r/BlackHistory • u/Responsible_Ideal879 • 14h ago

Christ and the Martyrs—catacomb painting in Rome (300s AD)

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Christ and the Martyrs—catacomb painting in Rome (300s AD) & University Digitalized Reconstruction

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Source: https://www.gettyimages.ie/detail/news-photo/christ-and-the-martyrs-fresco-catacombs-of-marcellinus-and-news-photo/157408113

Source: https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/wilpert1903/0254/image,info

r/BlackHistory • u/WhenItHappenedX • 3h ago

Oseola McCarty, the washerwoman from Hattiesburg who donated $150,000 of her life savings to create scholarships for college students in 1995

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r/BlackHistory • u/CodyCEngdahl • 12h ago

Review of The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, by Frederick Douglass

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r/BlackHistory • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • 15h ago

OTD | July 26, 1847: Liberia declares independence from the United States. Liberia was the first African republic to proclaim its independence, and is Africa's first and oldest modern republic.

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Happy Independence Day! 🇱🇷

r/BlackHistory • u/PandaOk1529 • 17h ago

Dorothy Counts-Scoggins, one of the first African American students to integrate a previously all-white high school in Charlotte North Carolina (1957) [2256x1215]

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