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Fourteen year old Mohawk and future Olympic gold medalist Waneek Horn-Miller cradling her younger sister after she herself was bayoneted in the chest by a Canadian soldier. Quebec, Oka Crisis, 26 September 1990.
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On August 7th 1930, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith were lynched in the town center of Marion, Indiana. Photographer Lawrence Beitler captured the scene, creating what became the most iconic photograph of lynching in America. The case was never solved.
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A flag-waving veteran of the Red Army confronting an anti-communist protester in Moscow, circa 1990.
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Mary Wallace, the first female bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority, photographed sitting in her bus in 1974. In 1974, at the age of 22, Mary Wallace became the first woman to drive a Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) bus.
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Classmates on the first day of the school in Beslan, 1st September 2004. No one survived from this photo.
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15-year-old African American student Dorothy Counts starts the school year at Harry Harding High School in Charlotte, North Carolina, amid protests, screams, and insults from White people who were against school integration, on September 4, 1957 .
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My paternal grandparents at their wedding in 1973 and all 4 great grandparents.
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A biker group drinking beer and riding through underground tunnels on their motorcycles late at night, Moscow 1990.
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