American professor and political scientist Condoleezza Rice, here serving as George W Bush's foreign policy advisor, speakers during the second night...
Portrait of American entrepreneur, pioneer, and community leader Clara Brown , circa 1860. A former enslaved woman, Brown was a philanthropist who...
View of Chicago Mayor Harold Washington as he laughs in his hotel suite, San Francisco, CA, 1984. He found it amusing that a Chicago Defender...
Portrait of American politician Oscar Stanton De Priest , Chicago, Illinois, circa 1930s. Representing Illinois' 1st District, he was first African...
The Executive Committee of the National Negro Business League , circa 1910. Seated, second from left is the league's founder, Booker T. Washington .
Head-and-shoulders portraits of Blanche Kelso Bruce, Frederick Douglass, and Hiram Rhoades Revels surrounded by scenes of African American life and...
Head-and-shoulders portraits of Frederick Douglass, Robert Brown Elliott, Blanche K Bruce, Dr William Wells Brown, Professor RT Greener, Rt Reverend...
Portrait of American military commander and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff , General Colin Powell as he leans, arms crossed, on the back of a...
American political & social activist and Black Panther Party member Fred Hampton raises his arms at the 'Days of Rage' rally, Chicago, Illinois,...
Portrait of American politician US Representative Henry P Cheatham, 1902. A Republican, he served from 1889-1893 as a Representative from North...
Texas attorney Barbara Jordan smiles and makes a V sign as she talks on the phone after winning the Democratic nomination to the Texas State Senate,...
Jane Bolin was sworn in July 22nd by Mayor F.H. LaGuardia as a justice in the court of Domestic Relations in New York City. Miss Bolin is the first...
Portrait of American lawyer Judge Edith Sampson , 1950. In August 1950, she became the first African-American to be appointed to the United States...
American politician Shirley Chisholm smiles and gives a victory sign after winning the Congressional election in Brooklyn's 12th District, November...
The House of Representatives met today to affirm seating of its Mississippi members, as Civil Rights demonstrators massed in silent support of their...
Chief US District Judge Louis E Goodman administers the oath of office to Cecil F Poole, the incoming US Attorney for the Northern District of...
Portrait of American inventor Frederick McKinley Jones , as he poses with model of a refrigerated railroad car inventor, 1951. His designed for...
Portrait of Fayette Mayor Charles Evers, flanked by members of his administration, from left, Alderman Will Turner, Howard Chamblis, Isiah Anderson,...
Washington, D.C.: Thurgood Marshall, NAACP Chief Council, is shown in front of the Supreme Court, making a last-ditch appeal that would permit Black...
Portrait of American publisher and founder of the Johnson Publishing Company John H Johnson as he sits at his desk, Chicago, Illinois, February 1974.
American politician State Representative Carl B Stokes smiles as he talks on the telephone during the mayoral primary election, Cleveland, Ohio,...
New York State Senate member-designate Constance Baker Motley is sworn into office by Mayor Robert Wagner during a ceremony at City Hall, New York,...
Former governor of the Virgin Islands, William H. Hastie, , is shown being sworn in as the seventh Judge of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the third...
African-American leader Rev Jesse Jackson pausing in White House driveway to speak with press after meeting with Clinton aide Sandy Berger.
An engraving depicting some of the first Black members of the US Congress, including American politicians US Senator Hiram Revels with...
Illustration depicting American politician US Representative from South Carolina Robert Brown Elliott delivering a Civil Rights speech in the House...
Engraved portrait of American politician Joseph Hayne Rainey , the first African-American member of the US House of Representatives .
Print celebrating the passage of the fifteenth amendment which made it illegal to deny a vote to anyone on racial grounds.
Portrait of American politician Hiram R Revels . Having served in the Union Army as a chaplain, he was later elected as a Republican Party Senator...
Headshot of American civil rights activist and legislator Julian Bond speaking at the Democratic National Convention, Miami, Florida, July 1972.
American politician and diplomat Patricia Roberts Harris , who has been appointed US Ambassador to Luxembourg, holding a book in an office in...
American civil rights activist Reverend Ralph Abernathy , head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, appearing before the Senate Select...
Senator Edward Brooke of Massachusetts, temporary chairman of the Republican National Convention, with the permanent chairman of the Convention,...
American diplomat Donald McHenry, nominated as US Ambassador to the United Nations, pictured in New York, August 31st 1979.
American businessman Franklin A Thomas , President of the Ford Foundation, pictured circa August 1979.
Patricia Roberts Harris , Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, testifies before the Senate Finance Committee in Washington, July 25th 1979.
American businessman and civil rights attorney Vernon Jordan , President of the National Urban League, pictured in New York, December 12th 1979.
American politician Andrew Pulley, of the Socialist Workers Party , pictured in Washington, August 22nd 1979.
Carl Stokes, mayoral candidate for Cleveland, reading a book to his children, six-year-old Cordi and nine-year-old Carl, at their home in Cleveland,...
American economist Emmett J Rice who has been appointed a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Washington, June 5th 1979.
American physician and civil rights activist William G. Anderson during an appearance on NBC's 'Meet the Press' where he explained the Albany...
American politician US Senator Barack Obama speaks at the groundbreaking ceremony for a new building at the Apostolic Church of God in the South Side...
Carl B Stokes being sworn in as Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, by Judge Anthony Rutkowski as his wife Shirley looks on, November 13th 1967. He was the...
Audrey Rowe-Colom, of the National Women's Political Caucus, during a live broadcast of NBC's 'Meet the Press' television show from Houston, Texas,...
Andrew Young, President-elect Carter's US Ambassador-designate to the United Nations, Washington, December 22nd 1976.
American clergyman and politician Adam Clayton Powell Jr speaks on the streets of Harlem, New York, New York, 1964.
Election Volunteer Mabel Holt registers Greg Smith to vote as Republicans launch a new effort to attract black voters for upcoming election, May 17,...
Bobby Seale, a co-founder of the Black Panther Party, is pictured during his campaign for Mayor of Oakland, California, on April 13th, 1973.
Cordell D. Meeks, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney of Wyandette County, stands on a chair while excitedly holding up a Kansas delegate sign during the...
Line of voters queuing on a Harlem sidewalk to cast their ballot in a store which has Board of Election Meets Here sign in window, they wear hats and...
Liberian lawyer and diplomat Angie Brooks making an address to the General Assembly of the United Nations, in the United Nations General Assembly...
Model Lillie Jones records her voice at a studio in Chicago, USA, 1957. Operating the tape recorder is Bettye Everett-Lightsy , a former model, who...
Model Lillie Jones has her waist measured by Bettye Everett-Lightsy at a studio in Chicago, USA, 1957. Everett-Lightsy was a former model, who...
Close-up of American politician US Representative Maxine Waters during a Judiciary Committee hearing , Washington DC, December 1998.
African American Activist, Fannie Lou Hamer, sitting on porch in white dress, pointing finger. Shot from waist up in Ruleville, Mississippi 1969....
