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Ventura, CA - Mike Wallace earns eight dollars giving blood.

McGrath State Park, Ventura, CA - One of Mike and Marlene Wallace’s five children, Kevin, 11, sleeps in the front seat of the family car. A 13-year-old brother, Christopher, makes his bed in the back seat. Marlene says, “This is not an…

Sandyville, IA - Farm Auction.

Sheldon, S.C. - Elijah Major, 9, stands in the living room of his grandmother’s tar paper shack.

Philadelphia - Brian Van Horn, 12, looks out the window of the Kensington area house where he lives with his mother and three sisters. A child raised by his mother alone is four times as likely to be poor as a child with both parents at home.

Anglican Bishop and Nobel Prize laureate Desmond Tutu hugs Winnie Mandela, wife of the imprisoned South African dissident and black leader Nelson Mandela, at her home in Soweto, on a visit one evening. Winnie Mandela, whom Bishop Tutu calls…

In the Johannesburg train station, two black conductors look out a window of the whites-only wagon on the train where they work.

A man stands with his fist raised, shouting, “Amandla,” which means, “power,” during a funeral for black unrest victims in Duncan Village, near East London.

On the same day, South African troops used bullwhips on a crowd in Athlone, near Capetown, that was gathering for a march to Pollsmoor Prison, where Nelson Mandela is being held. Severe riots broke out in black and colored townships in the Western…

On Tuesday, Oct. 16, in what became known as the “Trojan Horse” incident, South African police hidden beneath cardboard boxes on the back of a truck, suddenly jumped up and fired indiscriminately into a crowd of youths in Athlone near…