Burlington Mayor Bernie Sanders picks up trash on his own in a public park after being elected in 1981, his first electoral victory

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Burlington Mayor Bernie Sanders picks up trash on his own in a public park after being elected in 1981, his first electoral victory [1200x1799]

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Entrance to the Palladium nightclub in New York City, 1985. Closed and demolished in 1997. [990x1172]

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A colorized photo of Madam C. J. Walker with her friends and her Ford, the first of her family born free and the first self-made female millionaire in America. She made cosmetics for other black women, and in her will, dedicated 2/3 of her company's future net profits to charity. c. 1910s [1200x990]

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After a seven-day occupation, the workers on strike at Woolworth's department store in Detroit celebrate their victory, having won a 20 percent raise, shorter hours, overtime pay, free uniforms, protection from retaliation and 50 percent pay for the time spent on strike. March 5, 1937 [1600x1257]

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Mayor Bernie Sanders picks up trash at a Burlington park shortly after being elected in 1981, his first electoral victory. [1200x1799]

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Appalachian “hillbilly revolutionaries” from the Young Patriots Organization team up with members of the Black Panther Party for a “Free the Panthers” event, late 1960s [875x515]

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Here's the plan... John Jonik political cartoon from early 2000s

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The Soiling of Old Glory — a photo that ran across newspapers in 1976 and won the Pulitzer Prize, showing a white teenager aiming the American flag like a weapon against a civil rights attorney, during massive protests in Boston against court-ordered desegregation of the school system. [1572x1478]

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Investigators search through the rubble for bodies after Philadelphia police accidentally burn down 65 homes in a botched attempt to evict a house of armed black radicals by bombing it with dynamite from a helicopter, leaving 250 people homeless. [1200x799]

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Young Ted Cruz celebrates Republican victories at Harvard Law School in November 1994, while smoking a cigar. In his hand, a checkmark for Texas governor George W. Bush. [960x577]

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Jesus Loves You, Do The Beatles? Christians protest against The Beatles in San Francisco, California. 29 August 1966 [2400x2337]

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White supremacists in Cairo, Illinois carry signs featuring swastikas on a picket line against the growing black power movement in 1969. [1200x757]

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Police cars burn in San Francisco after being attacked by rioters on May 21, 1979, a violent reaction to the verdict of voluntary manslaughter given to former officer Dan White in the killing of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay person in the country elected to public office. [2831x2301]

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“Billionaires Rule, Nixon’s Their Tool” — youth protest outside the Washington Hilton during the inauguration of Richard Nixon, 1969 [1024x778]

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Young Frederick Douglass, age 29. 1847 [2680x3412]

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School bus carrying only two white students leaves a pickup point and heads towards South Boston High School (enrollment: 1,300) on Thursday, Sept. 12, 1974, the first day of a court-ordered busing program to integrate Boston's public schools. [1280x823]

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Votes for Mother ca. 1907–1918

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France detonates its first hydrogen bomb (Operation Canopus) in the Southern Pacific on August 24, 1968, joining the US, USSR, UK, and China in possessing thermonuclear weapons. France would go on to carry out 217 nuclear weapons tests, the third-most in the world. [993x1300]

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The Beatles prepare for their televised performance in London, June 1966, before their tours in West Germany and Japan

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Communists infiltrated our churches, now it integrates our schools — segregationists protest the beginning of school integration in Nashville, Tennessee, 1957 [1000x798]

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The Iseri family, Japanese American owners of a small pharmacy in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, leave a farewell message to their customers after receiving an order of relocation to an internment camp in the Arizona desert, 1942. [900x1095]

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Princeton out of South Africa — April 1978, Princeton students outside Nassau Hall demand the university divest its financial holdings in companies doing business in apartheid South Africa. [2568x1701]

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We want LAND, not handouts — a man holds his sign next to the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra, Australia, 1972, set up after the government rejected a proposal to return indigenous lands, offering instead to conditionally lease land to Aborigines without mineral or forestry rights. [1200x804]

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Civilians accused of supporting communism are laid out in their mass graves before being executed in Daejeon, South Korea, during the 1950 Summer of Terror — in which the government is believed to have killed 100,000 people in similar massacres, according to its own modern estimates. [1000x723]

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Civilian Conservation Corps boys at work in Maryland, August 1935. Founded as a public work-relief agency in the aftermath of the Great Depression, the CCC was the most popular of all the New Deal programs, creating jobs for 3 million young men (age 17 to 28) in less than a decade. [2482x2000]

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We're all responsible. We all are sending the troop orders. And we did it without a lot of thought, but with a lot of emotion, ten or eleven years ago, and not a lot of discussion. And then we thought our job was done. Today is Veterans Day

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The last watch of the Obama White House

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