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Charlayne Hunter (1961) leaving the University of Georgia campus after registering as a student. She holds a place in Georgia civil rights history as one of the first two African American students (the other student was Hamilton Holmes) admitted to the University of Georgia. Also known for her career as an award-winning journalist, Hunter-Gault is respected for her work on television and in print. Models, Civil Rights Movement, University Of Georgia, High Society, Black History Month, Journalism, African American Women, Georgia, Black History
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Charlayne Hunter (1961) leaving the University of Georgia campus after registering as a student. She holds a place in Georgia civil rights history as one of the first two African American students (the other student was Hamilton Holmes) admitted to the University of Georgia. Also known for her career as an award-winning journalist, Hunter-Gault is respected for her work on television and in print.
Earl Francis “Big Cat” Lloyd was the first African American to play in a National Basketball Association game. Black Power, Portraits, African Americans, African American Men, African American Culture, American, Famous Black, African, Lloyd
Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History
Earl Francis “Big Cat” Lloyd was the first African American to play in a National Basketball Association game.
Today in Black History, 3/13/2014 - Anne Wiggins Brown was the first African American vocalist admitted to the Julliard School in 1928. For more info, check out today's blog! People, American Women, Black History Facts, Queens, Woman's Month, Emancipation
Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History
Today in Black History, 3/13/2014 - Anne Wiggins Brown was the first African American vocalist admitted to the Julliard School in 1928. For more info, check out today's blog!
Viola Davis Desmond (1914 –1965) was an Black Nova Scotian who was granted a posthumous pardon, the first to be granted in Canada. The gov't of Nova Scotia also apologized for convicting her for tax evasion, when, in fact, she was resisting a "whites only" discrimination policy in a movie theatre in 1946. Desmond's story was one of the most publicized incidents of racial discrimination in Canadian history. Desmond acted 9 yrs before the famed incident by civil-rights activist Rosa Parks. Canada, Inspiration, Euro, Jazz, Viola Davis, Rosa Parks, Jazz Musicians, Great Women
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Viola Davis Desmond (1914 –1965) was an Black Nova Scotian who was granted a posthumous pardon, the first to be granted in Canada. The gov't of Nova Scotia also apologized for convicting her for tax evasion, when, in fact, she was resisting a "whites only" discrimination policy in a movie theatre in 1946. Desmond's story was one of the most publicized incidents of racial discrimination in Canadian history. Desmond acted 9 yrs before the famed incident by civil-rights activist Rosa Parks.
Nathan Francis Mossell (1856-1946) was an African American doctor who helped establish the first black hospital in Philadelphia. Doctor Who, Philadelphia, Secular State, Heritage, Historical Photos, Obama, Chris, African Diaspora
Nathan Francis Mossell (1856-1946) was an African American doctor who helped establish the first black hospital in Philadelphia.
This picture gave me chills and …look which side is so filled with cowardice that every single one of their faces are covered. Because I couldn’t resist doing some snooping, apparently this picture is from a 1938 stand-off between the Klan and Black residents/locals of Lakeland, Florida. I found it in a special exhibition archive at the Lakeland city website, here. And here’s an article recounting historical and current racial tensions in Polk County and Lakeland in specific. Us History, America, Martin Luther King, Jesse Owens
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This picture gave me chills and …look which side is so filled with cowardice that every single one of their faces are covered. Because I couldn’t resist doing some snooping, apparently this picture is from a 1938 stand-off between the Klan and Black residents/locals of Lakeland, Florida. I found it in a special exhibition archive at the Lakeland city website, here. And here’s an article recounting historical and current racial tensions in Polk County and Lakeland in specific.
Before the Williams Sisters - Margaret and Matilda Peters, affectionately known as ‘Pete” and Repeat’. The Peters made history with their doubles record from the 1930s to the 1950s. At a time when African Americans were not allowed to compete against whites, the Peters sisters played in the American Tennis Association, which was created specifically to give blacks a forum to play tennis competitively. Inducted into the USTA’s Mid-Atlantic Section Hall of Fame in 2003. Instagram, Fotografia, Historia, Women, Brave, Style
Before The William Sisters There Was Pete and Repeat
Before the Williams Sisters - Margaret and Matilda Peters, affectionately known as ‘Pete” and Repeat’. The Peters made history with their doubles record from the 1930s to the 1950s. At a time when African Americans were not allowed to compete against whites, the Peters sisters played in the American Tennis Association, which was created specifically to give blacks a forum to play tennis competitively. Inducted into the USTA’s Mid-Atlantic Section Hall of Fame in 2003.
First  Miss Black California and First Miss Black America (1973),   Fashion model Von Gretchen Shepard captured the crown after graduating cum laude from Howard University. Ebony Magazine Cover, Famous Black People, Vintage Black Glamour, Black Magazine, Ebony, Miss America
First Miss Black California and First Miss Black America (1973), Fashion model Von Gretchen Shepard captured the crown after graduating cum laude from Howard University.
The Dahomey Amazons are the only documented all-female official front-line combat arms military unit in modern history. Single-mindedly devoted to hardening themselves into ruthless instruments of battlefield destruction, these machete-wielding, musket-slinging lady terminators were rightly-feared throughout Western Africa for over 250 years, not only for their devotion to battle, but for their utter refusal to back down or retreat from any fight unless expressly ordered to do so by their king. Africa, Ancient Aliens, World History, Modern History, Ancient, Benin
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The Dahomey Amazons are the only documented all-female official front-line combat arms military unit in modern history. Single-mindedly devoted to hardening themselves into ruthless instruments of battlefield destruction, these machete-wielding, musket-slinging lady terminators were rightly-feared throughout Western Africa for over 250 years, not only for their devotion to battle, but for their utter refusal to back down or retreat from any fight unless expressly ordered to do so by their king.
"The Harlem Playgirls was an African American swing band active in the Midwest and throughout the United States from the mid-1930s to the early 1940s.  This is great!" Vintage Photos, Jazz Band, 1930s, Vintage Black, Black Like Me
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"The Harlem Playgirls was an African American swing band active in the Midwest and throughout the United States from the mid-1930s to the early 1940s. This is great!"
Columbus Ledger, July 30, 1910. Garden variety racism....know your history before you're doomed to repeat it.
Columbus Ledger, July 30, 1910. Garden variety racism....know your history before you're doomed to repeat it.
BUCK FRANKLIN |  (shown here ca. 1899 with his older brother, Matthew) was named after his grandfather, who had been a slave of a Chickasaw family in Oklahoma. Buck Franklin became a lawyer, notably defending survivors of the Tulsa Riots in 1921 which had resulted in the murder of 300 African Americans. (source: http://nmai.si.edu/exhibitions/indivisible/slavery.htm) Ohio, Native American Indians, Native Americans, American Indians, Black Indians, Native American
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BUCK FRANKLIN | (shown here ca. 1899 with his older brother, Matthew) was named after his grandfather, who had been a slave of a Chickasaw family in Oklahoma. Buck Franklin became a lawyer, notably defending survivors of the Tulsa Riots in 1921 which had resulted in the murder of 300 African Americans. (source: http://nmai.si.edu/exhibitions/indivisible/slavery.htm)
This 1962 Charles Williams image shows Brenda A. English, the first African American Rose Queen candidate. Queen, Vintage Fashion, English, Los Angeles, American Photo, Vintage Beauty
Postwar black Los Angeles captured in photographs
This 1962 Charles Williams image shows Brenda A. English, the first African American Rose Queen candidate.
This 1940s ad for Pepsi is one of the first ads specifically targeted toward African Americans. The young boy pictured is Ron Brown, future United States Secretary of Commerce. Youtube, Drinking, Drinks, Drink, Pepsi, Soft Drinks, Soft Drink, Bottle, It Works
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This 1940s ad for Pepsi is one of the first ads specifically targeted toward African Americans. The young boy pictured is Ron Brown, future United States Secretary of Commerce.
Meet Josephine Holloway, one of the first African American Girl Scout troop leaders who lobbied for the Girl Scouts to include African Americans. Girls, Afro, Fotos, African American Girl, Famous Girls, Girl Scouts
Meet Josephine Holloway, one of the first African American Girl Scout troop leaders who lobbied for the Girl Scouts to include African Americans.
pdxrainforest.blo... Known as the "Black Thomas Edison" Scientist Granville T. Woods invented the telephone transmitter, telegraph system and received over 60 patents. History, Inventions, Matter, Thomas Edison, Scientist, Insight, The Past
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pdxrainforest.blo... Known as the "Black Thomas Edison" Scientist Granville T. Woods invented the telephone transmitter, telegraph system and received over 60 patents.
Jane Bolin (1908 - 2007) was the first African American female judge in the United States. Her father, Gaius Bolin, the first African American graduate of Williams College, practiced law in Poughkeepsie. Bolin graduated from Wellesley College in 1928. She was the first black woman to graduate from Yale University School of Law and the first to be admitted to the New York City Bar Association. Elizabeth Taylor, Wellesley College, Alexander, Adele, Wesley, Law Degree
Jane Matilda Bolin, Lawyer, Judge
Jane Bolin (1908 - 2007) was the first African American female judge in the United States. Her father, Gaius Bolin, the first African American graduate of Williams College, practiced law in Poughkeepsie. Bolin graduated from Wellesley College in 1928. She was the first black woman to graduate from Yale University School of Law and the first to be admitted to the New York City Bar Association.
Queen Ranavalona III, Madagascar’s last Queen (1861 - 1917) Tagged "African kings" | AFRICAN, BLACK & DIASPORIC HISTORY Thug Life, Twitter, Old Photos, 2pac
Queen Ranavalona III, Madagascar’s last Queen (1861 - 1917) Tagged "African kings" | AFRICAN, BLACK & DIASPORIC HISTORY
Death mask of a black man who died from syphilis during the Tuskegee study Medical Oddities, Life After Death, Fight The Power, Died, Life And Death, Death, Scary Monsters, Disasters
Death mask of a black man who died from syphilis during the Tuskegee study
Until the mid-60s, the Aborigines came under the Flora And Fauna Act, which classified them as animals, not human beings. This also meant that killing an Aborigine meant you weren’t killing a human being, but an animal. Mankind, Call Of Cthulhu, Prison
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Until the mid-60s, the Aborigines came under the Flora And Fauna Act, which classified them as animals, not human beings. This also meant that killing an Aborigine meant you weren’t killing a human being, but an animal.
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Union officer with "contraband", 1862 Albert Einstein, War, Soldier, Civilization
(animated stereo) Union officer with "contraband", 1862
Union officer with "contraband", 1862
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(1817-1892) Charles Henry Langston, the grandfather of poet Langston Hughes, was born a free man on a Virginia plantation in 1817 to Captain Ralph Quarles and Lucy Jane Langston, Quarles� mulatto slave. He had two brothers, John Mercer (who would become a Virginia Congressman in 1888) and Gideon. After the death of his father in 1834, Charles inherited a large part of his father�s estate, and he went to be educated at Oberlin College in 1842 and 1843. Anthropologie, Charles Henry, Harlem, Grandmothers, Grandfather
(1817-1892) Charles Henry Langston, the grandfather of poet Langston Hughes, was born a free man on a Virginia plantation in 1817 to Captain Ralph Quarles and Lucy Jane Langston, Quarles� mulatto slave. He had two brothers, John Mercer (who would become a Virginia Congressman in 1888) and Gideon. After the death of his father in 1834, Charles inherited a large part of his father�s estate, and he went to be educated at Oberlin College in 1842 and 1843.
Ellen Holly, the first African American to star in a daytime series(One LIfe to Live, 1968).Carla. Classic, Celebrities, Suzanne Somers, Sienna
Ellen Holly, the first African American to star in a daytime series(One LIfe to Live, 1968).Carla.
Many Native Americans welcomed African Americans into their villages. Even as slaves many African Americans became part of a family group, and many intermarried with Native Americans - thus many later became classified as Black Indians. Indiana, Kentucky, India, American Heritage
Many Native Americans welcomed African Americans into their villages. Even as slaves many African Americans became part of a family group, and many intermarried with Native Americans - thus many later became classified as Black Indians.
Bass Reeves, was one of two hundred U.S. marshals appointed to arrest and to keep peace and order in the Old West starting in 1870's. Bass Reeves was among a group of African Americans appointed as marshals and sheriffs in the early days of the old west by U.S. National Parks, American Frontier, Cowboys And Indians, Deputy, Old West, Lone Ranger, Black Cowboys
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Bass Reeves, was one of two hundred U.S. marshals appointed to arrest and to keep peace and order in the Old West starting in 1870's. Bass Reeves was among a group of African Americans appointed as marshals and sheriffs in the early days of the old west by U.S.
Nick Biddle escaped from slavery and in 1861, he wore a uniform, traveled with his employee’s company to Baltimore to help protect Washington, D.C., after the surrender of Fort Sumter. Once there, he was set upon by a pro-Confederate mob, attacked with slurs and a brick that hit him in the head so severely it exposed his skull. Some consider him the first man wounded in the Civil War. American Union, Baltimore, Military History, Abraham Lincoln
Nick Biddle and the First Defenders
Nick Biddle escaped from slavery and in 1861, he wore a uniform, traveled with his employee’s company to Baltimore to help protect Washington, D.C., after the surrender of Fort Sumter. Once there, he was set upon by a pro-Confederate mob, attacked with slurs and a brick that hit him in the head so severely it exposed his skull. Some consider him the first man wounded in the Civil War.
'Ebony magazine, October 1969 - Mattel introduces TV's Julia (Diahann Carroll) as a friend of Barbie' Toys, Childhood, Retro, Pop, Children, Barbie, Diahann Carroll
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'Ebony magazine, October 1969 - Mattel introduces TV's Julia (Diahann Carroll) as a friend of Barbie'