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15-year-old African American student Dorothy Counts starts the school year at Harry Harding High School in Charlotte, North Carolina, amid protests, screams, and insults from White people who were against school integration, on September 4, 1957 .
‘Basement with supplies’ — USSR, 1973s.
The inside of a cell where an inmate was killed during the New Mexico State Penitentiary riot. During the riot, inmates, who’d obtained blowtorches, went to the protective custody unit, where they began using them, first on the doors, then on inmates, who were seen as ‘snitches’, 1980 .
Mom (Estelle) at 16, high school year book photo, 1951, Manhattan, NY
Jeffrey Doucet is escorted through an airport in Baton Rouge to face trial for kidnapping and raped an 11-year-old boy. On his right is the boy’s father, Gary Plauche. In one of the world’s most infamous cases of vigilantism, Plauche shot Doucet on live TV moments later, Louisiana, 1984 .
Instructions to all persons of Japanese ancestry, California, 1942
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“Labour clears the way” – UK, Labour Party poster, 1910
“Hitler came the closest” American poster, artist Boris Artzybasheff, 1943
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“Only the stupidest cows vote for their own butcher”, by Rudolf Herrmann, 1932.
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USS Kearsarge (BB-5) illuminated with electric lights, while visiting Portsmough, England in July 1903.
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