Monday, July 4, 2022

The Flag

 



Painting by John Archibald Woodside, Philadelphia, 1814







William Harvey Carney with the flag he saved at the battle of Fort Wagner, 1864.  
He won the Medal of Honor






Union soldiers with a battle-torn American flag






The Lawrence Textile Mill strike, 1912






Mrs. Herbert Carpenter carries the flag in a demonstration for women's suffrage, 1914





Soldiers in France, World War I, 1918







American soldiers on the rostrum of the Luitpold Arena, Nuremberg, April, 1945






Gordon Parks, American Gothic, 1942, 
Ella Watson, a janitor in the Farm Security Administration, Washington DC





James Karales, The Selma to Montgomery March, 1965




Soldier in Vietnam, 1968






Antiwar Protest, 1970







Fred McDarrah, The Christopher Street Liberation Day march, the first Gay Pride march, New York, 1970






Cesar Chavez, United Farmworkers' March







Occupy Wall Street march, Denver, 2011








Black Lives Matter rally, Pittsburgh, 2021







Megan Rapinoe


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