Gallery: Injustice Went Viral Way Before Facebook Live (NSFW)
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The British misssionary Alice Seeley Harris used her Kodak dry plate camera to document atrocities committed in the Congo by the Belgian regime. In this image, Nsala of Wala gazes at the severed hand and foot of his five year-old daughter. She was murdered and canabilized, along with his wife and son, by ABIR militia after Nsala failed to meet rubber quotas. Harris presented slideshows of the images in Europe and the United States.
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This is one of four photographs secretly taken in August 1944 at the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz by a special unit of prisoners known as sonderkommandos. They were charged with disposing corpses of gas chamber victims, and documented their activity using what an eyewitness has described as a Leica. The film was smuggled out of the camp in a toothpaste tube.
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This film still is part of camcorder footage shot by Clayton Patterson on August 6, 1988 in New York’s Tompkins Square Park. Police were enforcing a curfew when they broke up the rally using brutal tactics. Six police officers were indicted as a result of the footage. When Patterson appeared on Oprah, he held up his camcorder and said, “This is a revolutionary tool. Little Brother is watching Big Brother.”
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In April 7, 2004, American contractor Tami Silicio was working at the Kuwait International Airport when she secretly took this photograph with her digital camera. It shows the coffins of American soldiers killed in Iraq aboard a US-bound cargo plane. Silica emailed it to a friend, who sent it to The Seattle Times. At the time, the US government banned images of dead or wounded soldiers.
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New Orleans resident Kimberly Roberts used a camcorder to film Hurricane Katrina floodwaters as they swept through her house in the Lower Ninth Ward in August 2005. The video brought attention to the lack of governmental aid given to the neighborhood.
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Tunisian street vendor Mohammed Bouazizi protested government harassment by setting himself on fire in front of a government building in Sidi Bouzid on December 17, 2010. His act inspired a wave of protests that many recorded on their cellphones and posted on Facebook. It helped spark the Arab Spring.
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On July 6, 2016, a Minneapolis police officer shot Philando Castile during a routine traffic stop. As Castile bled to death, his partner Diamond Reynolds recounted what happened on a Facebook livestream.
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