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Pamela Echols grapples with a police officer during housing desegregation protests, Illinois, USA, 1967
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this post was submitted on 19 Feb 2025
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I love this photo, but one of the things that really pisses me off is that when I was taught about desegregation and the civil rights protests in school, the pictures in our textbooks were always in black and white. Color photography had existed for decades before this era, and the photos being black and white was just a tactic to get us to think it happened longer ago than it did.
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