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A cotton sharecropper with his family at their home in Hale County, Alabama, 1935
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Mayor of Foča, Hamid Muftić, who was boiled alive in a brandy cauldron by Chetniks in December 1941 and hanged his skeleton on the Džaferbeg Mosque
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A man on the beach is fined for indecent clothing, Heemskerk, Netherlands, 1931
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Gary Kasparov in a chess match against the Deep Blue super computer, the first time a world champion lost to a computer. May 11th 1997.
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A photo of 16-year-old Yusuf Hawkins with his mother. In 1989, Hawkins was murdered by a mob of as many as 30 white youths who mistakenly thought he was dating a local white girl. Hawkins was one of three black people to be murdered by racist white mobs in New York in the 1980s .
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This is one of the few SFW examples of Alfred Cheney Johnston’s portraits of Ziegfeld Follies showgirls from the 1920s. The quality and sheer amount of images of these ladies that were discovered after his death is atonishing. (606x766)
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Alabama eatery where a family orders ice cream from the "colored" side of the counter. (Gordon Parks, 1956)
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