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Ben Walker (bwmodular)

Pic of the day:

Racial segregation in the United States included the legally or socially enforced separation of African Americans from White Americans, as well as the separation of other ethnic minorities from majority communities. Facilities and services such as housing, healthcare, education, employment and transportation in the United States have been systematically separated based on racial categorizations. The Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of segregation in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), so long as "separate but equal" facilities were provided, a requirement that was rarely met. The doctrine's applicability to public schools was unanimously overturned in Brown v. Board of Education (1954), and several landmark cases including Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States (1964) further ruled against racial segregation, helping to bring an end to the Jim Crow laws. During the civil rights movement, de jure segregation was formally outlawed by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968, while de facto segregation continues today in areas including residential segregation and school segregation, as part of ongoing racism and discrimination in the United States. This photograph, taken in 1939 by Russell Lee, shows an African-American man drinking at a water dispenser, with a sign reading "Colored", in a streetcar terminal in Oklahoma City.Photograph credit: Russell Lee; restored by Adam Cuerden

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Joy Division (This name was a reference to groups of Jewish women in the concentration camps during WWII who were kept for the Nazi guards' sexual pleasure, as described in Ka-tzetnik 135633's 1955 book, The House of Dolls.)
ABBA
Uriah Heep - Dickens
Mott the Hoople? Willard Manus novel
Mothers of Invention - Saying
Dry & Heavy - Burning Spear
Thompson Twins - Tintin
Deacon Blue - after Steely Dan - Deacon Blues from Album Aya (1977)
Fine Young Cannibals - 1960 Movie All The Fine Young Cannibals, starring Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood
Iron Maiden
Hüsker Dü
Dr. Feelgood
R.E.M.
Thin Lizzy - After Beano character Tin Lizzy
The Teardrop Explodes - From a copy of Daredevil comic (issue 77). There is a large silver teardrop in Central Park and without warning, 'The Teardrop Explodes'
They Might Be Giants - 1971 movie starring George Scott
Tears for Fears - Arthur Janov's primal scream therapy book
Duran Duran - Barbarella