Search for Survivors
November 1, 2016
Soldiers engaged in rescue work after the explosion, Halifax, 1917.
Tag: Photography
Images Captured By A Sailor!
November 1, 2016
These following images were all taken by Lt Victor Magnus a officer in the Royal Navy stationed in Halifax at the time of the explosion. The images show the moment two warships collided into each another in December 1917, triggering an explosion which killed nearly 2,000 people. Amateur photographer Victor, who was based in Halifax … More Images Captured By A Sailor!
The Crash.
October 25, 2016
The scene on Wall Street as the stock market crashed.
Children of the Wall Street Crash!
October 25, 2016
Children take to the streets during the Wall Street Crash of 1929.
Black Women in Britain
October 14, 2016
In honour of Black women who shaped British history I have decided to do my own homage to those ladies who are often overlooked, maybe because of the colour of their skin and also because they aren’t really taught in schools sadly, so let’s begin. MARY SEACOLE Born Mary Jane Grant in Jamaica in 1805, the … More Black Women in Britain
September 24, 2016
George Washington Gordon (October 5, 1836 – August 9, 1911) was a general of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. After the war, he practiced law in Pulaski, Tennessee, where the Ku Klux Klan was formed. He became one of the Klan’s first members. In 1867, Gordon became the Klan’s first Grand Dragon … More
The Long & Fierce Arm of The Law!
September 24, 2016
A man, his shirt stained by blood running down his face, is cornered in a doorway by club-wielding police early August 30, 1964 in North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The man had been clubbed for refusing to move along.
Murdered By The KKK!
September 24, 2016
On June 29, 1964, the FBI began distributing these pictures of three missing civil rights workers, from left, Michael Schwerner, 24, of New York, James Chaney, 21, from Mississippi, and Andrew Goodman, 20, of New York, who disappeared near Philadelphia, Mississippi, on June 21, 1964. The three civil rights workers, part of the “Freedom Summer” … More Murdered By The KKK!
Two Fingers From Dr King!
September 24, 2016
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in St. Augustine, Florida, reacts after learning that the U.S. senate passed the civil rights bill on June 19, 1964
No Freedom For the Oppressed!
September 24, 2016
National Guard troops with upthrust bayonets surround integrationists kneeling in prayer as approximately 100 made a peaceful attempt to challenge the no-demonstration edict of the military commander in Cambridge, Maryland on May 13, 1964.
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