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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
100 years after WW1 (New York Times, 2014)
‘Let’s Have A Prune Party’ ad from the California Prune Advisory Board in 1958.
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Soviet flag raised over the Reichstag in Berlin, 1945
All begin with “G” – USSR 1941 by Dmitry Moor
Fight for liberty – 1943
”Dividing the Loot!” – American cartoon (”The Washington Evening Star”, artist: Clifford K. Berryman) mocking the Soviet invasion of Poland, September 19, 1939
Luhansk People’s Republic Propaganda Poster depicting the German Führer Adolf Hitler, the U.S. President Barack Obama, and Ukrainian President Peter Poroshenko to be of the same kind. (2015)
Major Jim Howard (Left) talks with his crew chief Ssgt M. P. Price stand on the wing of his P51B Mustang. On the 11th January 1944 he shot down 3 German aircraft attacking B17s on his own and outnumbered 1-30, an action that earned him the Medal of Honor
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