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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)
Operation Magic Carpet, in which Yemenite Jews ran away to Israel in 1949 (600 × 386)
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My great great great great grandmother who lived from 1799-1892
Soviet propaganda poster from the 1960s
As much as I want, you say.
One of William Shatner’s ads for the Commodore VIC-20, 1981
A Japanese boy waiting in line at the crematorium with his deceased baby brother on his back, Nagasaki, August 1945.
“Self determination for the Black Belt. Vote communist”, USA, 1932
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