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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)
American soldier who was a German POW for three months (April 1945)
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A 13-year-old Palestinian boy lies dead on streets of Haifa during the civil war in Mandatory Palestine. Passing by him are British soldiers in the process of withdrawing from the Mandate, April 1948 .
China Propaganda on USA, Xinhua News Agency, 2021
Burnt head of a Japanese soldier propped up on a captured Japanese tank by US Marines in Guadalcanal
Remember! Each day of peace is paid for by 20 million Soviet lives! // Soviet Union // 1984
Presenting the losers, 1970s.
China Poster on USA, 2021
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