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Young man doing a one-arm handstand with a skateboard while a friend on a bicycle looks on, outside Goodyear Tire Center, at 87th Street and Constance Street, Chicago, Illinois, September 24, 1987.

Image of a woman standing on a street corner during a civil rights demonstration in Monroe, North Carolina, 1961. She is holding a sign that reads: No man should be too white or too rich to pay for hi…

Image shows an elevated view of the crowd, including marchers, police, and members of the press, walking beside a road at an Open Housing March, part of a larger program of civil rights demonstrations…

A female protester carries a sign that reads Justice at a civil rights demonstration in Monroe, North Carolina, August 26, 1961.

Image of a woman at a civil rights demonstration on the streets of Monroe, North Carolina, 1961. She is carrying sign that reads: Taxes Bring Industry Where Negroes Cannot Work.

Collection of views of activities of Chicago's IWS, a social service organization which resulted from a merger of the Milk Commission of Chicago and the Children's Hospital Society. Includes scenes at…

A woman raises her fist during a Martin Luther King Jr. rally as other marchers pass behind her, Chicago, Illinois, 1966.

Two armed National Guardsmen police the area around the Water Tower (visible in the background) around the time of the Chicago Riots that broke out in South and West Side neighborhoods following news…

Primarily photoprints of Afro-Americans collected during Barnett's career as founder and director of the Chicago-based Associated Negro Press (1919-1964), some images photographed by Gordon Parks. Inc…