EVB2936841: Wives and families of Jewish American GIs leave a New York City synagogue on West Twenty-third Street, which was open all day on D-Day, June 6, 1944. They awoke to the announcement that Allied troops were landing on the beaches of Normandy and prayed for the safety of their loved ones in military service / Bridgeman Images
EVB2936922: Interned Japanese Americans, mostly women, holding books, walking on a dirt road, within the guarded fences of the Manzanar Relocation Center during World War II. Master photographer Ansel Adams captured the bleak landscape of the isolated internment camp in the California desert. 1943, Adams, Ansel (1902-84) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2936948: Political cartoon showing Iroquois women on cliff overlooking women marching with banner 'woman suffrage.' It's caption reads: Savagery to 'civilization'--The Indian women: We whom you pity as drudges reached centuries ago the goal that you are now nearing. By Udo Keppler for PUCK Magazine, May 1914 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2936952: Women's suffrage leaders in an open car at a Votes for Women parade in New York City. Photo shows Susan Walker Fitzgerald, Emma Bugbee, Maggie Murphy, and Harriot Stanton Blatch. Blatch was the daughter of 19th century women's rights leader Elizabeth Cady Stanton. July 30, 1913 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2936839: Newly arrived Slavic immigrants recruited to work in Pennsylvania coal mines wait for their train. After the U.S. Civil War, the anthracite mines and steel industry in Pennsylvania attracted Eastern Europeans from Poland, the Austro-Hungarian, and the Russian Empires, building one of the largest concentrations of Slavic Americans in the United States. c. 1880 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2936997: Women's suffrage activists protest the U.S. Senate's failure to pass the federal woman suffrage amendment in 1918. In January 1918, after President Wilson finally declared his support, the House of Representatives, unlike the Senate, passed the amendment by two-thirds majority / Bridgeman Images
EVB2936915: Anti-Immigrant cartoon showing two men with barrels as bodies, labeled 'Irish Wiskey' and 'Lager Bier', carrying a ballot box. In the background is a rioting crowd at a polling place. Nativism, a social and political movement that opposed immigration of Catholic Irish, non-Protestants, and non-English speaking peoples. c. 1850 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2936936: Rag Picker's court, Mulberry Street, 1879. Many poor immigrants started at the bottom of the economic ladder, as rag pickers, who collected useable refuse for reprocessing, essentially recycling in an economy of scarcity. At lower right men carry bundles collected rags. Above, laundered rags are hung out to dry after cleaning / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937031: Unidentified masked robbers, suspected to be the James gang, robbed a passenger train at Winston, Missouri on July 15, 1881. They killed a second man in the baggage car before they escaped with ,000 in bills and coins. In response, the governor of Missouri placed a ,000 reward for the gang / Bridgeman Images