/r/BlackHistoryPhotos
Rare and candid photography of Black History. Both of public figures, events, and regular people.
Rare photos of Black history figures, both public figures and regular people. Pre-photography artwork is fine! When posting, add any relevant information in the title, and include your source if you can!
CHECK THE COMMENTS! Many times there is a lot more to the story behind the photograph, and it can be found in the comments section.
Please note that abusive comments will be removed.
Related links/sources where you can find some of these photos:
reddit!
/r/blackpower /r/blackculture /r/pics /r/historyporn /r/SupportBOBS
Other (with acronyms for easy source-naming):
BIB Black is really beautiful, and we must be proud of it - Facebook page
BT Black Then
AAG AfriGeneas - African Ancestored Geneaology
AHC African Heritage City - Facebook page
APHOT Awesome People Hanging Out Together
BIO Biography.com - Black History Photos
VBG Vintage Black Glamour - Facebook page / Tumblr
VIB Vintage Black Women - Flickr group
JA Jadili Africa - facebook page
PBS by HGD Positive Black Stories by Heru G. Duenas (fb)
RBHP Robert's Black Heritage Page (fb)
PAE Pan-African Education (fb)
DBHF Daily Black History Facts (fb)
BHPA Black Historical Photo Archive (fb)
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Master Teachers!
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Schoolchildren pose outside their schoolhouse, Virginia, early 1900s.
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George Washington Williams, one of the first Black historians to publish in the U. S. Self taught from primary sources, his books were respectfully reviewed in serious journals such as The Atlantic. He fell into obscurity after his death; he was rediscovered by John Hope Franklin fifty years later.
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BLACK History is American History
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Happy birthday Dr. King
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Portrait of Lillian, Cora and Luvenia Ward, Worcester, Massachusetts, about 1900, photo by William Bullard. The girls were the daughters of former slaves William H. and Arries Ann Ward, from eastern North Carolina.
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Faculty profiles from the 1920 yearbook of Kentucky Normal And Industrial Institute, now Kentucky State University
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“Independence is not a gift from Belgium, but our right—earned by the blood of martyrs. We will not settle for less. The revolution is our promise of full liberation!”- Patrice Lumumba
“Independence is not a gift from Belgium, but our right—earned by the blood of martyrs. We will not settle for less. The revolution is our promise of full liberation!”- Patrice Lumumba
It's 64 years on & we still remember our great ancestor, Patrice Lumumba.
20:44 UTC
Portrait of the Thomas A. and Margaret Dillon Family, about 1903, Worcester, Massachusetts; glass negative photo by William Bullard. Big image, zoom in for detail
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Students on the lawn of Miner Hall, Howard University, c.1867. If this is indeed from 1867, the year Howard was founded, these were probably the first students. Big image, zoom in for detail.
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Kentucky State University Graduating Class of 1934. Big image, zoom in for detail
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A young boy participates in a protest, honoring those who came before him, in the 1930s.
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Mary McLeod Bethune (right) in New Negro Alliance protest of Peoples Drug Store, Washington, D.C., 1930s.
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We didn't want anybody telling us anything about Africa, much less calling us Africans. In hating Africa and in hating the Africans, we ended up hating ourselves, without even realizing it. -Malcolm X
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Happy birthday to the late Afeni Shakur. A political activist, Black Panther, philanthropist and Mother to the Late Tupac Shakur.
Happy birthday to the late Afeni Shakur. A political activist, Black Panther, philanthropist and Mother to the Late Tupac Shakur.
—Afeni Shakur was a businesswoman, philanthropist, political activist and former Black Panther.
She was also the mother of the late rapper Tupac Shakur. Assata Shakur was her sister-in-law.
PANTHER 21: In April 1969, she and 20 other Black Panthers were arrested and charged with 150 charges of "Conspiracy against the United States government and New York landmarks".
TRIAL: Shakur chose to represent herself in court, pregnant while on trial and facing a 300-year prison sentence and had not attended law school. Shakur interviewed witnesses and argued in court.
One of the people Shakur cross-examined was Ralph White, one of the three suspects that actually was an undercover agent.
White was someone whom she had suspected all along of being a cop, since he had been inciting others to violence. She got White to admit under oath that he and the other two agents had organized most of the unlawful activities. She also got White to admit to the court that the activism that they had done together was "powerful, inspiring, and ... beautiful".
Shakur asked Mr. White if he had misrepresented the Panthers to his police bosses. He said "Yes". She asked if he had betrayed the community. He said "Yes."
VERDICT: She and the others in the "Panther 21" were acquitted in May 1971 after an 8-month trial.
Altogether, Afeni Shakur spent 2 years in jail before being acquitted.
Tupac was born a month later.
May 2, 2016: Afeni Shakur died of a heart attack in Sausalito, California
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“A people without knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.” Marcus Mosiah Garvey
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John Henrik Clarke
"Racists will always call you a racist when you identify their racism. To love yourself now - is a form of racism. We are the only people who are criticized for loving ourselves. and white people think when you love yourself you hate them. No, when I love myself they become irrelevant to me." -John Henrik Clarke
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In the black community, New Year’s Day used to be widely known as 'Hiring Day' or 'Heartbreak Day', because enslaved people spent New Year’s Eve waiting, wondering if their owners were going to rent them out to someone else, thus potentially splitting up their families.
In the black community, New Year’s Day used to be widely known as 'Hiring Day' or 'Heartbreak Day', because enslaved people spent New Year’s Eve waiting, wondering if their owners were going to rent them out to someone else, thus potentially splitting up their families.
The renting out of slave labor was a relatively common practice in the antebellum South, and a profitable practice for white slave owners and hirers.
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Photos of the Exodusters, and Their Kin
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8-years-old Isaac Coker with other members of the boys' choir from St Mark's Church, Dalston, singing carols on the steps of St Paul's Cathedral, as part of a Christmas appeal for Help the Aged, London, UK, 12th December 1971. (Photo by D. Morrison/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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Storefront, Pittsboro, Chatham County, North Carolina, c. 1910
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Without dignity there is no freedom, without justice there is no dignity and without independence there are no free men. -Patrice Lumumba
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History
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Clarence Adams was an African American who defected to China after the Korean War ended in 1953. During the Vietnam War, he made propaganda discouraging black Americans from fighting, saying "You are supposedly fighting for the freedom of the Vietnamese, but what kind of freedom do you have at home"
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