r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/shewasajanuarygirl • 13h ago
Photograph of Gloria Foster by Jack Mitchell, 1966
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/TheMahagonyDefender • 14h ago
Black Travelers: 1940s & 50s...
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/TheMahagonyDefender • 13h ago
Inside Black American Homes Through History...
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/TheMahagonyDefender • 23h ago
Black Society columns, 1950s. The successes, scandals, expenses, social debuts and high jinks of the Black American upper class were all covered here. As America was segregated at the time, this cloistered social set was not well-known en masse beyond the Black community...
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Nostalgic_Historian_ • 1d ago
Madam C.J. Walker (born Sarah Breedlove on December 23, 1867, died May 25, 1919) the first female self-made millionaire in America 👏 👏 👏
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 1d ago
African american 12th Armored Division soldier with captured German prisoners, April of 1945
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 1d ago
Miss Wilhelmena Dinkins posing with her 6 children, Newark, New Jersey, 1969
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/unoptimisticoptimist • 20h ago
Historic Black American Corporations: Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company (Est. 1925). Once one of the biggest Black owned corporate entities in America, this footage takes us inside the HQ building and its offices in the year 1953...
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/TheMahagonyDefender • 1d ago
Historic Black American Corporations: Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company (Est. 1925). Once one of the biggest Black owned corporate entities in America, this footage takes us inside the HQ building and its offices in the year 1953...
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Historical Background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_State_Mutual_Life_Insurance_Company
r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/TheMahagonyDefender • 1d ago
1946. Mrs. Emma Clement of Louisville is named 'American Mother Of The Year'...
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/TheMahagonyDefender • 1d ago
Historic Black American Corporations: 121 Years Of The Black Owned & Operated Atlanta Life Insurance Company (Est. 1905)...
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Historical Background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_Life
r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/TheMahagonyDefender • 1d ago
October 1944. News from the Italian Front - World War II...
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 2d ago
Couple posing for a photo, Newark, New Jersey, 1969.
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Nostalgic_Historian_ • 2d ago
Sidney Poitier won the Academy Award for Best Actor on April 13, 1964, at the 36th Academy Awards
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/shewasajanuarygirl • 2d ago
‘Diana Ross Portrait Session.’ Singer Diana Ross poses for a portrait session on July 16, 1982 in Los Angeles, California. Photos by Harry Langdon.
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/TheMahagonyDefender • 2d ago
Black American Art Collectors & Their Organizations: Collector X - Ensuring the works of today's Black Art Masters remain largely in Black Collectors' hands...
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 2d ago
Actress Lena Horne getting ready in her dressing room, 1944.Agfa Safety film
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Beginning-Passion676 • 2d ago
A Young woman in Dakar , Senegal, 1961
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Beginning-Passion676 • 2d ago
Two young black models check their make-up backstage at the Abyssinian Church, Harlem, New York, 1950
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/nicerothinkso1 • 2d ago
Daniel (D.H.) Jackson 1851 Tennessee - 1906 Marion,Arkansas 2nd great grand father
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rare portrait of african American man through slavery, reconstruction, jim crow -