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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)
“We have known pogroms, racism and oppression” cartoon from South Africa (2002)
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The Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew crying on national television while announcing the separation of Singapore from Malaysia, 1965. (2000×1128)
Kmart Cafeteria Specials 1977
Two of the eighteen Allied POWs rescued by the USS Queenfish (SS-393) from the sunken Rakuyo Maru on September 17, 1944.
Vote Remain, Brexit (2016)
Soviet soldiers at the Reich Chancellery are examining German awards that were never presented – 2 May, 1945
The last photo ever taken of rapper Tupac Shakur, just 20 minutes before his death in a drive-by shooting, 1996. Seated next to him is producer Marion “Suge” Knight, who has been accused of arranging the murder of rapper Christopher Wallace, aka “Biggie Smalls” just 6 months after (3552×2311)
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