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An African American and a white girl study a sign in the integrated Long Island community of Lakeview, New York, on April 1962. It reads “Negroes! This community could become another ghetto. You owe it to your ‘family’ to buy in another community.” The sign was an attempt to keep African Americans from exceeding the number of whites who want to live in an integrated town. (AP Photo)
Wow.
5 Things to Know About Blacks and Native Americans http://bit.ly/V11Hi6
I’ve rebloged this before but her face slays
ROMEO & JULIET | BLACK SHAKESPEARE | 1930s
—- A group of African American college drama students in full makeup and costume during a dress rehearsal for Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet. Howard University, Washington DC, 1930s. Addison Scurlock (1883-1964), photographer.
While travelling by rail through North Carolina and the Virginias, photographer Hugh Mangum took beautiful portraits of a variety of people.
These portraits were taken between the 1880s and early 1920s. The above photos are a very small sampling of his work. The full collection can be found at Duke Libraries Digital Collection
CultureSOUL; Turn of the Century *The African Americans*
Vintage photos from 1900s-1910s.
Cape Verdeans of Nantucket
2. Heritage, 1880s, SC79.jpg
Studio portrait of unidentified woman and two children.
the creepy lady…
A white man carries a black girl on his shoulders during a march with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Alabama, ca. 1965.
This has to be one of my favorite things ever
OMG this picture is so precious
Some famous Egyptian mummies and living Africans today. Any Questions?
Smiling Faces…
A black man rides a bus restricted to whites only, in Durban. In an act of resistance to South Africa’s apartheid policies, 1986.
look at their faces. upset that this black man dared to exist in their space
It’s sad how terrified he looks.
the fear in his eyes man :/
not even “their space”. Europeans invaded South Africa, separated Black people from their own country and dared to be aghast at their want to considered humans. This was just 28 years ago, guys!!
A young “Miss Maggie” Walker, the daughter of a former slave, who in 1903 became the first woman of any race to found and become president of an American bank. She also founded a newspaper and a department store called “Saint Luke’s Emporium.”
March 25th marks the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
It’s estimated that over 12.5 million men, women and children were forcibly transported over a period of four centuries as part of the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
Those who survived the journey across the Middle Passage awaited a harsh reality of backbreaking labor in the New World.
Revisit America’s Africa’s arduous journey through slavery with PBS.
Bethune-Cookman students using microscopes, 1943.
"Wilson Chinn, a sixty year old former slave was branded on the forehead with his owner’s initials, ‘V. B. M.’ Chinn is wearing a contraption and irons designed to prevent slave escapes. At lower left is a slave paddle. Ca. 1864. "
Gloria Richardson pushes a national guard bayonet out of her face during a 1963 civil rights protest in Maryland.
“boy bye”
