A young worker at a forced labor camp is tied to a pickaxe as punishment. Texas, early 1930s.
PBS did a documentary a while back called “Slavery By Another Name” and this image was part of it. The level of depravity and violence enacted on Black people in this country is bone chilling. Many of the prisoners in these forced labor camps were children.
Click here for the more information on the documentary. Click around the site to see images. When I first saw them, I felt like I got hit with a ton of bricks. You can just see the overwhelming sense of defeat and hopelessness in the eyes of the Black folks in the images. You might shed some tears. I certainly did.
This is US History. Know it.
Angela Lindvall by Mert & Marcus for Missoni F/W 2001
Heavily Seasoned
Dear white people
remember you committed genocide against usi love this
1-800-Punk-Ass Snitch #IRL
I long to be this happy
dude up front wants to run up the hill and fight
The Helmet Project by -sean lancaster- #flickstackr
Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/yVETWz
Merry Christmas everyone! Hope y’all are with folks you love or at least got to FaceTime with ‘em
I’m out in the woods with Maddie today giving thanks to the bounty on the land and all we are given in this life. My hope in 2015 is to continue supplementing her diet with squirrel and better connect to this world
Unknown — Katharina Grosse