visual & Material Culture, Political Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Poster featuring soldier raising gun in the air wearing a helmet with Star of David, with his left arm around a rabbi holding Torah, two sad women in the foreground holding a child, another man to the left in handcuffs, and English writing on the bottom.
Response to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
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I would be a traitor to these poor burned bodies if I came here to talk good fellowship. We have tried you good people of the public and we have found you wanting. The old Inquisition had its rack and…

Contributor:

Rosa Schneiderman

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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)

Date:

1911

Subjects:

Labor, Cities, Rebellion, Activism, Poverty

Categories:

Literature, Reportage, Firsthand Accounts