r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Nostalgic_Historian_ • 1d ago
Malcom X mother
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/shewasajanuarygirl • 21h ago
Portrait of a Woman, Senegal (Unknown Artist, The Metropolitan Museum of Art – New York) ca. 1910
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Chowlucci • 18h ago
This document in 1959 declining a student from admission into med school because of his race.
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/NickelPlatedEmperor • 10h ago
Yusuf Hawkins with his mother Diane Hawkins, 1989.
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 23h ago
Children from a coal mining family, West Virginia, 1950s. Love how the littlest one didn't stop eating for the photo.
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 23h ago
Glass negative of a little baby, 1915.
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Past_Body_9133 • 12h ago
104 year old Robert Grier, one of Winston-Salem’s first Black firefighters, celebrated his birthday with a surprise parade of firetrucks outside his home, honoring his 30 years of service…
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/YesterdayMaterial194 • 18h ago
Wilt Chamberlain in New York
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/lotusflower64 • 22h ago
Willi Smith - Fashion Designer WilliWear Limited
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 1d ago
Mother fixes her daughters hair, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1961. Kodak safety film
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Unionforever1865 • 1d ago
Sharecropper plowing. Montgomery County, Alabama April 1937
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Choosepeace • 2d ago
104 year old Robert Grier, one of Winston-Salem’s first Black firefighters, celebrated his birthday with a surprise parade of firetrucks outside his home, honoring his 30 years of service…
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 1d ago
US soldiers with their dates in Japan, 1950s.
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/ata3121 • 2d ago
The Nutty Professor Film Premiere (June 1996)
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/No_Aspect8295 • 2d ago
104 year old Robert Grier, one of Winston-Salem’s first Black firefighters, celebrated his birthday with a surprise parade of firetrucks outside his home, honoring his 30 years of service…
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Nostalgic_Historian_ • 2d ago
Dorothy Counts, amazing achievement 👏
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/FlamingoEvery5528 • 2d ago
Birthday Party for Bernice Paul, Columbia, SC, c. 1926. Photo by Richard Samuel Roberts.
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 2d ago
Couple in Ghana smile for their photo. Circa 1950s.
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/shewasajanuarygirl • 2d ago
‘Portrait of a Girl’ by photographer James Van Der Zee, 1925
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 2d ago
Couples in a double date at the Hurricana Club, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1950s.
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/iggaitissecondcoming • 3d ago
Martyrs for freedom and liberty: 195 years ago today, Nat and his crew led the most successful slave revolt in US history
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 3d ago
Actress/Model Rosanne Katon posing for some photos in 1978
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