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'I Am An American'. Japanese-American Tatsuro Masuda unfurled this banner at his store on 13th and Franklin street, Oakland, following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Masuda would be sent to an internment camp a few months later and his store would be sold. March 1942.
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Carl Newton Mahan plays with a doll during a court hearing after he shot and killed another boy during a fight. At age six, Mahan became the youngest person to ever be tried for murder in American history, Kentucky, 1929 .
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Mose Wright takes the witness stand and points to Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, identifying them as the two men who kidnapped and lynched his 14-year-old nephew Emmett Till, Mississippi, September 21, 1955 .
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Dr Raymond Martinot standing at the freezer containing the body of his wife preserved by self-made cryonics, in 1993. He was also frozen at his death, but following a failure of the temperature control system, their bodies were finally cremated. (1260x700)
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1924 Pic of Kid stealing air from a Car's Spare Tire to fill his football in Washington DC
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Croatian Ustaše guards laughing while covered in human blood from people they killed, Independent State of Croatia, 1941 (622x900)
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Liberated prisoners of Dachau camp beat a camp guard with a shovel (April 29. 1945)
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