Nine-year-old Emmett Till (1950) enjoys time with his mom, Mamie Till Bradley. A white woman accused Emmett of offensive, flirtatious advances, and the local white men responded by abducting, beating, mutilating, shooting, and sinking Emmett in a nearby river. They were found “not guilty” of murder.Submitted by AdSnoo9734 t3_113ha3u
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Jo-Raquel Tejada, a timeless bombshell (1970)Submitted by xenosthemutant t3_11397t0
My Wife (l) and friends at 80s frat partySubmitted by Big-Selection-676 t3_111o8ty
Bruce Willis taking a call on the set of Die Hard with a Vengeance (1994)Submitted by 1ks t3_111e4mn
Hope Sandoval of Mazzy Star (1993)Submitted by Cool-Swordfish7223 t3_111dwuj
Me, 1980’s on a jungle airstrip in Belize, Central AmericaSubmitted by Glasspar52 t3_110pugw
My Bachelor party getting ready to board the RV we took to Vegas March 1990. Mistakes were made.
The Spice Girls, 1998.Submitted by hawktremor t3_10zxzuq
Shirley Temple posing by a painting of young Shirley Temple. 1945Submitted by vingins t3_10zp4et
Anti-communist militia fighter chasing down Securitate agents down the streets of Bucharest with an acquired AK-74 during the Romanian Revolution (December 1989)
Detroit Tigers Hall of Fame manager Sparky Anderson, age 50, 1984Submitted by nategolon t3_10yybgh
Kareem Abdul Jabbar, photographed in New York City by Richard Avedon, 1963Submitted by holyfruits t3_10yt5x9
Carrie Fisher on a train to Norway to film parts of The Empire Strikes Back in 1979Submitted by eaglemaxie t3_10y6x60
Benedict Cumberbatch and his parents Wanda and Timothy. 1976Submitted by 305FUN t3_10xwfam
Couple posing for a momento, likely 1940s.Submitted by sad_eggy t3_10xu8es
Family reunion 1996. What’s hanging below the camcorder?Submitted by toethumbrn t3_10xc47z
My mom had a nanny that was a Mrs. Doubtfire lookalike, c. 1981.Submitted by JankCranky t3_10xbzy2
My parents in Jerusalem in 1987. Could be an album coverSubmitted by talushh t3_10wlvhn
Me with the shades on sitting in my custom van 1987Submitted by rjlets_575 t3_10wfv0y
My grandpa Jack Brisco. First Native American to win a NCAA wrestling championship. Only Native American to win the NWA world Heavyweight Championship. 1973
Ruby Bridges (~1960)—the first Black student allowed into the white-only school system in the South—courageously spends time in the schoolyard with her peers. Ruby’s entire class refused to attend class when she first arrived at school, but it seems that things got somewhat better with time.Submitted by AdSnoo9734 t3_10vn9dm
Aunties with Santa, Kansas City 1984Submitted by No_Bowler_59 t3_10vhg1b
High school students in Pleasanton, Texas work on a project together, Fall of 1957. That year, the town had overwhelmingly voted to desegregate its public schools (the integration was entirely peaceful), shocking the press and contrasting dramatically with the ongoing Little Rock Nine situation.Submitted by HawkeyeTen t3_10udaki
Not sure if Hawaiian shirts were or are ever cool but I tried my best to rock one with my cousin (1997)
View of the World Trade Center under construction from Duane Street. 1970.Submitted by yuritiger t3_10tt7jq