In this September 4, 1963, file photo, a police officer carries off a demonstrator holding a Confederate flag after a group of demonstrators protested enrollment of two African-Americans at Ramsay High School in Birmingham, Ala. The Confederate battle flag has been removed from South Carolina's Statehouse grounds, in the wake of the massacre of nine African-Americans, including a state senator, at an historic black church in Charleston in June 2015. (Photo by AP Photo)





The Farm Security Administration documented America from 1935 to 1943 in an unparalleled photographic project which aimed to “introduce America to Americans”. New Deal Photography, published by Taschen, covers the full reach of the FSA across the US with nearly 400 pictures. Here is a selection of the colour images. Here: Workers on rented land, near White Plains, Greene County, Georgia, in June 1941. (Photo by Jack Delano/Taschen)





Homesteaders Faro and Doris Caudil, in Pie Town, New Mexico, October 1940. (Photo by Russell Lee/Taschen)





The Eagle Fruit Store and Capital Hotel in Lincoln, Nebraska, 1942. (Photo by John Vachon/Taschen)





Store with live fish for sale, near Natchitoches, Louisiana, July 1940. (Photo by Marion Post Wolcott/Taschen)





Children at a rural school in San Augustine County, Texas, October 1943. (Photo by John Vachon/Taschen)





Shulman’s Market on N Street at Union Street SW, Washington DC, circa 1942. (Photo by Jack Delano/Taschen)





In this 1961 photo, Tucson Police Sgt. Tom Keeley holds a Colt Thompson submachine gun and secretary Linda Bradfield holds a Winchester Model 1907, with other guns confiscated from the John Dillinger gang during Dillinger's capture in Tucson, Ariz., in 1934. Police in Tucson are at odds with a small Indiana town over the Tommy gun taken from Dillinger during his arrest. The Arizona Daily Star reports that officials in Peru, Ind., want the Colt Thompson submachine gun turned over, saying they believe it was stolen from Peru police in 1933 before Dillinger was caught in Tucson. (Photo by Tucson Citizen Archive/Arizona Daily Star via AP Photo)





In this March 1988, file photo, Donald Trump stands next to one of his three Sikorsky helicopters at New York Port Authority's West 30 Street Heliport. (Photo by Wilbur Funches/AP Photo)





In this September 21, 1923 file photo, members of the Ku Klux Klan ride horses during a parade through the streets of Tulsa, Okla. Former Sheriff Bill McCullough, who tried to stop the parade, is at foreground left. (Photo by AP Photo)





The American Mercury 8 with flaring chromium radiator grilles, moulded hood, streamlined body and sealed-beam headlamps, 1940. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)





In this June 10, 1963 file photo, Lt. W.B. Painter, a state investigator, photographs a cache of pistols, dynamite, pocket tear gas guns, and other weapons confiscated in Tuscaloosa, Ala., a day before the integration of the University of Alabama. (Photo by AP Photo)





In this September 10, 1958 file photo, hot dogs are cooked on the grill as customers line up at at Nathan's Famous in Coney Island in the Brooklyn borough of New York. For decades, the showmen behind the annual Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest on the 4th of July have been telling reporters the tradition began in 1916 with a showdown between patriotic immigrants on the Coney Island boardwalk. That would make this Monday, July 4, 2016 contest a centennial, of sorts, except for an inconvenient truth: the backstory was invented in the 1970s by PR men trying to get the hot dog stand on the map. (Photo by AP Photo)





In this November 11, 1979 file photo, Signe Waller leads march in Greensboro, N.C. The state, with the blessing of the Greensboro City Council, will use the word “massacre” for a highway historical marker commemorating the deaths of five Communist Workers Party members during a confrontation with Ku Klux Klansmen and the American Nazi Party. The marker, which will be dedicated Sunday, May 24, 2015. (Photo by Jim Stratford /News & Record via AP Photo)





In this October 22, 1928 file photo, Republican presidential candidate Herbert Hoover delivers an address from a U.S. flag-draped podium in Madison Square Garden in New York. (Photo by AP Photo)





In this 1964 file photo, an unidentified black civil rights demonstrator carries a U.S. flag outside the Alhambra Theatre in Harlem neighborhood of New York. “Flags are, by their nature, emotion-charged emblems, and that's especially the case in the U.S.”, says John Hartvigsen, president of the North American Vexillological Association, a group of scholars dedicated to the study of flags. (Photo by AP Photo)





In this April 20, 1951 file photo, Gen. Douglas MacArthur waves from an open car during the ticker-tape parade in his honor in New York's financial district on lower Broadway.. (Photo by AP Photo)





In this March 12, 1941, file photo, Louis Armstrong, wearing a Brooklyn College sweater, performs on the campus in New York as the school honored him with the degree “Doctor of Swing”. (Photo by AP Photo)





In this May 25, 1965, file photo, heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali stands over fallen challenger Sonny Liston, shouting and gesturing shortly after dropping Liston with a short hard right to the jaw in the first round of their title fight in Lewiston, Maine. The bout produced one of the strangest finishes in boxing history as well as one of sports' most iconic moments. (Photo by John Rooney/AP Photo)