/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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1958 Harlem photo; same people in 1996, most deceased
22:18 UTC
Lawanda Page aka Aunt Esther on the Television Series Sanford and Son
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Private James Hendrix of the 101st Airborne, playing guitar at Fort Campbell Kentucky in 1962
22:41 UTC
Children playing on a cart in Harlem, New York, 1920s
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Rosa Parks' mother, Leona Edwards McCauley (seated), with cousin, Beatrice Brooks. 1925
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Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche (26 May 1886 – 15 April 1912) was a Haitian engineer. He was one of only three passengers of known Haitian ancestry (the other two being his children) on the ill-fated voyage of RMS Titanic.
13:19 UTC
A young couple, c. 1954, Mali, photographed by Seydou Keïta. His photographs of Malians dressed in Western fashions fell out of favor after independence, but now he is recognized as an important chronicler of mid-20th Century Mali's people.
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Martin Luther King Jr. removing a burnt cross from his front yard in 1960
18:13 UTC
Lonnie Johnson, Inventor of the Super Soaker, 1992
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Boston-based concert photographer Charles Daniels and J. Geils Band singer Peter Wolf, circa 1970. Daniels, who passed away in January, left 90,000 images of Boston concert & street photographs. His friends are raising money to develop the thousands of undeveloped film rolls in his estate. Link ↓
15:40 UTC
Unidentified girl, c. 1910. From Walter Dean Myers' book Brown Angels.
21:09 UTC
Remembering protests against Bantu Education Act 1955 in apartheid South Africa
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The "Black Cabinet", 1938, an informal assembly of Black federal officials, who lobbied President Franklin Roosevelt to extend New Deal benefits to Black Americans. Mary McLeod Bethune in center, holding cane. Backstory in comments.
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The Union Park Orchestra, Chicago, c. 1935, Mrs Anna Walker conductor. backstory in comments
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Science class lab, Duplin County, North Carolina, c. 1950
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Students singing in an assembly, Duplin County, North Carolina, c.1950
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Grandchildren of slaves, c. 1902. from a booklet "The Colored American From Slavery To Honorable Citizenship", held by The Schomburg Center For Research In Black Culture, NYPL.
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Mother and daughter passing through New York, 1970's.
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Remembering Slavery Victims
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Remembering Walter Rodney- Guyanese Writer
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An exploration of one of the world’s largest private collections of Black art and historical objects
On March 28, at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, CA, Zócalo Public Square presents, Can a Football Stadium be a Black History Museum? A panel discussion moderated by Khalil Kinsey, curator of the Kinsey African American Art and History Collection, featuring Artist and Bloom & Plume founder Maurice Harris, sports agent and former NFL player Jacques McClendon, and Grammy-nominated singer and poet aja monet.
Register to join for free in person or online: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/can-a-football-stadium-be-a-black-history-museum-tickets-828929158427?aff=reddit
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Can anyone help identify this man?
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Dr Martin Luther King Jr being greeted on his return to the US after receiving the Nobel peace prize. Baltimore MD, 31 October 1964. [3504 × 2336]
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Remember the 1960 police attack on black students in South Carolina
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Family photograph of six generations, Selma Alabama, c.1893. Big image, zoom in for detail
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When President LBJ tried to censor civil rights heroine Fannie Lou Hamer
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USAF Colonel Merryl Tengesdal, who in 2004 became the first Black female pilot of The Dragon Lady, the venerable U-2 high-altitude reconnaissance jet. She amassed more than 3,400 flight hours, with 330 in combat, in missions from South Korea to Iraq, all of which remain classified.
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Charlotta Bass, c. 1912, one of the nation’s first Black female editor-owners. She renamed The California Owl newspaper The California Eagle, and turned it into a hard-hitting publication. She campaigned against the racist film “Birth of a Nation,” and against the mistreatment of AA's in WWI.
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