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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
Old Persian carpet from Iran depicting the geopolitics of Europe, 1913.
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My Grandpa in the late 50s, he was the greatest, miss him
Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X at the Capitol listening to the Senate debate on the Civil Rights bill. The two met for only one minute. 1964 ( 1920×2104)
“Russian airstrikes” (Syria, 2015)
Portrait of a young man with facial scars (Africa c1900)
Iranian illustration (1960) satirising the ‘unveiling’ of Iranian women. Published on the cover of Tofigh, a famous satirical magazine.
A Muslim woman covers the yellow star of her Jewish neighbour with her veil to protect her, Sarajevo, 1941.
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