Does there need to be a "point"? Railroaded is sharing some photos themed around hardship and depression, and personally I find some of them fascinating. The Hiroshima ones in particular are very humbling.

It was closed till 1400 local time, open again.



African American migratory workers by a "juke joint". Belle Glade, Florida, February 1941. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Marion Post Wolcott. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.

Tenant Purchase borrowers by their house, Puerto Rico (1941 or 1942).

I have always liked photographs - they are small pieces of history.

I have found these pictures quite interesting and hope that you continue to share them.

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It definitely gives some perspective on our present "crisis".

Such as unlike every other primate who can happily spend 60 years living a tree we have to the blow the shiz out of everything and rebuild it to suit our needs.

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No, there doesn't need to be a point...I'm just asking.

Im in to minds one it's cause he is Dutch or he has Aspergers

I don't get it.

Photo taken after what came to be known The Battle of George Square on the 31st of January 1919 in Glasgow. 60,000 men took part in the protest against the near enslavement of Scots in Glasgow and across the central belt in heavy industry for the British empire.

The British government reacted in keeping fellow Scottish soldiers locked in there barracks while tanks and troops marched up from England.

A piece of history sweeped under the rug almost.

MISSISSIPPI BURNING



Summer 1964. Hundreds of civil rights volunteers were in Mississippi for a voter registration drive, and three (two white men and a black) were in Neshoba County to investigate the burning of a black church that was to have been used as a base for registering blacks to vote. After briefly detained for speeding one night, the trio drove into the night and simply vanished.

Their bodies were later discovered, and their murder became a defining event of the civil rights era and the plot of the 1988 film ”Mississippi Burning.” The main suspect were the local sheriff, Lawrence A. Rainey (above right), his deputy Cecil Price (above left) and 16 other men, all of whom were allegedly members of the Ku Klux Klan. They were charged with violating the civil rights of the victims.

Sheriff Rainey and seven other men were acquitted. Deputy Price and six other defendants were convicted. The jury could not decide on the remaining defendants. A Klan leader and one other defendant got the stiffest sentences, 10 years in prison. Mr. Price, whom investigators suspected of delivering the victims to their killers, got a six-year term and served four and a half years.

During the trial, LIFE magazine devoted two pages to the above photo made by Paul Reed, which showed defendants hollering and mocking the court. Rainey was seen flamboyantly chewing his tobacco in the picture. Public outcry followed, and when his term as sheriff ended in 1967, Rainey was unable to find further work in law enforcement. He ended his life working as a security guard at supermarkets and malls, and blaming the FBI for preventing him from finding and keeping jobs.

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