Source: Robert Hill Thomas, Cuba and Puerto Rico with the other islands of the West Indies their topography, climate, flora, products, industries, cities, people, political conditions, etc., opp. Pg. 352. 1899.
Colonial Office photographic collection held at The National Archives UK, uploaded as part of the Africa Through a Lens project
Portrait of Hova woman in Western dress, Madagascar, ca. 1910 source digitallibrary.usc.edu
Moorish Science Temple Conclave in Chicago, 1928
Eritrean love! from the 1950’s!
Actress Dorothy Dandridge arrives with her sister Vivien at the Rivoli Theatre, New York for the premiere of her film 'Carmen Jones'. 29th October 1954 United States
Three Jamaican men on board the Empire Windrush arriving at Tilbury Docks, 1948.
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Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X, Chicago, 1961 photograph by Eve Arnold for life magazine
From left, Mangbetu woman, Congo, c. 1929-37; woman with child, Guinea, 1915; Tutsi woman, Rwanda, c. 1929-37. Photos courtesy of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art.
During Colonial times, it wasn’t unusual for photographers to feature ‘natives’ (as they referred to Africans) on postcards.
Over 8,000 different postcards were produced in colonial West Africa from 1901 to 1963. Often these postcards were intended to document racial “types,” as the French called them, or illustrate the progress of French development projects. The postcards were sent mainly by European merchants and members of the French military. These postcards circulated throughout Europe, received by friends and families back home.
Christian women with their children, in Cameroon. circa 1920/ 1940
Barton, Katie D. Morgan (1918-2010)
Photo of a father and his daughter taken by James Barbor outside of his photography studio Accra, Ghana c. 1950s
Billy Eckstine and Lena Horne captured by the iconic photographer Charles “Teenie” Harris at the Loendi Club in Pittsburgh, October 1944. Photo Carnegie Museum of Art.
Born the 15th of 17 children of former slaves in Maysville, South Carolina, Mary Jane McLeod Bethune eventually became a prominent educator, presidential advisor and political activist. As a child, Bethune quickly discovered education’s relationship to political and economic freedom through reading and writing. She was once ordered by a white child to put down a book after insisting that she could not read.
Unlike her parents and siblings, Bethune was born free and was fortunate to be formally educated at the Maysville School, a missionary school for African Americans. Shortly after graduating from the Maysville School, Bethune continued her education on a scholarship at the Scotia Seminary for Girls in Concord, North Carolina. After graduating from Scotia, Bethune initially wanted to be a Christian missionary in Africa.
Portrait of a woman from Madagascar circa 1880
Algerian Girl
A “Double V” campaign celebration in 1942 on 119th Street, between Lenox and 7th (now Malcolm X Blvd and Adam Clayton Powell Blvd) in Harlem. The Double V campaign was started in 1942, just as World War II began, by the Pittsburgh Courier, an historic African-American newspaper. “Double V” stood for “Victory Abroad and Victory at Home” and the purpose was to call continued attention to the legal injustices and segregation that Blacks dealt with as American citizens on American soil and as soldiers abroad within the (segregated) armed forces. To appreciate the role of the Pittsburgh Courier in this campaign, keep in mind that white newspapers did not cover Blacks unless there was a crime involved or, of course, if the Black in question was an athlete or an entertainer. White newspapers did not cover our births, deaths, weddings or any other slice of life-type activity that we did just like everyone else. That is why, in part, Ebony magazine was born. And they certainly did not report on racial discrimination (especially within the military where Black newspapers were banned from its libraries during the Double V Campaign) the way the Black press did.
Madagascar, circa 1890.
Maya
Eritrean couple, 1964
Homes owned by Negroes on South Park Avenue
The Negro in Chicago; a study of race relations and a race riot, by the Chicago Commission on Race Relations, 1922
New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
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Villa Lewaro was the stately home of America’s first black female millionaire, Madame C.J. Walker.
Alberto Henschel, Foto de negra com turbante, Brazil, ca. 1870. Source Coleção Gilberto Ferrez Acervo Instituto Moreira Salles.
Eliot Elisofon, LIFE Magazine photographer visited Sudan in 1947.
Daughter and wife of Elijah Muhammad with Malcolm X, Chicago, 1961. Photograph by Eve Arnold
Barnett, Ida Wells (1862-1931)
Hair - dressing as a work of art. (1921)
“Charcoal dust and palm oil are freely used, but should necessity arise, the structure must be cut away entirely as it cannot be ‘undone’”. Igbo woman, Nigeria
Just, Ernest Everett (1883-1941)
Dr. Ernest E. Just was one of the first African Americans to receive worldwide recognition as a scientist. Born August 14, 1883 in Charleston, South Carolina, Just was only four years old when his father, Charles Fraser Just, died in 1887. Due to mounting debt, his mother, Mary Just, moved with her children from Charleston to James Island, a Gullah community off the coast of South Carolina to work in its phosphate mines. While on the Island, Mary Just became a highly respected leader of the community and convinced a number of residents on the Island to purchase land and start their own community. The residents renamed the community, Maryville, in her honor.
In 1896 Just was sent to attend the high school of the Colored Normal Industrial, Agricultural & Mechanical College (later named South Carolina State University). Believing that he would receive a superior education by attending a college preparatory school in the North, Just enrolled in Kimball Union Academy in New Hampshire in 1900. Although he was Kimball Union's only black student, Just recalled being in a warm and welcoming environment where he excelled in social activities and academics. After graduation from Kimball Union, Just entered Dartmouth College in 1903. In contrast to his experience at Kimball Union, Just felt alone and socially isolated at Dartmouth. Nonetheless, Just graduated magna cum laude in biology in 1907 and took a minor in history. He was also elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
After receiving his degree Just accepted a position at Howard University as an instructor of rhetoric and English and in 1910 later joined the Department of Biology. He was appointed Professor in the Department in 1912. While at Howard Just helped to found Omega Psi Phi Fraternity in 1911. Omega Psi Phi was the first black Greek letter organization founded at a historically black university.
Just worked for many years at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. At the laboratory, Just realized that a doctorate in the sciences was key to his success and he began a program of self-study at the University of Chicago and later earned a doctorate in 1916. After completing his doctorate Just published 50 scientific papers and two influential books, Basic Methods for Experiments on Eggs of Marine Mammals (1922) and Biology of the Cell Surface (1939).
Despite his Ph.D., Just could not find work at any major American university. He moved to Europe and continued his research in Naples, Italy. In 1930, however, Just became the first American to be invited to conduct research at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin, Germany. His research ended when the Nazis took control of Germany in 1933. Just relocated to Paris to continue his research.
Just married Ethel Highwarden in 1912. The couple had three children but the marriage suffered due to his long absences from home. He and Ethel divorced in 1939. That same year Just married Maid Hedwig Schnetzler, a German national. Ernest Just was working at the Station Biologique in Roscoff, France when the Germans invaded the country. He was held briefly in a prisoner-of-war camp until rescued by the U.S. State Department and brought back to the U.S. in 1940. Just had been ill for months before his incarceration as a POW but his condition deteriorated during his imprisonment and on the return journey to the United States. He died on October 27, 1941 in Washington, D.C., shortly after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
Sources: Kenneth Manning, Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett Just (New York: Oxford University Press, 1983); "Ernest Everett Just," in Kwame Anthony Appiah & Henry Louis, Gates, Jr., Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African & African American Experience (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005).
Holiday sits with fellow jazz legends, vocalist Sarah Vaughan, trumpeter Louis Armstrong and friend Howard Dennis in 1950
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Success is nothing without someone you love to share it with.” - Mahogany (1975
Wilson Pickett and Jimi Hendrix, 1966
Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman, New York, 1948
Unthank, Dr. DeNorval (1899-1977)
Dr. DeNorval Unthank, a civil rights advocate and a highly respected leader in the black community of Portland, Oregon, arrived in the city after completing medical school at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Dr. Unthank was recruited to Portland in 1929 because the city needed a black doctor. He was quickly tested as his white neighbors greeted his first attempt to move into a previously all white residential area with broken windows, threatening phone calls, and general harassment. Unthank had to move his family four times before finding a place to settle down peacefully.
Throughout the 1930s, Dr. Unthank was Portland’s only black medical practitioner. He was a dedicated doctor and a friend to any minority group in the city as well. Black families could not receive treatment in hospitals – house calls were necessary, and Dr. Unthank made himself available day and night. He served African Americans, Asians and many whites as well.
Dr. Unthank was politically active and was outspoken in his support of civil rights and equal opportunity. In 1940, Dr. Unthank was elected head of the Advisory Council, an organization that hoped to pressure local leaders into providing equal access to economic opportunities related to WWII jobs. The Council documented incidents of discrimination in the workplace around Portland despite raised expectations following President Franklin Roosevelt’s signing of Executive Order 8802. On Dec. 5, 1941, the Council organized a mass meeting to promote an official letter of protest to federal authorities about Portland’s situation.
During and after World War II, Dr. Unthank worked tirelessly to build his medical practice and promote civil rights. He became the first black member of Portland’s City Club in 1943. He encouraged the club to publish a significant 1945 study called “The Negro in Portland,” which opened the eyes of many citizens to ongoing discriminatory practices. Dr. Unthank also served as president of the local chapter of the NAACP, and was a cofounder of the Portland Urban League. He played a strong role in the passing of Oregon’s 1953 Civil Rights Bill, which among many issues, overturned a law banning interracial marriages in the state.
In 1958, the Oregon Medical Society named him Doctor of the Year. In recognition of his service to civil rights, grateful citizens pressed the city to dedicate DeNorval Unthank Park in North Portland in his honor in 1969. Dr. Unthank once said, “A Negro may have a few more doors closed to him and he may find them a little harder to open, but he can open them. He must keep trying.”
Sources: Rudy Pearson, “African Americans in Portland, Oregon, 1940-1950: Work and Living Conditions – A Social History,” (Ph.D.dissertation, Washington State University, 1996); Oregon Biographies
Richard Wright, photographed in his New York study by Gordon Parks, May 1943
Wright, a Natchez, Mississippi native, became a French citizen in 1947. He told a friend that “any black man remaining in the United States after the age of thirty-five was bound to kill, be killed, or go insane.”
Wright died in Paris on November 28, 1960
Young, Roger Arliner (1889-1964)
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Roger Arliner Young, born in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania in 1889, was the first black woman to earn a Ph.D. in zoology and to conduct research at the prestigious Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Young conducted research on the anatomy of paramecium and the effects of radiation on sea urchin eggs.
Young enrolled at Howard University at the age of twenty-seven, intending to major in music. After struggling through a biology course with African American biologist, Ernest Everett Just, she changed her major to that subject, earning a B.S. in 1923. Just hired her as an assistant professor at Howard while she attended graduate school. The next year, Young enrolled at the University of Chicago part-time and published her first article on paramecium which achieved international recognition. She received her M.S in Zoology in 1926 and was elected to the honor society Sigma Xi.
Between 1927 and 1936 Young and Just worked together at Howard University and during the summers they conducted research at Woods Hole. While Just was in Europe, Young served as the substitute chair for Howard’s biology department. Upon his return to Howard in 1929, Young entered the Ph.D. program in biology at the University of Chicago. However, the pressures of her duties at Howard and her responsibilities to care for her invalid mother were counterproductive to her success. She failed the qualifying exam and returned to Howard where rumors of a romance with Just led to her dismissal in 1936. Young recovered from this low point to publish four articles between 1935 and 1938.
After leaving Howard, Young maintained ties with scientists she met at Woods Hole. One, V.L. Heilbrunn, recruited her to the University of Pennsylvania were she completed her Ph.D. in 1940. Between 1940 and 1953 she taught at North Carolina College and Shaw University, where she served as the Biology Department Chair. Young, affected by her mother’s death in 1953 and still under intense pressure as a solitary black female scientist, had difficulty holding a job. She worked at various black colleges until the late 1950s when she voluntarily committed herself to the Mississippi State Mental Asylum. After her release in 1962, Young lectured at Southern University until she died in 1964.
Sources: Wini Warren, “Roger Arliner Young: A Cautionary Tale,” in Black Women Scientists in the United States (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1999); Ray Spangenburg and Kit Moser, “Roger Arliner Young,” in African Americans in Science, Math, and Invention (New York: Facts on File, 2003)
African American baseball team, Danbury, Connecticut Edward David Ritton, photographer ca. 1880
Seated girl and boy holding hat Alvan Harper, photographer Tallahassee, Florida, ca. 1885-1910
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Nina Simone performing at the Pan-African Festival in Algiers (1969). Photo by Guy Le Querrec.
“Did you know that the human voice is the only pure instrument? That it has notes no other instrument has? It’s like being between the keys of a piano. The notes are there, you can sing them, but they can’t be found on any instrument. That’s like me. I live in between this. I live in both worlds, the black and white world. I am Nina Simone, the star, and I am not here. I’m a woman. My secret self is between these worlds.”
GQ 1931 Image from the book, A True Likeness: The Black South of Richard Samuel Roberts, 1920-1936. Richard Samuel Roberts, photographer. African American Vernacular Photography via Black History Album.
Minnie Riperton and her daughter Maya Rudolph. Pic taken by Jeffrey Henson Scales, he was Minnie's road manager
Shepperson, James E. (1858 - ?)
umphrey Winterton Collection of East African Photographs 1860 - 1960. Northwestern University Library, Evanston. King's African rifle solider standing at attention early 1900's.
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Howard University featured in Life Magazine circa 1946
Howard UHoward University featured in Life Magazine circa 1946
Photograph of the Links Social Club, Los Angeles, ca. 1938.Andree M. Joseph complier
A Congo Girl. Gabon Women. (1895)
Maji Maji Uprising (1905-1907)
Maji Maji Prisoners
The Maji Maji Uprising in Tanganyika was the most significant African challenge to German colonial rule during the brief period when Germany had African colonies. The Uprising lasted two years and involved people over 10,000 square miles. During the 1880s scramble for Africa European powers dominated much of Africa, carving out vast territories as their own and establishing often brutal regimes to enforce their rule. Four major regions had been colonized by Germany, including Tanganyika (modern-day Tanzania), Togo, Cameroon, and Namibia. Tanzania had been acquired largely through the efforts of the German Colonization Society, founded by Dr. Karl Peters. When Germany established its control over Tanganyika by 1898, it imposed a particularly violent regime in order to control the population, including a policy of killing kings who resisted German occupation. This earned Peters, who was now the Tanganyika colonial governor, the name "Milkono wa Damu," meaning "Man with Blood on His Hands." Throughout this period of German occupation the African population was also subjected to high taxation and a system of forced labor, whereby they were required to grow cotton and build roads for their European occupiers.
The oppressive regime bred discontent among the Africans, and resentment reached a fever pitch in 1905 when drought hit the region. A prophet, Kinjikitile Ngwale emerged, who claimed to know the secret to a sacred liquid which could repel German bullets called "Maji Maji," which means "sacred water." Thus, armed with arrows, spears, and doused with Maji Maji water, the first warriors of the rebellion began to move against the Germans, attacking at first only small German outposts, such as at Samanga, and destroying cotton crops. The rebellion spread throughout the colony, eventually involving 20 different ethnic groups all of whom wished to dispel of the German colonizers. As such it was the first significant example of interethnic cooperation in the battle against colonial control.
The apex of the rebellion came at Mahenge in August 1905 where several thousand Maji Maji warriors attacked but failed to overrun a German stronghold. On October 21, 1905 the Germans retaliated with an attack on the camp of the unsuspecting Ngoni people who had recently joined the rebellion. The Germans killed hundreds of men, women, and children. This attack marked the beginning of a brutal counteroffensive that left an estimated 75,000 Maji Maji warriors dead by 1907. The Germans also adopted famine as a weapon, purposely destroying the crops of suspected Maji Maji supporters.
Although the Maji Maji Uprising was ultimately unsuccessful, it forced Kaiser Wilhelm's government in Berlin to institute reforms in their African colonies as they realized the potential cost of their brutality. Furthermore, the uprising would become an inspiration for later 20th Century freedom fighters who called for similar interethnic unity as they struggled against European colonial rule.
Sources: John Iliffe, "The Organization of the Maji Maji Rebellion," Journal of African History, Vol. 8, No. 3 (1967); Thomas Pakenham, The Scramble for Africa: The White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912 (New York: HarperCollins, 1992); Robert Gellately and Ben Kiernan, The Specter of Genocide: Mass Murder in Historical Perspective (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003); Molefi Kete Asante, The History of Africa: The Quest for Eternal Harmony (Florence, Kentucky: Routledge, 2007)
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Make a Wish (Bronx Slave Market, 170th Street, New York), 1938 Robert McNeil photographer
GHANA-INDEPENDENCE-ANNIVERSARY Reproduction of a file photo dated 25 May 1963 shows the Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie (C) and Ghana's founder and first President Kwame Nkrumah (L) during the formation of the Organization of African Unity in Addis Ababa. Ghana, the first black African country to shake off the chains of British rule, celebrates the 50th anniversary of its independence 06 March 2007. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images) AFP/Getty Images
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Members of the 32nd and 33rd Company’s Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps basketball team, playing a game of basketball. Fort Huachuca Arizona ca. 1939-1945
Dorothy Dandridge with beauty pageant contestants. Los Angeles, California 1946 photographer Clyde Woods
I wasn’t saved to run.” —Fred Shuttlesworth
The Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, pictured in front of the remains of his Birmingham, Alabama home. It was bombed on Christmas Day, 1956. Attempts on his life and the lives of his family members, beatings and numerous arrests never stopped this warrior from carrying the banner of freedom and justice. In Alabama, they called him “Black Moses"
Portrait of a Zulu man from South Africa, circa 1938
image from Adire African Textiles; Guinea Conkary Fashion 1900
Martin Luther King Jr. pulls up a cross that was burned on his lawn as his son stands next to him (1960)
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hotograph taken at the trial of Emmett Till by the infamous civil rights photographer, Ernest Withers who also doubled as a FBI Informant. Withers defied the judge’s orders prohibiting photography, documenting Till’s uncle Mose Wright identifying J.W. Milam, which “signified intimidation of Delta blacks was no longer as effective as the past,” and Wright “crossed a line that no one could remember a black man ever crossing in Mississippi.”
26th May 1963: American Heavyweight boxer, Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali), in New York, dressed like a city gent in a suit and a bowler hat and carrying an umbrella. (Photo by Express/Express/Getty Images) Getty Images
esar Chavez and Bobby Seale meet students from Malcolm X Elementary, 1972.
Cesar Chavez and Bobby Seale (of the Black Panthers) meet students from Malcolm X Elementary, 1972.
Chavez and Seale gave a Press Conference on May 9, 1972 at Merritt College in Oakland California. After the Press conference, they met students from Malcolm X Elementary School which is located in Berkeley, California.
Richard Ybarra is the man on the far right. Children are not identified
Cartola (1908–1980)
Swahili women, hair dressing, Zanzibar, 1908
An Argentine dancer instructing a group of women at Howard University in Feb 1963, from the Scurlock studio
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Lena Horne snapped by Charles “Teenie” Harris doing her hair in her dressing room before a performance at the Stanley Theater in 1940s Pittsburgh
Vintage photograph of a group of Fanthi women from Cote D’Ivoire Ivory Coast
The Kilimanjaro Presents Miss Tanzania 1967” Dar-es-salaam
Oscar winner Sidney Poitier and Nat “King” Cole at the 1963 Academy Awards at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, April 8, 1963
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W. E. B. Du Bois Cutting the Birthday Cake for his 95th Birthday in Ghana, 1963
US Baseball Hall of Famer Hank Aaron (second row, fifth from the left), during his time playing in Puerto Rico with the Criollos de Caguas for the 1953-1954 winter season. The Criollos, which also went by the name Caguas-Guayama, won the Puerto Rican league title and the Caribbean Series title that year. Aaron would go on to make his Major League debut in 1954
Children Dance to Rock ‘n Roll in in Harlem’s Mount Morris Park New York City, NY, 1968 Arthur Tress
oland Hayes, the brilliant tenor who became the first African-American man to earn international fame as a concert vocalist, photographed by Addison Scurlock in 1940. Born to former slaves in Curryville, Georgia in 1887, he attended Fisk University and briefly toured with the Fisk Jubilee Singers. Early in his career, he was turned down by talent managers because he was Black so, he invested in himself: He raised money and arranged and financed his own concert performances,which included Negro spirituals, lieder and arias by Schubert, Tchaikovsky, and Mozart. In 1942, Mr. Hayes’s wife, Helen and daughter, Afrika, sat in a whites-only area of a shoe store and were thrown out of the store. When Mr. Hayes defended his family, he was beaten and he and his wife were arrested - and the governor of Georgia was absolutely fine with it. The incident inspired Langston Hughes to compose the poem, Roland Hayes Beaten. Mr. Hayes would later teach at Boston University and would go on to celebrate more than 50 years on the concert stage before his death in 1977.
World heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali, wearing the Nigerian brown and white striped Agbada, shouts to the crowd of youngsters who met him on his arrival in Lagos, Nigeria. (June 1, 1964)
Starting in the late 1890s, Mohammad Abdullah Hassan rallied the Somali people to fight against European expansion in East Africa. With Hassan’s impassioned battle cry, the Dervish State was created, encompassing northern Somalia. Meanwhile, on the eastern shores, the Sultan of Zanzibar leased the city of Mogadishu to Italy in 1905. Known as Mogadiscio, the city became the capital of Italian Somaliland, which stretched from the Eastern tip of British Somaliland all the way down the coast to Kenya.
To the right, Somali soldiers stand for a portrait photograph, taken in Yemen in the early 1900s. A French postcard shows a young man wearing traditional attire on the left.
A.T. Walden Being Turned Away from the Polls, Atlanta, 1944
Austin Thomas (A.T.) Walden, a noted attorney and civil rights leader, was one of few African American lawyers in Georgia during early 20th century. Walden was born in Fort Valley on April 12, 1885 to former slaves Jennie Tomlin and Jeff Walden. He was the only graduate in the class of 1902 at Fort Valley High and Industrial School. Walden entered Atlanta University, earning his B.A. in 1907, and then attended the University of Michigan Law School where he earned a law degree in 1911. Walden moved to Macon, Georgia that year and became one of the few African American men who dared to pursue a legal career in the state. In 1917 he joined the army and served as a captain and assistant judge advocate during World War I. He received an honorable discharge from the service in 1919, returned home and moved his law practice from Macon to Atlanta.
Walden spent the remainder of his life in Atlanta where he would become well known for his leadership roles in various community organizations such as the Butler Street YMCA, the Atlanta University Alumni Association, the Atlanta Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and the Wheat Street Baptist Church. He began his political life as a Republican with his move to Atlanta and soon became Chair of the Republican Party Executive Committee for the Fifth Congressional District of Georgia.
In 1940 Walden switched to the Democratic Party where he remained active for 25 years. Recognizing the importance of voter participation and the need to increase black registration, Walden founded the Atlanta Negro Voters League. Through the League's efforts, the level of black voting increased in the late 1940s. More black voters resulted in tangible community benefits such as street and sewer improvements and the hiring of black policemen in African American neighborhoods.
In the late 1940s Walden litigated the equalization of pay for black and white teachers in Atlanta. He also fought for the desegregation of Atlanta public schools in a series of lawsuits. In 1948 he founded the Gate City Bar Association for African American lawyers because they were excluded from the white legal association in the city. Additionally, he served as legal counsel for Citizens Trust Company, Mutual Federal Savings and Loans Association, and the National Baptist Convention.
His political knowledge and reputation as a civil rights activist led to his appointment to the Fulton County (Atlanta) Democratic Executive Committee in 1953. Later in the decade he served as one of the first two black members of the Georgia Democratic Executive Committee. In 1964 Walden was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City. He was the first African American member of any Georgia Democratic delegation to a national Democratic Convention.
Alden married Mary Ellen Denney, a Baltimore public school teacher, and the couple had two daughters, Jenelsie and Austella. Walden retired from his law practice in 1963 and opened a nonprofit community counseling office. One year later, however, Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen Jr. appointed him to serve as a judge for the Atlanta Municipal Court making him the first black judge in Georgia since the Reconstruction. Austin Thomas Walden died on July 2nd, 1965 in Atlanta at the age of 80. Sources: Ronald H. Bayor, Race and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century Atlanta (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996); Clifford M. Kuhn, Harlon E. Joye, and E. Bernard West, Living Atlanta: An Oral History of the City, 1914-1948 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1990); Clarence N. Stone, Regime Politics: Governing Atlanta, 1946-1988 (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1989); Jack L. Walker, "Negro Voting in Atlanta, 1953-1961," Phylon 24 (Winter 1963)
22nd December 1971: Muhammad Ali trains for his fight against the West German Jurgen Blin, with his daughters in tow. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images) Getty Images
Howard University Graduating class of 1900
Alpha Kappa Alpha at Howard University, Washington, D.C. 1946
ob Marley visited Brazil in March of 1980, a year before his death. Here he is playing soccer with a group of Jamaican and Brazilian musicians, including Brazilian artists Chico Buarque and Toquinho
Goose Tatum and the Harlem Globetrotters, 1952
The Harlem Globetrotters have gained worldwide recognition for combining their basketball playing skills with comedic tricks and stunts. Over the past eight decades the Globetrotters have competed in more than 20,000 games in over 100 countries.
The Harlem Globetrotters began in Chicago in 1926 as an all African American team known as the Savory Big Five. Abe Saperstein, who was a coach in the Chicago area at the time, as well as a promoter and an agent, acquired the team and would remain its owner until his death in 1966. The team made its debut as the New York Globetrotters in Hinckley, Illinois in January 1927. They would later adopt the name the Harlem Globetrotters in 1930 to reflect the team's predominately African American roster and the affluent culture of Harlem at the time.
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Richard Theodore Greener (1844-1922) was the first Black graduate of Harvard University (Class of 1870). His papers, including his Harvard diploma, his law license, photos and papers connected to his diplomatic role in Russia and his friendship with President Ulysses S. Grant, were recently discovered in an attic on the South Side of Chicago - just before the house was demolished
Dancer and choreographer Pearl Primus
Often time women, especially black women, are placed last in our minds when it comes to making history. We all know about the famous Tuskegee Airmen, but have you ever thought about women being pilots in those times as well? Start thinking and do your research on these extraordinary women. Today we honor the often overlooked Tuskegee Airwomen.
Beta Chapter, Alpha Phi Alpha, Howard University, 1913.
Alpha Phi Alpha (ΑΦΑ) was the first Inter-Collegiate Black Greek Letter fraternity. It was founded on December 4, 1906 at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Alpha Phi Alpha developed a model that was used by the many Black Greek Letter Organizations (BGLOs) that soon followed in its footsteps. It employs an icon from Ancient Egypt, the Great Sphinx of Giza as its symbol, and its aims are “manly deeds, scholarship, and love for all mankind,” and its motto is First of All, Servants of All, We Shall Transcend All.
Credit: Lorenzo Dow Turner Papers, Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution, gift of Lois Turner Williams
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Lena Horne with cadets at the Tuskegee Airbase in Tuskegee,Alabama in 1945
Muhammad Ali and Stevie Wonder at The Apollo, 1963
tokely Carmichael, leader of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee; the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; and Floyd McKissick, speaking, national director of the Congress of Racial Equality.
In a rare public appearance together, the leaders of Civil Rights groups conduct a news conference in Memphis, Tenn., in this June 7, 1966 file photo, in the wake of the shotgun attack on James Meredith near Hernando, Mississippi
Dorothy Dandridge by Edward Clark 1951
A couple who moved into an all-white neighborhood in Chicago looking at graffiti in front of their home. Photograph by Francis Miller. Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1957
REDD FOXX, NANCY WILSON, HARRY BELAFONTE, SAMMY DAVIS JR. ELLA FITZGERALD, BILLY ECKSTINE, JOE WILLIAMS & OTHERS IN VEGAS
Josephine Baker returns to the US, New York City, 1950 by Eve Arnold
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Eartha Kitt & Sammy Davis, Jr. in Anna Lucasta (1958)
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DeWitty/Audacious, Nebraska (1908 Children of Black Homesteaders in Cherry County, Nebraska
Located in the Sandhills of Cherry County, Nebraska, the settlement of DeWitty was established in 1908 by black homesteaders who constructed housing made of stacked sod. These settlers farmed some of the least hospitable land in the state. The families were spurred to the area by the 1904 Kinkaid Act, which allowed settlers to claim large, but undesirable parcels of land with poor irrigation and little vegetation. Those who accepted the challenge were known as Kinkaiders.
Among the first to arrive in 1907 were Charles Meehan, born in 1856 in Detroit Michigan, the son of white parents who had immigrated the previous year from Counties Tipperary and Fermanagh in Ireland. Charles had moved with his mother to Canada as a youngster. Joining Charles in the move from Canada to Nebraska was his wife Hester Catherine Freeman, born in Canada in 1856 to a Canadian father and a mother from Baltimore, Maryland. According to Catherine Meehan Blount, their granddaughter, Charles and Hester left Canada for Nebraska in 1885 with their oldest children and the families of Joshua Emanuels, George Brown and William Crawford. Other early black homesteaders included Clem Deaver and Robert "Daddy" Hannahs. Meehan’s granddaughter, Ava Speese Day, later wrote about their experiences on the Plains in Sod House Memories.
They settled in an area along the North Loup River near Brownlee, calling their town DeWitty, after the first postmaster, Miles DeWitty. In 1916, a change in postmasters prompted a change in the town name to Audacious, followed by a post office relocation two years later to the town of Gard.
For a while, the homesteaders found some success as ranchers raising beef cattle, mules, poultry, and hogs. A few had dairy cows and sold surplus product in nearby Seneca. Even though they were in the proximity of the North Loup, few of the black settlers were able to claim land with water rights or even grazing meadows. So most had to purchase hay for feeding and lease easements for water access, adding to their financial burden. To make ends meet, some men worked as freighters or laborers for neighboring white ranchers while women washed, worked in kitchens, or served as midwives.
The town of DeWitty/Audacious included a general store, the St. James A.M.E. Church, and three schools. Books were borrowed from the State Library at Lincoln through a program to service rural families. Other supplies were purchased through trips to Brownlee or Seneca, or mail order from Sears, Roebuck and Company. During the early 1920s, the town had an all-black baseball team called The Sluggers, which played several undefeated seasons. However, by that time, most of the original homesteaders had found the land unprofitable and had left the area. In the late 1980s, only one ancestor of a black settler still owned land along the North Loup.
Sources: Jon Farrar, “Black Homesteaders: Settling the North Loup Valley,” Nebraskaland 6:6 (July 1988); Jon Farrar, “Black Homesteaders: Living Off the Land,” Nebraskaland 6:7 (August/September 1988); Jon Farrar, “Black Homesteaders: Scratching Out a Living,” Nebraskaland 6:8 (October 1988); Jon Farrar, “ Black Homesteaders: Remembering the Good Times,” Nebraskaland 6:9 (November 1988); John Kay, David Anthone, Robert Kay, & Chris Hugly, Nebraska Historic Buildings Survey: Reconnaissance Survey Final Report of Cherry County, Nebraska (Nebraska State Historical Society, May 15, 1989); Frances Jacob Alberts, ed., Sod House Memories, Vol. I-IV (Hastings, Neb.: Sod House Society, 1972
Portrait of four women, Bahia, Brazil. (1860-1900
Tailors making women’s clothes. Photograph by Dmitri Kessel. Belgian Congo, April 1953
african troops on the terrace at Westminster 1902. Photograph by Sir Benjamin Stone
Algerian Girl, 1870’s
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Huey P. Newton, Aquarius. Born Feb 17, 1942. Just released from jail. Tuskegee Airmen 332nd Fighter Group - Ramitelli, Italy, March 1945 Jack Johnson, son of a former slave that became the first African-American world heavyweight boxing champion (1908–1915). He was a brash, unapologetic, strong spirited boxer who dared to be black while beating down white opponents in the ring. First Female Millionairess in the United States, Madam CJ Walker and her entourage
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OSSIE DAVIS and RUBY DEE. Valaida Snow - jazz musician Billie Holiday and Husband Louis McKay Black State Trooper protecting a KKK rally in 1980s Georgia
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^^^ nice photos, you might want to think about the best way of saving threads like this. Any threads could get deleted at any time and do or even the whole site get shut down
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quote:Originally posted by the lioness: ^^^ nice photos, you might want to think about the best way of saving threads like this. Any threads could get deleted at any time and do or even the whole site get shut down
Some message boards give one the ability to save/download a thread....is that possible with this forum? I'm not the most computer savvy person smh lol
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1899/1900 ? Old African American Couple Eating at the Table by Fireplace
A Great Day in Harlem or Harlem 1958 is a 1958 black and white group portrait of 57 notable jazz musicians photographed on a street in Harlem, New York City. The photo has remained an important object in the study of the history of jazz.
Art Kane, a freelance photographer working for Esquire magazine, took the picture around 10 a.m. in the summer of 1958. The musicians had gathered on 126th Street, between Fifth and Madison Avenues in Harlem. Esquire published the photo in its January 1959 issue.
Harriet Tubman
Mary Edmonson (1832?1853) and Emily Edmonson (1835?1895), "two respectable young women of light complexion", were African-American women who became celebrities in the United States abolitionist movement after gaining their freedom from slavery. They campaigned for the abolition of slavery.[1][2]
Mary Ellen Pleasant (1814? ? 1904)
Mary Ellen Pleasant is perhaps better known as ?Mammy Pleasant?, but it was a name she detested. She was born a slave in Georgia some time between 1814 and 1817, the illegitimate daughter of an enslaved Vodou priestess from Haiti and a Virginia governor?s son, John Pleasants. She was bought out of slavery by a planter and indentured for nine years as a store clerk with abolitionist Quakers in Massachusetts.
Around 1841 she married a wealthy mulatto merchant/contractor from Ohio and Philadelphia named James Smith, who was also a slave rescuer on the Underground Railroad. The two worked to help slaves flee to safety in Canada and safe states. Smith died in 1844, leaving her a $45,000 fortune and a plantation run by freedmen near Harper?s Ferry, Virginia.
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Plantation sharecropper Lonnie Fair helping his son dress in preparation for Sunday church services-- MS, 1936
Plantation sharecropper Lonnie Fair's daughter dressing for Sunday church services in sparsely furnished room-- MS 1936.
Original caption-- An old "African-American" man wearing a disheveled outfit, with one arm akimbo & the other propping him up with a stick, casually standing in small Southern town-- 1938.
Jamaican ice vendors posing for the camera, circa 1905.
Jamaica (looks very African)
Jamaica- Photo taken during Royal world cruise of Duke and Duchess of York in HMS Renown 1927
Photograph by Algernon E Aspinall. Image on postcard posted in Retreat, Jamaica 1922
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quote:Originally posted by the lioness: [qb] ^^^ nice photos, you might want to think about the best way of saving threads like this. Any threads could get deleted at any time and do or even the whole site get shut down
Some message boards give one the ability to save/download a thread....is that possible with this forum? I'm not the most computer savvy person smh lol
This site does not save threads any one of these threads could be deleted at anytime for just an automatic reason even. We have seen it happen many times. After putting so much time in that would be a shame. I don't know much about it but I recommend you PM to Jari or Brada about the best way to save and archive thes threads and also some methods might be faster than others. You could also put these pictures on dvd and give them as gifts or for educational puposes
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Just solved the problem Firefox allows one to save internet pages as a file....so I guess I'll save periodically as I go to keep it updated; hopefully no foolishness comes up in this thread I would like to be saving more pictures than talking and/or any stupidness...that's what's making me hesitate on saving the Black Beauty thread- all the fuckery it contains...unless Ausar would be willing to delete that stuff out of there (anything that shouldn't be in there) to clean it up....that would be real nice of him hmmmmmm
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Home Guards at their living quarters. Young Kikuyu men gather beside prefabricated huts, a temporary accommodation camp for the Kikuyu Home Guard. Kenya, circa 1953. Kenya, Eastern Africa, Africa.
Slim Harpo
Robert Johnson
Ma Rainey
Photo from Soviet-Polish war
Photo from Soviet-Polish war
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The Herero and Namaqua Genocide is considered the first genocide of the 20th century that took place from 1904 until 1907 in Namibia known then as German South-West Africa
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BARBADOS. Queen's Park Opening Day
Guyana
Guyana 1922
Georgetown, Guyana
East Indians at their breakfast. 1922. Guyana
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Celia Cruz. Date unknown. (probably 1950s) Vintage Cuba
Celeste Mendoza and friends (1950s)
Celeste Mendoza - Cuban Vedette - 1950s
Porta de Tierra. San Juan, Puerto Rico
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg was a Puerto Rican historian, writer, and activist in the United States who researched and raised awareness of the great contributions that Afro-Latin Americans and Afro-Americans have made to society. Schomburg was born in the town of Santurce, Puerto Rico to María Josefa, a freeborn black midwife and Carlos Féderico Schomburg, a merchant of German heritage. During grade school one of Schomburg’s teachers claimed that blacks had no history, heroes or accomplishments. Inspired to prove the teacher wrong, Schomburg determined that he would find and document the accomplishments of Africans on their own continent and in the diaspora, including Afro-Latinos, such as Jose Campeche, and later Afro-Americans.
Schomburg immigrated to New York in 1891 and settled in the Harlem section of Manhattan. He continued his studies to untangle the African thread of history in the fabric of the Americas.
In 1896, Schomburg began teaching Spanish in New York.
In 1911, Schomburg co-founded the Negro Society for Historical Research to create an institute to support scholarly efforts. It brought together African, West Indian and Afro-American scholars.
Schomburg was later to become the President of the American Negro Academy, founded in Washington, DC in 1874, which championed black history and literature.
Secretary of Las Dos Antillas (Greater and Lesser Antilles), an organization that fervently advocated the independence of Cuba and Puerto Rico.
Over the years, he collected literature, art, slave narratives, and other materials of African history, which was purchased to become the basis of the Arthur Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, named in his honor, at the New York Public Library in the 135th Street Branch of the Library.
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg’s work served as an inspiration to Puerto Ricans, Latinos and Afro-Americans alike. The power of knowing about the great contribution that Afro-Latin Americans and Afro-Americans have made to society, helped continuing work and future generations in the Civil rights movement.
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The Independent Party of Color (PIC) of Cuba. It was a black independence party that fought for the rights of Afro-Cubans. The party was eventually crushed in a 1912 massacre in which thousands of black Cubans were killed, many of which had no affiliation with the PIC
Esteban Montejo was a runaway slave in Cuba. He lived through many pivotal moments in Cuban history including the end of slavery, the Cuban Independence War, and the Cuban Revolution.
Theophilus Albert Marryshow was one of the early advocates of a West Indian Federation. He lived to see the formation of such a federation, but he died before the West Indies Federation collapsed.
Victims in the Congo Free State, controlled by King Leopold II of Belgium
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Three African American women at the state fair, ph. Frances Benjamin Johnston, ca. 1903
Henry Highland was an African American teacher and abolitionist, known for his militant stance on the issue of abolishing slavery.
Louis Armstrong performing for his wife in front of the Sphinx and pyramids in Egypt
African independence leaders
Jesse Owens won 4 gold medals at the 1936 Olympics and disproved Hitler’s theory of Aryan supremacy.
Samuel Maharero led the Herero people in their war against the Germans.
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A.T. Walden Being Turned Away from the Polls, Atlanta, 1944
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Firefox allows one to save internet pages as a file....so I guess I'll save periodically as I go to keep it updated; hopefully no foolishness comes up in this thread I would like to be saving more pictures than talking and/or any stupidness...that's what's making me hesitate on saving the Black Beauty thread- all the fuckery it contains...unless Ausar would be willing to delete that stuff out of there (anything that shouldn't be in there) to clean it up....that would be real nice of him hmmmmmm
Kwame Nkrumah 
A Martinique belle. (1887)
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