1950s-1960s

During the 1950s and 60s the Civil Rights Movement was a large issue. Here are some photographs and cartoons from that time:

400 years of struggle, Harlem, NY, a mural by Lucy Mahler located at the WEB Dubois Community Center. Among the recognizable figures shown in the mural are Paul Robeson, Harriet Tubman, Malcolm X, Dr. W.E.B. DuBois, and Angela Davis.

Photograph by Burt Berinsky

Burt Berinsky (1931-1991), head photographer for the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) in the 1960s, took this picture in Selma, Alabama in 1965 during the critical civil rights struggles in the South. Selma was the scene of some of the most dramatic events in that historic campaign, including a brutal police attack on marchers as they crossed the bridge on the city's outskirts and the Selma to Montgomery march.

The second of two cartoons by Ray Zell to commemorate some of the many mine disasters that have taken the lives of thousands of miners - this one in March, 1968 at the Cargill Salt company's mine in Belle Isle, Louisiana. Twenty-one men died when the mine's only shaft became a tunnel of fire.

Image courtesy of the United Mine Workers of America.