In This Great Nation

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Women demonstrating against the Federal Equal Rights Amendment gathered outside the White House: photo by Warren K. Leffler. 4 February 1977



Activist Phyllis Schafly wearing a "Stop ERA" badge, demonstrating with other women against the Equal Rights Amendment in front of the White House, Washington, D.C.: photo by Warren K. Leffler, 4 February 1977



Ku Klux Klan members supporting Barry Goldwater's campaign for the presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention, San Francisco, California, as an African American man pushes signs back: photo by Warren K. Leffler, 12 July 1964



Man on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial holding a banner for the Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention, at Black Panther Convention: photo by Thomas J. O'Halloran/Warren K. Leffler, 19 June 1970



Joyce Favell and her children in a basement (?) holding bottles and a bucket of water, St. Louis, Missouri. (Photographer's note: "Joyce Favell, a St. Louis mother of five, is worried sick. Forced out of one apartment in mid-January, she must now leave temporary housing in a city-owned building before it is demolished in early spring...The apartments are to be restored and sold as condominiums. Favell's plight is shared by thousands of other city residents across the country who are being displaced -- pushed out -- as more well-to-do citizens snap up urban properties."): photo by Tom Ebenroh, 16 January 1979



Street in Baltimore, Maryland with rowhouses and building with sign "Neighborhood Housing Services": photo by Warren K. Leffler, 15 March 1976


Lines of people at the offices of the Baltimore City Welfare Office, Maryland: photo by Thomas J. O'Halloran, 28 January 1975



Large stack of computer printouts at a New York City welfare office: photo by Leo Choplin, 24 May 1976



Woman with a child on her lap, talking to another woman at a desk, at a New York City welfare office: photo by Leo Choplin, 24 May 1976



Girl Scout in canoe, picking trash out of the Potomac River during Earth Week: photo by Thomas J. O'Halloran, 22 April 1970



Smoke rises near U.S. Capitol, during riot, 1968. (Photographer's note: "D.C. Riot, April, '68: After curfew deserted streets in D.C. -- Smoky sky w/capitol -- damaged area."): photo by Marion S. Trikosko, 6 April 1968

Photos from U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress