/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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Tuskegee Institute students constructing a roof on campus, c. 1902. Big image, zoom in for detail
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Beauty contestants on a parade float in Chicago's Bud Billiken parade, August 1973; photo by John H. White
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Simpson Industrial Home of Claflin University, Orangeburg, S.C., c. 1899
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Nothing says "The Seventies" like an oversized funk band in Mardi Gras costumes - Parliament-Funkadelic, about 1976. George Clinton standing at far right.
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Freedom House paramedics of Pittburgh's Hill District, c.1970s. A governor's heart attack and a city's riot demonstrated the importance of having fully trained paramedics independent of hospitals, and they filled this need. Backstory in comments.
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A Sudanese warrior from the Bishārīn clan, a sub-section of the Beja people of the Red Sea Hills, 1880s, probably about the same time as the Siege Of Khartoum. Big image; zoom in for detail
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Mary Annette Anderson, center, the 1899 valedictorian at Middlebury College, later a Howard University professor, and the first African-American woman elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
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The 1956 graduating class of cosmetologist Dr. Ruth Gordon's Poro School
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Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie, in uniform with green sash, at the graveside service of U. S. President John F. Kennedy, November 25th, 1963
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Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie being welcomed to Oklahoma, June 1954. The visit was a courtesy in return for agricultural aid received from Oklahoma State University some years prior.
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Mary Fields, also known as Stagecoach Mary and Black Mary, was an American mail carrier who was the first Black woman to be employed as a star route postwoman in the United States.
She drank whiskey, swore often, and smoked handmade cigars. She wore pants under her skirt and a gun under her apron. At six feet tall and two hundred pounds, she was an intimidating woman, a rebel, a Legend - Mary Fields.
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Harriet Tubman, far left, holding a pan, is photographed with a group of slaves whose escape she assisted. (1880-1887)
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The men of Menace II Society (1993)
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Faculty of Morris Brown College, c. 1920, detail of larger photo
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Slavery destroyed us, Religion divided us, Ignorance controls us and the Truth scares us!
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History class at Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama. 1902 [1490 × 1176]
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In 1959, police were called to a segregated library in S. Carolina when a 9yr-old Black boy refused to leave. He later got a PhD in Physics from MIT, and died in 1986, one of the astronauts aboard the space shuttle Challenger. The library that refused to lend him books is now named after him.
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Jesse Owens breaking the World record 200 – meter race at the 1936 Olympic Games of Berlin
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Wesley Prince, Oscar Moore, and Nat King Cole, Zanzibar, New York, N.Y., ca. July 1946]
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Kwame Ture and Martin Luther King had very strong ideological differences, but this did not prevent them from working together and from influencing each other in their work. As Malcolm X said, we should unite on the basis of shared objectives, even if we disagree on tactics.
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James Meredith shot during his 1966 'March Against Fear' to encourage black voter registration
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56 years ago today, Tommie Smith and John Carlos performed the Black Power salute at the Olympics that outraged millions of white Americans.
As they turned to face their flags and hear the American national anthem (The Star-Spangled Banner),
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