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- From top to bottom, left to right: Alfred Dreyfus in captivity at the height of the Dreyfus Affair, 1891; Boer commandos during the Second Boer War, late 1890s; Plessy v. Ferguson establishes the American doctrine of racial segregation, leading to the Jim Crow laws, photographed in 1899; nearly three hundred ethnic Lakota people are massacred by the United States Army at Wounded Knee in 1890; the U.S. pays $20 million to annex the Philippines from Spain in the Treaty of Paris in 1898; activism spearheaded by Kate Sheppard, pictured in 1905, leads to New Zealand being the first country to give women the right to vote; Vincent van Gogh, the Dutch master of modern art, dies, likely by suicide in 1890; Menelik II leads Ethiopia to a sweeping victory over Italy at the Battle of Adwa, First Italo-Ethiopian War between 1895 and 1896. (en)
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