Jewish people await selection at Auschwitz-Birkenau
Jewish people from Subcarpathian Rus await selection at Auschwitz-Birkenau, May 1944. — “Jewish people await selection at Auschwitz-Birkenau” source...
Author: Historical Snapshots
Georgia O’Keeffe quote: “I found I could say things…
“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way — things I had no words for.” – Georgia O’Keef...
Actress Olivia de Havilland: a snapshot biography
Olivia de Havilland performed in forty-nine feature films and won multiple Academy and Golden Globe awards. But her career almost ended well before stardom. Dee...
Abraham Lincoln quote: “Now, it happens that…
“Now, it happens that we meet together once every year, sometimes about the fourth of July, for some reason or other. These fourth of July gatherings I su...
Langston Hughes: writer, “My People” & other works
“The night is beautiful,So the faces of my people. The stars are beautiful,So the eyes of my people Beautiful, also, is the sun.Beautiful, also, are the s...
Booker T. Washington quote on going to school
“I had no schooling whatever while I was a slave, though I remember on several occasions I went as far as the schoolhouse door with one of my young mistresses t...
President John F. Kennedy quote: “This state…
“This State, this city, this campus, have stood long for both human rights and human enlightenment — and let that forever be true. This Nation is now engaged in...
Bert Williams: “The funniest man I ever saw.”
Bert Williams was simple and kind, many liked him. He was also one of the best comedians of his time. “The funniest man I ever saw,” one fellow comedian describ...
Anne Sullivan letter on first year in Tuscumbia
My dear; –It was a year ago yesterday that I arrived in Tuscumbia. Did you realize it? How forlorn and weary I was, nobody, not even you can imagine. I remember...
Ada “Bricktop” Smith: a snapshot biography
Her full name was Ada Beatrice Queen Victoria Louise Virginia Smith. But most people called her Bricktop because of her red hair. Bricktop was born in Alderson,...