Jamestown, Virginia and Pocahontas
Credit: The New York Public Library, Mid-Manhattan Library Picture collection

Bacons Rebellion
Credit: National Park Service, Colonial National Historical Park

Lord Dunmore
Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington D.C.

Boston Massacre
Credit: The New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black
Culture/Photographs and Prints Division. (W.L. Champney & J.H. Bufford, 1770)

Carolus Linnaeus
Credit: Wikipedia Commons

Thomas Jefferson
Courtesy: Independence National Historical Park Collection, Philadelphia. Oil on canvas painted 1791 by Charles Willson Peale.

Johann Friedrich Blumenbach skulls
Credit: Special Collections and Rare Books, University of Minnesota Libraries

Nott/Glidden table
Credit: Wikipedia, scan from The Mismeasure of Man published 1857 by Josiah Clark Nott and George Robert Gliddon

Morton Race Table
Credit: A table from Types of Mankind, by Josiah Clark Nott and George Robert Gliddon, 1854. Courtesy Michael Blakey

Louis Agassiz
Credit: Drawing courtesy History of Science Collections, University of Oklahoma Libraries

Charles Darwin
Credit: Wikipedia

Fugitive Slave Act
Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington D.C.

Peter
Credit: National Archives and Records Administration

Slave Ship
Source: Notices of Brazil, Walsh, 1831

Simon Legree and Book Cover
Source: Wikipedia, Magic lantern series of about 1885 of Uncle Tom's Cabin

Hottentot Venus
Credit: Wikipedia

San Francisco, Chinatown
Credit: Arnold Genthe, The Street of Gamblers (Ross Alley) 1898, Gelatin silver print. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Uncle Sam Lodging
Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, published by Mayer Merkel & Ottman, NY, 1882

Puck Illustrations
Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

Leaving Ireland:
Credit: The New York Public Library, Mid-Manhattan Library Picture collection; published 1898

Arriving at Ellis Island
Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection, 1907

The Great Migration
Credit: The Chicago Defender, September 4, 1920

Lynching
Credit: Wikipedia Commons

Chicago Race Riots
Credit: The New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture/Photographs and Prints Division

Slavery Abolished
Credit: The African-American Mosaic, Resource Guide for the Study of Black History & Culture, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

Anthropometry
Source: Wikipedia, Credit: Harry H. Laughlin, The Second International Exhibition of Eugenics

Bhagat Singh Thind
Copyright David Bhagat Thind, www.bhagatsinghthind.com. All rights reserved.

Pedro Pans
Credit: Elly Vilano Chovel at Florida City camp. Photos are the property of Operation Pedro Pan Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved, 2006

Civil Rights March on Washington
Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

Cesar Chavez
Credit: Cesar Chavez photo taken in 1974 by Jerry Lewin, found in the book Nosotros: The Hispanic People of Oregon, Essays and Recollections, edited by Erasmo Gamboa and Carolyn M. Buan

University of Michigan Protest
Credit: Associated Press, World Wide Photos. All rights reserved.

Immigration Protest
Credit: Associated Press, World Wide Photos. All rights reserved..

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