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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)
”Parade of the Mighty Warriors” – political cartoon made by Polish-American artist Arthur Szyk, 1942
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My grandmother grew up above her father’s Corner Market in San Francisco, California during the Great Depression. She would always tell me “We were poor, but we didn’t know it. Because everybody was poor in our neighborhood, and we had ice cream, and candy from Daddy’s Shop. So we didn’t know.”
‘Look, he’s eating it!’, Soviet Union, probably 1980s
Decolonization of Africa, USSR, c. 1959
Ba’athist Iraqi officials overlook damage in Belgrade after 1999 bombing of Serbia, 1999
“June 22 1941: The Road to Freedom” – Estonian pro-Nazi poster.
Advertisement for Counselor’s Turned-On Bath Scales ||| From Seventeen Magazine, April 1970
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