Charles Thompson being greeted by his new classmates, just 4 months earlier the Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation was unconstitutional. He was the only black child at the school. Sept 1954

Henry Ford receiving the Grand Cross of the German Eagle from Nazi officials, 30 July 1938, on his 75th birthday,

A man rides a bus for white passengers only, against apartheid policies, Durban, South Africa's, 1986 (

Somr of the 100,000 Chinese labourers who joined British war efforts in Europe WW1, digging trenches, building docks, laying tracks, unloading ships and repairing tanks, 1916

German soldier, against orders, helping a boy cross the Berlin Wall, to get to his family 1961

Ruth Lee, a hostess at a Chinese restaurant, flies a Chinese flag to avoid being mistaken for being Japanese, Miami, December 1941 colorized

The O’Halloran sisters – Annie, Honoria and Sarah, pouring boiling water to scald the bailiffs (who tried to evict the family)and even stealing one of their bayonets. During the Irish Land War, 1889

Three views of Lewis Payne (a.k.a. Lewis Powell), three months before his execution by hanging, wearing the same sweater. By Alexander Gardner (wet collodion, glass plate), April 1865

Mugshot of Martin Luther King Jr following his 1963 arrest in Birmingham for protesting against segregation

Night fishing in Hawaii 1948,

Captured 16 year old German anti-aircraft soldier during WW2, 1945

A French boy introduces himself to an Indian (British Empire) soldier in Marseilles, France 1914 (4096x2866 colorised)

Corporal Jackie a Baboon in the South African Army during World War I. The official mascot of the 3rd Transvaal Regimen. His owner, Albert Marr was would not leave Jackie at home. He had a ration set, and his own pay book. Jackie would salute officers and light soldiers’ cigarettes. 1915

Albert Einstein, and his secretary Helen Dukas (left), and daughter Margaret (right) becoming U.S. citizens to avoid returning to Nazi Germany, 1940

Members of the Dutch Resistance celebrate news of Adolf Hitler’s death, April 1945 Colorized.

A chain gang, in the American south 1905

Jewish prisoners after liberated from a death train, 1945

Margaret Hamilton with her handwritten navigation software produced by the MIT team she led for the Apollo Project, 1969

Jagama Kello Ethiopian freedom fighter who started fighting at Italian Invaders at 15, 1941

Jennie Macgregor, Arrested By Minneapolis Police For Dispensing Alcoholic Beverages From Life-Preserver Flasks On April 10, 1924

David Isom, 19, at a pool segregated pool In Florida. This resulted In officials closing the facility June 8, 1958

Members of the US 369th ‘Harlem Hellfighters’ Infantry 1918

Actress Marlene Dietrich kisses a soldier returning home from war, 1945

Jamaican members of the Royal Engineers 1942

Aboard the U.S.S. Oregon. “Waiting for the gong. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative by Edward H. Hart 1897

Gee’s Bend, Alabama. Descendants of former slaves of the Pettway Plantation. Meat in sacks hangs from tree limbs to be cured. February 1937

Grand Central Terminal, New York City, October 1941

Highlander and Indian Dogras soldiers in a trench with dugouts Fauquissart, France 1915 taken by H. D. Girdwood

A member of the British Sierra Leone Frontier Force with his family, 1898

Caribbean Women of the Auxiliary Territorial Service, arriving in Britain in the Autumn of 1943

Belgian coal miners crammed into an elevator at the end of a shift, 1900

Two bomber aircrew, Sergeant J Dickinson from Canada and Sergeant F Gilkes from Trinidad wait to board their aircraft for a raid on 30 July 1943,

Ruby Nell Bridges was the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960

A klansman taking protected by a police officer, from a group surrounded his klan rally, Austin Texas, 1983

Flight Sergeant James Hyde, a fighter pilot serving the in the Royal Air Force, by a Supermarine Spitfire with 'Dingo', at Detling, Kent, England 1944

British West Indian Regiment in WW1 1918, over 15,000 black men had served in the BWIR

Known as the ‘six triple eight’, 6888th battalion was only group of African American women to serve overseas during Second World War, here in Birmingham, England February 1945

Russian inmate points out and identifies a nazi guard who served at Buchenwald Camp colorized 1945

Japanese-American internees at the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California, playing football 1943

Alhaji Grunshi, Gold Coast Regiment, was the 1st British soldier to fire a shot in the First World War while attacking the radio transmitters in German Togoland, 7th August 1914

Indian cavalry await the order to advance on the Somme WW1, 14 July 1916

WW1 French Tirailleurs Sénégalais troops, Camp du Corneau, France 1914

West Indian women of the Auxiliary Territorial Service and the Royal Air Force in civilian dress with luggage, 1943

The Great Gama- Ghulam Mohammad Baksh Butt, commonly known as Rustam-e-Hind and by the ring name The Great Gama, was a pehlwani wrestler in British India and a strongman. In the early 20th century, he was an undefeated wrestling champion of the world 1910 (725 × 996)

British NCO and Arab Legion NCO smoking, 1947

John Lennon signs an autograph for Mark Chapman - his murderer, 1980

British Empire recruitment poster showing Diana Williams working in the Auxiliary Territorial Service 1939

Women of the (British) West Indian detachment of the Auxiliary Territorial Service, 1943

Ghanaian soldiers share a laugh with a British soldier, Accra, Ghana, June 1943

Mexican workers recruited and brought to the Arkansas valley, Colorado, Nebraska and Minnesota by the FSA to harvest sugar beets 1943

Making a plaster death mask New York 1908

A West Indian member of the British Auxiliary Territorial Service, ATS, 1943

An US soldier wears a hand lettered “War Is Hell” slogan on his helmet, Vietnam, 1965

Ethiopian troops charge into battle against Italy forces during the second battle of Amba Alagi, Ethiopia, February 1936

Ethiopian villagers sound the war drums to gather troops to fight the invading Italians, Ethiopia, circa 1935

Time for Tea, Indian RAF pilots taking a tea break, 22nd November 1940

Newsies at Skeeter's Branch, Jefferson near Franklin, St. Louis May 9, 1910

Mountain Chief listening to a song played on a phonograph while interpreting it into Plains Native American Sign Language, to Ethnomusicologist Frances Densmore 1916 colorized

Volunteers undergoing physical checks, India 1943

Volunteer of the West Indian member of the British Auxiliary Territorial Service, ATS, 1943

Members of the British Women's Auxiliary Corps (India) in service dress, 1942

A member of the East African Pioneers named Kisarishu in uniform, East Africa, Sept 13 1943

Football team of the 20th Duke of Cambridge’s Own Infantry (Brownlow’s Punjabis), 1920, India

The Nigerian Regiment Artillery under Lieutenant O T Frith with a field gun, 1914

Private Jim McHale and on the right Corporal Kim Man Kyogh of South Korea 1st Battalion, The Black Watch rest and smoke before moving off on patrol after heavy fighting, Korean War 1952

Empire Day Parade in Cairo, 1943

‘Gentlemen of India marching to chasten German hooligans’ Photograph postcard, World War One, Western Front, 1914

A soldier of the King's African Rifles at a rest camp in Assam, India 1944

Punjabi students at Veeraswamy Restuarant London 1928

At 221cm Jakob Nacken, the tallest nazi soldier with (160cm) Canadian Corporal Bob Roberts, soon after surrendering near Calais, France In Sept 1944, colorized

Five members of the British West Indies Auxiliary Territorial Service sitting on a military vehicle, 1943

Refugees walking to a majority area- 75 years ago, August, 1947, after 300 years in India, the British left, and split the subcontinent- partitioned into two independent nation states: Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan.

Indian, British, New Zealander and Australian soldiers of the British Commonwealth Forces in Korea, March 1951

Members of the West Indies Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) gathered around a piano, UK 1943

George Formby performing for soldiers of the 11th East African Division, with his wife Beryl, during a tour of the 14th Army (Akyab, Ramree Island, Sadaung, Shwebo and Alipore) Far East here with 11th East African Division and the King's African Rifles 1945