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A sign points the way to a "Colored Waiting Room", outside a Greyhound bus station in Rome, Georgia, United States, in 1943. The sign refers to a room where blacks were allowed to wait for the bus; "colored" was the common euphemism for African Americans at the time, especially in the Southern United States, though the term is now considered offensive.

The provision of separate facilities for white people and black people was the result of a series of state laws, collectively nicknamed Jim Crow laws, making racial segregation the rule of law in many Southern states beginning in 1876. While these laws decreed that such provisions were to be "separate but equal", in practice facilities provided for whites were assuredly of better quality and maintenance than those for blacks. Various Jim Crow laws remained in effect until they were made illegal throughout the U.S. by the Civil Rights Act of 1965.

Cover of the June 13, 1913^[1] issue of The Suffragette, a British women's suffrage newsletter. The cover shows an etching of feminist activist Emily Wilding Davison, who was trampled to death the week before while crossing the track of the Epsom Derby in what was either a publicity stunt or a suicide.

Suffragette was the second official paper of the Women's Social and Political Union, edited by WSPU founder Christabel Pankhurst. It replaced the paper Votes for Women when the WSPU became more militant in 1912.

Certain classes of women gained the right to vote in the UK in 1918, and universal suffrage was granted in 1925.

This still from the 1915 movie The Birth of a Nation portrays the Ku Klux Klan capturing a savage free black named Gus (played by Walter Long in blackface) who is wanted for terrorizing a local white woman. The movie is notorious for its exceedingly stereotypical and demonic portrayal of blacks, particularly recently-freed blacks in a post-Reconstruction world; and for its sympathetic portrayal of the KKK as a populist militia restoring order to an upended South.

An unidentified member of the Westboro Baptist Church holds aloft the church's well-known anti-gay picket sign, declaring that "God Hates Fags", a religiously-themed denigration of homosexuals.

The church's tenets include the belief that the current ails of the world are God's punishment for Western tolerance of gays, including gay rights and same-sex marriage. It has been known for displaying its signs at the funerals of soldiers of the Iraq War. Both the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center classify Westboro as a hate group.

The Holocaust was a campaign of genocide by the Adolf Hitler-led Nazi German government before and during World War II. The primary targets of the effort were Jews, although Poles, Roma, and homosexuals were also targeted.

This image shows piles of exterminated bodies in a Nazi concentration camp found after the camp was liberated by Allied forces.