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James Cameron, 88, stands in a gallery of Black Holocaust Museum, which he founded, in Milwaukee. When Cameron was 16, he was nearly lynched in Indiana. The noose was around his neck, but he was spared when someone in the mob vouched for him at the last moment (Wisconsin, 2003) .
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German POWs from the North Africa Campaign arriving at Camp Aliceville, Alabama, US to work as farmers during World War II (1943)
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Iraqis watching the trial of Saddam Hussein in a cafe along the river Tigres. (2004)
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"Keep the world clean" - Anti-Israel poster from a demonstration by the Norwiegian student of the Warsaw Medical University, 2023
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Baby Anne Frank in the arms of her mother Edith, with her older sister Margot standing nearby, June 1929
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September 1st 1975: Daniel "Chappie" James USAF becomes the first black American to be promoted to 4-Star General.
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Cairo Mary, bouncer at Shanghai Red's in San Pedro, California, escorts a customer to the door in 1953.
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During the Battle of the Bulge, PFC Andy Masiero & Staff Sgt Urban Minicozzi of the 75th Infantry Division examine the headgear of PFC Masiero in the Ardennes. The young GI’s helmet was pierced by an enemy’s bullet which drew blood from his temple, but left him otherwise unscathed. 1944.
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