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Named Leslie Benjamin, the Brooks family’s newborn son is welcomed by his 13 sisters after his birth at home in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 1954.

u/Anti_colonialist — 1 day ago
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“Drunken” Ira Hayes in a West LA jail cell (1953). Despite national fame as one of the Marines who raised the flag on Iwo Jima, the Native American veteran would be arrested 52 times for public intoxication after the war, self-medicating his PTSD with alcohol. He froze to death while drunk in 1955.

u/Chemical-Elk-1299 — 1 day ago
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Warren Nutter, 19, reads a letter from his mother while on death row (1957). He was the second-youngest man sentenced to death in Iowa. After his death sentence was commuted to life in prison, he served 65 years at the Iowa State Penitentiary, becoming the longest-serving inmate in Iowa history.

u/Extreme_Process3632 — 1 day ago
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Lili Elbe, 1926. She was one of the first known people to have gender-affirming surgeries, but her recordings, along other of the research and work of Magnus Hirschfeld, were burned by nazis. Her story inspired the movie The Danish Girl (2015) decades later.

I just reupload this to have a better written title.

u/TheToledoMan — 1 day ago
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Kathleen Hanna with "SLUT" written in her stomach, circa. early 1990s.

Realized I chose the wrong picture in the previous post so I deleted it.

u/TheToledoMan — 1 day ago
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Carolyn and her husband Roy Bryant on trial for the murder of Emmett Till. Carolyn falsely accused the 14 year old of assaulting her and Roy tortured him to death in retaliation, September 22nd 1955.

u/Sensitive_Ad_1752 — 2 days ago
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Rhodesian Security Forces at the rests of Air Rhodesia Flight 825. It was shot down by rebels, 5 people survived (3 crawled away, 2 hid) after the rebels massacred all survivors they found, 1978

Taken in 1978

u/Extreme-Shopping74 — 1 day ago
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In the 1950s you could mail order a pony or a burro from the Sears catalog. Shipped Express of course.

u/zadraaa — 1 day ago
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A colorized portrait of an official royal executioner from Rewah (Madhya Pradesh), Central India, dating from around 1898–1903. He is clad in armor studded with prominent metal spikes, wears a crown like headdress featuring similar spikes, and holds a large "tulwar" sword.

u/sausageandbeer1 — 1 day ago