11. Celebrating liberation from the Soviet Union, a man destroys a portrait of Vladimir Lenin in Baku, Azerbaijan, 1991.
12. Leader of the Spanish Communist Party, Dolores Ibárruri (“La Pasionaria”), returns to the Spanish parliament after having spent 38 years in exile, on the 15 June 1977, the day democracy was restored in Spain.
13. Members of the Mu-So-Lit Club (est. 1905), Washington DC, 1940.
The Mu-So-Lit was a famously exclusive Gentlemen’s club for the African-American upper class. One could only be invited as a member by connections.
14. Three paperboys smoking at Skeeter’s Branch in St. Louis, 1910.
15. One T-62 tank bringing down the house during the “Prague Spring” in 1968.
16. A 16-year-old Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ( known as Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor during that time) pictured in New York City, 1963.
17. Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro having lunch in a kolkhoz in Georgian SSR, 1963.
18. Babies are strapped into airplane seats en route to LAX during “Operation Babylift” with airlifted orphans from Vietnam to the U.S, April 1975.
19. Bruce Lee in Oakland, 1965.
20. A pickup truck in the Philippines fleeing as Mount Pinatubo erupts in the background.
The volcano erupted on 17 June 1990 and was the second largest of the 20th century.
