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Provident Hospital and Nurse-training School, founded in 1891, in the ...

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A beach scene. - images Black History Month

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Going Home - A black and white drawing of a man riding a horse

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Treaty between Her Majesty and the United States of America for the su...

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Bishop Payne Divinity School, Petersburg, Va.

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[Standing woman, wearing dress with bustle, holding purse at side and ...

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The Fourteenth Biennial Convention of the National Associatation of Co...

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Reverend M. N. Carter, Chicago.

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Harlem Street Scene - A black and white drawing of a crowd of people

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Will H. Hendrickson; De Koven Thompson.

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Childhood in Colored America; [Courtesy of "The Crisis."]

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Belles of the ball; Basket ball team, Normal School No. 2, Washington,...

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Wabash Avenue Y.M.C.A. - images Black History Month

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Girl with Blue Hair - Public domain portrait print

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Wm. E. Woodard; Dr. A.G. Fairfax; Dr. Count J. Teffner; Major N. Clark...

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A military drill; The winning company at the M Street High School, Was...

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Woman and two men, standing

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The Fifteenth Amendment - Drawing. Public domain image.

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Three men standing, two women sitting

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Bar scene - A black and white photo of a group of people

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Negro home remodeled and beautified according to plans and suggestions...

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Aunt Phoebe, Charleston S. C. - Detroit Publishing Company Postcard

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“An Account of the African Blood Brotherhood: Interview with Cyril Bri...

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Constance Daniel and Jerome Robinson; Farm Security Administration [FS...

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Come Seben!!? Eleben!!? - Drawing. Public domain image.

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Wiley Homer, his people and Chapel at Grant, 1904.

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The Meharry Colleges; Solving dental problems.

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Flint - Goodridge; The hospital; Near-by dwellings; In line for the cl...

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Negro school children studying near Southeast Missouri Farms, August 1...

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Spectators and witnesses on second day of Superior Court during trial ...

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Class in mechanical drawing - Drawing. Public domain image., book by B...

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Negro business street, Thomasville, Ga.

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Learning dressmaking, book by Booker T. Washington

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Stolen sweets. - Drawing. Public domain image.

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The older generation and the younger generation.

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Dairy class, Tuskegee Institute

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A Negro cabin on the bank of the Tennessee

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Scenes from fire in immigrant neighborhood "back of the yards".

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Negroes being escorted to safety zones.

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Moon, moon - Public domain sheet music scan

My castle on the Nile - Public domain sheet music scan

Friendly rivalry; White and Negro boys at a playground near the Negro ...

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A negro amateur baseball team

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View of a man in mule cart in front of a home.

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View of a group of tourists, some African American.

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A cabin door on Sunday morning.

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Rapid transit in southern Mississippi. [Large group of children on an ...

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15th Amendment bringing his crop to town. [Man on an oxcart loaded wit...

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Bob and Martha at home. African Americans, 19th century stereoscope ca...

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Cooking for the family. African Americans, 19th century stereoscope ca...

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The Oracle, no. 2

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“The Negro Immigrant in New York”

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Looking for a bully - Public domain sheet music scan

Cracker teams. Florida Sterescope Cards Collection, NYPL.

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Souvenir of Fall River Line. Shivery family papers

Plantation Inventory - Public domain document scan

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Florence Mills

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Southern horrors : lynch law in all its phases

Mouseknees - Book for children by William Chapman White

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Araminta - Book for children by Eva Knox Evans

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Echoes of Africa in Folk Songs of the Americas

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The Swimming Pool. Book for children by Alice Cobb

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Araminta - Book for children by Eva Knox Evans

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The Cherry Street House - Book for children by Eleanor Weakley Nolen

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Julie's Heritage. Book for children by Catherine Marshall

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A Shipment for Susannah - Book for children by Eleanor Weakley Nolen

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Jasper, the Drummin' Boy. Book for children by Margaret Taylor Burroug...

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Negro Folk Tales: for pupils in the primary grades

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We Sing America - Book for children by Marion Vera Cuthbert

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Negro Art, Music and Rhyme - Book for children

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Echoes of Africa in Folk Songs of the Americas

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Mouseknees - Book for children by William Chapman White

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Jasper, the Drummin' Boy. Book for children by Margaret Taylor Burroug...

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The Swimming Pool. Book for children by Alice Cobb

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Hazel - Book for children by Mary White Ovington

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An Elementary History of America: including the contributions of the N...

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A Shipment for Susannah - Book for children by Eleanor Weakley Nolen

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Hazel - Book for children by Mary White Ovington

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Mouseknees - Book for children by William Chapman White

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The Child's Story of the Negro - Book for children by Jane Dabney Shac...

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An Elementary History of America: including the contributions of the N...

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Commanders of the Dining Room: Biographic Sketches and Portraits of Su...

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Araminta - Book for children by Eva Knox Evans

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Big Road Walker. Book for children for Eula Griffin Duncan

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The Child's Story of the Negro - Book for children by Jane Dabney Shac...

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The Cherry Street House - Book for children by Eleanor Weakley Nolen

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Hazel - Book for children by Mary White Ovington

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Chariot in the Sky: a story of the Jubilee Singers

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We Sing America - Book for children by Marion Vera Cuthbert

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An Elementary History of America: including the contributions of the N...

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Chariot in the Sky: a story of the Jubilee Singers

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The Cherry Street House - Book for children by Eleanor Weakley Nolen

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The Cherry Street House - Book for children by Eleanor Weakley Nolen

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We Sing America - Book for children by Marion Vera Cuthbert

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Little Brown Baby, by Paul Laurence Dunbar

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The Book of American Negro Spirituals

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Chariot in the Sky: a story of the Jubilee Singers

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The Book of American Negro Spirituals

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New Dreams for Old - Book for children by William Thomas Person

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Echoes of Africa in Folk Songs of the Americas

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