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life: The pilots of an RAF (Royal Air Force) fighter squadron that destroyed 73 enemy planes and damaged 38 others during the Battle of Britain crowd around a Hawker Hurricane with their canine mascot. Of England’s debt to the outnumbered pilots who defeated the Nazi Luftwaffe, Winston Churchill famously said: “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” Ever since, the pilots who defended Britain during those crucial months in 1940 — Britons, Poles, Czechs, Yanks, Canadians, Aussies, and other volunteers from around the world — have been known, simply and affectionately, as The Few. see more — World War II: In Praise of the RAF

life:

The pilots of an RAF (Royal Air Force) fighter squadron that destroyed 73 enemy planes and damaged 38 others during the Battle of Britain crowd around a Hawker Hurricane with their canine mascot. Of England’s debt to the outnumbered pilots who defeated the Nazi Luftwaffe, Winston Churchill famously said: “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”

Ever since, the pilots who defended Britain during those crucial months in 1940 — Britons, Poles, Czechs, Yanks, Canadians, Aussies, and other volunteers from around the world — have been known, simply and affectionately, as The Few.

see more — World War II: In Praise of the RAF

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feministblackboard: Did you know that Hattie McDaniel was the first African American woman to ever be nominated for an Academy award?She was not even allowed to attend her own movie’s premiere. The movie, in case you are unfamiliar, was 1939’s Gone with the Wind. Her career began with radio in which she played a maid who went by “Hi-Hat Hattie.” The radio serial was called “The Optimistic Do-nut Hour.” She was paid so little for her role (especially in proportion to her white counterparts) that she had to work as a real maid off to the side in order to make enough money to live. She also got criticism from different groups such as the NAACP, who felt she, like other black actors at the time, were only perpetuating stereotypes of African Americans. She decidedly kept working as she did saying, “I’d rather play a maid for $700 a week than be one for $7.”

feministblackboard:

Did you know that Hattie McDaniel was the first African American woman to ever be nominated for an Academy award?

She was not even allowed to attend her own movie’s premiere. The movie, in case you are unfamiliar, was 1939’s Gone with the Wind.

Her career began with radio in which she played a maid who went by “Hi-Hat Hattie.” The radio serial was called “The Optimistic Do-nut Hour.” She was paid so little for her role (especially in proportion to her white counterparts) that she had to work as a real maid off to the side in order to make enough money to live.

She also got criticism from different groups such as the NAACP, who felt she, like other black actors at the time, were only perpetuating stereotypes of African Americans. She decidedly kept working as she did saying, “I’d rather play a maid for $700 a week than be one for $7.”

(Source: feminist-blackboard, via fuckyeahfeminists)

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