Rare and very interesting photos
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One of the comments reads: "The very first time 'I wish a muthafucka would.' was captured on film.
EPIC!!!!
From left to right: Helen Phillips, Thelma Spangler, Alice Lindsay, and Viola Howell at the YMCA Junior Hostesses’ Fashion Review, 1938.
Members of the Black Berets of Homewood leading a protest against racial discrimination in construction jobs, August 1969.
Howard University soccer team, 1930.
Hey Viola, lemme holla at cha right quick.From left to right: Helen Phillips, Thelma Spangler, Alice Lindsay, and Viola Howell at the YMCA Junior Hostesses’ Fashion Review, 1938.
I don't know what was happening, but the Brotha sitting on the far left looks like he's about to put a cleat and a two-piece into effect.Howard University soccer team, 1930.
That muhfucka thought he signed up for AMERICAN football.
Yeah you already know who the goon was on the team.I don't know what was happening, but the Brotha sitting on the far left looks like he's about to put a cleat and a two-piece into effect.
That muhfucka thought he signed up for AMERICAN football.
Members of the Black Berets of Homewood leading a protest against racial discrimination in construction jobs, August 1969.
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Redd Foxx and his wife
I don't know what was happening, but the Brotha sitting on the far left looks like he's about to put a cleat and a two-piece into effect.
That muhfucka thought he signed up for AMERICAN football.
Photographs taken in Oakland and San Francisco, California by Kenneth P. Green Sr., (1968-1969).
This image of Howard University student members of the NAACP was taken outside the National Crime Conference in 1934. Conference organizers had, of course, refused to address lynching as a crime.
A full-length cabinet card portrait of a Buffalo soldier stationed at Fort Meade in 1886. He holds his kepi hat in one hand with the 25th infantry insignia. A service watch chain and fob adorn his uniform beneath the iconic buffalo coat. The Buffalo Soldiers are among the most fascinating and least well known, least celebrated, military heroes. Buffalo Solider was a nickname that originally referred to African American men of the 10th Cavalry regiment created in 1866. It is said the moniker was given to the men by the indigenous American tribes they fought during the wars on account of their bravery. A buffalo coat is a heavy fur garment made from bison. Descended from a sleeveless robe worn by the indigenous people of North America. Commercially produced coats with sleeves and buttons became popular with early settlers of the American West and the Canadian prairies. Their use mostly ended because of a rising conservationist movement intended to preserve the bison, which had been hunted to near-extinction in North America.
Today I learned.
Dwight D. Eisenhower meets with E. Frederic Morrow in the President's office at the White House. Morrow was the first African American to hold an executive position at the White House. (1956) (White House Historical Association)
Edward Williams (right) of St. Louis, Missouri, exchanges a handshake with his Commander-in-Chief, President Harry S. Truman (left), at a casual meeting during the President's morning walk. Williams had been in the Air Force nine years at the time of this photograph. October 12, 1950.
on June 24,1971 Daniels & Bell became the 1st
black-owned financial firm listed on the New York
Stock Exchange. Shown here are owners Travers
Gerome Bell and Willie Daniels
A small-scale miner in Tanzania has become an overnight millionaire after selling two rough Tanzanite stones - the biggest ever find in the country. Saniniu Laizer earned £2.4m ($3.4m) from the country's mining ministry for the gemstones, which had a combined weight of 15kg (33 lb). "There will be a big party tomorrow," Mr Laizer, a father of more than 30 children
Thomas Mundy Peterson (October 6, 1824 – February 4, 1904) of Perth Amboy, New Jersey was the first African-American to vote in an election under the just-enacted provisions of the 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution. His vote was cast on March 31, 1870
Interesting, I'm going to have to read up on this.
An early photograph taken at the Fugitive Slave Law Convention at Cazenovia, New York, on August 22nd 1850, a young Frederick Douglass is seated on the left.
Photographs of the 369th Anti-Aircraft Regiment at Ft. Ontario in Oswego, New York by George Strock (1941)
Medgar Wiley Evers (July 2, 1925 – June 12, 1963) was an American civil rights activist in Mississippi, the state's field secretary for the NAACP, and a World War II veteran who had served in the United States Army. He worked to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi, end the segregation of public facilities, and expand opportunities for African Americans, which included the enforcement of voting rights.
A college graduate, Evers became active in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s. Following the 1954 ruling of the United States Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education that segregated public schools were unconstitutional, Evers challenged the segregation of the state-supported public University of Mississippi, applying to law school there. He also worked for voting rights, economic opportunity, access to public facilities, and other changes in the segregated society. Evers was awarded the 1963 NAACP Spingarn Medal.
Evers was assassinated in 1963 by Byron De La Beckwith, a member of the White Citizens' Council in Jackson, Mississippi. This group was formed in 1954 in Mississippi to resist the integration of schools and civil rights activism. As a veteran, Evers was buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery.[2] His murder and the resulting trials inspired civil rights protests; his life and these events inspired numerous works of art, music, and film. All-white juries failed to reach verdicts in the first two trials of Beckwith in the 1960s. He was convicted in 1994 in a new state trial based on new evidence.
Medgar's widow, Myrlie Evers, became a noted activist in her own right, serving as national chair of the NAACP. His brother Charles Evers was the first African American to be elected as mayor of a city in Mississippi in the post-Reconstruction era; he won the office in 1969 in Fayette