african americans

Afro-Americans with more than national reputation.

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Choir marching to Chapel; Saint Paul School; [Lawrenceville, Virginia....

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Portrait of Mrs. Sarah J.S. Garnet

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William Still. - Public domain dedication image

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A model Negro school; Inspired by Tuskegee, different, indeed, from th...

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Afro-Americans with more than national reputation.

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The Devil's garden. - Public domain portrait engraving

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Sleeping Girl - Drawing. Public domain image.

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Segregation in Detroit - A black and white photo of a window with a si...

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Phillis Wheatley. - Public domain portrait engraving

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In the Park - A drawing of a man sitting on a bench

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Central Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia; Robt. Jones; W. C. Young; R...

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Parker Model Home. Made by Tuskegee Students.

Luxury and comfort; An elegantly appointed barber shop owned and patro...

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Mulatto girl student; At Clark University, Atlanta; At the completion ...

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[Studio portrait of woman wearing hat, and velvet coat.]

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Georgia E. Lee Patton, M.D. Physician, and Surgeon, a Meharry [Meharry...

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The Shield, Emblems, and Motto of Liberia as established in 1847

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Paul Reed; Will Cato; Negroes lynched by being burned alive at Statesb...

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[Studio portrait of woman, hand on books spread on table.]

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Evolution of the Negro home; Residence of a Negro working woman, Atlan...

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Subway Bootblack - A black and white drawing of a man in a room

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John Smith, Minister to Liberia.

Bird's-eye view of Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala.

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Inman E. Page - A black and white drawing of a man in a tuxedo

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Government hotel for Negro women war workers; A group of young war wor...

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[Studio portrait of man holding box labelled 'Confectionery.'.]

Upholstering. - images Black History Month

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Prominent Colored Americans.

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[The Chimney sweep.] - images Black History Month

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The Knights of Pythias Temple; Propose $ 1,200.000.00 International Te...

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A typical family group.

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Rev. Page; Of the Baptist Church, Cincinnati, O.; A successful pastor.

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Sojourner Truth; [Courtesy of the "Crisis."]

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National University of Music. - Victorian era public domain image

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Whereas it is found by experience, that traffique with infidels and ba...

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

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Friends," Meharry Medical College, 1915.

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Random types. - Public domain portrait print

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The Metropolitan Community Club House; Old Folks Home; Phyllis Wheatle...

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E. M. Brawley, D. D. [recto]. - Public domain portrait engraving, book...

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Rex Ingram, shirtless - Egypt

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"Savoy Ballroom"

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Living Easy - Detroit Publishing Company Postcard

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The slave market, St. Augustine, Fla.

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Women being transported from Memphis, Tennessee to an Arkansas plantat...

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Negro flood refugees lined up and waiting for food in Forrest City, Ar...

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Grinding sugar-cane at the school's sugar-hill, book by Booker T. Wash...

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Convention" Candidates.

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Coons in A Cotton Shed - Detroit Publishing Company Postcard

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I Wasn't Born to Labor - Detroit Publishing Company Postcard

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Road-building by Tuskegee students, book by Booker T. Washington

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Ida B. Wells Housing Project for Negroes, Chicago, Illinois, April 194...

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Digging foundation for a new building on the Institute grounds, book b...

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[An African American family; Reading books.]

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Meeting to discuss farm problems. Southeast Missouri Project. May 1940...

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The polite, but consequential Negro policeman

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Where Fighting Mag lived.

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President J. B. Randolph.

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Class in outdoor geometry, book by Booker T. Washington

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E.M. Hewlett; Harvard Graduate; U.S. Magistrate D.C.

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John P. Green; Ex-member Ohio Senate, now U.S. Stamp Agent, D.C.

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A furniture and repair shop at Snow Hill, book by Booker T. Washington

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J. Wesley Hoffman; George R. Smith College, Sedalia, Missouri

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Graveyard song - Public domain sheet music scan

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The Militia and Negroes on friendly terms

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Evolution of the Negro home; Negro city tenements, Atlanta.

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Negro church in the south

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Racial contacts among children in an adjusted neighborhood

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An abandoned residence in the Prairie Avenue block

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Cherubs. Florida Sterescope Cards Collection, NYPL.

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Cracker teams. Florida Sterescope Cards Collection, NYPL.

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Group of natives. [Group portrait of children on benches.]

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

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Uncle Red. [Man in an oxcart.] - stereoscopic view, public domain phot...

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Upland rice. [Hoeing rice.] African Americans, 19th century stereoscop...

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"The Home Stretch in Florida" - postcard to Frederick Hoeing

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Answers to the objections against the proposals of the Royal African C...

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

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“Housing in Harlem: Interview with John E Nail”

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“Position of African Blood Brotherhood”

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Honey dat I love so well - love song

Florence Mills

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"The Riverton" , pages 34-39

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A letter to the Right Hon. Henry Dundas: on his speech, delivered in t...

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Julie's Heritage. Book for children by Catherine Marshall

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Big Road Walker. Book for children for Eula Griffin Duncan

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A Shipment for Susannah - 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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Jerome Anthony - Book for children by Eva Knox Evans

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Negro Folk Tales: for pupils in the primary grades

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River Treasure - Book for children by Mebane Holoman Burgwyn

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

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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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Araminta - Book for children by Eva Knox Evans

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Negro Art, Music and Rhyme - Book for children

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

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For Freedom: a biographical story of the American Negro

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The Negro in Sports, by Edwin Bancroft Henderson

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