/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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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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The yearbook entry for a graduating senior of Boston Normal School, a teacher's college, in 1917
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Neat 😁😃😄
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Police questioning woman in Haiti, 1914
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1869 oil painting from artist Jean-Léon Gérôme showing a modeled depiction of the infamous, brutal Bashi-Bazouk of the Ottoman Empire
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They have always got money for wars, but they don't have money to feed the poor." -Tupac Shakur
can #blackculture #colonialism #darkcontinent #slavery #modernslavery #imperlialism
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Rebellious inmates at the Attica Correctional Facility give the Black Power salute while Commissioner R.G. Oswald negotiates with leaders of the takeover, Attica, NY., September 10th, 1971.
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Mother and daughter 1963c. Denise (left) and Maxine McNair
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“We must choose either champagne for a few or safe drinking water for all - Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara
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Woody Strode
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The window of Black Panther Party National Headquarters at Grove and 45th Streets in Oakland after shots were fired by police following Huey P. Newton’s murder trial verdict, Oakland, Ca., September 29th, 1968. Photograph by Stephen Shames.
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There’s nobody in the world who has gotten freedom by begging his oppressor. Freedom is taken, not given. I want you all to know that ✊🏾 Aluta continua
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A large crater left by a bomb that exploded near a basement room of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., is shown in this September 15, 1963, photograph. The explosion killed four young girls.
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"If Africans and their diaspora were truly inferior, it would be unnecessary to rewrite their history, obfuscate their accomplishments, and work for 400 years to limit their futures." -Dr. Douglas S. Shipley
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Tété-Michel Kpomassie, c. 1970s. A native of Togo, he was fascinated with Inuit culture. So in 1965, rather than become a hereditary priest in his tribe's snake cult, he relocated to Greenland and made his home among the Inuit in the far north. Backstory in comments.
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A teacher teaching Hebrew to a class of Ethiopian Jews, 1979. [1800 x 1239]
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African colonial soldiers, probably Senegalese, in service with the French army, captured by the Wehrmacht in the battle for France, 1940. The Germans massacred many such POWs. Their sacrifice is commemorated in France with African-themed military cemeteries, such as the Tata Of Chasselay.
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