50 Rarely-Seen Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things

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In 1969, When Black Americans Were Still Prevented From Swimming Alongside Whites, Mr. Rogers Decided To Invite Officer Clemmons To Join Him And Cool His Feet In A Pool, Breaking A Well-Known Color Barrier

In 1969, When Black Americans Were Still Prevented From Swimming Alongside Whites, Mr. Rogers Decided To Invite Officer Clemmons To Join Him And Cool His Feet In A Pool, Breaking A Well-Known Color Barrier

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WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago

Mr. Rogers was a rebel. He pulled more of these stunts to fight injustice and racism in order to teach children a sense of moral and ethical reasoning. He was a tv show host with a sense of what's wrong and what's right.

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50 Rarely-Seen Historical Photos That Might Change Your Perspective On Things

In 1969, When Black Americans Were Still Prevented From Swimming Alongside Whites, Mr. Rogers Decided To Invite Officer Clemmons To Join Him And Cool His Feet In A Pool, Breaking A Well-Known Color Barrier

Incredible Photograph Of A German Soldier Going Against Direct Orders To Help A Young Boy Cross The Newly Formed Berlin Wall After Being Separated From His Family, 1961

Charles Thompson Greets His New Classmates At Public School No. 27 In September 1954, Less Than Four Months After The Supreme Court Ruled That Racial Segregation Was Unconstitutional. Charles Was The Only African-American Child In The School. Photo By Richard Stacks For The Baltimore Sun

Princess Diana Shakes Hands With An Aids Patient Without Gloves, 1991

A Policeman In San Francisco Scolds A Man For Not Wearing A Mask During The 1918 Influenza Pandemic, 1918

Jewish Prisoners After Being Liberated From A Death Train, 1945

Members Of Dutch Resistance Celebrate The News Of Adolf Hitler's Death, April 1945

Margaret Hamilton And The Handwritten Navigation Software She And Her Mit Team Produced For The Apollo Project, 1969

Statue Of David By Michelangelo, Encased In Bricks To Prevent Damage From Bombs, During World War 2

An American Soldier Cradles A Wounded Japanese Boy And Shelters Him From The Rain In The Cockpit Of An Airplane During The Battle Of Saipan While Waiting To Transport The Youngster To A Field Hospital. July, 1944

A Serbian Soldier Sleeps With His Father Who Came To Visit Him On The Front Line Near Belgrade, 1914/1915

Louis Armstrong Playing For His Wife, Egypt, 1961

Anne Frank’s Father Otto, Revisiting The Attic Where They Hid From The Nazis. He Was The Only Surviving Family Member (1960)

A Man Rides A Bus In Durban, Meant For White Passengers Only, In Resistance To South Africa’s Apartheid Policies, 1986

Ruby Bridges, The First African-American To Attend A White Elementary School In The Deep South, 1960

Young Queen Elizabeth As A Mechanic During WW2 (C. 1939)

A Man Arrested For Cross-Dressing Emerging From A Police Van, New York, 1939

Albert Einstein, His Secretary Helen (Left), And Daughter Margaret (Right) Becoming U.S. Citizens To Avoid Returning To Nazi Germany, 1940

Soldiers Returning Home From WWII, 1945

Freddie Mercury With His Mother, 1947

When Nazis Asked Lepa Radic Who Were Her 'Accomplices' Before They Hanged Her She Responded: 'You'll Know Them When They Come To Avenge Me.' Young Serbian Girl Was Hanged At The Age Of 17 Near Gradiska In 1943. During The Battle Of Kozara, She Lost Her Father, Brother (15) And Her Uncle

David Isom, 19, Broke The Color Line In A Segregated Pool In Florida On June 8, 1958, Which Resulted In Officials Closing The Facility

A German Soldier Returns Home Only To Find His Family No Longer There. Frankfurt, 1946

WWI. A Canadian Soldier Tries To Comfort A Little Belgian Baby, Who Was Hurt And Whose Mother Was Killed By An Artillery Shell. November 1918

May 20, 1910: The Nine Kings Of Europe Photographed Together For The First And Only Time

A Hired Reader Reads To Cigar Makers Hard At Work In Cuban Cigar Factory (Ca. 1900-1910). Because Many Cigar Factory Employees Were Illiterate Lectors Were Hired To Read Novels, Poetry, Nonfiction Works, And Newspapers Determined By Consensus

“The Drunk Basket.” In The 1960s, Bars In Istanbul Would Hire Someone To Carry Drunk People Back To Their Homes

Russian Inmate Points An Identifying And Accusing Finger At A Nazi Guard Who Was Especially Cruel Towards The Prisoners In Buchenwald Camp

A French Women Welcomes An American Soldier Two Days After Liberation. Strasbourg, France, 22 November 1944

September 3, 1967: The Day Sweden Switched From Driving On The Left To The Right Side Of The Road

7'3'' (221cm) Jakob Nacken, The Tallest Nazi Soldier Ever Chatting With 5'3'' (160cm) Canadian Corporal Bob Roberts After Surrendering To Him Near Calais, France In September Of 1944

18-Year-Old Keshia Thomas Protects A Fallen Man, Believed To Be Associated With The Ku Klux Klan From An Angry Mob Of Anti-Clan Protestors. Ann Arbor, Michigan USA. 1996 By Mark Brunner

Rosa Parks's Booking Photo Following Her February 1956 Arrest

Here Is How An Ukrainian Immigrant Celebrated Stalin's Death, 1953

Into The Jaws Of Death, 6th Of June, 1944

Crowd In Times Square, New York City Celebrating The Surrender Of Germany, May 7th, 1945

Fire And Fury: B-25s Are Pictured Flying Past Mount Vesuvius In Italy As Lava And Ash Spews From The Top Of The Volcano. The Eruption Killed 57 As It Destroyed The Village Of San Sebastiano And San Giorg In March 1944 While Allied Forces Were Battling For Supremacy In The Skies

Nikola Tesla, The Last Photo Ever Of The Famous Scientist, 1st Jan 1943

A Nurse With A Sick Child During Smallpox Epidemic, Wrocław, Poland, 1963

Ruth Lee, A Hostess At A Chinese Restaurant, Flies A Chinese Flag So She Isn’t Mistaken For Japanese When She Sunbathes On Her Days Off In Miami. Dec. 15, 1941

Inside Of An Airplane In 1930

Soviet Citizens Look At The "Wall Of Sorrow", Honoring The Hundreds Of Thousands Of People Killed By Stalinism. In 1988, The Soviet Government Allowed Information Regarding The Victims Of Stalin's Great Purge To Become Public

"Human Fly" George Willig Scales The Exterior Of The World Trade Center's South Tower In 1977. Completing The Climb In 3.5 Hours, He Was Arrested At The Top After Signing Several Autographs, And Was Fined $1.10 By The City - A Penny For Each Floor He Passed

Portrait Of Arctic Explorer Peter Freuchen And His Wife, Fashion Illustrator Dagmar Cohn, 1947

Allied Soldiers Mock Hitler Atop His Balcony At The Reich Chancellery, 1945

Teenage Dating In Diner, 1950s, The States

Mobsters Hide Their Faces At Al Capone's Trial 1931

Nuclear Explosion Less Than One Millisecond After Detonation (1952)

Nintendo's First Headquarters In Kyoto, Japan (1889)

A Member Of The Ku Klux Klan Stands Behind A Police Officer For Protection, After A Mob Surrounded His Klan Rally In Austin Texas, 1983

Three Young Russian Women And A Little Girl Recently Liberated From A Slave-Labor Camp By The U.S. Army Lay Flowers At The Feet Of Four Dead American Soldiers, April 18, 1945, Hilden, Germany

"Eyes Of Hate", A Photograph Of Goebbels After He Finds Out His Photographer Was Jewish, Geneva , September 1933

'big Nims' Of The United States 3rd Battalion, 366th Infantry, Laughing At The Sight Of His Comrades With Gas Masks On, 1918

Workers Painting The Eiffel Tower, 1924

German SS Guards, Exhausted From Their Forced Labour Clearing The Bodies Of The Dead At Bergen-Belsen, Are Allowed A Brief Rest By British Soldiers But Are Forced To Take It By Lying Face Down In One Of The Empty Mass Graves, 1945

A Game Of Human Chess St Petersburg Then Leningrad Russia Circa 1924

Wedding Bands That Were Removed From Holocaust Victims Before They Were Executed

Young Angela Merkel Having A Schnaps With Fishermen On The Island Of Rügen During Her First Mp Campain In Summer 1990

Union And Confederate Soldiers Shaking Hands At The 1913 Gettysburg Reunion

A Woman Mourns After The Us Navy Downs An Iranian Passenger Jet On 3 July 1988, Carrying 290 Civilians Including 66 Children

Babies Who Lost Their Parents During The Vietnam War Being Airlifted Back To The United States For Adoption, 1975

Arnold Schwarzenegger Seeing NYC For The First Time (1968)

Only One Of Two Photographs In Existence Of The Us Supreme Court In Session. Cameras Are Forbidden In The Supreme Court, But This Photograph Was Taken By A Young Woman Who Concealed Her Small Camera In Her Handbag, Cutting A Hole Through Which The Lens Peeped, 1937

View Of Boston, The Oldest Surviving Aerial Photograph Ever Taken. October 13th, 1860

Indian Soldiers Arriving In France, World War I, 1914

The Apollo 14 Landing Capsule (1971)

What Is Now The Fully Developed Las Vegas Strip, 1955

Construction Of The Golden Gate Bridge, Circa 1934

The Imprint Of A Mitsubishi Kamikaze Zero Along The Side Of H.M.S Sussex. 1945

The Waiting Room Of Chicago's Union Station (1943)

The Uniform Of Archduke Franz Ferdinand From 1914, Whose Assassination Triggered The Outbreak Of World War I

A Coca Cola Advertisement Made By Spreading Grains For Pigeons In Saint Mark's Square, Venice, 1960

Unit Control Desk Of The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, April 18, 1983

The First Successful Flight By The Wright Brothers At Kitty Hawk, NC (1903)

The Cologne Cathedral Stands Amidst The Ruins Of The City After Allied Bombings (1944). The Cathedral Suffered Fourteen Direct Hits By Aerial Bombs During The War But Did Not Collapse

Motel Manager James Brock Pours Muriatic Acid In The Monson Motor Lodge Swimming Pool, To Get Black Swimmers Out Of The Pool. June 18, 1964

Abraham Lincoln's Hearse As It Passes An Ornamental Arch At 12th Street In Chicago, Il (1865)

Eniac: The First General-Purpose Digital Computer (C. 1947-1955)

The Walled City Of Kowloon (1989)