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This photograph is of Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave who became a prominent leader of the abolitionist movement prior to the U.S. Civil War. His autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845) was a…

This photograph is of Sidney Lowe, North Carolina State University's first African-American head coach of men's basketball. Lowe, who coached the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Memphis Grizzlies before coming to NCSU, also played as a the starting…

This photograph is of the continent of Africa, with flags of individual nations superimposed on it.

This photograph is of California National Guardsmen patrolling the streets of Los Angeles during the now infamous April 1992 race riots. The riots broke out after a jury acquitted white police officers who had brutally beaten an African-American man,…

This is a photograph of the battle flag used by the Confederate States of America during the U.S. Civil War.

This black-and-white photograph show an African-American student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill whose shirt reads "THINK BLACK INK." Black Ink was an African-American student newspaper founded in 1969 at UNC. It served as a…

This photograph is of Magic Johnson, a retired professional basketball player and present-day businessman, philanthropist, and motivational speaker. Johnson played for the Los Angeles Lakers for thirteen seasons (1979-1991), and was a member of the…

This image appeared in a news story about racist and homophobic graffiti that appeared in North Carolina State University's Free Expression Tunnel in 2010. The graffiti disparaged President Barack Obama after the 2010 mid-term elections in addition…

This photograph is of students at the University of Michigan who were protesting the decision handed down in the 2003 Supreme Court case, Gratz v. Bollinger. This case involved two white students who had applied to the University of Michigan's…

This photograph is of President Barack Obama, who was elected to office in 2008. As the first African-American president of the United States, Obama has been the subject of hate speech and racist remarks throughout his administration. Several…