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1865–1900 CENew study

A segregated waiting-room entrance at a bus station in Durham, North Carolina, photographed by Jack Delano in May 1940. This later documentary photograph records Jim Crow infrastructure, not the Reconstruction era or the entire regional system. Jack Delano / Farm Security Administration–Office of War Information / Library of Congress / Wikimedia Commons · U.S. federal work, public domain in the United States · Resized and converted to WebP · Licence terms

Americas / Rights

Reconstruction, citizenship and the rise of Jim Crow

Emancipation opened a struggle over citizenship, political participation and freedom. Reconstruction’s gains met organised violence and the subsequent expansion of segregation.

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1965–1966 CENew study

Major General Suharto at the official funeral of five army generals on 5 October 1965. This state-produced image records the event used to justify the subsequent anti-communist campaign; it does not depict the victims or scale of the 1965–1966 mass violence. Department of Information of the Republic of Indonesia / Wikimedia Commons · Indonesian government work, public domain · Date retained with caution because the Commons credit contains a conflicting date · Converted to WebP · Licence terms

Asia / Rights

Indonesia’s mass killings and imprisonment, 1965–1966

Army units and civilian militias killed vast numbers of communists and alleged sympathisers. Imprisonment and stigma continued after the massacres.

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1975–1980 CENew study

Brazilian foreign-intelligence report CIEX 334/77 concerning a Uruguayan operation against the Communist Party of Uruguay, 13 September 1977. This state-security document evidences the bureaucracy of transnational repression; its vocabulary and claims are not a neutral account. Centro de Informações do Exterior, Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs / Arquivo Nacional do Brasil / Wikimedia Commons · Brazilian government work, public domain · Full page retained; resized and converted to WebP · Licence terms

Americas / Rights

Operation Condor and dictatorship across borders

South American security services coordinated transnational repression. Exile could offer distance from a dictatorship without guaranteeing safety.

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1991–2001 CENew study

A U.S. airman visits children at the Mother and Child Refugee Center in Simin Han, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 30 January 1998. Taken after the Bosnian War, this official humanitarian image does not represent the full Yugoslav wars; the children are not identified. Tech. Sgt. Paul R. Caron / U.S. Air Force / Department of Defense / Wikimedia Commons · U.S. federal work, public domain · Resized and converted to WebP · Licence terms

Europe / War

The Yugoslav wars: distinct conflicts and civilian displacement

Yugoslavia’s disintegration produced several wars with different chronologies. Political mobilisation, territorial projects and organised violence shaped their course.

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1995 CENew study

Faded text inside the former battery factory at Potočari, once the Dutch battalion headquarters and now part of the Srebrenica Memorial Center. This modern, non-graphic photograph documents a preserved site—not the July 1995 killings. Duesseljan / Wikimedia Commons · CC0 1.0 · Resized and converted to WebP · Licence terms

Europe / War

Srebrenica: genocide, evidence and accountability

The fall of a UN-designated safe area was followed by the organised killing of Bosnian Muslim men and boys and the expulsion of other residents.

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