Hard history, then the repair

Then & After

We do not skip the worst pages. We pair them with what Americans forced the country to do next.

1942 → 1988

Internment, then redress

The United States locked up its own citizens. Decades later it named the wrong and paid restitution.

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1848 → 1920

Half the country, then the vote

Seventy-two years from Seneca Falls to the 19th Amendment. Persistence became law.

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1900s → 1938

Children in the mill, then a floor

American mills used children because they were cheap. Photographs made the practice impossible to romanticize.

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Selma → 1965

The bridge, then the Act

Citizens were beaten for trying to register. The Voting Rights Act followed. The repair has to be kept.

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