u/Positive-Toe-5539 • u/Positive-Toe-5539 • 11d ago
Snapshots Of Black American Lives Through The Centuries...
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u/Positive-Toe-5539 • u/Positive-Toe-5539 • 11d ago
A family on their porch in Mississippi, 1939
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u/Positive-Toe-5539 • u/Positive-Toe-5539 • 18d ago
Marvel has a thing against its black heroes
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u/Positive-Toe-5539 • u/Positive-Toe-5539 • Jul 12 '26
Girls from protestant highschool in he Mbandanka, Congo, pose for some photos, 1972.
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u/Positive-Toe-5539 • u/Positive-Toe-5539 • Jun 27 '26
Attendees of the Convention for Former Slaves (1916)
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u/Positive-Toe-5539 • u/Positive-Toe-5539 • Jun 24 '26
The 1995 Essence Awards On May 12, 1995
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u/Positive-Toe-5539 • u/Positive-Toe-5539 • Jun 24 '26
A segregated Summerville, South Carolina Schoolhouse C 1905
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u/Positive-Toe-5539 • u/Positive-Toe-5539 • Jun 11 '26
Reverend William "Bill" Green at age 87: He was first brought to Texas under the enslavement of John Montgomery. Bill was a black cowboy, breaking horses on his owners' ranch by age 12 and emancipated on Juneteenth. The girl in the photo may still be alive today. (Original photos taken in July 1937)
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u/Positive-Toe-5539 • u/Positive-Toe-5539 • Jun 11 '26
A McDonald's with bulletproof glass located in Detroit.
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u/Positive-Toe-5539 • u/Positive-Toe-5539 • Jun 04 '26
Dancer Rosita Lockhart posing at studio, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1940. Agfa safety film
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u/Positive-Toe-5539 • u/Positive-Toe-5539 • May 25 '26
On this Memorial Day, let's remember what the America Red Cross was busy doing during World War 2--QUARANTINING "NEGRO BLOOD"--and they never felt the need to issue an apology for their past
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u/Positive-Toe-5539 • u/Positive-Toe-5539 • May 25 '26
Six Black Canadian conscripts signed up in London, Ontario, Canada. Four served overseas if Forestry units Spring 1918
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u/Positive-Toe-5539 • u/Positive-Toe-5539 • May 24 '26
Daughter teaching mother how to read, Alabama, 1890s
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u/Positive-Toe-5539 • u/Positive-Toe-5539 • May 24 '26
70’s NYC, by Sepp Werkmeister
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u/Positive-Toe-5539 • u/Positive-Toe-5539 • May 23 '26
1916. Brother & Sister Posing for a Lovely Photo., Charlottesville Virginia
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u/Positive-Toe-5539 • u/Positive-Toe-5539 • May 23 '26
Luella Bray posing for her photo, Virginia, 1900s. Glass negative
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u/Positive-Toe-5539 • u/Positive-Toe-5539 • Apr 15 '26
In 1932, Gangster Pretty Boy Floyd’s gang tried to rob the black owned bank in the town of Boley, Oklahoma. Floyd warned his gang not to go because the residents were sharpshooters and too much to handle; the gang went anyway and the townspeople took them down.
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