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Alabama Governor George Wallace blocked black students from entering the University of Alabama 6/11/63
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This picture won the Pulitzer Breaking News Photography 2007 award. it is called The Power of One
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June 11, 1963, Thich Quang Duc, a Buddhist monk from Vietnam, burned himself to death at a busy intersection in downtown Saigon to bring attention to the repressive policies of the Catholic Diem regime that controlled the South Vietnamese government at the time.
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A father, in Congo, looks towards the hands of his five year old daughter, severed off for not harvesting enough produce.
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“At the instant a few of the train people saw our tanks and first realized they had been liberated. Many of those close to the train are not yet aware of their liberation.”
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The photograph depicts a white teenager, Joseph Rakes, about to assault black lawyer and civil-rights activist Ted Landsmark with a flagpole bearing the American flag.
This picture was taken by Frank Fournier in Columbia on Saturday 16 November 1985, a few days after the eruption of the Nevado Del Ruiz volcano. The landslide provoked by the eruption had already killed 24,000 people as the local authorities had taken no preventive measures despite the warnings of vulcanologists. In this natural catastrophe, the young Omayra Sánchez was caught in the town of Armero in debris transported by the mud. For two full days and three nights, rescue workers tried to free
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persephone sunset moonstone For two full days and three nights, rescue workers tried to free her with the whole world following her ordeal on TV or in the papers. The crane and the hydraulic pump that were needed to clear the debris didn’t arrive in time. Omarya’s hips had been injured by metal bars and her legs were trapped. She was exhausted and despite her impressive faith and calm, she died of a heart attack on 16 November.
DJ J. I remember this clearly...her face was etched into my brain permanently, and I cried for her. I cry again seeing this. All I could think of was.."If they cared enough, they could just FREE her!" This was one of my saddest memories...
Child in a Ku Klux Klan outfit, curiously approaching black a riot policeman.
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this photo of a young girl. She had survived the Holocaust and after she was asked to draw what "home" looked like to her. Not only is the drawing striking, but the look in her eyes unforgettable, eyes that can translate all that pain and suffering.
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Mother and Child of Japanese Descent Leaving Bainbridge Island for Relocation Camp~WWII
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Two little girls in a West German street chat with their grandparents in the window of their home in the eastern zone, separated only by a barbed wire barricade. © Keystone/Getty Images
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Photograph of an unknown man during the Depression c.1932
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A woman attacks a nazi in a demonstration in Växjö, 1985 (Sweden). She was a Polish woman who had been in a concentration camp during the second world war. Minutes later, thousands of anti-nazis chased the nazis away
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Civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama [1965]
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The chief Raoni cries when he learns that brazilian president Dilma released the beginning of construction of the hydroelectric plant of Belo Monte, even after tens of thousands of letters and emails addressed to her and which were ignored as the more than 600 000 signatures. That is, the death sentence of the peoples of Great Bend of the Xingu river is enacted.
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persephone sunset moonstone Belo Monte will inundate at least 400,000 hectares of forest, an area bigger than the Panama Canal, thus expelling 40,000 indigenous and local populations and destroying habitat valuable for many species - all to produce electricity at a high social, economic and environmental cost, which could easily be generated with greater investments in energy efficiency. It was brought to my attention that there is a petition we all can sign to help support these indigenous people and the Amazon. Please take a second to check it out below or comparable petitions that are available. Thank you.
Tammy Cheateaux Done.
Louise Ord Done today 5/2/12
i wanna know the story! i hate when i find things without sources!
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persephone sunset moonstone Here is a Georgia State Trooper in riot gear at a KKK protest in a north Georgia city back in the 80s. The Trooper is black. Standing in front of him and touching his shield is a curious little boy dressed in a Klan hood and robe. I have stared at this picture and wondered what must have been going through that Trooper’s mind. Before the Trooper is an innocent child who is being taught to hate him because of the color of his skin. The child doesn’t understand what he is being taught, and at this point he doesn’t seem to care. Like any other child his curiosity takes hold and he wants to explore this new thing that this man is holding probably because he can see his reflection in it and that’s a neat thing and he wants to check it out. In this picture I see innocence mixed with hate, the irony of a black man protecting the right of white people to assemble in protest against him, temperance in the face of ignorance, and hope that racism can be broken because this young boy may remember
c. 1900. Gelatin silver print, 3 1/16 x 2 1/16" (7.8 x 5.3 cm). Gift of Thomas Walther
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c. 1910. Gelatin silver print, 5 x 6 3/4" (12.7 x 17.1 cm). The New York Times Collection
c. 1917. Gelatin silver prints adhered to album page, 3 3/8 x 5 1/16" (8.5 x 12.8 cm). Gift of Peter J. Cohen
Convention of former slaves: Annie Parram, age 104; Anna Angales, age 105; Elizabeth Berkeley, 125; Sadie Thompson, 110. Washington, D.C., 1916.
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Melissa Goldstein wow, this is an amazing photo.
Rose Sanderson [i.e., Sanderman] (LOC) Bain News Service,, publisher. Rose Sanderson [i.e., Sanderman] 1913 Feb. 10
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Lyman, Polish tobacco farmers near Windsor Locks, Connecticut (LOC) Delano, Jack, photographer. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Lyman, Polish tobacco farmers near Windsor Locks, Connecticut 1940 Sept.
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FSA - T[enant] P[urchase] borrowers? by their house, Puerto Rico (LOC) Delano, Jack,, photographer. FSA - T[enant] P[urchase] borrowers? by their house, Puerto Rico 1941 Dec. [or] 1942 Jan.
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Jack Whinery and his family, homesteaders, Pie Town, New Mexico (LOC) Lee, Russell,, 1903-1986,, photographer. Jack Whinery and his family, homesteaders, Pie Town, New Mexico 1940 Sept.
The Faro Caudill [family] eating dinner in their dugout, Pie Town, New Mexico (LOC) Lee, Russell,, 1903-1986,, photographer. The Faro Caudill [family] eating dinner in their dugout, Pie Town, New Mexico 1940 Oct.
childhood....... children asleep on bed during square dance mcintosh county okla russell lee photographer 1939 or 1940 library of congress collection
Scene at square dance in rural home in McIntosh County, Oklahoma (LOC) Lee, Russell,, 1903-1986,, photographer. Scene at square dance in rural home in McIntosh County, Oklahoma [1939 or 1940]
Woman at the community laundry on Saturday afternoon, FSA ... camp, Robstown, Tex. (LOC) Rothstein, Arthur,, 1915-1985,, photographer. Woman at the community laundry on Saturday afternoon, FSA ... camp, Robstown, Tex. 1942 Jan.
Day laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss. Delta (LOC) Wolcott, Marion Post,, 1910-1990,, photographer. Day laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss. Delta 1940 Nov
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Day-laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss. (LOC) Wolcott, Marion Post,, 1910-1990,, photographer. Day-laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss. 1939 Nov.
Bayou Bourbeau plantation, a Farm Security Administration cooperative, vicinity of Natchitoches, La. Three Negro children sitting on the porch of a house (LOC) Wolcott, Marion Post,, 1910-1990,, photographer. Bayou Bourbeau plantation, a Farm Security Administration cooperative, vicinity of Natchitoches, La. Three Negro children sitting on the porch of a house 1940 August
"Backstage" at the "girlie" show at the Vermont state fair, Rutland (LOC) Delano, Jack,, photographer. "Backstage" at the "girlie" show at the Vermont state fair, Rutland 1941 Sept.
Children in the tenement district Brockton Mass Delano, Jack Photographer 1940 December Library of Congress collection
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persephone sunset moonstone Buddhist monks asked the regime to lift its ban on flying the traditional Buddhist flag, to grant Buddhism the same rights as Catholicism, to stop detaining Buddhists and to give Buddhist monks and nuns the right to practice and spread their religion. While burning Thich Quang Duc never moved a muscle.