Photo Essays
LIFE and Civil Rights: Segregation in 1956 South Carolina
In late 1956, over the course of several months, LIFE published what the magazine itself described as “a series of major articles on the background of the crisis...
Love Supreme: An Interracial Romance Triumphs in 1960s Virginia
On March 18, 1966, LIFE magazine published a feature under the quietly chilling headline, “The Crime of Being Married.” The article, illustrated with photographs...
Divided: Same-Sex Marriage Demonstrations
As the Supreme Court of the United States hears two cases in the appeals to state and federal laws restricting same-sex marriage, supporters and opponents...
LIFE With Ali and Frazier: A Photographer Recalls the ‘Fight of the Century’
After refusing to register for the draft in 1967, Muhammad Ali was stripped of his heavyweight championship title and endured a forced layoff from the ring for...
Muhammad Ali in Exile: LIFE With the Once and Future Champ
When 25-year-old Muhammad Ali, the heavyweight champion of the world and the world’s single most famous Muslim, refused induction into the United States Army in...
Meet Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan
A look at President Obama's second nomination to the Supreme Court
40 Years After Roe: Inside North Dakota’s Only Abortion Clinic
January 22, 2013 marks the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision that made access to abortion a constitutionally protected right...
Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens
The longest-serving member of the high court announces his retirement
Brave Hearts: Remembering the Little Rock Nine, 1957
Beyond religion, beyond class, beyond politics and ideology, for centuries race been the single most contentious, corrosive question in America’s dialog with...
The Kagan Hearings in a Different Light
Photographer Kenneth Dickerman covers the Supreme Court nominee's appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee
Profiles of 'Open Carry' Gun-Law Advocates
The June 28 Supreme Court ruling on the right to carry an unloaded weapon heartens gun owners in Northern CaliforniaPhotographs by Steve LaBadessa
The Long, Sometimes Painful History of the First Amendment
A timeline of contentious Supreme Court decisions on the freedom of speech and assembly
A Different View of the Sotomayor Hearings
TIME photographer Brooks Kraft offers a few fresh angles on the Supreme Court nominee's testimony
Sandra Day O'Connor: A Career Retrospective 30 Years After Her Swearing-In
A look back at the rise and tenure of the first female Supreme Court justice, sworn in thirty years ago, September 25, 1981.
