Twin sisters watch out a porthole of the SS St. Louis Jewish refugee ship, not permitted to disembark in Cuba or the U.S. after escaping Nazi Germany. Havana, Cuba. May 1939. - History Education Network

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My great grandma at her high school graduation in 1950. She told us all our lives she never graduated but we found her degree along with this one photo after she passed. Not sure who took it. Black people were not pictured in high school academics until the mid 1970s where I’m from.

16 yr-old Melanija Knavs -now Melania Trump- photographed by Stane Jerko (yes, thats his real name) as she embarked on a modelling career. Circa 1986 (1080×607)

In August 1948, 76 beavers were dropped from planes into Idaho as part of “operation high dive”.

My 4th and 5th great grandfather Hiram King (1792 or 1794-1891). His birth year is disputed!

Map from life magazine from February 10, 1916, showing what would happen if the USA didn’t enter the war against Germany

Twin sisters watch out a porthole of the SS St. Louis Jewish refugee ship, not permitted to disembark in Cuba or the U.S. after escaping Nazi Germany. Havana, Cuba. May 1939.

Categories: Racism, WW2

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