Chugging Along the Bowery collection-new-york This photo appeared with The

This photo appeared with The Times's annual guide

was one of many dignitaries on hand to witness the signing and to hear President Johnson call on all Americans to help "eliminate the last vestiges of injustice in America

let me offer a few reflections from the past 8 years

" announced in February 1937 her plans to circle the globe solo

Chugging Along the Bowery collection-new-york This photo appeared with TheNorth view of the Bowery, framed by the Third Avenue Elevated tracks. Visible on the left are the Gaiety Theatre and an advertisement for Casperfield Cleveland Diamonds & Watches. On the streets, horse drawn carriages and trolleys are used for transportation. The Bowery was "the boulevard of the Lower East Side, the city's Cosmopolis," The Times declared. The street ran through "an area of gaunt tenements," harboring the kind of social misery that