Photo Credits & Permissions

California State Assembly chamber, Sacramento, January 27, 2025. Photo: Antony-22 / Wikimedia Commons. Institutional context, not a specific reparations vote.

CC BY-SA 4.0, credit Antony-22; share-alike applies to adaptations. Resized and converted to WebP; original framing retained.

California State Capitol, Sacramento, July 2019. Photo: Frank Schulenburg / Wikimedia Commons. Institutional context, not a photograph of California Legislative Black Caucus members.

CC BY-SA 4.0, credit Frank Schulenburg; share-alike applies to adaptations. Resized and converted to WebP; original framing retained.

California State Senate chamber, Sacramento, July 13, 2013. Photo: BenFranske / Wikimedia Commons. Institutional context, not a specific floor vote.

CC BY-SA 3.0, credit BenFranske; share-alike applies to adaptations. Resized and converted to WebP; original framing retained.

Maryland State House, Annapolis, photographed between 1980 and 2006. Carol M. Highsmith Archive / Library of Congress. Statehouse context, not a current Black Caucus group photograph.

Library of Congress: no known restrictions on publication. This advisory is not a guarantee of all rights. Resized and converted to WebP; original framing retained.

Women of the Congressional Black Caucus, January 2019. Photo: U.S. Senate / Office of Senator Kamala Harris. Archival federal-caucus context, not a current roster or an H.R. 40 hearing.

U.S. Congress public-domain photograph. Resized and converted to WebP; no endorsement implied.

Hakeem Jeffries, official congressional portrait (source record dated 2021). Photo: Office of Representative Hakeem Jeffries. This is not a photograph of the PBS interview.

U.S. Congress public-domain photograph. Resized and converted to WebP; no endorsement implied.

Mary McLeod Bethune at the Phyllis Wheatley YWCA, Washington, D.C., July 1943. Roger Smith / FSA–OWI Collection, Library of Congress. Archival civic-organizing context, not present-day organizers or a reparations hearing.

Library of Congress: no known restrictions on publication. This advisory is not a guarantee of all rights. Resized and converted to WebP; original framing retained.

Black farm owner and his brother at a well near Jefferson, Texas, April 1939. Russell Lee / FSA–OWI Collection, Library of Congress. Historical Black landownership context, not a Bruce’s Beach, Tulsa or Sapelo Island claimant.

Library of Congress: no known restrictions on publication. This advisory is not a guarantee of all rights. Resized and converted to WebP; original framing retained.

U.S. Treasury building, Washington, D.C., southeast view, 1861–1865. Andrew J. Russell / Library of Congress. Archival institutional context, not a current debt ledger.

Library of Congress: no known restrictions on publication. This advisory is not a guarantee of all rights. Resized and converted to WebP; original framing retained.

Thomas Harris and Jane Harris (Shute) marriage certificate, April 28, 1866. Freedmen’s Bureau, Tennessee; M1875, roll 4 / National Archives. Historical family record, not a modern lineage registry or proof of eligibility.

Historic federal record; public domain in the United States. National Archives does not certify all third-party rights. Resized and converted to WebP; original framing retained.

U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C., photographed between 1980 and 2006. Carol M. Highsmith Archive / Library of Congress. Archival institutional context, not a specific bill hearing.

Library of Congress: no known restrictions on publication. This advisory is not a guarantee of all rights. Resized and converted to WebP; original framing retained.

Retained sourced Black American Heritage Flag artwork, not a photograph of an event. Its existing source is retained.

U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C., photographed between 1980 and 2006. Carol M. Highsmith Archive / Library of Congress. Institutional context, not a 2026 election or reparations hearing.

Library of Congress: no known restrictions on publication. This advisory is not a guarantee of all rights. Resized and converted to WebP; original framing retained.

U.S. House of Representatives floor, February 13, 2024. Photo: U.S. House of Representatives. Institutional context, not an H.R. 40 vote.

Public domain in the United States per Wikimedia Commons; likeness rights may limit commercial use. Resized and converted to WebP; original framing retained.

Joe and Mollie McDonald with their daughter Janie near Livingston, Alabama, November 3, 1940. Photo: Ruby T. Lomax / Library of Congress. Historical family photograph; no reparations eligibility is asserted for the pictured family.

Library of Congress: no known restrictions on publication. Resized and converted to WebP.

Congressional joint resolution proposing the Thirteenth Amendment, January 31, 1865. Enrolled Acts and Resolutions of Congress / National Archives. Original federal record; ratified December 6, 1865.

Historic federal record; public domain in the United States. National Archives does not certify all third-party rights. Resized and converted to WebP; original framing retained.

Rep. John Conyers Jr., who first introduced H.R. 40 in 1989; official 113th Congress portrait, 2013. Photo: United States Congress.

Public domain in the United States per Wikimedia Commons; likeness rights may limit commercial use. Resized and converted to WebP; original framing retained.

California State Capitol dome, Sacramento, March 20, 2024. Photo: Radomianin / Wikimedia Commons. Institutional context, not a task-force session.

Public domain in the United States per Wikimedia Commons; likeness rights may limit commercial use. Resized and converted to WebP; original framing retained.

“Sale of Estates, Pictures and Slaves in the Rotunda, New Orleans,” engraving by William Henry Brooke, published 1842. Historical depiction of a slave auction where enslaved people were sold alongside property.

Public domain in the United States per Wikimedia Commons; likeness rights may limit commercial use. Resized and converted to WebP; original framing retained.

President Ronald Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act, August 10, 1988. White House Photo Office, C48754-4 / Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, National Archives. Japanese American redress, distinct from American slavery reparations.

Official U.S. government photograph; public domain in the United States. Editorial use only here; likeness and publicity rights may restrict advertising or merchandise. Resized and converted to WebP; original framing retained.

African American cotton pickers posed in Savannah, Georgia, between 1867 and 1890. Launey & Goebel / Marian S. Carson Collection, Library of Congress. Post-emancipation photograph, not an image of enslaved labor.

Library of Congress: no known restrictions on publication. This advisory is not a guarantee of all rights. Resized and converted to WebP; original framing retained.

“A slave auction at the south,” 1861 wood engraving after a sketch by Theodore R. Davis. Library of Congress, LCCN 98510250. This is a contemporary historical print, not a photograph.

Library of Congress: no known restrictions on publication. Resized and converted to WebP.

Forty-acre land order for Richard Brown, April 1, 1865, St. Andrews Parish, James Island, South Carolina. Freedmen’s Bureau; M1910, roll 62 / National Archives. Original federal record, not a fabricated deed.

Historic federal record; public domain in the United States. National Archives does not certify all third-party rights. Resized and converted to WebP; original framing retained.

Freedpeople by the canal in Richmond, Virginia, 1865. Civil War Photograph Collection / Library of Congress. The catalog dates the record April 1865; a related stereo caption says June 9. Original stereograph retained.

Library of Congress: no known restrictions on publication. This advisory is not a guarantee of all rights. Resized and converted to WebP; original framing retained.

Former Freedman’s Savings Bank building, Washington, D.C., circa 1890, printed later. James M. Goode Collection / Library of Congress; Smithsonian negative 2502. Historical Black savings context, not a contemporary wealth-gap chart.

Library of Congress: no known restrictions on publication. This advisory is not a guarantee of all rights. Resized and converted to WebP; original framing retained.

U.S. Supreme Court building, Washington, D.C., photographed between 1980 and 2006. Carol M. Highsmith Archive / Library of Congress. Institutional legal context, not a photograph of any case discussed.

Library of Congress: no known restrictions on publication. This advisory is not a guarantee of all rights. Resized and converted to WebP; original framing retained.

Downtown Sacramento across the Sacramento River, 2012. Carol M. Highsmith / Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs, Library of Congress. Archival city context, not a task-force session.

Library of Congress: no known restrictions on publication. This advisory is not a guarantee of all rights. Resized and converted to WebP; original framing retained.

Cabins for enslaved workers at Port Royal, South Carolina, April 1862. Timothy H. O’Sullivan / Library of Congress. Historical land and housing context, not a photograph of a contemporary land-return case.

Library of Congress: no known restrictions on publication. This advisory is not a guarantee of all rights. Resized and converted to WebP; original framing retained.

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C., photographed between 1980 and 2006. Carol M. Highsmith Archive / Library of Congress. Memorial and research context, not Germany’s 1952 reparations agreement signing.

Library of Congress: no known restrictions on publication. This advisory is not a guarantee of all rights. Resized and converted to WebP; original framing retained.

CARICOM Secretariat headquarters, Guyana, May 8, 2006. Nick Taylor / Wikimedia Commons. Building photograph, not a reparations summit. Resized from a 1280px Wikimedia delivery copy.

Nick Taylor released this photograph into the public domain worldwide. Resized and converted to WebP; original framing retained.

The first Black senator and representatives in the 41st and 42nd Congresses. Currier & Ives lithograph, 1872 / Library of Congress, LCCN 98501907. Historical print, not a group photograph.

Library of Congress: no known restrictions on publication. Original archive scan, resized and converted to WebP.

U.S. House of Representatives chamber, 2017. Photo: Office of the Speaker of the House. Institutional context, not a specific hearing.

Public domain in the United States per Wikimedia Commons; likeness rights may limit commercial use. Resized and converted to WebP; original framing retained.

Fannie Lou Hamer, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, at the Democratic National Convention, Atlantic City, August 22, 1964. Warren K. Leffler / U.S. News & World Report, Library of Congress.

Public domain in the United States per Wikimedia Commons; likeness rights may limit commercial use. Resized and converted to WebP; original framing retained.

Hawkins Wilson’s letter seeking his separated family, May 11, 1867. Freedmen’s Bureau, Virginia; M1913, roll 58 / National Archives. Original historical correspondence.

Historic federal record; public domain in the United States. National Archives does not certify all third-party rights. Resized and converted to WebP; original framing retained.

“Five generations on Smith’s Plantation,” Beaufort, South Carolina, 1862, printed later. Timothy H. O’Sullivan / Civil War Photograph Collection, Library of Congress. Historical family photograph; no modern eligibility claim is made for the pictured people.

Library of Congress: no known restrictions on publication. This advisory is not a guarantee of all rights. Resized and converted to WebP; original framing retained.