A 1940 prison photo of Cleo Wright. Two years later, Wright was lynched. A white mob dragged him from his cell to to a black neighborhood and burned him alive in view of two church congregations. It was the first lynching to occur after the United States entered World War II, Missouri . - History Education Network

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My beautiful grandma and her dog circa 1930’s

A man in Afghanistan is condemned to death for being a supporter of the communist regime. He would later be shot and beheaded 1980.

‘Let’s protect children from the priest’s claws!’ (USSR, 1962)

Johnny Clem, the “Drummer Boy of Chickamauga” who shot and killed a Confederate officer and rose through the ranks to Major General at the time of his retirement in 1916.

Spitfires ready for action in 1939.

A 1940 prison photo of Cleo Wright. Two years later, Wright was lynched. A white mob dragged him from his cell to to a black neighborhood and burned him alive in view of two church congregations. It was the first lynching to occur after the United States entered World War II, Missouri .

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