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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.
My Great Grandmother Violet in 1919, London
“The face at the window” — Illustration from World War I (circa November 1914) depicting a towering German soldier at John Bull’s window. By artist Franz Jüttner.
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Adolf Hitler in a class photo in 1901 (back row, farthest right)
ATF agent John Osburg with a gun and a Nazi flag confiscated from Operation Red Dog conspirators. The conspirators were white supremacists trying to sail to Dominica and stage a paid coup there. April 1981
Granny, probably 1946ish. She was probably about 20 here.
1972 antisemitic USSR poster depicting Jews as capitalists
column of Italian,German, Romanian and Hungarian soldiers retreating in the Russian steppe after the defeat of Stalingrad, Eastern Front – January 1943
“DON’T COMMIT A CRIME” A warning poster at a Puregold supermarket in the Philippines, 2020
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