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My great aunt Julie (left) and unidentified girl, late 1920s, NY
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.
Old Nazis living in the West: “but it was a long time ago and it’s not true!” // Soviet Union // 1989
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“Freedom flotilla” 5/31/2010
Joseph Goebbels glares at Jewish photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1933.
‘STOP! Thieves and parasites, hands off the Victory Day!’ – 2016 poster by Russian communists decrying the appropriation of originaly Soviet holiday by Putin’s regime.
Father and son goofing off in the 1910s
John Howard Griffin posing as a black man in the Deep South as part of an experiment to see life and segregation from the other side of the colour line. He later published a book about it titled Black Like Me, 1959
Gender is death — it kills identity, soul and body – Posters/Placards from a Polish branch of the Extremist Right Wing ‘Antigender’ Movement (Early 2010s)
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