C. P. Ellis, a former Ku Klux Klan member, and Ann Atwater, a community activist, formed an unlikely partnership after being assigned as co-leaders of a group of citizens navigating court-ordered school desegregation in Durham, North Carolina, in the 1970s.
Images of Adolf Hitler demonstrating his enthusiastic oratorical style from September 1930.
Adolf Hitler talks to a young girl during his campaign for president of Germany in 1932. Hitler lost to incumbent Paul von Hindenburg.
Nazi leader Adolf Hitler in 1924. In the early 1920s, Hitler was attracting thousands of new members to the Nazi Party.
Affidavit signed by Rudolf Hoess attesting to his gassing of Jews at Auschwitz while he served as commander.
Four African American college students sit in protest at a whites-only lunch counter during the second day of peaceful protest at a Woolworth's in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Near Tupelo, Mississippi, an African American man farms in a field, 1936.
A woman cleans the blood of Jalil Speaks. The 16 year-old teenager was killed in front of Strawberry Mansion High School in North Philadelphia in 2004. Jalil Speaks was shot outside the school shortly after classes let out.
A view of the rubble in Nagasaki, Japan, after the atomic bomb was detonated. Debris surrounds the only structure to remain standing, a traditional Shinto gate.
A child pushes a trolley cart through burnt debris after violent xenophobic clashes at the Ramaphosa informal settlement on the outskirt of Johannesburg on May 21, 2008.
Birkle’s work represents the New Objectivity movement that encompassed much of the art produced in the Weimar Republic. Artists like Birkle challenged their viewers to see the world as it really was, rather than as they would like it to be. See full-sized image for analysis.