People walk past ruins in the Culmer section of Miami after rioting over the acquittal of four police officers charged with the 1979 beating death of Arthur McDuffie, a black motorcyclist, May 19, 1980. - History Education Network

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Darrell Night talks to the press after the convictions of two police officers who left him to die. He exposed the decades-long practice of ‘starlight tours’, in which police drove indigenous people to the outskirts of cities and left them to die in sub-zero temperatures (Canada, 2001) .

“The Rape of Europa”, a painting by Ilya Glazunov, 2012

The body of Leander Shaw after his lynching. Roughly a dozen people scaled the rear walls of the jail, took Shaw from his cell, dragged him to a plaza, and hanged him from an electric pole. Shaw was then shot over 500 times (Florida, 1908) .

Guided missile cruiser USS Columbus (CG-12) on sea trials, December 1962

The Maiden, a child found frozen on the volcano Llullaillaco in Argentina, The photograph was taken shortly after her discovery in 1995

People walk past ruins in the Culmer section of Miami after rioting over the acquittal of four police officers charged with the 1979 beating death of Arthur McDuffie, a black motorcyclist, May 19, 1980.

Categories: 1900s

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