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President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the 1964 Civil Rights Act as Martin Luther King Jr. and others look on, July 2, 1964. LBJ Library photo by Cecil Stoughton.
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Group photo of officers from the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army, a mixed Chinese-Korean force which fought a guerilla war against Imperial Japan in Manchuria between 1936 and 1945. Future leader of North Korea Kim Il-sung is second to the right in the first row as a captain.
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Troops of the 4th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment Marching to the Trenches, Acheux-En-Amiénois, 1916
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On August 18, 1944, at the Liberation, eleven women suspected of collaboration were shorn in Chartres (France) as a sign of humiliation, including Simone Touseau. Photo Robert Capa
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Germans in Prague, evicted from their homes on Strossmayer Square, wait to be deported to allied occupied Germany (1945) (1280x1204)
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Soviet soldiers chatting with children just liberated from Auschwitz, January 1945
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British and Nazi flags hang over coffins of British children abandoned to die on the German Black Forest mountain by their teacher, which was covered up by both govts in 1936. (2560x1600)
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80 years ago today, on January 27, 1945, Auschwitz is liberated. In this photo a doctor, center, with the 322nd Rifle Division of the Red Army, walks with a group of survivors at the entrance to the newly liberated Auschwitz I concentration camp. January 1945
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"Soldier, would you mind standing up? I'd like to take your picture,” Robert Capa said to me. “It was the last good picture of my right leg.” — James Conboy Jr (1945)
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