thruflowheater

Jordan. Near Amman. 1969. Palestinian woman and children in refugee camp of Baka.

(Source: collectivehistory)

A Soviet girl-child looks on as an american photographer takes her picture for Life magazine, November 1960.

(Source: themafucage2)

auntada:

Young woman holding hawk

Winterville, North Carolina (Pitt County)

July 6, 1963

The Daily Reflector Image Collection, Joyner Library, East Carolina University

cabinetofnaturalcuriosities:

William Gedney, Three girls in kitchen, Kentucky, 1964

Women hold up signs demanding equal rights during a demonstration for women’s liberation, New York City, circa 1968.

(Source: latinamerican-worldfeminist)

holdthisphoto:

Miss Coleman instructing in music at Howard University, 1963

• by Scurlock Studio

coolchicksfromhistory:

Photographer Elinor Wiltshire captures a very direct stare from a woman shopping on Moore Street, Dublin in 1964.

(The girl in the plaid dress can be seen in another photo from the same day)

vomitpink:

The Supremes at Martin Luther King Jr.’s funeral

(Source: ashnowak)

Dr. Helen Hauri, Headmistress, 1968

photo from Staatsarchiv des Kantons Basel-Stadt 

Hana Hegerová, singer and actress, 1969

photo from Staatsarchiv des Kantons Basel-Stadt

Louise Cullmann presumably on her 70th birthday, 1969

photo by Hans Bertolf, Staatsarchiv Basel-Stadt

realityayslum:

{ Jiru Jiri - Swinging grannies, 1966 }

coolchicksfromhistory:

via beauvoiriana:

Simone de Beauvoir signing books.

This photo is the cover of the French edition of the second volume of Force of Circumstance (1972). Curious detail: on the right, someone asks her to autograph Troubled Sleep (in Portuguese) by her long term romantic partner Jean-Paul Sartre.

coolchicksfromhistory:

A woman and two children paint banners for a suffrage protest in Zurich, 1966.  The lanterns on the ground represent cantons that had already granted women’s suffrage.

Swiss women were not granted voting rights on the federal level until 1971.