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High school student Walter Gadsden being attacked by police dogs in Birmingham, Alabama during a civil Rights march in May 1963. [1024 x 763]

u/Anti_colonialist — 16 hours ago
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Patrons of the Stonewall Inn in New York City fought back when police raided the bar on June 28, 1969, initiating the Stonewall Rebellion which in turn sparked the emergence of the modern LGBTQ+ liberation movements in the United States.

u/Anti_colonialist — 7 days ago

John Hazel, 21, Harold Wilmot, 32, and John Richards, 22, arriving in the U.K. from Jamaica aboard the Empire Windrush circa 1948.

u/Anti_colonialist — 5 days ago

Children relax atop a rock and swim in the north end of the Central Park Lake while others enjoy boating in Central Park, June 29, 1944.

u/Anti_colonialist — 7 days ago