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Girl Walking to School, Mthatha
A child walks to school through the barren village of Qunu, South Africa, located just outside of the town of Mthatha.
![A child walks to school through the barren village of Qunu, South Africa, located just outside of the town of Mthatha.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Democracy_2013_GirlWalkingtoSchoolMthatha_FH281816.jpg?h=a5f2f23a&itok=lR43Ngto)
Hannah Höch, The Kitchen Knife, 1919
Hannah Höch's work, including The Kitchen Knife, consists primarily of collages often made from photographs.
![Höch’s work consists primarily of collages, often made from photographs. Höch was part of the Dada movement, which formed in part as a reaction to the death and destruction from World War I. Dada artists prized irrationality and considered their work “anti-art.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Ch04_Image02_Medium_res.jpg?h=2a35d14f&itok=6_ttoQA6)
‘63 Boycott: Today is Freedom Day
During the 1963 Chicago Public Schools Boycott, 225,000 students protested racial segregation and unequal conditions in Chicago's schools. This video features footage of the boycott and student participants' eyewitness accounts.
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Indian Fruit Sellers
Indian merchants, who initially operated in Durban, expanded inland to Transvaal, establishing communities and settlements between Johannesburg and Durban.
![An uncovered outdoor fruit market with baskets of fruit on the ground and men, women, and children buying and selling fruit.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/Fruit_Sellers.jpg?h=6cdbe7d1&itok=DT4ST3_W)
International Youth Year: Rally
The International Youth Year Rally (1985) was organized by the United Nations with the goal of raising awareness on issues concerning the abuse and mistreatment of youth worldwide.
![Poster shows two young women with their fists raised and includes details about the rally.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/International_Youth_Year_Rally.jpg?h=7e1a8712&itok=D1FajPNe)
Jan van Riebeeck Arrives, 1652
The arrival of Jan van Riebeeck, a Dutch navigator and colonial administrator, at Table Bay (Cape of Good Hope) marked the beginning of permanent European settlement in the region.
![Group of 17th century European explorers carrying supplies and a Dutch flag onto land, approached by indigenous people.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/1652_JanVanRiebeeckArrives_FH281148.jpg?h=d29cb276&itok=GHQ59e3N)
Map of Africa, ca. 1867
This nineteenth-century map depicts the known boundary lines, cities, rivers, lakes and elevation changes in Africa.
![Map of Africa, with distinct territories colored in red, blue, and yellow. Includes close up maps of Liberia and Egypt.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/Map_of_Africa_1867_FH281157.jpg?h=9d370722&itok=dQfTYu2q)
Marion Pritchard
Marion Pritchard holds Erika Polak, one of the children she saved from the Nazis. Working with the Dutch resistance, Pritchard helped to save more than 150 children during World War II.
![Marion Pritchard holds Erika Polak, one of the children she saved from the Nazis. Working with the Dutch resistance, Pritchard helped save more than 150 children during World War II.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_MarionPritchard_%20FH229480.jpg?h=22294cb3&itok=dlCxu8XS)
Mazisi Kunene
Mazisi Kunene (1930-2006), a South African poet, educator and activist, was an active supporter and organizer of the anti-apartheid movement in Europe and Africa. He later became South Africa’s poet laureate.
![Mazisi Kunene (1930-2006), a South African poet.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/2018_MazisiKunene_FH281933.jpg?h=63ec7df1&itok=w1QGoxBz)
Mourners after Antisemitic Rampage in Poland
Mourners in Kielce, Poland, gather around coffins after townspeople killed 42 Jews in an antisemitic rampage in 1946.
![Mourners in Kielce, Poland, gather around coffins after townspeople killed 42 Jews in an antisemitic rampage in 1946.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Ch11_Image03_Medium_res.jpg?h=3378375a&itok=sCDgSLwr)