When legendary performer Josephine Baker and her party were refused food service at the Stork Club on October 16, 1951, the NAACP organized a picket line in front of the chic night spot. Seen on October 22 are Bessie Buchanan, Baker's personal secretary; Laura Z. Hobson, author of "Gentleman's Agreement, a novel about anti-Semitism; and Walter White, executive secretary of the NAACP.
Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe at the Tiffany Club (1954)
Ella Fitzgerald was not allowed to play at the popular Mocambo, in Hollywood, because of her race. Marilyn, who loved her music and supported civil rights, called the owner of the Mocambo and told him that if he booked Ella immediately, she would take a front table every night. The owner said yes, and Marilyn was there, front table, every night. After that, Ella never had to play in a small jazz club again. “She was an unusual woman - a little ahead of her times. And she didn't know it." - Ella Fitzgerald about Marilyn Monroe
Ukrainian slave labourers kidnapped by the Nazis - Ostarbeiter - with their hands behind their backs, being paraded past local German women.
Photograph taken between 1941 and 1945.
Hitler classed Slavic people as "subhuman", and millions were kidnapped for slave work in Germany. Up to three-quarters of the Ostarbeiter were taken from Ukraine, and by 1943 the Nazis were taking children as young as ten.
Physogs, the Novel Card Game (1940s) · original storage for the game
Physogs, the Novel Card Game (1940s) · Face / frame card (1 of 4)
Physogs, the Novel Card Game (1940s) · Playing cards (eyes - nose - mouth)
Physogs or having fun with a very sexist, misogynist and racist game; not surprising at all from a game based on a “science” like physiognomy.
Physogs, the Novel Card Game (1940s) · Playing cards (eyes - nose - mouth)
Physogs, a British game from the 1940s, is a popularized version of physiognomy, the art of judging human character from facial features. Based on sociologist Jacques Penry's How to Judge Character from the Face (1939), the game consists of fifty-six...
posers in the coquette community remind me of the posers in the punk community, they’re basically the same type of people in different fonts and styles. Punk posers would try to push this narrative that being punk is about being “kind and sweet” when that’s literally the opposite. Do you actually think the word itself, PUNK, which is usually used to describe someone being REBELLIOUS, SNARKY AND ALL AROUND JERK, going to be about BEING KIND AND SUGARY SWEET???? HUH????? And they’d also get mad when they realize that anarchism and being very much against the government is basically integrated into the punk subculture and try to make conservative ideology the “new punk” just makes them look stupid to actual punks. I have a mutual (@punkeropercyjackson) who’s a bit more knowledgeable on the punk subculture so I might need to go to them for more information.
But it’s the same with the coquette posers. They’ll scream that coquette is only for the “correct” type of people (white, skinny, cis, straight and very gender conforming teenage girls) and will harass anyone else who doesn’t fit that category of people who also post coquette stuff. They’ll also restrict what type of styles are and aren’t coquette as if they’ve received an honorary badge to be the new coquette fashion police who will insult anyone who doesn’t fit their strict criteria. And when people call them out on this, and call them the posers they are, those same people will just say to “stop caring so much” and that they should “calm down” to make themselves look rational while making the person calling them out look insane and rude when they aren’t. Also god forbid you call them out for being fatphobic, racist, misogynistic, and/or ped0ph1lic, because now YOU’RE harassing THEM… somehow
Nancy Cunard, of the English shipping family, announced on May 2, 1932 that she had been disinherited by her mother for her relationship with Henry Crowder, an African-American jazz musician. Cunard was a famously flamboyant bohemian writer and political activist whose best-known work was editing Negro Anthology, a huge compendium of work by Black writers. The photo shows Cunard with John Banting, left, a painter, and Taylor Gordon, right, a writer, in front of the Harlem hotel.