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The Paris Albums 1900: W.E.B. Du Bois - Telegraph
The idea for the exhibition came from African American lawyer and educator Thomas Calloway, who recognised the Paris Exposition Universelle as an opportunity to present African Americans’ achievements to a broad international audience. Calloway appealed to distinguished African American scholars and activists including Du Bois, Booker T. Washington and Mary Church Terrell.
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Unpublished: The Streets of Paris, Exultant - Paris Liberated: Rare, Unpublished - Photo Gallery - LIFE
Unpublished: The Streets of Paris, Exultant
Thousands of Parisians -- and untold numbers of refugees from other countries, trapped in Paris since the Germans captured the capital in 1940 -- poured into the streets on August 25, 1944. They had been primed for liberation for months. Strikes -- by railway workers, cops, postal workers -- and a relentless, guerilla resistance had shown that the Germans' hold on the city was tenuous, at best. When word spread that the Nazi military garrison in the capital had surrendered, the streets erupted. Wine flowed. People laughed, sang "La Marseillaise," wept. "It was an amazing sight, and an amazing feeling," Morse recalls. "So many people in the streets, holding hands, everyone headed for the Champs-Élysées and the The Arc de Triomphe, the same way that everyone in New York heads to Times Square, for example, when something momentous happens. It really was ... liberating." Above: A never-published photo taken by Ralph Morse, August 25, 1944.
Catacombs of Paris - Skulls Everywhere - Photo Gallery - LIFE
Catacombs of Paris
These subterranean quarries were used to store the remains of generations of Parisians in a bid to cope with the overcrowding of Paris' cemeteries at the end of the 18th century.
First pictures of French Resistance killed by Nazi firing squad - Telegraph
They are being displayed to the public for the first time in Mont Valérien, a 19th century fort outside Paris where the Nazis executed more than 1,000 resistance fighters and hostages during the Second World War – the largest number in one site in France.
The Nazis arrested Resistance members and "hostages" – mainly Communists or Jews arrested in reprisal for the death of German soldiers – and sentenced them to death in military tribunals. The convicted were then driven by military lorries to the isolated fort, west of Paris. They were kept in a chapel, and some of their scrawled final messages on the walls with their name, date of death and "Vive la France" have just been restored.
First pictures of French Resistance killed by Nazi firing squad - Telegraph
They are being displayed to the public for the first time in Mont Valérien, a 19th century fort outside Paris where the Nazis executed more than 1,000 resistance fighters and hostages during the Second World War – the largest number in one site in France.
The Nazis arrested Resistance members and "hostages" – mainly Communists or Jews arrested in reprisal for the death of German soldiers – and sentenced them to death in military tribunals. The convicted were then driven by military lorries to the isolated fort, west of Paris. They were kept in a chapel, and some of their scrawled final messages on the walls with their name, date of death and "Vive la France" have just been restored.
