[Republican soldier playing guitar, another reading the paper, University City, Madrid]

[Battle Against Illiteracy, blind boy reads with his lips, Calabria, Italy]

[Man reading under anti-fascist banner in Catalan language, Barcelona, Spain]

Charles Laughton, actor, giving one of his public readings, New York

[Men reading on straw beds at an internment camp for Spanish refugees, Montolieu, France]

[Mustached man reading map by fountain, Tour de France, Pleyben, France]

[Man reading en route to the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Washington, D.C.]

[Republican soldier playing guitar, another reading the paper, University City, Madrid]