Picture of the Day

March 7, 2008


SUNFLOWER COUNTY, Miss.—Fannie Lou Hamer, a civil-rights leader who worked to desegregate the Mississippi Democratic Party, with her neighbors, 1966.


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March 4, 2008


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February 25, 2008


UNITED STATES—Miles Davis at Columbia Records Studio, 1958.


Picture of the Day

February 17, 2008


U.S. Army soldier wears a peace sign on his helmet as he patrols in Beijia village in Arab Jabour, south of Baghdad, Feb. 4, 2008. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)


Picture of the Day

February 9, 2008

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ATLANTA—The SNCC staff sit-in, 1963.


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January 26, 2008


VIRGINIA—The black movement for integration. Teaching the illiterate to write so that they can vote, 1960.


Picture of the Day

January 6, 2008


A makeshift tomb at a New Orleans street corner conceals a body of 66-year-old Elvira Smith that had been lying on the sidewalk for days in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.


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December 29, 2007


WASHINGTON—Rosa Parks at a demonstration, 1963.


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November 28, 2007


BALTIMORE, Md.—Martin Luther King Jr. after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, 1964.


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November 11, 2007


GHANA — Roberta Flack performs, 1971.