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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
“I need a couple guys what don’t owe me no money fer a little routine patrol.” Cartoon of soldiers during WWII, 1939-1945.
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Kool-Aid – July 1954
Kim Il Sung makes a speech during a campaign in the 1946 North Korean local elections.
“Girls Education Rights” (Cartoon by Nahid Zamani, Iran, 2021)
Parisians Tear Christian Dior Dress Off Model, 1947
“Shoot it in the white and the black dies with it” South African Business Community anti-boycott poster, 1985.
My grandmother, Margaret, at 16 months old in 1923. She passed away last year at 101 years old.
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