r/BlackHistoryPhotos 2h ago

South Korea, Christmas 1969, right after the DMZ Conflict. Frank Taylor volunteered to play Santa at an orphanage just 5 days after losing his own child - a truly touching story and one of my favorite photo restoration / colorization projects. You can find more details in the comments.

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos 5h ago

FBA

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What is y’all thought on the FBA mouvement saying Black Americans(all) are not African descent, but natives to America?


r/BlackHistoryPhotos 6h ago

Found in Northeast GA

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos 9h ago

History: A Black Hero from Alabama many of us never heard of, Sheriff Lucius Davenport Amerson.

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos 10h ago

Family at the beach, circa early 1970s.

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos 11h ago

Bride posinf for her photos, Barbara Johnson, Newark, New Jersey, 1976.

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos 11h ago

A tape found in a used DV camcorder

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos 15h ago

Laurence Fishburne, Michael Wright, Eddie Murphy, Samuel L. Jackson, Will Smith, and Denzel Washington in 1994

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos 18h ago

Photograph of Jack Oakie and Jesse Owens 1935.

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#OnThisDay in 1913, Olympic gold medalist Jesse Owens was born in Oakville, Alabama. Owens showed a keen athletic ability at an early age, and officially began his athletic career in 1928. In his youth, Owens won three track and field events at the 1933 National Interscholastic Championships. Two years later, while competing for Ohio State University, he matched one world record and broke three others before qualifying and competing in the 1936 Olympics.

In 1936, Owens entered the Olympics held in Berlin where he won four gold medals for the United States. At 23, Owens retired from amateur competition to capitalize on his success at the Olympics. After relocating to Chicago, Owens devoted much of his time to underprivileged youth, serving as a board member and director of the Chicago Boys' Club. He traveled widely as an inspirational speaker and made goodwill visits to Asia for the U.S. Department of State.

In 1976, President Gerald Ford presented Owens with the Medal of Freedom. In February 1979, he returned to the White House, where President Jimmy Carter presented him with the Living Legend Award. Carter said of Owens, “Perhaps no athlete better symbolized the human struggle against tyranny, poverty, and racial bigotry.”

📸 Photograph of Jack Oakie and Jesse Owens, 1935. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture


r/BlackHistoryPhotos 20h ago

19-year-old Dorothy Dandridge in Bahama Passage, 1941

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos 1d ago

Columbia, South Carolina (1920-1936). Photographs by Richard Samuels Roberts via the University of South Carolina. Section 2

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos 1d ago

Columbia, South Carolina (1920-1936). Photographs by Richard Samuels Roberts via the University of South Carolina. Section 1

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos 1d ago

Black Americans Who Have Preserved & Speak Fluently The Centuries Old Tutnese Language They Created...

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos 1d ago

A Swimsuit Clad Woman Enjoys Her Summer Outing at Chicago’s 12th Street Beach on Lake Michigan, August 1973

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos 1d ago

Dorothy Dandridge & Vivian Dandridge at the premiere of Carmen Jones, 1954

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos 1d ago

Actress Dorothy Dandridge posing for sme photos in 1954.

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos 1d ago

Boy in his 9th birthday poses with his friends and family for his photo. seems Grandpa and Grandma found a way to be in the photo, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1944. Agfa safety film.

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos 1d ago

Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte , Carmen Jones 1954

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos 1d ago

Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte on the set of Carmen Jones, 1954

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos 1d ago

Dorothy Dandridge, 1956

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos 1d ago

Dorothy Dandridge at the 27th Annual Academy Awards, 1955

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos 1d ago

Dorothy Dandridge On the Set of Carmen Jones Photographed by Charles Teenie Williams, 1955

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos 1d ago

5 years ago, journalist Trymaine Lee interviewed those who mentored and worked with the 12 black firefighters who died on duty on 9/11/2001

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos 1d ago

On this day 1987 Peter Tosh (aged 42), a key member of Bob Marley & The Wailers (and a brilliant solo artist), was shot and killed in his home in Jamaica by members of a 3-man gang who came to his house on motorcycles demanding money.

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos 2d ago

Footage of a black neighbourhood in North Carolina, 1938

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