50 Images Rarely Seen In History Books, Courtesy Of This FB Page

Or today

Nope. No cell phone. No one taking selfies or vids...

The ignoramuses are still breeding, alas.

Or yesterday.

It WAS taken just a few years ago.

Except they are dressed so dapper.

Days ago.

More sad, that it is necessary.

Oh! PLEASE.

It was just a few years ago. My mom was 5 when this was taken. She hasn't even retired yet.

Except for the outfits and haircuts

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Don't like it? Then we all need to get ready to roll up our sleeves and administer beatings.

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How so? The US has made leaps and bounds on civil rights and everyone now has the exact same rights.

The situations are different, but racism is still racism. It's apparent now, just as it was then.

And many of those "young people" are now "senior people!"

They are beautiful. Though let's not forget that they are people living in two different worlds. They have "Christian".names, which means they had already been brought into the "colonization" world, yet they still are trying to live in their own, and their true lives, in the native world. To do this, this family walked a fine line, and more than likely had some very aggressive things done to them to be people walking in two worlds. It would have been so much better to see this family and then be told their true names.

She's got spark

She’s up to something

Because he is.

Assuming he's been through WW1 then there was a good chance he saw and did terrible things. Modern soldiers struggle to get PTSD treated even now, imagine how difficult it would have been a hundred years ago. Even if this was a photo taken in 1918 just before he shipped out (and just before the war ended) he'd have had no idea whether he'd make it back in one piece to see friends and family again. It'd be terrifying.

While I absolutely agree with most people here that it may be because of what he saw during the war, there IS one other possibility: pride. A lot of African American soldiers were proud to be allowed to serve their country in WWI. In many cases, it was the closest to equality many of them had ever been given, because even though units were segregated, they were combat units. In WWII, African Americans were, with few exceptions, only allowed to be truck drivers, cooks or orderlies until very nearly the end of the war. Units weren't desegregated until The Korean War.

Returning to a country, after fighting a war for it, only to be told you're not an equal in it? Yeah that look is more than reasonable. Poor man went into the trenches and never came back out.

Yes he is haunted by what he has lived through imo

Just after the horrors of the First World War, it’s hardly surprising!!

it's his eyes, they look full of fear and anguish, he looks like he has tears in his eyes. I don't blame him. He's likely faced a lot of racist abuse, and now he is putting his life on the line in a deadly war. (depending when in 1918 this was taken) even if he survived the first world war, he'd have seen plenty of horrific things. :(

His eyes are full of tears, or it's an effect of the light, but I don't think so

Fighting a war in a foreign land and possibly returning to a country that hates you will do that.

Kind of obvious as to why… 😔

What I see is someone who is pretty overcome with the fact that he made it in to armed forces. Someone who thought it was a privilege and an honor to put their life on the line for some pompous puffed up bureaucrat who probably can't fit into last years clothing, and will die on a white fluffy bed surrounded by family, instead of a muddy pit on a foreign land.

Maybe because he's on his way to a war?

I like to think that is pride causing those tears in his eyes and rightfully so. He should be proud of himself.

Completely agree! I think he was about to cry when they took this picture!

He's in a war!!!!!!!

Depending on the year too , he wouldn't have been paid fairly, decent compared to other things but not equally. Someone please correct me if im remembering wrong

War will do that to a person.

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I see pride in his eyes.

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Sure you do.

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Really? You don't know why?

say that to most Vietnam vets and they'll tell you - No choice - I was drafted

One more item for your list: all the African American troops in France were in volunteer units raised specifically for the war. The regular army’s all-Black troops (Buffalo Soldiers) were kept on the Mexican border and in the Philippines. The crack pot racial theory being that, as a tropical branch of the human race, they were more suited there.

actually a hall of shame seems like an interesting idea

I liked when people were tearing down statues and dumping them into the nearest body of water.