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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)
“The Arrest of Liberty” USSR, 1960’s
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Dynamiting the remains of the statue known as Gargantua in the closed Mirapolis amusement park near Paris. It was then the 19th largest statue in the world. 1995
Game Boy Color Ad 1998
An allied soldier takes advantage of the opportunity to have a bath in the port city of Tobruk Libya. 17 February 1942.
Actress Pam Grier – 1970s
«See how it covers over black» Black racist stereotypes used in a Elliott’s Paint and Varnish Company advertisement, 1935
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