138 best r/blackhistoryphotos images on Pholder | Unidentified father and children, location unknown, c. 1900.

Unidentified father and children, location unknown, c. 1900.

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Joseph Clovese, aged 105, arriving at the final encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic in 1949. Clovese was the last surviving member of the USCT. He was born enslaved in Louisiana and served with Company C of the 63rd US Colored Troops. He died at Dearborn Veterans Hospital on July 13, 1951.

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Unknown Bahamian-American family, Key West, Florida, c. 1900

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Former slaves and their children, c. 1890s. The adults had once belonged to Nathaniel Polk DeShong of Alamance County, North Carolina. Big image, zoom in for detail.

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Studio Portrait of Mary McLeod Bethune, c. 1910

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George Dixon, a 67 year old former circus performer, outside a little hut on an embankment at Cilfynydd, near Pontypridd, South Wales. He built the hut of stones gathered from the mountainside. Photo dated 1936, in the UK, Historical Photographs and Prints, 1704-1989. Big image, zoom in for detail.

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Billy Preston recording the Let It Be sessions with The Beatles, 1969. Previously unseen footage from the recent Get Back documentary proves that the chance arrival of their old friend at the studio infused fresh creativity and energy into the struggling project.

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Black History lesson in Poland

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Portrait of Yarrow Mamout (probably Mamoud Yaro originally), 1819. A Fulani Muslim from west Africa who retained his identity in U.S. slavery. Freed at age 60, became a financier and entrepreneur in Washington DC. Painting by Charles Willson Peale

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Debutante Ball, Harlem c. ???

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Bessie Stringfield

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I've spent a lot of this month researching and was introduced to Amy Euphemia Jacques Garvey. She's much more than Marcus Garvey's second wife. She was an activist, pioneering black female journalist and to me, a hero in her own right. We'll have a YouTube episode on her soon. There's much to learn.

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Airmen of the 332nd Fighter Group (the Tuskegee Airmen) at a briefing, Ramitelli, Italy. March, 1945. Photo by Toni Frissell.

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Aug. 18, 1887 Eatonville becomes one of first all-black towns in U.S. (source: Black History Historical Photo Archive 365 24-7)

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Rosa Parks protesting by taking a seat - 1955, USA (colourised)

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Ad by the Confederate States Army looking to rent 200 slaves. November 1862 [831 × 600]

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He was born Riley B. King on a cotton plantation in Mississippi, on September 16, 1925. His parents were sharecroppers and, as a young boy, he helped them work in the fields.

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Happy Birthday to Langston Hughes, a leader of the Harlem Renaissance and a great poet, activist, novelist and playwright

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“By Any Means Necessary”...An African American teen, with his siblings in the background, standing guard with a gun during racial violence in Alabama,1956. Gordon Parks, Photographer.

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I have no context for this, it just ran across my attention today - 'Klan plays Santa for ex-slave Jack Riddle, and his wife'

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Who was Angelo Soliman? He spoke six languages fluently and could write three of them fluently as well. He was also a master swordsman, war hero, chess specialist, navigation expert, concert composer, and a tutor to royalty. He was the subject of Mozart's popular opera The Magic Flute.

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On this day in 1949, a patent was published for an air conditioning unit, filed by African American inventor Frederick Jones, who is best known for his mobile refrigeration unit which allows long-distance transportation of perishable food and medical supplies.

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The GULLAH people of South Carolina preserved more of their African cultural heritage than any other group of African Americans.

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Dr. Huey P. Newton, Co-founder of the Black Panther Party, had a PhD in Social Science. (Source: PBS by HGD)

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Cudjoe Kazoola Lewis, or Cudjo Lewis (ca. 1840 – 1935), is considered the last person born on African soil to have been enslaved in the United States when slavery was unlawful and had been ceased. (AAG)

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In 1950, Dr. Helen Dickens was the first African American woman admitted to the American College of Surgeons. The daughter of a former slave, she would sit at the front of the class in medical school so that she would not be bothered by the racist comments and gestures made by her classmates.

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This photo was taken in Washington, D.C. in 1916 at the “Convention of Former Slaves. Pictured from left to right: Annie Parram, age 104; Anna Angales, age 105; Elizabeth Berkeley, 125; Sadie Thompson, 110. (source: For Harriet)

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The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan headed towards the microphone at the Million Man March, 1995. Join us for the 20th Anniversary, this October 10th, 2015 at the National Mall, Washington D.C.

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50 years ago in 1964, the bodies of three lynched civil rights workers (James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman) were found, after disappearing more than a month before in an act of state sponsored terrorism during Freedom Summer. (Zinn Education Project)

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Happy 80th birthday Dr. Robert Parris Moses (born Jan. 23, 1935). Moses was a pivotal organizer for the civil rights movement as field secretary for the SNCC. He was also a driving force behind the Mississippi Summer Project of 1964.

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THE BLINDING OF ISAAC WOODARD: February 12, 1946: Isaac Woodard Jr., African American World War 2 veteran decorated for courage under fire during service in the Pacific, is beaten by South Carolina police until he’s blind. This is just hours after his honorary discharge from the military.

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Alexander Pushkin - 1899 portrait. A Russian of African decent Pushkin is one of Russia's most iconic and legendary literary figures. He's generally credited with shaping and influencing the whole of Russia's rich literary heritage. Pushkin remains to this day Russia's most revered writer and poet.

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Pearl Bailey was born 96 years ago today. She earned a B.A. in Theology from Georgetown U. in 1985 at the age of 67! Initially, she majored in French, but she switched to theology “Because it’s easier to know the Lord that it is to know French.” Photo: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (VBG)

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I literally have no context for this photo. For all I know, it could have been taken yesterday with a sepia filter. But it's beautiful, so I wanted to post it. Enjoy!

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ow here's something you don't see very often... a Black child with a Nazi swastika emblazoned on his clothing. Here, you see a very young Hans-Jurgen Massaquoi, who was born in 1926 in Hamburg, Germany, and get this... he went on to become the Managing Editor of Ebony magazine.

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Today marks the founding of Spelman College. On April 11, 1881, Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary was founded by Sophia B. Packard and Harriet E. Giles in the basement of Friendship Baptist Church.

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Diamond Shakoor is a 12-year-old Pretty Brown Girl, and is one of the best chess players in the country. With close to 250 tournaments played, Diamond is a seven-time national champion. At age 8, she was the youngest African-American female to go undefeated in a Chess National competition.

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Vivien Theodore Thomas (August 29, 1910 – November 26, 1985) was a surgical technician who developed the procedures used to treat blue baby syndrome in the 1940s. (AAG)

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Tupac Amaru Shakur June 16, 1971 – September 13, 1996. Tupac would have turned 42 years old today. (in comments: 6 things you might not know about Tupac)

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Gloria Davy, First African-American to Sing Aida at the Met

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Busta Rhymes, Aaliyah, Pink, Stevie Wonder, Mya & Tyrese.

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Norton and Margot (1933). Their career was emblematic of the paradoxes and double standards which existed for black artists in white America. Had the pair been tap dancers, lindy hoppers, or an exotic act, they might have gained a reputation in the mainstream entertainment industry.

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Samuel L. Gravely Jr. was the Navy's first black admiral and the first African-American to serve as a fleet commander. (AAG)

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My favorite picture of my dad as a little boy on Christmas morning!

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South Side Chicago Youth 1941

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Zewditu I was Empress of Ethiopia from 1916 to 1930. The first female head of an internationally recognized state in Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries, her reign was noted for the reforms of Tafari Makonnen (later Emperor Haile Selassie I) and for her strong religious devotion.

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Born today, Gordon Parks (November 30, 1912 – March 7, 2006), the self-taught African-American photographer, filmmaker, poet, novelist, and composer. He was stillborn -- no heartbeat, declared dead by the family doctor, and put aside for later burial...

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Hazel Scott was one of the most prominent African Americans of the 1930s, 40s and 50s. One of the premier pianists of her time, she traveled the world playing classical and jazz music.

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On March 2, 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white bus rider, a 15-year old Montgomery, Alabama schoolgirl named Claudette Colvin was arrested for doing the same thing. Yet few people know her story. (AAG)

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Memorial Day was started by former slaves on May, 1, 1865 in Charleston, SC to honor 257 dead Union Soldiers who had been buried in a mass grave in a Confederate prison camp.

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Clementine Hunter (pronounced Clementeen) (1887 – 1988) was a self-taught African-American folk artist from the Cane River region in Louisiana. She was born on a plantation said to be the inspiration for Uncle Tom's Cabin worked as a farm hand, never learning to read or write. (AAG)

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Howard University students c. 1950

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Bessie Coleman was awarded her pilot’s license in 1921 by the Federation Aeronautique Internationale. She trained in France because no American flight school would accept her as a student.

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Ghana: A young King Otumfuo Osei Agyeman Prempeh II King of Asante. In 1931, the year of his installation, he immediately began to work for the restoration of Asante Confederacy - which was accomplished by 1935. Accordingly his status was raised from that of Kumasihene to Asantehene.

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General Daniel Chappie James, Jr., Tuskegee Airman and the first African American four-star general

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Eugene Jacques Bullard (9 October 1894 – 12 October 1961) was one of the only two black military pilots in World War I and warded the Croix de Guerre and the Legion of Honor.

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Seneca Village, a long-forgotten community of African Americans who lived in the area from 82nd to 89th streets, between 7th and 8th avenues before Central Park ever existed. They had three churches, a school, and 5 cemeteries. They were New York's first significant group of Black property owners.

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Stevie Wonder, Bisti Badlands

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My Great Great Grand Uncle, President Florvil Hyppolite and His Cabinet

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In a period spanning fewer than 12 hours, a once thriving Black business district in northern Tulsa lay smoldering - a model community destroyed and a major African-American economic movement resoundingly defused.

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If you know your African American history, you might find it eerie and perhaps even coincidental that on Aug. 14, 106 years ago, another midwestern city experienced major unrest in its African American community, resulting in what is known today as the Springfield Race Riot of 1908.

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Grace Jones turns 65 today! In this 1989 photo by Roxanne Lowit, she is with the late great fashion designer, Patrick Kelly and legendary models Iman and Naomi Campbell. (source: VBG)

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Crystal Bird Fauset, the first African-American female state legislator in the United States, was born on June 27, 1894 in Princess Anne, Maryland to parents Benjamin Oliver Bird and Portia E. (Lovett) Bird.

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This Day in History, 1968: Eartha Kitt spoke the truth at a White House luncheon meeting on crime and juvenile delinquency. Kitt was asked her opinion and she stated that it was not an issue of delinquency, instead young Americans were angry because their parents are angry...

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Postcard of the 1920 Duluth, Minnesota lynching of Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson and Isaac McGhie, Black circus workers accused of robbery and rape (of which a physician found no evidence). An estimates 1,000-10,000 people were in the mob that stormed the jail, took the men to be beaten and killed.

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Madeline Sahji Jackson, Popular 1940's Exotic Dancer. Described as Poetry in Motion, video of her performances in comments.

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Robert Earl Jones, father of the actor James Earl Jones. [b. 1910 - d. 2006] The senior Mr. Jones made his Broadway debut in 1945 in “The Hasty Heart.” (source: AHC)

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Robert Smalls (1839-1915) was originally known as a daring hero during the Civil War. In 1862, he delivered the Planter, a transport steamer, to Union soldiers and by April 1863, he was pilot of the ironclad USS Keokuk. (BIB)

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When Shaquille O'neal was drafted into the NBA, he spent the first million that he earned within 30 minutes. O'neal then received a phone call from his banker, who scolded him, and told him that he would end up joining the list of former athletes who ended up broke if the current trend continued.

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Lewis Cousins, age 15, standing alone as the first black student in the newly de-segregated Maury High School. Norfolk, VA. 1959

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The first Black woman PhD holder in the US: Sadie Tanner Mossel Alexander (Source: Jadili Africa)

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A young Denzel Washington and his mom

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June, 1964. Black children integrate the swimming pool of the Monson Hotel. To get them out, the owner pours acid into the water.

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Mrs. Lizzie Sheppard brought a supremacist to court, charging that a white preacher struck her with a rake when she refused to get off the sidewalk in front of his home.

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Bessie Stringfield, nicknamed The Motorcycle Queen of Miami, was the first African-American woman to ride across the United States solo, and during World War II she served as one of the few motorcycle dispatch riders for the United States military.

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Guess who! Go on, guess!

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Children on the way to PS 204, 82nd Street and 15th Avenue, passing white mothers protesting their busing. New York, by Dick DeMarsico ca. 1963 (Library of Congress).

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Dr. Olivia Hooker is a survivor of the Tulsa Oklahoma massacre of 1921. She went on to make history as the first African-American woman to enlist in the U.S. Coast Guard during World War 2.

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Clara McBride Hale, also known as Mother Hale, was an American humanitarian who founded the Hale House Center, a home for unwanted children and children who were born addicted to drugs.

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One more: Can you guess who this is?

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One hundred years ago Tuesday, 44 men reported to the New York Police Department's majestic old headquarters on Centre St. to be sworn in as rookies. Only one was black - 6'2, 240-pound Samuel Jesse Battle, who became Greater New York's first African-American cop.

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International students at Tuskeegee University. 1908

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Stagecoach Mary

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Huey Newton’s Birthday Party, Oakland Auditorium, February 17, 1968. Huey's symbolic chair was representing him, as he was locked up waiting trail for murder.

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Can you guess who this is?

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Orindatus Simon Bolivar Wall. A hero of African-American history whose story is forgotten because his descendants decided they were white. By Daniel J. Sharfstein (AAG)

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Fighting women of the Fon (Dahomey people) and their neighbors the Ashanti. Originally retained as an elite royal guard, Dahomey amazons held semi-sacred status as celibate warrior wives of the King. (source: Pan-African Education)

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In 1928 Oscar DePriest was elected U.S. Representative for Kansas, becoming the first African American U.S. congressman from a northern state, as well as the first black congressman in nearly thirty years.

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All Star team. No, really!

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Ranavalona III, last Queen of the Kingdom of Madagascar. Reigned 1883-1897

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John Francis Wheaton, first Black legislator in MN (1899–1900)

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