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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 .
1983 Soviet Union stamp. “The righteous act of the Arabs of Palestine will prevail” is the translation.
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Inhabitants of St. Kilda, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, 1926. The islands had been inhabited since antiquity, but would be evacuated in 1930. Big image, zoom in for detail.
Danish resistance fighters stealthily confront German occupiers, 1945
Israeli Plan | USSR | 1980s
The new LADY KENMORE washer and dryer, 1958.
(Date unknown, ww2 era) Stalin as a lion tamer whipping the nazi leadership
Sister Mary Kenneth Keller, the first woman to earn a doctorate in computer science in the United States, 1965.
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