Vintage feminism

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May McAvoy, c1920 (Melbourne Spurr) 

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Renata, Dompteuse (Animal Trainer), c1930 (Werner Rohde)

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Robertson- The German dancer & performer  Usa Koch, 1930

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Dash and Fluff with their owners

Ethel and Dora posing with Dash and Fluff in 1913.

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Valeska, c1946 (Max Yavno)

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Sunday best, North Carolina, c1940 (Of Another Fashion)

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Rosa Parks is the first Black woman to have a statue in the U.S. Capitol. It was unveiled today. While December 1, 1955 is a day permanently etched in the minds of Americans of every race, it is important to note that she had a LIFE FULL OF ACTIVISM—decades that pre-dated and post-dated that event, and without the work done prior, her decision not to get up wouldn’t have been possible on an individual (political, emotional, psychological) level for her, or political level for us as a race. Let’s not minimize her to tropes but recognize the fullness of a powerful life, one women like Ella Baker helped pave for her; one that helped pave the way for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

For more information, read the book The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, or even start with an essay I mentioned in a previous Read This Week feature that lists 10 facts that most people do not know about her life.

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That’s right #Oscars audience, STAND UP for Dame Shirley Bassey! She is 76 today and still as gorgeous as she was in this 1960 photo where she is being fitted for a new sheath dress, covered with 156,000 diamante stones (weighing in at 28 pounds), by designer Douglas Darnell. Photo by Peter Hall/Keystone Features/Getty Images.

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Mary Pickford in Rags, 1915.

Legend.

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Lou Henry Hoover, wife of President Herbert Hoover, on a burro in Acton, California, 22 August 1891.

Nora Ephron: always laughing

Source: guardian.co.uk

The new western woman of the 1920s

1927 Fritz Reusing (German artist 1874-1957) Portrait of a Smoking Lady

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