
Etiket: Black
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![June 9, 1964 “Bloody Tuesday” Tuscaloosa, AL: Statetroopers and Klansmans brutally attacked over 500 Black citizens who had gathered at the First African Baptist Church using tear gas and clubs, invading the church in the largest single assault on a church during the Civil Rights movement. [800×528]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/08h1rjwc1a6h1.jpeg)
June 9, 1964 “Bloody Tuesday” Tuscaloosa, AL: Statetroopers and Klansmans brutally attacked over 500 Black citizens who had gathered at the First African Baptist Church using tear gas and clubs, invading the church in the largest single assault on a church during the Civil Rights movement. [800×528]


![Georgia Governor Lester Maddox stabbing a mannequin in protest of having to serve black customers at his restaurant, August 12th 1964[3840×4708]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/1i97zp1qf9dh1-scaled.jpeg)

![“The Blue Ghost” USS Lexington CV-16 underway with the “The Black Dragon” USS New Jersey BB-62 in the Pacific, 1944. Both were Commissioned in 1943, Decommissioned for the last time in 1991, and both are museum ships today. Original color picture by JR Eyerman, LIFE Magazine. [1200×984]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/zema5urq9ach1.jpeg)



![“Across the litter on Iwo Jima’s black sands, Marines of the 4th Division shell enemy positions cleverly concealed back from the beaches. Here, a gun pumps a stream of shells into positions inland on the tiny volcanic island.” February 1945. [1179×948]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/j46hbralz49h1.jpeg)

![May 31, 1921, a white supremacist mob systematically destroyed Tulsa, Oklahoma’s black affluent neighborhood of Greenwood aka “Black Wall Street.” Killing an estimated 300, they also burned 35 city blocks to the ground and left 10,000 homeless. [1200×1599]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/031k7s90te4h1.jpeg)





![Bass Reeves, the formerly enslaved man who became the first Black deputy US Marshal west of the Mississippi and arrested over 3,000 outlaws in the American West [1838-1910]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2iisupi4iyyg1.jpeg)
