ANGELA DAVIS AND TONI MORRISON ON MARCH 28, 1974. PHOTO BY JILL KREMENTZ.

SELMA, Ala.—Freedom Day. Police arrest demonstrators from the SNCC for holding placards urging blacks to register to vote in front of the federal building, Oct. 7, 1963.

After Dinner At The Farm

Pearl Bailey as Madame Fleur in the 1954 Broadway musical, House of Flowers, with her “flowers”, Josephine Premice (Tulip), Enid Mosier (Pansy) and Enid Moore (Gladiola). Image via Corbis.

Eartha Kitt teaching a dance class, James Dean in the background.

Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes and James Baldwin in the late 1950s.

Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a “Vengeance” dive bomber, Tennessee (LOC) 1943 (by The Library of Congress)