This photo shows two power linemen, Randall Champion and J. D. Thompson, at the top of a utility pole. They had been performing routine maintenance when Champion brushed one of the high voltage line

Thedesegregationof buses inBoston, Massachusetts,was ordered in 1965and by 1974, protests against this reform had become asevere and widespread problem. In 1976, Stanley Forman took a photograph tha

In 1941, workers at the Ford Automobile Plant in Detroit, Michigan, went on strike. The workers wanted higher pay, but the plant had refused. A strikebreaker attempting to break up the crowd was bes

This is one of the most infamous photographs ever taken. The photographer Eddie Adams would laterregret being on the sceneat the time, because his photograph would go on to destroy the lives of the

James Meredith, a prominent civil rights activist, wasleading a marchwhen he was sprayed in his back with birdshot. The shooter was a man called Aubrey Norvell, who had reportedly shouted, I just wa

This photograph was taken in Amona, in Israels West Bank. Israels government considered Amona to be a camp of illegal settlerswhether Israeli citizens or notand 10,000 policemen were ordered to forc

Roberts was walking through a Hollywood parking lot in the afternoon when he heard the screams of a woman. He found a man on top of her, attempting to subdue her with punches and slaps. Roberts was

Six photos were taken of thedeliberate on-pitch assaulton African-American Johnny Bright, a college football player for the Drake Bulldogs. 1951年10月20日，六张照片拍摄显示约翰尼布赖特蓄意攻击对方黑人球员，其中被攻击的黑人为德雷克大学斗牛犬队的球

President John F. Kennedy and former president Dwight D. Eisenhower are having a wintertime walk at Camp David in winter. Kennedy has just asked Eisenhower what he thinks of the botchedBay of Pigs I

This picture was taken in South Vietnam in the aftermath of theBattle of Long Tan. The Viet Cong were repelled after launching a night attack on Australian forces, and the Viet Cong soldier in the p

U.S. Army soldiers from the 2nd Platoon, B battery 2-8 field artillery, fire a howitzer artillery piece at Seprwan Ghar forward fire base in Panjwai district, Kandahar province southern Afghanistan,

A picture of North Korea's founder Kim Il-sung decorates a building in the capital Pyongyang early October 5, 2011. Picture taken October 5, 2011. |REUTERS|Damir Sagolj| 2011年10月5日，朝鲜平壤市一座老式早期建筑墙

Vehicles belonging to forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi explode after an air strike by coalition forces, along a road between Benghazi and Ajdabiyah March 20, 2011. |REUTERS|Goran Tomase