Some of the Heart-Breaking Moments captured on camera.🧵
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1. 1993 photo of a starving Sudanese child stalked by a vulture, taken by Kevin Carter. Carter won the 1994 Pulitzer for this image but died by suicide. In his suicide note, he wrote, "I am haunted by the vivid memories. of starving or wounded children.. https://t.co/5Ta5ZkzWlK
2. A father stares at the hand and foot of his five-year-old daughter severed as a punishment for failing to make the daily rubber quota, Belgian Congo, 1904. https://t.co/qdxETjIc1n
3. This photo was taken of a Brazilian boy playing the violin and crying at the funeral of his teacher who rescued him from poverty and crime.
This image is considered one of the most emotional photographs in modern history https://t.co/HUeedQaSnh
5. Harrowing photo shows a man guarding his family from cannibals during The Madras famine of 1877 in India. https://t.co/oqxkJj8MME
6. George McLaurin, the first African-American student admitted into the University of Oklahoma, is separated from white students, 1948. https://t.co/2XXZdzAlDI
7. Human Zoo in Paris, 1905.
The human Zoo definitely existed mainly in Europe and America both Asians, indigenous people of America and Africans were being displayed. https://t.co/Oa2K8qo1zT
8. King Leopold II of Belgium ruled Congo as his private property for long years. He cut off the limbs of Congolese who did not meet their daily quota on the plantation. https://t.co/BVNJaH6I1x
9. A high school football star spent 6 years in prison on a false rape charge, which was dismissed after his 16 yr old accuser admitted the incident was fabricated. He was deeply emotional when the case was dropped. https://t.co/6HyDaFCanf
10. In Syria, 17 hours after the earthquake devastated the region, this 7-year-old girl was found under the rubble with her hand over her little brother's head to protect him. Both made it out safely. https://t.co/7hhVbjrYV6
11. Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the DRC, was assassínated in 1961 with the involvement of Belgian authorities, who opposed his leadership.
His body was dismẹmbered, dissoIved in acid, and his teeth were taken as trophies. https://t.co/KMTyg5tU94
12. A Japanese boy waiting in line at the crematorium with his deceased baby brother on his back, Nagasaki, 1945. https://t.co/xx9CjlkKrk
14. A crowd of angry parents hurl insults at 6 year-old Ruby Bridges as she enters a traditionally all-white school, the first black child to do so in the United States South, 1960. Bridges is 70 years old today. https://t.co/Vd1oTWWcFN
