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On May 10th 1973 a man entered a bank in Kenora Ont. armed with a rifle and a ‘dead man’s switch’ connected to a bomb in his mouth. He was shot leaving the bank, activating the switch, detonating the bomb. His identity remains unknown.
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
“Let electricity do it”, United States 1936 (from the Milne Museum of Electricity)
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Swedish weightlifter rejoices after successfully lifting weights at the Olympic Games in Montreal, 1976 .
A German soldier is about to shoot a Jewish man in Vinnytsia. 1941. The victim is sitting on the edge of an excavation with many dead bodies inside. This image is titled “The last Jew in Vinnitsa”. Vinnitsa, Ukraine
Josiah Harlan, Prince of Ghor an American born in Pennsylvania who travelled to Afghanistan with the intention of making himself a king. He failed. (1838-1845)
Capitalism: I’m sorry, but I don’t see poverty in our free world. // Soviet Union // 1960s
Paul Grüninger was a Swiss police chief who disobeyed orders so he could save about 3,600 Jewish refugees. He falsified their documents to indicate that they arrived when the legal entry of refugee was still legal. Grüninger was later fired, convicted of misconduct, and stripped of his pension.
“The Republican is the Platform of the Negro”-1861
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