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Detroit, Michigan, circa 1911. "Dime Savings Bank building under construction

West Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1910. "Beach Club." Subtropical South Florida, splashed in a riotous rainbow of grays.

June 1941. "Parker Dam power project. View from California side into Arizona."

July 31, 1921. Washington, D.C. "Pie eating contest at Tidal Basin bathing beach." In the back row: the blurry but unmistakable facial contours of Iola Swinnerton.

August 1942. Detroit, Michigan. "Kids at ballgame, Briggs Stadium."

VANITY FAIR 1915

Valentine HUGO 1914

 

 

Valentin SEROV Nicolas II de Russie 1896

V. PAVLOV A Biblical Scene 1891

Stark DAVIS (1885-1950)

MLK Jackson, Mississippi 1966

Coretta is upset with her husband, who had been attacked the night before by a disturbed white racist but had not defended himself. Though the police urged King to press charges, he refused. “The system we live under creates people such as this youth,” he said. “I’m not interested in pressing charges. I’m interested in changing the kind of system that produces such men.”

(Fuente: TIME)

thefreedomblues:

King said in an interview that this photograph was taken as he tried to explain to his daughter Yolanda why she could not go to Funtown, a whites-only amusement park in Atlanta. King claims to have been tongue-tied when speaking to her. “One of the most painful experiences I have ever faced was to see her tears when I told her Funtown was closed to colored children, for I realized the first dark cloud of inferiority had floated into her little mental sky.”

(Fuente: TIME)