--- title: 10 Photos of African American History, As Seen By Children description: A new photo book from the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture features stories of African-American youth canonical: https://time.com/4344813/african-american-history-museum-children/ author: Emma Ockerman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-21T12:30:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T09:27:26.000Z article:section: History og:title: See 10 Photos of African-American History as Seen By Children og:description: A new photo book from the Smithsonian features images of African American youth og:url: https://time.com/4344813/african-american-history-museum-children/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4e455ff3ba37e561/6988945f428a9ec0b8cd2bcd/160529-picturing-children-smithsonian-08.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: Picturing Children og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: See 10 Photos of African-American History as Seen By Children twitter:description: A new photo book from the Smithsonian features images of African American youth twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4e455ff3ba37e561/6988945f428a9ec0b8cd2bcd/160529-picturing-children-smithsonian-08.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # See 10 Photos of African-American History Through the Eyes of Children > Sponsored content. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. by [Emma Ockerman](https://time.com/author/emma-ockerman/) and [Liz Ronk](https://time.com/author/liz-ronk/) Updated: Dec 13, 2023 9:27 AM UTCPublished: Jun 21, 2016 12:30 PM UTC  Man, woman, and child shown picking cotton in a field. Georgia, 1964. Man, woman, and child shown picking cotton in a field. Georgia, 1964. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Brigitte Freed in memory of Leonard Freed, © Leonard Freed/Magnum by [Emma Ockerman](https://time.com/author/emma-ockerman/) and [Liz Ronk](https://time.com/author/liz-ronk/) Updated: Dec 13, 2023 9:27 AM UTCPublished: Jun 21, 2016 12:30 PM UTC Photographs featuring children tend to invoke the more cherished qualities of the human experience — innocence, an intense sense of hope and a will to seek silver linings. The images of African-American children that are featured in the upcoming Smithsonian photo book [_Picturing Children_](http://www.smithsonianstore.com/books-media/cultural-books/double-exposure-picturing-children-10712.html)especially resonate with any family’s wish that their child be reminded of their “dignity and sacred worth \[that\] no outside force can touch,” as Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund, says in one of the book’s introductory essays. [_Picturing Children_](https://gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/picturing-children) is host to scenes ranging from playful moments during summer camp, school recess and high school proms, to historic images of enslaved families and young marchers in the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery. Some photographs feature instantly recognizable faces — Jackie Robinson and Dr. Martin Luther King with their children, President Barack Obama with a child in the Oval Office — while others capture quiet moments between the photographer and his or her unnamed subject, such as a photograph from Jamel Shabazz that features a boy in his community doing a flip on a beat-up mattress. Though the collection features both portraits and candid shots, taken together they offer a window into both individual lives and the arc of American history. _Picturing Children_ is the fourth installment in the [_Double Exposure_ series](http://time.com/3910012/photos-smithsonian-african-american-women/), released by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, on the heels of [_Through the African American Lens_](http://time.com/3686708/through-the-african-american-lens/), [_Civil Rights and the Promise of Equality_](http://time.com/3910062/civil-rights-photographs/) and [_African American Women_](http://time.com/3910012/photos-smithsonian-african-american-women/).  Rehabilitation client and his family on Lady's Sound off Beaufort, S.C., 1936. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, © Carl Mydans  Two schoolgirls holding hands as they hang upside down from a jungle gym. Circa 1940s. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Joe Schwartz and Family, © Joe Schwartz  From "The Way of Life of the Northern Negro:" Untitled, 1946-1948. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, © Wayne F. Miller  Two paper boys sitting on a bench, 1947. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from Charles A. Harris and Beatrice Harris in memory of Charles "Teenie" Harris, © Carnegie Museum of Art, Charles "Teenie" Harris Archive  Young children and members of the San Francisco Chapter of the National Council of Negro Women with placards standing next to a car that was part of the Citizenship Education Project motorcade urging people to register to vote. Sept. 8, 1956. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Frances Albrier Collection, ©Cox Studio  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Martin Luther King III, 1962. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Monica Karales and the Estate of James Karales © Estate of James Karales  Group of twelve children shown clustered on a tree-lined paved surface. Upstate New York, 1963. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Brigitte Freed in memory of Leonard Freed, © Leonard Freed/Magnum  Man, woman, and child shown picking cotton in a field. Georgia, 1964. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Brigitte Freed in memory of Leonard Freed, © Leonard Freed/Magnum  First Watts Festival, 1965. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Joe Schwartz and Family, © Joe Schwartz  Young girl on DeKalb Avenue in Brooklyn, New York. 1965. 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