r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 10h ago
Mother posing with his son who poses proudly in his uniform, Junction city, Kansas, 1917. Glass negative
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Beginning-Passion676 • 15h ago
A wedding in a refugee camp near Khartoum. (Sudan, 1995)
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/TheMahagonyDefender • 8h ago
Black American Traditions: Young Black Men At Their Beautillions...
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Pcriz • 13h ago
Merry Clayton (American gospel and soul singer) listening to her raw vocals from the Rolling Stones song “Gimme Shelter”
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This is a clip from the movie 20 Feet from Stardom, this Oscar-winning 2013 documentary directed by Morgan Neville that shines a spotlight on the untold stories and vital contributions of background singers in popular music.
r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 10h ago
Slightly scared girl poses for her photo while clutching a squeez toy for security, Newark, New Jersey 1964.
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/shewasajanuarygirl • 12h ago
Nurse Training School at Good Samaritan Hospital, Class of 1923. Photograph by Richard Samuel Roberts, Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina, United States
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/TheMahagonyDefender • 11h ago
Historic Black American Business Dynasties; The Downing Dynasty. One of the most powerful Black business families in 1800s New York & the very origin of America's Oyster fine dining culture...
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/TheMahagonyDefender • 1d ago
America's Era Defining Designers: The Playboy Bunny Costume - Zelda Wynn Valdes.
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 1d ago
Mother and daughter pose for their photo together, New Jersey 1977.
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/TheMahagonyDefender • 14h ago
Beautiful Black American Neighborhoods: Woodmore - Maryland. This affluent suburb, with a Black majority of over 80%, is renowned as one of the most desirable, community oriented settings in all of Black America...
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/TheMahagonyDefender • 12h ago
July 1962. For the first State Visit of President William V.S. Tubman and First Lady Antoinette Tubman of Liberia, West Africa, the British royals pull out all the stops...
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Historical Background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tubman
r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/lotusflower64 • 1d ago
Stevie Wonder being arrested during an anti-apartheid protest outside the South African Embassy in Washington D.C. (1985)
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 1d ago
Tina Turner recording in Gold Star Studios, Los Angeles, California her song "River deep, Mountain high", 1966.
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/FOTORABIA23 • 1d ago
Joe Louis photo portrait WW2 era. Thrift Find in New Zealand. 2023
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The Brown Bomber. I found this large photo portrait at a charity shop in small town New Zealand.I didnt even know who it was.Then researched and an American boxing enthusiast friend finally identified him.Everything about Joe rocked.
r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/PandaOk1529 • 2d ago
At 15, Jessica Hyatt Dreamed of Becoming a Chess Master. She Did It. In 2024, She Became the Youngest Black Female National Master in U.S. History. Now Her Goal Is Grandmaster.
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/shewasajanuarygirl • 2d ago
Jamel Shabazz, Rude Boy Style, East Flatbush, Brooklyn, NYC, 1980
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 2d ago
Brazilian lady posing for her studio photo, 1940.
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/TheMahagonyDefender • 2d ago
1954. Hundreds of thousands flock to see Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia as he makes certain to visit Harlem in New York, to acknowledge tens of thousands of Black Americans that enlisted to fight for Ethiopia against Italy almost 2 decades earlier....
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 2d ago
Future first lady Claudia Alta Taylor, better known as "Lady bird "Johnson with her housemaid Alice Tittle, the woman who gave her nickname "Lady bird". Karnack, Texas, 1913
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Junko_Mioko974 • 3d ago
Eartha Kitt. The first Black Catwoman 1967 🐈⬛❤️
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/TheMahagonyDefender • 2d ago
1956. Wilhemina Tubman - young daughter of Liberia's 19th President, William V.S. Tubman - on a family State Tour of Europe's royal houses and nations accompanied by her best friend, Olubanke King, granddaughter of Liberia's 17th President. A visit to the Vatican in Italy to meet Pope Pius XII...
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Historical Background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tubman
