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The inmate photo of Dan Tso-Se, a 14-year-old Navajo orphan, sentenced to 10 years imprisonment at the U.S. Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas. Tso-Se killed four fellow tribe members, whom he said had treated him like a "slave", on a reservation in New Mexico when he was 13 in 1908 .
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The view inside Fort Sam Houston as 64 soldiers of the all-black 24th Infantry Regiment are court-martialed for mutiny. After being repeatedly harassed and attacked by the police, the soldiers had snapped. A total of 156 soldiers marched on Houston, where they killed 16 people, 1917 .
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My grandma looking like a movie star in her wedding photo Pittsburgh 1950s
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This is Yuri Valentinovich Knorozov, the Soviet ethnographer who deciphered the Mayan writing system, 1980.
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Fire bombed Greyhound Bus of the civil rights Freedom Riders following an attack by the Ku Klux Klan. Anniston, Alabama. 14 May 1961.
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A man in Afghanistan is condemned to death for being a supporter of the communist regime. He would later be shot and beheaded 1980.
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Cool looking kids, family portrait 1969, had this picture on a hard drive I found at my grandparents
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Johnny Clem, the “Drummer Boy of Chickamauga” who shot and killed a Confederate officer and rose through the ranks to Major General at the time of his retirement in 1916.
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