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    Look back in time with #ThrowbackThursday, our weekly franchise showcasing pictures of the past. From historic events to memorable people, we explore the photography that has shaped our world.

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    • "LaSalle at Amsterdam" 1946

      Todd Webb's post-war New York

    • The real story behind 'An American Girl in Italy'

    • Finding art in the ordinary

    • Teen's scrapbook amazes Smithsonian curators

    • Republican militiawoman training on the beach, outside Barcelona, August 1936

      Gerda Taro: Fearless war photographer

    • Photos from a 19th-century trailblazer

    • On March 3, 1913 the National American Women Suffrage Association organized the Woman Suffrage Procession in Washington D.C. The march took take place the day before Woodrow WilsonÕs inauguration to maximize exposure. Inez Milholland, a labor lawyer, suffragist, and correspondent in WW I, started off the procession. Milholland, one of the highest-profile leaders of the womenÕs rights movement, collapsed while at a podium giving a speech in Los Angeles in 1916. She died a few weeks later. It was recorded the last words she said before her collapse were, "Mr. President, how long must women wait for liberty?

      The long road to women's suffrage

    • State troopers swing billy clubs to break up a civil rights voting march in Selma, Ala., March 7, 1965. John Lewis, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (in the foreground) is being beaten by a state trooper. Lewis, a future U.S. Congressman sustained a fractured skull. (AP Photo)

      From Selma to Montgomery

    • Passengers of this smoking Greyhound bus, some of the members of the "Freedom Riders," a group sponsored by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), sit on the ground after the bus was set afire 5/14/1961, by a mob of Caucasians who followed the bus from the city. The mob met the bus at the terminal, stoned it & slashed the tires, then followed the bus from town.

      Freedom Rides challenge segregation in Deep South

    • On February 1, 1960 four African-American students at North Carolina A&T College participate in a sit-in at a F. W. Woolworth's lunch counter reserved for white customers in Greensboro, North Carolina.

      Sit-in movement sparks social change

    • Rosa Parks seated toward the front of the bus, Montgomery, Alabama, 1956. (Photo by Underwood Archives/Getty Images)

      The legacy of Rosa Parks

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      Cruising Van Nuys Boulevard in 1972

    • The US Third Armored Cavalry Regiment parades a missile before the Presidential viewing stand.