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  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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  When former slave Jordan Anderson was asked to come back and work for his old master, he replied with a deadpan letter asking for 52 years’ back pay as proof of good faith. The letter has been described as a rare example of documented ‘slave humor’ of the period. Below is Jourdon Anderson’s Letter.

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  ‘Victorian Child’ photo I found in an antique shop. I fell in love with how awkwardly perfect this photo is. I would really like to learn more, but I don’t know where to start.

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  My Great Grandmother Violet in 1919, London

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  100 years after WW1 (New York Times, 2014)

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  Image from 1945 of Mussolini and his facist regimes public humiliation

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  ‘Race mixing is communism! USA 1953’

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  GDR Stamp, 1982, “Solidarity with the Palestinian People”

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  I visted CPL Doss last week

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  The NAACP in New York protesting outside the theater asking for the boycott of “The Birth of a Nation”. 1947

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  My great-grandmother and her friend Sherry in 1969. On the back, Sherry wrote: “Brenda, always remember our fun times together, from one crazy thing to another.”

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  Portrait of Kaw-u-tz, a Caddo Native American, 1906.

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  Osama bin Laden photographed with several Mujahideen fighters during the Soviet Invasion, Afghanistan 1988. .

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  The military commissar is the father and soul of his unit. USSR, 1941

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  Bush’s legacy (Chappate, 2009)

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  |Pan American Airlines 1956|

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  My 8-year-old dad with his four pets. 1932

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  My grandfather at 2 years old napping in his father’s mail wagon 116 years ago (My favorite family picture for all time).

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  ‘Mr. Sontink, reporting obidinatly that I’m in love with you’ – from Ukrainian Sich Rifleman ‘Ukrainian Volunteer’ magazine, 1917

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  John McCain dragged from Trúc Bạch Lake by North Vietnamese militia and civilians after being shot down. Hanoi, October 26, 1967. .

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