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EVB2945371: Markers are for the graves of 80 victims of the Nazis found in Ludwigslust, Germany. The entire civilian population of Schwerin, Germany, was ordered by the Military Government to attend funeral rites conducted by U.S. Army chaplains. The graves were dug on the palace grounds of the Archduke of Mecklenburg in Ludwigslust. May 8, 1945, World War 2 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2945387: Two U.S. soldiers looking at dead prisoners on railroad car at an unidentified concentration camp. German camp authorities desperately moved their prisoners away from the advancing Allied armies, often deliberately murdering, as well are causing the deaths of thousands of weakened captives. April-May, 1945, World War 2 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2945458: Young women, working as technicians in the Y-12 Plant at Oak Ridge during the Manhattan Project. World War 2 labor shortage resulted in the hiring recent high school graduates and farm girls. Called 'Calutron Girls,' because they tended the 'CALifornia University cycloTRONs' that separated weapons grade uranium 235 from natural uranium 238 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2947400: Mike Jacobs inspects Joe Louis' fist before the heavy weight champion would defend his title against Lou Nova on Sept. 29, 1941. In 1935 Jacobs worked to overcome informal barriers that kept African American boxers out of big title fights. Two years later, Louis won the World Championship against James Braddock on June 22, 1937. / Bridgeman Images
EVB2947417: Althea Gibson and Barbara Knapp walk on grass at Forest Hills in 1950. Gibson won 10 straight championships in 1947 in the segregated ATA (American Tennis Association). When the USLTA (U.S. Lawn Tennis Association) failed to invite her to any qualifying tournaments, Alice Marble, a four-time winner at Forest Hills, protested and accused bigotry. The next year Gibson played at Forest Hills. / Bridgeman Images
EVB2947441: President John Kennedy meets with U.S. Air Force RB-47 pilots released from the Soviet Union. Capt. Freeman Olmstead, the co-pilot, and Capt. John McCone, the navigator, survived when their plane was shot down by a Russian MiG-19 over the Barents Sea. Four other flyers, all electronic warfare officers, were killed. Jan 27, 1961. / Bridgeman Images
EVB2947448: President John Kennedy Signs the Equal Pay Act on June 10, 1963. The law prohibited sex-based wage discrimination between men and women in the same establishment who perform jobs that required equal skills. The 1963 law did not cover did not cover executives, administrators, outside salespeople, or professionals. / Bridgeman Images