A mob pours sugar, ketchup and mustard over the heads of (from left) John Salter, Joan Trumpauer and Anne Moody during a sit-in demonstration at a Woolworth’s ‘whites only’ lunch counter in Jackson, Miss. - May 28, 1963. (Photo by Fred Blackwell/Associated Press) [1486x1234]2yr ⋅ oldsoul8789 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Young boys harassing the Horace Baker family, the first African American family to move into the all white Delmar Village neighborhood of Folcroft, Pennsylvania - Aug. 30, 1963. [657x900]2yr ⋅ oldsoul8789 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Leslie Uggams and Grahame Pratt on their wedding day - Sept 13, 1965. They’ve been married for 56 years.2yr ⋅ oldsoul8789 ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Chief Low Dog - an Oglala Lakota chief who fought with Sitting Bull at the Battle of Little Bighorn, c. 1881 [1200x1841]2yr ⋅ oldsoul8789 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
New York City Mayor, Jimmy Walker poses with members of the Blackfeet Nation Tribe on the steps of City Hall - Oct. 23, 1927. [1000x774]2yr ⋅ oldsoul8789 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Two men at a memorial march held in Memphis four days after Martin Luther King’s assassination Apr 8, 1968. Photo by Benedict J. Fernandez2yr ⋅ oldsoul8789 ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Larry Gains, Canadian heavyweight champion boxer, with his family. 1930s2yr ⋅ oldsoul8789 ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Emmett Till's mother, Mamie, weeps as the body of her slain son arrives at a Chicago Rail Station, Sep. 1955 [1200x1431]2yr ⋅ oldsoul8789 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
A 'Knocker-up' in London (1929). Before alarm clocks, people were paid to wake clients up for work by knocking on their doors and windows with a stick.2yr ⋅ oldsoul8789 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Two ample fellas share a laugh. NYC 1979. Photograph by Bruce Gilden2yr ⋅ oldsoul8789 ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
James Davis, 5, asleep at a Chicago police station while his friend Ronald Sullivan, 8, keeps watch. The two preferred riding the L train rather than going to bed. They were later greeted by their parents at the police station. Photo from Jet Magazine - August 1952.2yr ⋅ oldsoul8789 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
A group of women at the Puerto Rican Day Parade, New York, June 1963 - Photo by Joel Meyerowitz2yr ⋅ oldsoul8789 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
World War I soldier, identified as “Big Nims of the 3rd Battalion, 366th Infantry, during gas mask drill, c. 19172yr ⋅ oldsoul8789 ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Couple walking on a street in Chinatown, San Francisco, 1953. Photo by Edouard Boubat2yr ⋅ oldsoul8789 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Pretty Nose, c. 1879 - Arapaho War Chief who participated in the Battle of the Little Bighorn2yr ⋅ oldsoul8789 ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
A policeman rips an American flag away from a young boy, having already confiscated his ‘No More Police Brutality’ sign. Jackson, Mississippi 1965. Photo by Matt Herron [985x1600]2yr ⋅ oldsoul8789 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Mr Owen, the town bell ringer of Llangollen, Wales c. 1875 | by John Thomas.2yr ⋅ oldsoul8789 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Singing Twins at WDIA, a radio station in Memphis, TN 1948. Photo by Ernest C. Withers2yr ⋅ oldsoul8789 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Members of the 369th Infantry Regiment (aka Harlem Hellfighters) arrive in New York after serving in World War I, c. 1918. [2405x1815]2yr ⋅ oldsoul8789 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Eartha Kitt and Orson Welles, with Duke Ellington behind them, at a nightclub in the Montmartre district of Paris - Jun. 20, 1950.2yr ⋅ oldsoul8789 ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
A young woman with her cat in wartime Britain - Apr. 11, 1942. (Photo by Haywood Magee/Hulton Archive)2yr ⋅ oldsoul8789 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Al and Mary Tsukamoto walking freely in downtown Sacramento, CA, after three years in the internment camp, 19452yr ⋅ oldsoul8789 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
April 4, 1968 - Stunned, silent members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference sit in Dr. Martin Luther King's room at the Lorraine Motel after his assassination. [2560x1721]2yr ⋅ oldsoul8789 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Aftermath of a Saloon brawl, New York, 1942. Photo by Weegee (Arthur Fellig). [1138x1440]2yr ⋅ oldsoul8789 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Muhammad Ali meets a young fan, 3 year old Mark Griffiths, who’s dad used to be a boxer - London, May 13, 1966.2yr ⋅ oldsoul8789 ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Pinocchio balloon at the 1937 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, New York.2yr ⋅ oldsoul8789 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Unidentified Civil War veteran with his grandchildren. Mt. Pleasant, PA c. 19002yr ⋅ oldsoul8789 ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Store owned by Japanese-American family is closed following evacuation orders in Oakland, CA, April 1942. After the attack on Pearl Harbor the owner had placed the I Am An American sign in the store front window (AP Photo/ by Dorothea Lange)2yr ⋅ oldsoul8789 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
Moe Howard, of the Three Stooges, with his son Paul and newborn granddaughter Jennifer (1969).2yr ⋅ oldsoul8789 ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
My paternal grandparents- 1946/47. Grandma was Mexican and grandpa was Irish.2yr ⋅ oldsoul8789 ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Henry Behrens, the smallest man in the world (30 inches tall), with his cat. 19562yr ⋅ oldsoul8789 ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Three captured Jewish women who fought in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943. [800x1119]2yr ⋅ oldsoul8789 ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Children eating Thanksgiving dinner with VI Army Corps. North Carolina, Nov 19412yr ⋅ oldsoul8789 ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
A group of women at the Puerto Rican Day Parade - New York, June 1963 | Photo by Joel Meyerowitz2yr ⋅ oldsoul8789 ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Three dapper men, from Jamaica, arrive at Tilbury docks on board the 'Empire Windrush'. 19482yr ⋅ oldsoul8789 ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
US Civil War soldiers, Baldy Guy(left) and his younger brother George c. 18632yr ⋅ oldsoul8789 ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Evelyn “Jackie” Bross (left) and Catherine Barscz (r) at the Racine Avenue Police Station, arrested for cross-dressing - Chicago, Jun. 5, 1943.2yr ⋅ oldsoul8789 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
A man in conversation with three kids, New York 1940s. Photo by Helen Levitt2yr ⋅ oldsoul8789 ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Silent film actor and makeup artist, Lon Chaney, with his makeup kit. 1920s.2yr ⋅ oldsoul8789 ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Master of the house doling out the charm, ready with a handshake and an open palm2yr ⋅ oldsoul8789 ⋅ r/seinfeld
A horse getting lifted out of the water where it had fallen between the dock and a ship - c. 1939 | by Weegee2yr ⋅ oldsoul8789 ⋅ r/TheWayWeWere
John Carradine (1967). Father of David, Keith and Robert Carradine2yr ⋅ oldsoul8789 ⋅ r/OldSchoolCelebs
