The Red Cross posters of nurses from WWI are complex images rife with gendered implications and imagery. These images contrast not only against the social movement of feminism happening at the time, but also each other.
Use resources from the Rosa Parks papers to gain personal insights into the lives of this ordinary individual who took extraordinary action and find connections between students’ contemporary experiences and this historic individual.
Freedom – the latest Story Map from the Library of Congress illustrates the mid-to-late twentieth-century movements led by African Americans to achieve justice and equality in all walks of life.