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A photo of Ora Ralph Thomas, an Illinois sheriff's deputy during the Prohibition Era. In 1925, Thomas, who also led an anti-Klan paramilitary, was assassinated by three Ku Klux Klan members. He shot and killed all three of his own murderers before collapsing from his injuries .

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Young father holding his daughter at the Michigan state fair, 1973

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Segregationists taunting 6-year-old Ruby Bridges with a black doll in a coffin as she enters an all white school in New Orleans. One woman continuously threatened to poison her.

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A rare photograph of Nikola Tesla's funeral, 12th January 1943. His casket is covered with flags of USA and Yugoslavia.

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Grammie. She was a midwife, a mother of 11 and a grandmother to many. She was the matriarch and not to be crossed. She is still a family legend

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Soviet Armenian illustration (1957) showing a mob in the US blocking a young black student's path to school.

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Japanese kamikaze pilots pose with a puppy before their final suicide mission in Okinawa, 1945

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US soldiers interrogate an elderly Vietnamese man and two children in My Lai. Photographed by Ronald Haeberle, who did not see what ultimately happened to them. March 16, 1968.

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Elizabeth Plane (1859-1914), daughter of a Cornish copper miner, settled in northern Queensland, widowed four times before she was 40, mother of three; photographed here in 1886

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My late Mother and Father - 1968

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Assassination of Socialist leader Inejirō Asanuma by anti-communist Otoya Yamaguchi, Japan, 1960

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More than a 100,000 Iranian women take to the street to protest against the newly formed Islamic government’s compulsory hijab ruling, 8 March 1979

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A photo of Ora Ralph Thomas, an Illinois sheriff's deputy during the Prohibition Era. In 1925, Thomas, who also led an anti-Klan paramilitary, was assassinated by three Ku Klux Klan members. He shot and killed all three of his own murderers before collapsing from his injuries .

Young father holding his daughter at the Michigan state fair, 1973

Segregationists taunting 6-year-old Ruby Bridges with a black doll in a coffin as she enters an all white school in New Orleans. One woman continuously threatened to poison her.

A rare photograph of Nikola Tesla's funeral, 12th January 1943. His casket is covered with flags of USA and Yugoslavia.

Grammie. She was a midwife, a mother of 11 and a grandmother to many. She was the matriarch and not to be crossed. She is still a family legend

Soviet Armenian illustration (1957) showing a mob in the US blocking a young black student's path to school.

Japanese kamikaze pilots pose with a puppy before their final suicide mission in Okinawa, 1945

US soldiers interrogate an elderly Vietnamese man and two children in My Lai. Photographed by Ronald Haeberle, who did not see what ultimately happened to them. March 16, 1968.

Elizabeth Plane (1859-1914), daughter of a Cornish copper miner, settled in northern Queensland, widowed four times before she was 40, mother of three; photographed here in 1886

My late Mother and Father - 1968

Assassination of Socialist leader Inejirō Asanuma by anti-communist Otoya Yamaguchi, Japan, 1960

More than a 100,000 Iranian women take to the street to protest against the newly formed Islamic government’s compulsory hijab ruling, 8 March 1979