Your favourite powerful historical images

[Anonymous]

"Tragedy by the sea"
https://www.latimes.com/visuals/photography/la-me-fw-archives-gaunt-pultizer-20170202-story.html


They just watched their 19 month old getting swept away by the water. I was in the Newseum with my one year old in a stroller when I read that and totally lost my sh*t.

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Anonymous wrote:When I think of the horrors of colonialism, I think of the photo of the man whose daughter was killed by the Belgian imperial forces as punishment for him having not met his quota of rubber for the day. They delivered her hands and feet to him and the photo is of him staring at it. Heartbreaking.

I vomitted while reading King Leopold’s Ghost.

[Anonymous]

The priest firefighters are carrying through the wreckage of 9/11.

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[Anonymous]

From the Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/files/2012/11/2012-11-20T154010Z_01_SJS23_RTRIDSP_3_PALESTINIANS-ISRAEL-COLLABORATORS.jpg

Streets of Gaza.

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

This Theater building was being used as an emergency bomb shelter for children in Ukraine.



It was marked “children.”

The Russians bombed it anyway, killing the children.

[Anonymous]

I think about this picture a lot.

[Anonymous]

From left, George E.C. Hayes, Thurgood Marshall, and James M. Nabrit join hands outside the U.S. Supreme Court after justices declared in the Brown v. Board of Education decision that separate but equal schools for black children were unconstitutional, in Washington on May 17, 1954

[Anonymous]

8 year old Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins at the Capitol Crawl.

https://boundarystones.weta.org/2021/09/16/capitol-crawl

[Anonymous]

Terrified little Elian Gonzalez with INS machine guns in his face. Won a Pulitzer.

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Anonymous wrote:I think about this picture a lot.

I do too

[Anonymous]

Tank man was an angel sent to stop the military from killing the people.
He came from another dimension and returned home.
And no I am not kidding.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:From the Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/files/2012/11/2012-11-20T154010Z_01_SJS23_RTRIDSP_3_PALESTINIANS-ISRAEL-COLLABORATORS.jpg

Streets of Gaza.

That is horrifying. What is the story?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:8 year old Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins at the Capitol Crawl.

https://boundarystones.weta.org/2021/09/16/capitol-crawl

This was a pivotal moment for the disability movement and the photo and videos of Jennifer crawling on her hands up the Capitol steps directly influenced lawmakers and public opinion leading to Bush signing the ADA a few months later.

This photo actually changed lives and was too difficult for lawmakers to ignore a little girl who couldn’t get into the building without crawling up so many stairs (requiring water breaks and breaks with her inhaler) because the Capitol wasn’t acccessible.