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NATO (Soviet cartoon, 1979)
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 .
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.
‘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.
My Great Grandmother Violet in 1919, London
Kmart Cafeteria Specials 1977
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”Make way for corn!” Soviet Union, 1960s
Ice Cream on Cream Of Wheat (1956)
”The fists of the Allies breaking the Nazi swastika”, France, 1945
12 year old anti-child labor speaker, Iqbal Masih from Pakistan, who was forced into slave labor at a carpet facory at age 4, jubilates as he is introduced as one of five recipients to receive a Reebok Human Rights Award, Dec. 7, 1994, in Boston. He would be murdered 4 months later.
The beach on Guadalcanal in 1951, six years after WWII ended. (LIFE Magazine Archives – Howard Sochurek Photographer)
My grandparents, married 1953. She passed today at 91 and is now with him again.
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