F-YEAH HISTORY

Bayard Rustin (left) and Cleveland Robinson (right), organisers of the March on Washingtom, August 7, 1963

Workers at the Annual Picnic for Carnegie Steel Company, Pittsburgh, c. 1900

Tuskegee syphilis experiment The Tuskegee syphilis experiment was an infamous clinical study conducted between 1932 and 1972 by the U.S. Public Health Service to study the natural progression of untreated syphilis in rural African American men who thought they were receiving free health care from the U.S. government.

African-American nurses in Liberia, 1943 A company of African American Women's Auxiliary Air Corps nurses was reviewed by the Hon. Lester A. Walton, U.S. Minister to Liberia, while on a visit to an American camp near Monrovia, Liberia. The WAACs are shown as they lined up for review.

Young women at a Civil Rights March on Washington, August 1963

World War II pin honouring Pearl Harbour hero  Doris "Dorie" Miller (October 12, 1919 – November 24, 1943) was a cook in the United States Navy noted for his bravery during the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. He was the first African American to be awarded the Navy Cross, the third highest honor awarded by the U.S. Navy at the time, after the Medal of Honor and the Navy Distinguished Service Medal (today the Navy Cross precedes the Navy Distinguished Service Medal). Miller took over a machine gun aboard the USS West Virginia and was officially credited with downing two Japanese planes. He was honored as one of the first heroes of World War II, and six months after the attack was given the Navy Cross by Admiral Chester Nimitz.

Sheet music cover for "Good Night Angeline" with photo of James Reese Europe and his famous 369th U.S. Infantry "Hell Fighters" Band, 1919 James Reese Europe (22 February 1881 – 9 May 1919) was an American ragtime and early jazz bandleader, arranger, and composer. He was the leading figure on the African American music scene of New York City in the 1910s.

Mary Eliza Mahoney, the first African American to study and work as a professionally trained nurse in the United States

Biddy Mason Bridget "Biddy" Mason (August 15, 1818, in Hancock County, Georgia– January 15, 1891, in Los Angeles, California) was an African American nurse and a Californian real estate entrepreneur and philanthropist. She was one of the first African American women to own land in California.