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Former first lady Jackie Kennedy*and Coretta Scott King at MLK’s funeral. (1968)*Moneta Sleet Jr.
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Millie McCoy and Christine McCoy were American conjoined twins who went by the stage names “The Two-Headed Nightingale” and “The Eighth Wonder of the World”.
Millie and Christine were born on July 11, 1851, to parents who were slaves on the plantation of Mr. Alexander McCoy. The plantation was near the town of Whiteville, North Carolina, which resulted in the girls also being referred to as The Carolina Twins. Prior to the sisters’ birth, their mother had borne seven other children, five boys and two girls, all of ordinary size and form.
They were sold to a showman named Joseph Pearson Smith at birth, but were soon kidnapped by a rival showman. The kidnapper fled to the United Kingdom but was thwarted, since the United Kingdom had outlawed slavery in the 1830s.
Smith traveled to Britain to collect the girls and brought with him their mother, Monimia, from whom they had been separated. He and his wife provided the twins with an education and taught them to speak five languages, dance, play music, and sing. For the rest of the century, the twins enjoyed a successful career as “The Two-Headed Nightingale”, and appeared with the Barnum circus. In 1869, a biography on the twins, titled History and Medical Description of the Two-Headed Girl, was sold during their public appearances.
General Benjamin Davis, boxer Joe Lewis, attorney and future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, and Daisy Lampkin are attending the NAACP convention in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1947.
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A row of Black Panthers pretend to shoot at a motorcycle cop outside the Alameda County Courthouse in Oakland, the scene of Newton's trial.
{that cracka was probably scared as shit}
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A row of Black Panthers pretend to shoot at a motorcycle cop outside the Alameda County Courthouse in Oakland, the scene of Newton's trial.
{that cracka was probably scared as shit}
Johnny Gray, 15, punches a white student during a scuffle in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1958. Johnny and his sister, Mary (standing behind him), were en route to their segregated school when the two whites in the photo ordered them to get off the sidewalk. Racial tension plagued the Little Rock school system for years after court-ordered integration began in 1957. Governor Orval Faubus defied the courts by closing all the public schools in 1958. Another court order reopened them in 1959.
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MLK rocking the stubble
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A row of Black Panthers pretend to shoot at a motorcycle cop outside the Alameda County Courthouse in Oakland, the scene of Newton's trial.
{that cracka was probably scared as shit}
thats whats up
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Johnny Gray, 15, punches a white student during a scuffle in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1958. Johnny and his sister, Mary (standing behind him), were en route to their segregated school when the two whites in the photo ordered them to get off the sidewalk. Racial tension plagued the Little Rock school system for years after court-ordered integration began in 1957. Governor Orval Faubus defied the courts by closing all the public schools in 1958. Another court order reopened them in 1959.
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Johnny Gray, 15, punches a white student during a scuffle in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1958. Johnny and his sister, Mary (standing behind him), were en route to their segregated school when the two whites in the photo ordered them to get off the sidewalk. Racial tension plagued the Little Rock school system for years after court-ordered integration began in 1957. Governor Orval Faubus defied the courts by closing all the public schools in 1958. Another court order reopened them in 1959.
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Johnny Gray, 15, punches a white student during a scuffle in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1958. Johnny and his sister, Mary (standing behind him), were en route to their segregated school when the two whites in the photo ordered them to get off the sidewalk. Racial tension plagued the Little Rock school system for years after court-ordered integration began in 1957. Governor Orval Faubus defied the courts by closing all the public schools in 1958. Another court order reopened them in 1959.
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