r/TheWayWeWere

Myself, my best friend, my little brother and little sister about to go on an adventure in 1983. We would ride our bikes for hours. I'm still besties with her after 45 years.

My grandma and my mom, in a Photo Booth at Disneyland, circa aprox 1955. This was a tiny photo inside one of those keychain “viewers” which I found and took apart so that I could have the photo reprinted at a normal size. I couldn’t be more happy with the results.

He died of his wounds July 17th 1863
He was shot in the chest

Hanging directly above the school's entrance is an effigy of a lynched Black man.Protesters used this, along with explicit threat signs attached to the figure, to intimidate the students.Following the landmark Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education, a federal court ordered Mansfield High School to admit Black teenagers. However, an angry mob of several hundred white residents surrounded the school during registration days to block entry. Due to the violent backlash, lack of local law enforcement support, and the governor's alignment with the segregationists, the three Black plaintiffs were forced to remain segregated and ride public buses to an all-Black school in Fort Worth. The defiance successfully delayed integration at the school until 1965.

This photo is from 1983. I was 4. grandpa was an amateur photographer who loved me to death and took tons of black and white photos of me that he then developed in his bathroom/homemade darkroom. most of them I look like a normal kid but this one... I feel I am
about to start crawling out of the photo lol

The second pic is on Samoa, during WW 2. He was an incredible man, lived to be 100.