These are heady days in America. After eight years of an illiterate hick pretending to be President, we have the excitement of a woman and a black guy duking it out. But, that’s hardly news, is it?

As riveting as the current state of affairs truly is, you have to go a long way to find anything as progressive as these pictures of Rosie the Riveter.

Going all the way back to 1943 we have an African American Rosie:

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And then there’s this woman welding from Vietnam:

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As Barack Obama might say, “Yes we can!”