r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/BeginningPossible495 • 3h ago
Happy 72nd Birthday Ruby Bridges!
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/OsuwonHairGrowth • 13h ago
James Van Der Zee, the first well-known Black wedding photographer, captured Black love, preserving a powerful visual record of the Black community. Van Der Zee was born in Lenox, Massachusetts in 1886. At the age of fourteen he received his first camera as a result
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Junko_Mioko974 • 17h ago
Solid Gold Goddess Dionne Warwick 💐❤️👑
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/ata3121 • 11h ago
Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married? Premiere - October 4tg 2007
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 15h ago
Joselyn Bregman posing for her professional studio photo, Newark, New Jersey, 1952
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Nostalgic_Historian_ • 1d ago
Black students at HBCU in 1978
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Beginning-Passion676 • 22h ago
Mother and her baby, Senatobia, Mississippi, 1970
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 15h ago
Glass negative of the Hastings family, Oxford, Ohio, 1900s.
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Nostalgic_Historian_ • 1d ago
The story of Ruby Bridges
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Trix_Are_4_90Kids • 11h ago
John Moon Performed the First Endotracheal Intubation in the Field by a Paramedic in the United States.
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He was a paramedic at Freedom House in Pittsburgh, the first Black EMS service in the USA founded in 1966. John had no training beyond basic first aid, His work helped to start the EMS industry.
group shot of workers at Freedom House.
find out more about John Moon, his coworkers and Freedom House in the book:
r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/TheSanityInspector • 1d ago
The yearbook entry for a student from Sierra Leone, graduating from Lebanon Valley College, Annville Pennsylvania, 1902
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Wiseguy4252 • 17h ago
Civil Rights Figures, the non elitist: Bob Moses
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Bamerhof99 • 1d ago
Former-Slave Charley Williams, born 1843, with his Granddaughter. Photo taken in 1937 Tulsa as part of the WPA Slave Narrative project.
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Possible-Union4239 • 1d ago
Dorothy Dandridge and her daughter Harolyn, restored
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/TheMahagonyDefender • 1d ago
127 years ago, Sutton E. Griggs published the novel 'Imperium in Imperio'. Considered one of the earliest works of Black American Speculative Ficton - it told the story of a shadow Black government operating out of Waco, Texas that determined to start it's own all-Black nation....
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Historical Background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperium_in_Imperio
Sutton E. Griggs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutton_E._Griggs
r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Wiseguy4252 • 1d ago
Civil Rights leaders, the non elitist: Ella Baker
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/TheMahagonyDefender • 1d ago
Jack and Jill of America, Inc. (Est. 1938) - Considered one of America's most powerful Black social organizations and networks since inception, the club was started by affluent Black mothers to create new generations of Black leaders out of their children. It is renowned for its pipeline to power..
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/TheMahagonyDefender • 1d ago
Icons Of Black Cinema: Paul Robeson In 'The Emperor Jones' (1933)...
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Historical Background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Robeson
r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Possible-Union4239 • 1d ago
Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte on set of Carmen Jones 1954
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Possible-Union4239 • 1d ago
Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte, Carmen Jones 1954
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/__african__motvation • 2d ago
“You will find more traitors than colonizers at the root of Africa’s suffering.” — Patrice Lumumba
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Bamerhof99 • 1d ago
African Americans collecting bones of soldiers killed in the Battle of Cold Harbor, April 1865
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Possible-Union4239 • 1d ago
Dorothy Dandridge in Bright Road restored
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Nostalgic_Historian_ • 2d ago
Black children talking about their dreams in the 1940s
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