Portrait of American entrepreneur, pioneer, and community leader Clara Brown , circa 1860. A former enslaved woman, Brown was a philanthropist who...
View of two young boys as they eat during a free breakfast for children program sponsored by the Black Panther Party, New York, New York, winter 1969.
March on Washington Deputy Director Bayard Rustin and Administrative Committee Chairman Cleveland Robinson talk on either side of a sign , at 170 W...
Photograph of William R Carter, a government pharmacist, working in an Food and Drug Administration laboratory, 1941. Image courtesy Roger Smith/US...
Nannie Burroughs a campaigner for the education of women, civil rights and womens political rights, Washington DC, 1930.
New York, New York-A female picket voices her opinion outside Mt. Sinai Hospital as more than 30,000 technical, service and amintenance workers...
Black auto worker installs engines into Ford automobiles, at a time in 1963 when African Americans rarely held such positions.
Los Angeles, CA-: Members of the Sons of Watts Community Patrol park their car in front of a neighborhood stand during preparations for the opening...
"Fight or Be Slaves." Members of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first successful African-American Labor Union, proudly display their...
Washington, D.C.: The statue of Abraham Lincoln, the President who freed the slaves, serves as a symbolic backdrop for civil rights leader A. Philip...
Bayard Rustin, New York deputy director of the March on Washington, pointing to map explaining march route.
Philip Randolph , National Treasurer for the Committee Against Jim Crow in Military Service and Training, and Grant Reynolds , New York State...
Demonstrator Oscar Wilson walks through one of Chicago's elevated railroad cars wearing a sign of support for the United Packinghouse Workers of...
Two construction workers tighten a rivet during construction of the Holland Tunnel, 20th August 1924. The tunnel links Lower Manhattan in New York...
Philip Randolph, President of the Negro-American Labor Council was among the witnesses at the congressional hearing. He poses here for a photograph...
Negroes are filling increasing numbers of skilled and semi-skilled railroad jobs, but unwillingness to employ negres in many types of railroad jobs...
Educator and Civil Rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune speaking at a podium in a church, August 9, 1941.
Group of African-American men and women, mostly women, in worker uniforms, 1942. From the New York Public Library. .
Three young African-American students learn mathematics skills from a teacher at the Hampton Institute, an African-American university located in...
Benjamin Stephens, an African-American factory worker, smokes a pipe while operating a pneumatic chipper on a large ship propeller, World War II.
African-American women welders kneel in coveralls and hold tools as they prepare to work on SS 'George Washington Carver,' World War II, Richmond,...
Young marcher during the march for jobs and freedom to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC, where Martin Luther King made his famous 'I have a...
Asa Philip Randolph , Labor Unionist, Civil Rights Activist and President of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters posed in front of a model of a...
Florida this year is harvesting its biggest winter celery crop in 30 years. More than 11,000 acres are devoted to raising the plant which takes 110...
Female laundry workers feed laundry into the rollers of an automated mangle in the ironing department of a laundry, United States, circa 1925.
Group of boys, possibly dockworkers, with a pile of barrels on the dockside in Jacksonville, Florida, circa 1875. The image is one-half of a...
Employees at either end of a machine used for cutting metal rods used in the manufacture of Winchester rifles, at the Winchester Repeating Arms...
An African-American soldier in uniform with his wife and two daughters, circa 1864. In May 1863, U.S. Secretary of War Edwin Stanton issued General...
High-angle view of a technician inspecting the Rocketdyne H-1 booster rocket at the Rocketdyne rocket engine manufacturing facility in Canoga Park,...
An Ampex assembly specalist making using a soldering iron as she makes minute adjustments to an array containing more than two million tiny magnetic...
Workers on a factory production line cracking coconuts for use in candy manufacture, USA, circa 1940.
Portrait of a sweaty riveter wearing a hard hat and dungarees with a 4832 button pinned to them, USA, circa 1940.
Three bituminous coal miners, two wearing hardhats, in conversation during a break, United States, circa 1955. Bituminous coal is primarily used in...
The floor is dropped into place by men as they begin construction of a cabin on a migrant labour camp in Swedesboro, New Jersey, circa 1935. One...
Two shipyard workers operating an pneumatic hole borer during construction of the USS Indiana, a South Dakota-class fast battleship, built by Newport...
Women unloading roughly-cut logs from a freight car at a lumber yard in the area known as 'Dixieland,' Louisiana, circa 1925.
Portrait of American blacksmith Philip Simmons as he works at an anvil, Charleston, South Carolina, 1970s.
From the Plantation to the Senate, lithograph by Gaylord Watson, published in New York by E.E. Murray & Co. Showing plantation scenes and portraits...
Left to right, United Auto Workers president Walter Reuther, Local 1099 president Mary Moultrie, civil rights leader Ralph Abernathy and fellow...
Mary Walker, Mae Lee, and Sarah Smith picketing with sandwich boards reading 'On Strike for Better Wages, Working Conditions! ... Hotel & Restaurant...
Members of NAACP Labor and Industry Committee, from left: Matt English, Mal Goode, James McCoy, and Jack Wright Jr., standing behind two signs...
Construction workers demonstrate against New York City's racist hiring practices for higher paying construction jobs, in which white workers were...
African American construction workers stop work for a cup of coffee at the Basic Magnesium Incorporated a Magnesium Mining plant in Henderson,...
Two African-American cotton mill workers smiling with their arms around each other, North Carolina. Both men wear tattered overalls and hats.
Children sit and stand on the stoop of a property as a labourer, a trainee gaining practical experience in the building trade, works on the screen...
Portrait of a farmer, Tishomingo, Oklahoma, 1957. This photo was taken as part of a series about US agriculture and looked at the work of county...
Portrait of an unidentified woman seated at manicurist's table in beauty salon, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, circa 1940. Visible posters reference both...
Large electric phosphate smelting furnace used to make elemental phosphorus in a TVA chemical plant in the vicinity of Muscle Shoals, Ala. Artist...
Washington, D.C. Clerk waiting on a customer in the store owned by Mr. J. Benjamin. Artist Gordon Parks.
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