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My Parents in 1950
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in 1991 Bernie Sanders delivered a speech to an empty U.S congress, advising against military intervention in the Gulf War.
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Hugh Thompson, the hero who stopped a massacre committed by US troops in the Vietnamese village of My Lai by landing his helicopter in the line of fire, 1968.
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Mother waits on the street with her little sleeping baby on one arm and her little girl besides her, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, December of 1941
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In segregated Tennessee of the 1950's, the Memphis Zoo allowed only 'colored people' to enter on Thursday of each week. Photo credit: Earnest Withers (966x724)
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Baseball player Old Hoss Radbourn (photographed in 1886) in what is apparently the first known photograph of someone flipping the bird
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in 1991 Bernie Sanders delivered a speech to an empty U.S congress, advising against military intervention in the Gulf War.
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Extending gloved hands skyward in racial protest, U.S. athletes Smith and Carlos stare downward during the playing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City on Oct. 16, 1968.
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"Come on in, I'll treat you well!I used to know your daddy! " Anti-war poster by C. D. Batchelor from 1936 showing how European young men are getting involved in war
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