Portrait of two young boys as they stand in front of the Black Panther Party's Harlem office, New York, New York, winter 1969. A poster of Huey...
Close-up of a young male Nation of Islam attendee at the Saviour's Day celebrations, Chicago, Illinois, mid 1960s. He wears the uniform of the Fruit...
Tuskegee airmen attending a briefing. First row: 1. Hiram E. Mann, Cleveland, OH, Class 44-F; 2. Unidentified; 3. Newman C. Golden, Cincinnati, OH,...
National Guardsmen stand guard as a young boy pauses from riding his bicycle in the west side neighborhood of Lawndale, Chicago, 1968. The guardsmen...
With his .22 hunting rifle on his lap and a revolver in his belt, heavyweight boxer Amos Lincoln, aka Big Train, guards the family drug store during...
Polaroid photograph of a young African-American boy striking an Egyptian style pose, San Francisco, California, San Francisco, California, 1990. .
In the glow of early sunset, a family lies down in the grass with a full picnic, red plastic cups clustered around, a shirtless father on his...
Female student at the Westinghouse Industrial Vocation School on Chicago's west side, Chicago Illinois, May, 1973. Image courtesy John White/US...
Student in a black studies class reading a book titled "Great Rulers of African Past", West Side, Chicago, Illinois, October, 1973. Image courtesy...
Close up of artist Ron Blackburn painting an outdoor mural at the corner of 33rd and Giles Streets Chicago, Illinois, October, 1973. Image courtesy...
An unidentified woman sits inside a subway car which has been marked with extensive graffiti, New York City, New York, 1973. Image courtesy National...
Children playing 'ring around a rosie' in the so-called Black Belt neighborhood of Chicago's South Side, Illinois, 1941.
Members of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion take part in a parade ceremony in honor of Joan d'Arc at the marketplace where she was...
Adam Clayton Powell, self-exiled Harlem Democrat, , waves as he is surrounded by a cheering crowd as he began his tour of South Central and the Watts...
New York children in a pre-school day camp watch the educational TV program 'Sesame Street' as part of an experiment to prepare them for public...
Ruby Nell Bridges at age 6, was the first African American child to attend William Franz Elementary School in New Orleans after Federal courts...
Original caption reads: Jamming the sidewalk, balconies, and other vantage points is the crowd that turned out in Harlem to watch the parade along...
Emile Treville Holley a student at the College of the City of New York, who has been named as a candidate for entrance examinations to the Naval...
Italy: Pvt Jackson Brown of Dele, SC, and Pvt Roy Williams of Savannah, GA, sit and enjoy the sunshine at the entrance to an air raid shelter of the...
Two construction workers tighten a rivet during construction of the Holland Tunnel, 20th August 1924. The tunnel links Lower Manhattan in New York...
Gwenn Craig, of San Francisco, CA, holds aloft a poster reading 'Black Lesbian Feminist' during final session of Democratic Convention, New York, US,...
Two newlywed couples, Mr. And Mrs. Edward West and Mr. And Mrs. Oliver Sparks, kiss at their double wedding to the cheers of the groomsmen and...
Nat Love, African American cowboy who claimed to have won the name of Deadwood Dick in South Dakota by virtue of his roping talent. Full length photo...
New York, NY: a doctor listening to baby's heart action, as nurse and mother look on, in Harlem Health Center, New York City. Original Caption-...
Group of men converse on a sidewalk on busy Lenox Avenue in Harlem, New York City on an summer afternoon.
Employees of the Afro-American newspaper working in an office at the headquarters of the Afro American Newspapers, Baltimore, Maryland, 1975. They...
Night school students fencing at Frederick Douglass High School, Baltimore, Maryland, November, 1962.
Fascimile of the Marquis de Lafayette's original certificate commending James Armistead for his revolutionary war service, 1784. From the New York...
Couple posing for a photograph behind the wheel of an automobile, in a photography studio, in front of a painted backdrop, 1925. .
African-American couple, a man and a woman, standing together near a railing at the top of the Empire State Building, on an observation deck, viewed...
Students on their way home from classes at the recently desegregated Clinton High School, Clinton, Tennessee, early September, 1956. Pictured are...
Group of uniformed school children walk west along W North Avenue , past a storefront church and a storefront temple , Baltimore, Maryland, October...
Tuskegee Airmen stand with an airplane and prepare to receive commissions and wings from Colonel Kimble, Commanding Officer of the Tuskegee Army...
Three young African-American students learn mathematics skills from a teacher at the Hampton Institute, an African-American university located in...
Two African-American soldiers wait for a bus at the Greyhound terminal during Christmas, Washington, DC, 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,...
Studio image of a young African-American boy holding an eight-millimeter home movie camera and looking in the viewfinder. 'Movie' is written on the...
Portrait of four African-American boys standing in the street, looking at the camera. One of the boys sits on a bicycle. Another wears a ski cap over...
Uniformed African-American police officer sits on a motorcycle in front of doorway, above which hangs a 'Military Police-Colored' sign, Columbus,...
Group view of the soldiers of the 41st Corps of Engineers, an African-American army battalion, standing in formation and holding the American flag,...
Portrait of American soldier Henry Ossian Flipper in uniform, the first Black graduate of the US Military Academy at West Point, circa 1877.
Student lighting candles during a 'Druid High School Honor Society' ceremony at Druid High School in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, circa 1960.
Young man operates a loom as a woman with an 'Occupational Therapy' patch on her upper sleeve has both hands on the man's back, at the Tuskegee...
An aerial view of the Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Macon County, Alabama, circa 1940. The image shows the Armstrong Science Hall facing the Hollis...
Two women celebrate their marriage at Oakland's City Hall, Oakland, California, June 16, 2008. Mostly obscured behind them is Oakland mayor Ron...
