Rare and very interesting photos

Former first lady Jackie Kennedy*and Coretta Scott King at MLK’s funeral. (1968)*Moneta Sleet Jr.

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This is an interesting picture considering she didn't like Dr. King.
 
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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.

This is Rick Ross's lineage!
 
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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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This pic just made me hate that bullshit abomination of a movie red tails all over again:smh:

Good pic!
 
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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 :lol:}
 
12-26-56 - A crowd of onlookers surround the home of Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, which was destroyed by a dynamite blast. The Reverend's wife and two children were injured in the explosion.

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October 16, 1948 - George W. McLaurin, a 54 year old African American, sits in an anteroom, apart from the other students, as he attends class at the University of Oklahoma in 1948. The university insisted that segregation be maintained, but a Supreme Court ruling forced the institution to accept McLaurin as a student.

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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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June 1958 - David Isom, 19, broke the color line in a Little Rock segregated public pool which resulted in officials closing the facility.
Two white swimming areas were closed due to attempts of blacks to use them.


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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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:clap: Dude wasn't having it that day with them white boys.
 
July 21, 1964 - Two terrified African American girls flee police officers during a race riot in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn.
This was the second night of the riot, which began in Harlem.


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The Roots - Things Fall Apart album cover

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:lol::lol: thats whats up :cool:

when the panthers pictures are posted... its great.. kind of eerie in a sense..but overall great.

you see these people now..obviously i wasn't born then but to see them now older its a great thing. these are our pillars

i love them all :yes:

i might do a panther thread in the politics forum with some inside info later on
 
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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Gotdam that dude was getting in that ass.
 
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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:yes:
 
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Bill Cosby, Temple University, 1961
 
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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Anymore pics or video from this scene
 
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