Frances Louisa Clayton, who disguised herself as a man and joined the Union Army with her husband during the Civil War. Image from brainpickings.org. Apparently there were upward of 600 such women soldiers … that we know of.
Japanese Americans boarding the trains to take them home—though the majority of them do not have homes to return to—after being released from their internment camps, 1945
I’ve been waiting for this..
1968 Olympic Black Power Salute.
sudden nostalgia for the three proud people mural (Newtown, Sydney)
(Source: bloggingisnotwriting)
KAISER WILHELM II WAS A PROFESSIONAL MOUSTACHE-WEARER AND IN HIS SPARE TIME HE WAS AN AMATEUR WARMONGER AND CARPET-CHEWER
HE WASHED AND BRUSHED HIS MOUSTACHE DAILY AND OFTEN EMPLOYED A BARBER FOR THAT PURPOSE
JUST LOOK AT THAT THING WILL YOU, IT’S SO PROUD AND ERECT AND NEAT
BLOODY THING IS WEARING HIM
March 11, 1965. Twelve protestors stage a sit-in demonstration at the White House in relation to civil rights.
New York Commuters, 1963
Carl Mydans
Postcard from Woman Suffrage Parade, 1913
On March 3, 1913, 5,000 women marched up Pennsylvania Avenue demanding the right to vote. Their “national procession,” staged the day before Woodrow Wilson’s presidential inauguration, was the first civil rights parade to use the nation’s capital as a backdrop, underscoring the national importance of their cause and women’s identity as American citizens.
The event brought women from around the country to Washington in a show of strength and determination to obtain the ballot. The extravagant parade—and the near riot that almost destroyed it—kept woman suffrage in the newspapers for weeks.
“The National Woman Suffrage Parade, 1913” display recreates the mood of the parade and illustrates its impact using costumes worn by participants along with banners, sashes, letters, photographs and postcards like the one shown here.
A few days late for the 100th anniversary, but I’m putting together a series of posts about the 1913 parade. If you’re interested, you might want to track the tag March 13 1913. And if you’re in DC, you can check out the artifact wall at the Museum of American History (check out the link above).
The General Electric Exoskeleton, Hardiman I, 1967
this is still my favorite tweet of all time
