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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 .
Portrait of Alcha Ellen Hinkle, a Kansas woman, circa 1904. She’d have been sixteen or seventeen at the time.
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I was a fighter pilot in about 1972
I would love to have seen this. Just once would be enough, I bet.
“When I was his age I never ate sand. Just mud pies.” Tampax 1970
Mugshot of Bertha Boronda, the woman who was arrested for cutting off her husband’s penis with a razor in 1907.
Susan Spotless says, “Daddy, you forgot…every litter bit hurts!” 1965
Two peasants from the region around Rome. A daguerreotype by Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, 1842.
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