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Meet Bessie Stringfield, the Black woman who rode a Harley solo across Jim Crow America eight times in the 1930s and 40s. She slept on her bike when hotels turned her away, won a flat track race disguised as a man, carried Army dispatches in WWII and became the Motorcycle Queen of Miami. https://www.reddit.com/gallery/1xhpy9m https://redd.it/1xi34af @RedditHistory

1974 - I am the last living witness to this moment in time. https://redd.it/1xht75z @RedditHistory

The Holodomor famine 1932-1933 paintings by Nina Marchenko, 2000. https://redd.it/1xhixyq @RedditHistory

Mel Brooks was a combat engineer in the U.S. Army and fought in the Battle of the Bulge. He was sent to the forward edge of the battle areas, to clear land mines so Allied forces could advance. On five occasions, his unit had to fight as infantry and suffered casualties doing so, 1940s https://redd.it/1xhizn5 @RedditHistory

Christina Applegate. 1990s. https://redd.it/1xhb1dw @RedditHistory

Voter Registration, My grandfather, 1963 https://redd.it/1xha549 @RedditHistory

John Candy, Tom Hanks, Eugene Levy and Daryl Hannah on the Set of Splash, 1983. https://redd.it/1xh3t29 @RedditHistory

Pure late-1960s motherhood: laundry on the line, stroller on the grass, and kids looking cute https://redd.it/1xgtcds @RedditHistory

2017 anti-5G and anti-WiFi artwork by David Dees. https://redd.it/1xgsi9z @RedditHistory

Eric Cantona being surrounded by journalists after his ban from the French national football team for insulting the manager on live TV, 1988 https://redd.it/1xgmypl @RedditHistory

Neuschwanstein from a distance https://redd.it/1xg7wgy @RedditHistory

how the Oval Office looked under each president https://redd.it/1xgb38g @RedditHistory

My friend holding a “Homo” sign he kept around his neck at Los Angeles Pride, 1995 https://redd.it/1xg6iet @RedditHistory

My great grandmother Irene, 1919, age 16 https://redd.it/1xg1vze @RedditHistory

Dee Snider and wife Suzette just celebrated 45 years of marriage https://redd.it/1xg0f5q @RedditHistory