❂ May 17, 2011 ♥ 714 × ✎ Comment

Last night PBS aired Stanley Nelson’s documentary Freedom Riders about the men and women who refused to ride segregated and traveled together on trains and buses during the Jim Crow era South.

Watch the entire documentary online HERE. 

via Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders

Tagged: 1961 Jim Crow activism bw civil rights freedom riders mississippi racism nonviolence
❂ September 8, 2010 ♥ 195 × ✎ Comment
“Take your Buddy Holly shit elsewhere Johnny, we’re shooting hoops!” via suicidewatch

“Take your Buddy Holly shit elsewhere Johnny, we’re shooting hoops!”

via suicidewatch

Tagged: converse advertisement hoops illustration 1961
❂ February 25, 2010 ♥ 48 × ✎ Comment
Peter FondaPhoto by Francis Miller1961 via i12bent

Peter Fonda
Photo by Francis Miller
1961

via i12bent

Tagged: bw peter fonda 1961 photo
❂ January 10, 2010 ♥ 77 × ✎ Comment
Agar and Sandy, Big SurPhoto by Hunter S. Thompson1961

Agar and Sandy, Big Sur
Photo by Hunter S. Thompson
1961

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❂ November 15, 2009 ♥ 16 × ✎ Comment
Marilyn Monroe and Montgomery Clift in The Misfits1961 via The Selvedge Yard

Marilyn Monroe and Montgomery Clift in The Misfits
1961

via The Selvedge Yard

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❂ September 3, 2009 ♥ 26 × ✎ Comment
Torres Blancas buildingby Francisco Javier Sáenz de OízaMadrid, 1961 photo via esmuz

Torres Blancas building
by Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza
Madrid, 1961

photo via esmuz

Tagged: 1961 Madrid Spain architecture Torres Blancas
❂ August 24, 2009 ♥ 24 × ✎ Comment
Brigitte BardotPlease, Not Now!Director: Roger Vadim1961

Brigitte Bardot
Please, Not Now!
Director: Roger Vadim
1961

Tagged: film France Brigitte Bardot Roger Vadim 1961 movie posters