fuck these muhfuckas man. this thread ended up heavier than i thought it would.
Rare and very interesting photos
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Americans. The guys who pride themselves on not having a monarchy, but get starstruck when in their presence.
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Amazing thread. Keep the pictures and stories coming.
MLK Jr, with his line brothers when he pledged Alpha Phi Alpha at Boston University in 1952. He is in the first row on the right.
Jackie Robinson Death Threats: May 22, 1951
This is a copy of the "Poison Pen" letter received by Warren Giles, president of the Cincinnati Reds, threatening to kill Jackie Robinson if he played for the Dodgers in the Twin Bill against the Reds on 5/20/51. Jackie's answer to the threats was a big homer in the opener which broke the game wide open and let to a Brooklyn double victory, 10-3 and 14-4.
This is a copy of the "Poison Pen" letter received by Warren Giles, president of the Cincinnati Reds, threatening to kill Jackie Robinson if he played for the Dodgers in the Twin Bill against the Reds on 5/20/51. Jackie's answer to the threats was a big homer in the opener which broke the game wide open and let to a Brooklyn double victory, 10-3 and 14-4.
Great thread
GREAT THREAD! I CAN DO WITH OUT THE MORBID PICS, OTHER THAN THAT, THIS SHIT IS MAD DOPE! PROPS TO THE OP FOR STARTING THIS
fakeA couple that dived to the Titanic wreck taking a picture on the bow (like the scene in the movie):
Joseph Hayne Rainey sits in a chair. Rainey (1832-1887) was a civil rights activist and the first African American to serve in the United States House of Representatives in 1870.
I heard an interview recently on NPR about Louis, Dizzy and some other Jazz musicians and how the gov(Eisenhower and CIA) sent them around on tours overseas as cultural ambassadors during the cold war to convince the rest of the world that we were making great progress in racial equality. After a while, (and right before they tried to get him to go to the USSR), Louis basically said fuck you.... this was right after black students were prevented from entering Little Rock High School in Arkansas. He ended up re-engaging with it later, but he made his point.
Louis Armstrong in Africa
George Washington Carver sitting with other professors he taught with at Tuskeegee Institute. He is on the first row in the middle. this photo was taken in 1902.
i'd make sure i was paying attention and had the right answers if i was in the professor top row on the right's class
top left looks like he was teaching pimping
top left looks like he was teaching pimping
1863 - Wilson Chinn, a freed slave from Louisiana, poses with equipment used to punish slaves.
Such images were used to set Northern resolve against slaveholders during the American Civil War.
Portrait of "Drummer" Jackson, a former slave serving as a drummer in the 79th United States Colored Troops during the American Civil War.
Used in combination with a photograph of Jackson as a slave in tattered clothing, this was circulated to encourage enlistments among African Americans.
Portrait of "Contraband" Jackson, supposed to look like many of the runaway slaves that flocked to the banners of the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Used in combination with a photograph of Jackson as a drummer in military uniform, this was circulated to encourage enlistments among African Americans.
Two escaped slaves, "intelligent contrabands" in the language of the times, posed for this portrait in 1862 or 1863.
Many escaped slaves found employment as servants for Federal soldiers and officers.
Freed Negroes in Southern town shortly after the Civil War. Undated photograph.
Such images were used to set Northern resolve against slaveholders during the American Civil War.
Portrait of "Drummer" Jackson, a former slave serving as a drummer in the 79th United States Colored Troops during the American Civil War.
Used in combination with a photograph of Jackson as a slave in tattered clothing, this was circulated to encourage enlistments among African Americans.
Portrait of "Contraband" Jackson, supposed to look like many of the runaway slaves that flocked to the banners of the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Used in combination with a photograph of Jackson as a drummer in military uniform, this was circulated to encourage enlistments among African Americans.
Two escaped slaves, "intelligent contrabands" in the language of the times, posed for this portrait in 1862 or 1863.
Many escaped slaves found employment as servants for Federal soldiers and officers.
Freed Negroes in Southern town shortly after the Civil War. Undated photograph.
Harriett Tubman is the first woman on the left.
Scars from whippings on an African slave's back.
this shit is awesome.George Washington Carver sitting with other professors he taught with at Tuskeegee Institute. He is on the first row in the middle. this photo was taken in 1902.
World War I Soldiers shooting craps at Pontanezen Barracks in Brest, France. Taken between 1914-1918.
The children of Frederick Douglass.
Yes, that is an amazing photo.
I'd never seen a young picture of JWC until now.
Nine African American soldiers who won the Croix de Guerre, 369th (15th NY) return home on the Stockholm, February 12, 1919.
Nine African American soldiers who won the Croix de Guerre, 369th (15th NY) return home on the Stockholm, February 12, 1919.
This is a great shot!
Booker T Washington when he was a student at Hampton Institute.
Booker T. with his wife and kids in 1899.
Booker T. with his son.
Booker T. with his wife and kids in 1899.
Booker T. with his son.
6/25/1953: New York, NY : Sugar Ray Robinson bartending at his club on Seventh Avenue between 122nd and 123rd Streets.
Eve Arnold
School for black civil rights activists; young girl being trained to not react to hair being pulled and smoke blown in her face
- Virginia, 1960
http://www.bgol.us/board/showthread.php?t=650495&highlight=Eve+Arnold
School for black civil rights activists; young girl being trained to not react to hair being pulled and smoke blown in her face
- Virginia, 1960
http://www.bgol.us/board/showthread.php?t=650495&highlight=Eve+Arnold
Heavyweight boxer Joe Louis puts his arm around Jesse Owens, Ohio State University track star and holder of three world's records. They were introduced during a boxing program sponsored by the Colored Elks. Washington, D.C., August 27, 1935.
Vice President Richard Nixon met with Illinois Republicans here 10/14/1958 to open a 6-day campaign tour in behald of GOP congressional candidates. With Nixon is famous track star Jesse Owens, left, now running for county commissioner. Nixon said the GOP campaign is picking up and "we have every chance to upset those who predict defeat." Date: October 14, 1958. Location: Chicago, Illinois
Jesse Owens, sensational track star of the Olympic games, waving to crowds during the "ticker-tape" parade up Manhattan in honor of the Olympic athletes. Fifty-two members of the Olympic squad, last of the 150 American athletes to return from Germany, arrived in New York, Sept. 3 on the liner Manhattan. Others of the squad who arrived last week joined them in the parade. Date: September 03, 1936.
Dempsey vs. Carpentier: July 2, 1921.
Over 100,000 fans attended the heavyweight title fight.
The fight between the two men was billed as "The Fight of the Century", and it was, up until that time. It was probably the event that was most-listened to than any other event in history, the early radio broadcast of the fight reaching at least 300,000. But since there were so many mass venues listening to the fight--or watching its progress via displayed messages transcribed from the radio broadcast--it is really pretty impossible to say how many followed the event on that day.
Over 10,000 people in Times Square waiting for updates on the fight.
Over 100,000 fans attended the heavyweight title fight.
The fight between the two men was billed as "The Fight of the Century", and it was, up until that time. It was probably the event that was most-listened to than any other event in history, the early radio broadcast of the fight reaching at least 300,000. But since there were so many mass venues listening to the fight--or watching its progress via displayed messages transcribed from the radio broadcast--it is really pretty impossible to say how many followed the event on that day.
Over 10,000 people in Times Square waiting for updates on the fight.
This is another iconic image of the 50′s segregation period. Elizabeth Eckford is one of the African American students known as the Little Rock Nine. On September 4, 1957, she and eight other African American students attempted to enter Little Rock Central High School, which had previously only accepted white students. They were stopped at the door by Arkansas National Guard troops called up by Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus. They tried again without success to attend Central High on September 23, 1957. The next day, September 24, President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent U.S. Army troops to accompany the Little Rock Nine to school for protection.
And of course the afghan girl, picture shot by National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry. Sharbat Gula was one of the students in an informal school within the refugee camp; McCurry, rarely given the opportunity to photograph Afghan women, seized the opportunity and captured her image. She was approximately 12 years old at the time. She made it on the cover of National Geographic next year, and her identity was discovered in 1992.
Picture from an Einsatzgruppen soldier’s personal album, labelled on the back as “Last Jew of Vinnitsa, it shows a member of Einsatzgruppe D is just about to shoot a Jewish man kneeling before a filled mass grave in Vinnitsa, Ukraine, in 1941. All 28,000 Jews from Vinnitsa and its surrounding areas were massacred at the time.
On July 22, 1975, photograph Stanley J. Forman working for the Boston Herald American newspaper when a police scanner picked up an emergency: “Fire on Marlborough Street!”
Climbed on a the fire truck, Forman shot the picture of a young woman, Diana Bryant, and a very young girl, Tiare Jones when they fell helplessly. Diana Bryant was pronounced dead at the scene. The young girl lived. Despite a heroic effort, the fireman who tried to grab them had been just seconds away from saving the lives of both.
Photo coverage from the tragic event garnered Stanley Forman a Pulitzer Prize. But more important, his work paved the way for Boston and other states to mandate tougher fire safety codes.
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