Unseen: Unpublished Black History from the New York Times Photo Archives [Hardcover]

Hundreds of stunning images from black history have long been buried inThe New York Timesarchives. None of them were published byThe Times--until now. UNSEEN uncovers these never-before published photographs and tells the stories behind them.

It all started withTimesphoto editor Darcy Eveleigh discovering dozens of these photographs. She and three colleagues, Dana Canedy, Damien Cave and Rachel L. Swarns, began exploring the history behind them, and subsequently chronicling them in a series entitled Unpublished Black History, that ran in print and online editions ofThe Timesin February 2016. It garnered 1.7 million views onThe Timeswebsite and thousands of comments from readers. This book includes those photographs and many more, among them: a 27-year-old Jesse Jackson leading an anti-discrimination rally of in Chicago, Rosa Parks arriving at a Montgomery Courthouse in Alabama a candid behind-the-scenes shot of Aretha Franklin backstage at the Apollo Theater, Ralph Ellison on the streets of his Manhattan neighborhood, the firebombed home of Malcolm X, Myrlie Evans and her children at the funeral of her slain husband , Medgar, a wheelchair-bound Roy Campanella at the razing of Ebbets Field.

Were the photos--or the people in them--not deemed newsworthy enough? Did the images not arrive in time for publication? Were they pushed aside by words at an institution long known as the Gray Lady? Eveleigh, Canedy, Cave, and Swarms explore all these questions and more in this one-of-a-kind book.

UNSEEN dives deep intoThe Timesphoto archives--known as the Morgue--to showcase this extraordinary collection of photographs and the stories behind them.

Darcy Eveleigh is a photo editor The New York Timesand the creator and editor of The Lively Morgue, a Times blog and Tumblr series. Follow Darcy on Twitter @DarcyNYT.

Dana Canedy is the administrator for Pulitzer Prizes. She is a former senior els(