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Dorothy Counts entering Harding High School in Charlotte, NC. Circa 1957. First Black to attend the school.

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A photo of Charles N. Hunter, the founder of the first North Carolina Colored State Fair.

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Three young children working as Oyster Shuckers, during the Great Depression (1930s)

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A photograph of Clara Faubert, a young woman from Haiti, before leaving for France. She was married to Felix Martin (Colored American Magazine. January-February 1902, Volume 4 Issue 3. February)

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The truth is that work, or rather, working, has never and will never make anyone free because the false freedom it gives is only short-lived due to what work itself provides, literally and metaphorically

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Two Senegalese young women stop for a second during a hairdressing session.

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A photograph of a Mangbetu baby, a group of native tribes from the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Mangbetu people elongated their skull as a symbol of majesty and status. This elongation received the name of Lipombo' and began right after birth.

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An eagle view of Hiroshima, before the bombing (above) and after the bombing (below).

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Newspapers. The Courier-Journal. Cassius Clay, better known as Muhammad Ali, shows two fellow boxers some of his techniques. (Louisville, Kentucky. January 30, 1959) The text below the photograph reads: "Know-how...Cassius Clay (right) who won the Golden Gloves Award in light-heavyweight title last year and is to defend it starting Monday night at the Armory, shows Barney Oldfield how to make a fist. Looking on is Mike Woosley, who, as Oldfield will be making his first start in the amateur classic."

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A group of firefighters (Haiti, 1910s)

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Newspapers. Liverpool Echo. "John Lennon shot dead. Crazed gunman charged" John Lennon, founder of The Beatles (October 9, 1940 - December 8, 1980)

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"Taking Haiti Seriously" by Peter Felten, explores the writings of Mary A. Renda "Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of US Imperialism, 1915-1940" (Reviews in american History 30, 2002, 471-476. John Hopkins University Press)

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One of the many wounded survivors of the second atomic bomb dropped by the USA in Japan, a woman who has scars across her face and neck. (Nagasaki, 1961)

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Three black women walking together come across a photographer traveling the USA (Marshall, Texas, 1899. Author: Gabriele Münter)

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Khe Sanh, South Vietnam, June 14 1968.