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Interesting.
Very. ....wonder what the meet was in regards to.
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Who is this?
His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah, King of Kings of Ethiopia sitting with US president JFK
Peace
Survivors of the Titanic are taken on board the Carpathia in 1912.
Actual boarding pass of the Titanic.
Mourners pay their respect to slain civil rights leader, Medgar Evars in 1963. His killer was finally convicted in 1994.
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Martin Luther King, Jr removes a burned cross from his yard in 1960. With his son standing next to him.
Fidel Castro lays a wreath at the Lincoln Memorial.
Yute want a box fi not recognising the King.
Bill and Hillary Clinton playing volleyball in 1975.
Ferdinand Porsche (yes, THAT Porsche) showcasing the Volkswagen Beetle to Adolf Hitler in 1935.
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The bludgeoned body of an African American male, propped in a rocking chair, blood splattered clothes, white and dark paint applied to the face and head, shadow of man using rod to prop up the victims head. Circa 1900, location unknown.
Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.” - Ida B. Wells
The bludgeoned body of an African American male, propped in a rocking chair, blood splattered clothes, white and dark paint applied to the face and head, shadow of man using rod to prop up the victims head. Circa 1900, location unknown.
Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.” - Ida B. Wells
Davis, Ernie (1940-1963)
Ernie Davis with the Heisman Trophy, 1961 Ernie Davis is best known for being one of the greatest football players in college football history and the first black person to win the Heisman trophy. In the process, Davis became an icon for an integrated America and for African Americans achieving the American Dream in a manner similar to Jackie Robinson desegregating Major League Baseball in 1947.
Josh Gibson nickname Black Babe Ruth
(1911 – 1947)
Born December 21, 1911, Buena Vista, Georgia, U.S.—died January 20, 1947, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) American professional baseball player called the black Babe Ruth, one of the greatest players kept from the major leagues by the unwritten rule (enforced until the year of his death) against hiring black ballplayers.
Gibson played as a catcher for the Pittsburgh Crawfords (1927–29 and 1932–36) and the Homestead Grays of Pennsylvania (1930–31 and 1937–46). Although precise records do not exist, he is believed to have led the Negro National League in home runs for 10 consecutive seasons and to have had a career batting average of .347. He hit 75 home runs for Homestead in 1931. His catching ability was praised by Walter Johnson and other major league stars against whom he played in exhibition games. Gibson was elected to the Baseball Hall of fame in 1972.
Great Migration, The (1915-1960)
Black Family Arrives in Chicago from the South, ca. 1919 The Great Migration was the mass movement of about five million southern blacks to the north and west between 1915 and 1960. During the initial wave the majority of migrants moved to major northern cities such as Chicago, Detroit, Pittsburgh, and New York. By World War II the migrants continued to move North but many of them headed west to Los Angeles, Oakland, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle.
Hampton Institute Student Teaching Freedpeople to Read, ca. 1880.
Thomas Jennings was the first African American to receive a patent, on March 3, 1821 (U.S. patent3306x). Thomas Jennings’ patent was for a dry-cleaning process called “dry scouring”.
The first money Thomas Jennings earned from his patent was spent on the legal fees (my polite way of saying enough money to purchase) necessary to liberate his family out of slavery and support the abolitionist cause.
Margaret “Mag” Palm
A conductor on the Underground Railroad Margaret Palm was a colorful character in Gettysburg’s African-American community during the mid-nineteenth century. Before the Civil War she served as a “conductor” along the local branch of the Underground Railroad, earning the nickname Maggie Bluecoat for the blue circa-1812 military uniform coat she wore while conducting fugitive slaves north from the area. Palm’s reputation almost cost her dearly. One evening, she was accosted by two strangers who bound her hands and tried to kidnap her into Maryland and slavery. Her screams attracted help and she escaped her assailants.
Mark E. Dean
Born: March 2, 1957
Occupation: Computer Engineer
Mark E. Dean is one of the top engineering minds at the International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation. He made his first mark in the industry in the early 1980s, when he and a colleague developed a system that allowed computers to communicate with printers and other devices. Every time you print something, you can thank Dean. In all, Dean holds 20 patents, and was honored as one of the "50 Most Important African Americans in Technology" by the California African-American Museum in 2000. Dean feels the need to increase awareness of the contributions of African American engineers to the African American community and the engineering industry in general.
Garrett Augustus Morgan, Sr. (March 4, 1877 – July 27, 1963) was an African american inventor and community leader. His most notable inventions included a type of protective respiratory hood (or gas mask), a traffic signal, and a hair-straightening preparation. He is renowned for a heroic rescue in 1916 in which he and three others used his safety hood device to save workers trapped in a water intake tunnel being dug under Lake Erie after a natural gas explosion and fire which took the lives of workers and the first police officers and firefighters who attempted to rescue them. He is also credited as the first African American in Cleveland, Ohio, to own an automobile.
Sarah Breedlove (December 23, 1867 – May 25, 1919), known as Madam C. J. Walker, was an American entrepreneur and philanthropist, regarded as the first female self-made millionaire in America. She made her fortune by developing and marketing a successful line of beauty and hair products for black women under the company she founded, Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company.
Madam Walker’s only daughter, Lelia Walker (later known as A’Lelia Walker) encouraged her mother to relocate her company’s headquarters to New York. Lelia arrived in Harlem in 1913, when her mother purchased a row house at 108 West 136th Street, just as New York City’s burgeoning black population was expanding into Harlem, and solidifying its status as the “capital of Black America.” By 1915, Madam Walker bought a second row house at 110 West 136th Street, and moved to the city in 1916.
Madam C.J. Walker's townhouse 108-110 West 136th Street, 1915. Madam Walker's car and driver. [Byron Company from the collections of the Museum of the City of New York]
Madam C.J. Walker's townhouse 108-110 West 136th Street, Vertner Tandy, architect [Byron Company from the collections of the Museum of the City of New York]
A'Lelia Walker's bedroom, Madam C.J. Walker's townhouse, 1915. [Byron Company from the collections of the Museum of the City of New York
The interior of Madam C.J. Walker's Beauty Parlor, 1915 [Byron Company from the collections of the Museum of the City of New York]
Tea room in Madam C.J. Walker's townhouse [Byron Company from the collections of the Museum of the City of New York]
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Hatshepsut was the fifth pharaoh of the eighteenth dynasty. She reigned longer than any other woman of an indigenous Egyptian dynasty. She was the first to discover birth control for women, she was one of the most prolific builders in ancient Egypt.
Hatshepsut was the fifth pharaoh of the eighteenth dynasty. She reigned longer than any other woman of an indigenous Egyptian dynasty. She was the first to discover birth control for women, she was one of the most prolific builders in ancient Egypt.
1963 - President Lyndon B. Johnson confers with Emperor Haile Selassie at the White House.
Great Migration, The (1915-1960)
Black Family Arrives in Chicago from the South, ca. 1919 The Great Migration was the mass movement of about five million southern blacks to the north and west between 1915 and 1960. During the initial wave the majority of migrants moved to major northern cities such as Chicago, Detroit, Pittsburgh, and New York. By World War II the migrants continued to move North but many of them headed west to Los Angeles, Oakland, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle.
Hampton Institute Student Teaching Freedpeople to Read, ca. 1880.
question comes to mind. why are they posing for these pictures? im just curious.
For the same reason anyone takes pictures, I assume..
"Picketer under arrest behind Loveman's department store, where the protest concerned unfair hiring practices, Birmingham, Alabama. 1963 Birmingham was a turning point. It was the first time the Movement took on such a large city. King called it the most segregated city in America. The Klan's penchant for resolving racial conflicts with dynamite earned the city the nickname Bombingham. "
Martin Luther King and the man i was named after, Stokely Carmichael (later Kwame Ture), being assaulted by Police officers in Mississippi
Ferdinand Porsche (yes, THAT Porsche) showcasing the Volkswagen Beetle to Adolf Hitler in 1935.
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