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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 .
“American Diplomacy”, USSR, 1986
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My sweet little great grandparents in 1986
Scottish sniper from C Company, 5th Battalion, The Black Watch in position in a ruined building in Gennep, the Netherlands, 14 February 1945
Grandparents after the War
“There’s no way like the American Way” by Margaret Bourke-White, 1937
1929 – Boarding of British Airship R101 – This would likely be the Airships last voyage as it crashed shortly after in France. (1170 x 847)
“Profilo Continuo” — 360 degrees profile of Mussolini; futurist sculpture by Renato Bertelli, 1933
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