A maquiladora in Mexico, employing women at low wages to produce products for the US market.

Bill Clinton plays “Heatrbreak Hotel” during “The Arsenio Hall Show” taping at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles in June 1992.

New technologies including laser-guided precision bombing amazed Americans

With the memories of Vietnam still fresh, many Americans worried that military action could expand into a protracted war or long-term commitment of troops.

Aerial view of a destroyed Iraqi column consisting of a tank, several armored vehicles, and trucks on “Highway of Death” in March 1991

Western part of the abandoned Packard Automotive Plant in Detroit, Michigan, closed since 1958.

Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of the Watergate tapes, April 29, 1974

Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X, pictured here in 1964

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, Lunar Module pilot of the first lunar landing mission, poses for a photograph beside the United States flag during an Apollo 11 Extravehicular Activity on the lunar surface.

Alabama police attack Selma-to-Montgomery Marchers, 1965.

Martin Luther King Jr. delivering his “I Have a Dream” speech at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963.

Rosa Parks being fingerprinted in February 1956, as one of the people indicted as leaders of the Montgomery bus boycott.

Photo of Emmet Till taken by his mother on the Christmas prior to his murder.

Aerial view of Levittown Pennsylvania in 1959.

African American high school student being educated via television in 11958, during the period that the Little Rock schools were closed to avoid integration.

In God We Trust was adopted as the official national motto in 1956.

U.S. Army V-2 cutaway drawing of the V-2 rocket showing engine, fuel cells, guidance units and warhead.

U.S. Marines engaged in street fighting during the liberation of Seoul. Note M-1 rifles and Browning Automatic Rifles carried by the Marines, dead Koreans in the street, and M-4 “Sherman” tanks in the distance. September, 1950.

The mushroom cloud from the first air-dropped Soviet hydrogen bomb test in 1951.

The conflict was called “cold” because it was never a “hot,” direct shooting war between the United States and the Soviet Union

If somebody sneezed in apartment 1, you could hear it in apartment 5.

So there were “vultures” all around, hanging around for days, waiting for the day that we would move, and that we would literally have to give things away.

In our family, my father, as a matter of fact, destroyed all of his Japanese language books because rumors spread that if the FBI came to your home and found Japanese language books, your father or uncle, or mother would be taken away and fear just gripped the community over things like that

Things had changed, though. I think our friends, non-Japanese friends, didn’t really know how to treat us. I think they knew that we would be hurt if they ostracized us. On the other hand, just like our neighbors who lived around us, I believe that they felt if they were too friendly with us, they would be labeled “Jap-lovers.”

hat persons of Japanese ancestry who were immigrants were not permitted to become American citizens at that time, in 1942.

A residential section Tokyo that was destroyed during the firebombing of Tokyo in March 1945.

U.S. Army propaganda poster depicting Uncle Sam preparing the public for the invasion of Japan after ending war on Germany and Italy

Nagasaki before and after the bombing and the fires had burnt out.

B-29 Superfortress strategic bombers on the Boeing assembly line in Wichita, Kansas in 1944.

The camp doctor standing in a mass grave at Bergen-Belsen after the camp’s liberation by the British 11th Armoured Division in April 1945.

I contend that it can;

It is an American system

This question is the basis upon which our opponents are appealing to the people in their fears and distress

It is not the change that comes from normal development of national life to which I object but the proposal to alter the whole foundations of our national life which have been builded through generations of testing and struggle, and of the principles upon which we have builded the nation.

This campaign is more than a contest between two men. It is more than a contest between two parties. It is a contest between two philosophies of government.

Shacks that members of the Bonus Army erected on the Anacostia Flats burning after its confrontation with the army, 1932.

A farmer and his two sons during a dust storm in Cimarron County, Oklahoma, April 1936.

“Broke, baby sick, and car trouble!” Dorothea Lange photo of a Missouri migrant family’s jalopy stuck near Tracy, California, 1937.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt broadcast his First Fireside Chat regarding the banking crisis from the White House, on March 12, 1933, eight days after taking office.

1936 campaign poster for Roosevelt promoting his economic policy.

We believe that every man and woman should keep well informed on all public matters and take active and direct part in all public affairs

It is nothing more than power of control, under just laws.

It is often not even wise to try and make an American of the best of aliens.

It is in no way a reflection on any man to say that he is un-American; it is merely a statement that he is not one of us.

“Native, white, Protestant supremacy.”

It organizes industry to cheat us. It cheats us out of our land; it cheats us out of our labor. It confiscates our savings. It reduces our wages. It raises our rent. It steals our profit. It taxes us without representation. It keeps us consistently and universally poor, and then feeds us on charity and derides our poverty.

Make way for Democracy!

It has organized a nation-wide and latterly a world-wide propaganda of deliberate and continuous insult and defamation of black blood wherever found.

Yet for fifty years we have lynched two Negroes a week, and we have kept this up right through the war.

For the America that represents and gloats in lynching, disfranchisement, caste, brutality and devilish insult—for this, in the hateful upturning and mixing of things, we were forced by vindictive fate to fight also.