How did people in conflict-induced crisis build resilience? |
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From 1961 to 1989, the Berlin Wall cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The barrier included guard towers placed along large concrete walls. | Scars of a whipped Louisiana slave photographed in April 1863 and later distributed by abolitionists. | ||||
Hundreds of thousands descended on Washington, DC's Lincoln Memorial on Aug. 28, 1963. It was from the steps of the memorial that King delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. | In August 1945, during the final stage of the Second World War, the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. | ||||
In 1955, Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger, spurring the Montgomery boycott and other efforts to end segregation. | Nagasaki, Japan, 1945. The patient's skin is burned in a pattern corresponding to the dark portions of a kimono worn at the time of the explosion. |
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The Bangladesh Liberation War (1971) was a revolutionary independence war which pitted East Pakistan (later joined by India) against West Pakistan, and lasted over a duration of nine months. It witnessed large-scale atrocities, the exodus of 10 million refugees and the displacement of 30 million people. |