Your favourite powerful historical images

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think about this picture a lot.

I do too

If you haven't already, read "Hazel and Elizabeth: Two Women of Little Rock", by David Margolick. Powerful book.

I looked up the girl who is standing to Hazel's right, and who is yelling out as many epithets as Hazel, if you look at other pictures of that incident. She is in her 80s and lives in Texas. I wrote her a letter asking about how she feels about that time, but she never responded.

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Anonymous wrote:PP here. Also, this picture of Ruby Bridges is extremely powerful. It is absolutely horrifying what this country put that child through, and yet she radiates strength in the photo.

Yes. This photo is one of my favorites.

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Anonymous wrote:If you can see it, you can be it . . .

https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2013.176

I love this one. It was in my classroom along with the little girl looking at Michelle Obama’s portrait.

As a teacher, it is really hard to find positive historical images showing AA children. (Maybe Google has improved, but as recently as the Obama years, it was like an act of self-flagellation searching for images to add to materials.) So much pain was documented and published; not enough joy. For a long time, I enlisted my family and older friends to share their childhood photos just so I had some happy or at least less traumatic mid century images.

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Anonymous wrote:Union and Confederate veterans shaking hands at the 50th anniversary of Gettysburg in 1913:

Yuck. I can't believe Union soldiers would honor illegal racist warlords like this.

Imagine if civil rights groups today threw a banquet in the honor of 1/6 insurrectionists!

This is the final paragraph from Lincoln’s Second Inaugaral Address, March 4, 1865. His compassionate, forgiving soul shines through these words. The sad reality is that most of us are petty, bitter and unforgiving, and, judging from this comment, it is only getting worse.


“With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations.”

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Anti-racist leader, Jim Jones.

May he rot in hell forever.

Jim Jones as much to do with the modern anti-racism movement as Hitler has to do with vegetarianism.

Stop trolling. This was actually a nice thread until the alt-right discovered it.

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Anonymous wrote:Tank Man:



This is mine for so many different reasons. An iconic image of bravery in the face of oppression, but no one knows who Tank Man is. Soon after this photo was taken he melted back into the crowd and into obscurity. And that's overall what happened after Tiananmen Square. The photo is banned in China. There was so much hope after Tiananmen and the fall of the Berlin Wall. We didn't realize that the former would actually be the future.

Mine as well.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Union and Confederate veterans shaking hands at the 50th anniversary of Gettysburg in 1913:

Yuck. I can't believe Union soldiers would honor illegal racist warlords like this.

Imagine if civil rights groups today threw a banquet in the honor of 1/6 insurrectionists!

Lincoln might have done the right thing with the civil war.

But make no mistake, he was still a racist bigot who believed in white supremacy.




This is the final paragraph from Lincoln’s Second Inaugaral Address, March 4, 1865. His compassionate, forgiving soul shines through these words. The sad reality is that most of us are petty, bitter and unforgiving, and, judging from this comment, it is only getting worse.


“With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations.”

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anti-racist leader, Jim Jones.

May he rot in hell forever.

Jim Jones as much to do with the modern anti-racism movement as Hitler has to do with vegetarianism.

Stop trolling. This was actually a nice thread until the alt-right discovered it.

You define “nice thread” as single-sided?

How very closed-minded and bitterly partisan of you.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anti-racist leader, Jim Jones.

May he rot in hell forever.

Jim Jones as much to do with the modern anti-racism movement as Hitler has to do with vegetarianism.

Stop trolling. This was actually a nice thread until the alt-right discovered it.

You define “nice thread” as single-sided?

How very closed-minded and bitterly partisan of you.

Please start your own thread.

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Just throwing this is- Chicago ticker tape parade to welcome home the crew of Apollo 11. My grandpa is front, right as the head of their security detail.

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Anonymous wrote:Just throwing this is- Chicago ticker tape parade to welcome home the crew of Apollo 11. My grandpa is front, right as the head of their security detail.

Very cool!

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Anonymous wrote:

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?

I wonder what that one young man who is staring at the motorcyclists is thinking- it looks like he has a WTF expression- the rest are just ignoring this disgraceful, just inhumane act. its awful what humans will tolerate or find themselves doing.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Union and Confederate veterans shaking hands at the 50th anniversary of Gettysburg in 1913:

Yuck. I can't believe Union soldiers would honor illegal racist warlords like this.

Imagine if civil rights groups today threw a banquet in the honor of 1/6 insurrectionists!

This is the final paragraph from Lincoln’s Second Inaugaral Address, March 4, 1865. His compassionate, forgiving soul shines through these words. The sad reality is that most of us are petty, bitter and unforgiving, and, judging from this comment, it is only getting worse.


“With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations.”

well yes but Lincoln's words and intent were trashed by his VP- the white men on both sides decided it was better to terrorize Black Americans and keep exploiting them and bar them from full citizenship in the photo of the two sides shaking hands- that is what the handshake of the union and confederates symbolized - malice against their darker brethren and the Union betrayal of loyal Black citizenry.

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Anonymous wrote:For me I go back to the moment Goebbels realized his photographer, Eisenstaedt was Jewish.



You can see the evil burning up this man.

They didn’t call him the Poison Dwarf for nothing.

Wrong guy!

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