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PARIS—South African singer Miriam Makeba, 1969.

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CC Sabathia and A.J. Burnett pose for pictures at the new Yankee Stadium.

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Rage Against the Machine protesting against Guantanamo Bay at the Reading festival.

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Lining up for food and water, Louisville, Kentucky, 1937.

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QUEENS, N.Y.—Louis Armstrong at his home in Corona, working on the second volume of his autobiography, 1958.

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NEW YORK CITY—Sunset on the Brooklyn Bridge, 1985.

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PARIS—Called “Bloody Monday,” May 6, 1968, marks one of the most violent days of the Parisian student revolt, which was supported by the student union and instructors’ union and later joined by workers’ unions. At least 10,000 students marched through the Latin Quarter as conflict with the police turned into all-night riots.

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NEW YORK CITY—The Bowery, 1967.

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SANTA CLARA, Cuba—Fidel Castro enters town and delivers a speech that lasts for hours. Batista had fled the country, and Castro marched with his Revolutionary Army toward Havana.

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UNITED STATES—Angela Davis, 1973.