African Americans Images

Prospect of the European Factorys

Advertisement for Slaves

Cartouche from A Map of the most Inhabited part of Virginia

African slave encased in an iron mask and collar

Advertisement for Slaves

Two pages from the ledger book of Charles Binns

The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano

Observations on the Inslaving . . . of Negroes

Composite of six photos showing young Black cotton pickers waiting in pay line, people fishing, a cabin in Kentucky, people dancing, a black cotton picker discussing prices with a cotton buyer, and a head-and-shoulders portrait of the photographer, Marion

Black duck shooting

Family record. Before the war and since the war

Training for war

Ezekiel saw the wheel

Street musicians

Jitterbugs III

Jitterbugs I

Three children

Jitterbugs II

Blind singer

Negro house, Tupelo, Mississippi, 1936

Slave houses on Hermitage plantation, Savannah, Georgia

Negro house, New Orleans, Louisiana

Negro quarter-houses and people, Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1936

Greek revival building, Natchez, Mississippi

Sowing

Going to church

Deep South

Folk family

Breakdown

On a John Brown flight

The Bull-dogger Motion picture poster showing head-and-shoulders portrait of Bill Pickett, black cowboy

Culpepper [i.e., Culpeper], Va.--Stacking wheat

African American soldiers mustered out at Little Rock, Arkansas

Oliver Scott's Refined Negro Minstrels

Unidentified man with beard, half-length portrait, full face

Afro-American Monument

Oh Carry Me Back to Ole Virginny

Uncle Tom's Cabin

[Black man reading newspaper by candlelight]

Poor Oppressed or the Contraband Schottisch

Watermelon

Ayer's cathartic pills (The country doctor)

He died for me!

Free! From: Album varieties no. 3; The slave in 1863. Philadelphia, 1863.

The Parting. Buy us too From: Album varieties no. 3; The slave in 1863. Philadelphia, 1863.

The Christmas Week

Stephen's Varieties No. 3: The Slave in 1863

Little Eva Converting Topsy

Carroll & Queen's Double Clog Dance

Zululand

Ceylon Singer sewing machine advertisement card, distributed at World Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893, showing two people from Ceylon with two Singer sewing machines.

Blanche Kelso Bruce

Plantation banjo player

Eva and Topsy

A full hand

Frederick Douglass, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left]

Chart of the world, on Mercator's projection. Illustrative of the impolicy of slavery

Dick, sketched on the 6th of May, on return to camp

Black fighter pilot series--Colonel Davis briefing in Italy

Black fighter pilot series--pilot with parachute room in background, Ramitelli, Italy

Morris Brothers minstrels from Boston

Mrs. Juliann Jane Tillman, Preacher of the AME Church

New Orleans Ethiopian Serenaders!

Unidentified Union soldier

THE RESULT OF THE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT

THE RESURRECTION OF HENRY BOX BROWN AT PHILADELPHIA

Practical Illustration of the Fugitive Slave Law

Off To War

Children at work on soap models, Harlem Art Workshop

Thurgood Marshall with Donald Murray and another attorney

Baer-Carnera

On the ropes

Negro hut with figures in plantain walk

Sugar estate - Negros cutting cane

Negro portraits, 16 small drawings with notations

The Black Patti, Mme. M. Sissieretta Jones

Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston

Ladies Whipping Girls

The Two Platforms

Savannah Negro Quarter, 1935 Published in: American photographs / Walker Evans. New York : MOMA, 1938, p. 36.

Wm. H. West's Big Minstrel Jubilee

Wash day on the plantation

Afro-American soldier Title devised. Inscribed below image: [o]ne of Burnside's.

Mississippi cotton gin at Dahomey

Freedom for all--6th United States Colored Troops Photograph of the regimental flag of the 6th U.S. Colored Troops depicting an African American soldier with the figure of liberty; plantation scene in the background

Wounded colored soldiers at Aikens Landing

Camp Brightwood, D.C.--Contrabands in 2nd R.I. Camp Capt. B.S. Brown (left); Lt. John P. Shaw, Co. F 2nd Regt. Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry (center); and Lt. Fry (right) with African American men and boy.

Watch meeting, Dec. 31, 1862--Waiting for the hour

Buffalo soldiers of the 25th Infantry, some wearing buffalo robes, Ft. Keogh, Montana

African American man, full-length portrait, standing in front of tent, facing front, wearing military uniform, holding rifle.

African American band members on troop ship U.S.S. Philippine, that sailed from Brest Harbor, France, July 18, 1919.

I sell the shadow to support the substance

Dancing for Eels

Certificate of freedom of Harriet Bolling

THE HISTORY OF THE NEW-YORK AFRICAN FREE-SCHOOLS

Proceedings of the Colored National Convention

Have you any flesh coloured silk stockings, young man?

Account of slave Mary Carroll buying her freedom

But I did not want to go

Kidnapping

Magee House

The Oberlin Rescuers at Cuyahoga Co. Jail

In the Cotton Field

The Sale

The Lash

Blow for Blow

In the Swamp

Stand Up a Man!

Victory!

Am I Not a Man and a Brother?

Exchanging citizens for horses

Slave Market of America

Questions and Answers

The American Anti-Slavery Almanac for 1844

The Liberty Almanac, for 1847

Southern Scenes in 1846, and The Fugitive Slave

Frederick Douglass

Effects of the Fugitive-Slave-Law

Fifty dollar Reward

One Hundred Fifty dollar Reward

One Hundred Dollar Reward

Caution!! Colored People of Boston

What's Sauce for the Goose Is Sauce for the Gander

Anthony Burns

Family of Slaves at the Gaines' House

The First Vote

The Colored National Convention Held at Nashville

The First Colored Senator and Representatives

From the plantation to the Senate

Education Among the Freedmen

Noon at the Primary School for Freedmen

Colored scholars learning their lessons on the street

Watermelon market, Charleston

Freedman's National and Family Record

The Rev. Josiah Henson--The Original of 'Uncle Tom'

Southerner Rights Segars

Negro teamsters near the signal tower

Company E, Fourth U.S. Colored Infantry

Negro sharpshooters drilling at a picket station

First Tennessee Colored Battery

Storming Fort Wagner

Black troops after the Battle of the Crater

Band of the 107th U.S. Colored Infantry

Christian A. Fleetwood, sergeant major of the 5th Colored Troops

Mustered Out

Harriet Tubman

Make Way for Liberty!

The Emancipation Proclamation

Emancipation

The Miscegenation Ball

This is a white man's government

Murder of Louisiana Sacrificed on the Altar of Radicalism

One Vote Less

Girl with White Collar

How the Leopard Got His Spots

Onlookers with the burned body of Jesse Washington . . .

Colored Women's League of Washington, D.C.

Cotton pickers on the Alexander plantation at 6:30 A.M.

Cotton picker

Cotton pickers

Picking cotton on the Alexander plantation

Cotton picker

Weighing in cotton

At the end of the day

Tally at the weigh station

Going home

Sharecropper at home on Sunday

Negroes gathered in front of a church on Sunday

Artelia Bendolph

Jennie Pettway and another girl with the quilter Jorena Pettway

Interior of the old Pettway home

On the Pettway plantation. Probably Adell Pettway.

Willie S. Pettway

Annie Pettway Bendolph

Mr. Hale from Snow Hill conducting school

Run Little Chillun

Count Basie

John Coltrane

Ella Fitzgerald

Jazzman Dizzy Gillespie

Billie Holiday

Portrait of Billy Strayhorn

Sarah Vaughan

Mary Lou Williams

Lester Young

In the concourse

Crowd coming out of the Pilgrim Baptist church

Members of the Pentecostal church on Easter Sunday

Church service in the Negro church, minister and children

Crowd outside of a fashionable Negro church after Easter

Start of the Processional from an Episcopal Church on Easter

Reverend Buck Grant

Deacons' corner in the Church of God in Christ

A youth is converted in the Church of God in Christ

Church services at a Negro Roman Catholic church

Members of the Nation of Islam listen to Elijah Muhammad speak

Silent protest parade in New York against the East St. Louis riots

Portrait of A. Philip Randolph, labor leader

NAACP youth members marching at Texas State University

Members of the NAACP Youth Conference

Children coming out of a school house at noon

Telegram to Charles Houston

G.W. McLaurin in class at the University of Oklahoma

Employment agency

Next of Kin

Women welders

Decorating a soldier's grave in one of the Negro sections

The Rex Theatre for Colored People

A railroad station

Sign on a restaurant

A highway sign advertising tourist cabins for Negroes

Secondhand clothing store and pawn shop on Beale street

Sign above moving picture theater

At the bus station

A drinking fountain

A rest stop for Greyhound bus passengers

Tennis star Althea Gibson, at City Hall

A member of the St. Martin's Spiritual church

Neighborhood Children

Two brothers in a one-room flat

Construction workman

Playing in the community sprayer

Frederick Douglass housing project. Boys overlooking the project.

Apartment house at 1739 Seaton Road

Mr. and Mrs. Venus Alsobrook in front of their home

Mrs. Ella Watson, a government charwoman

Leaving for work at 4:30 p.m.

Saturday afternoon, 7th Street and Florida Avenue, NW

Crowds at the March on Washington

Fannie Lou Hamer at the Democratic National Convention

Ruth Tinsley being dragged away by two policemen

Alice Coachman

Elijah Muhammad

Malcolm X, lying mortally wounded

Huey P. Newton, Minister of Defense

Black Studies

Free Angela Davis Now!

Shirley Chisholm

Zora Neale Hurston

Richard Wright

Quentin Roosevelt and a playmate, Rosewell Flower Pinckney

Booker T. Washington, half-length portrait, seated at desk, writing

Portrait of Zora Neale Hurston

Portrait of Marian Anderson

Portrait of Joe Louis, Greenwood Lake

Portrait of Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois

Leontyne Price

Amiri Baraka, b. 1934

Negro boy near Cincinnati, Ohio

Mrs. F. Lathers

Black soldier

Negroes leaving the plough

Africa

A class in dressmaking, Hampton Institute

Whittier School students on a field trip studying plants

Class in Mathematical Geography, Hampton Institute

The Tuskegee Faculty Council, Tuskegee Institute

History class, Tuskegee Institute

Construction by students, Tuskegee Institute

George Washington Carver, Tuskegee Institute

Chemistry laboratory, Tuskegee Institute

Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee Institute

Tuskegee Twenty-fifth Anniversary--reviewing stand, Tuskegee Institute

Tuskegee Institute faculty with Andrew Carnegie

Upton Sinclair picketing Rockefeller Building

To Be Sold . . . A Cargo of Guinea Slaves

Cash!

The slave deck of the bark WILDFIRE

Slave Pen in Alexandria, Virginia

THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER

$100 Reward!

Negroes Escaping out of Slavery

Regimental Flags of the 6th United States Colored Troops

Slave quarters on the Oaks plantation

African Americans bagging cotton

The Freedmen's Union Industrial School, Richmond, Va.

U.S. Army infantry troops, African American unit

Claude McKay

Zora Neale Hurston

Arna (Arnaud) Wendell Bontemps

Why Should We March?

Ground crewman of the Red-Tailed Mustangs

Burned Out Bus

Power to the People

Sojourner Truth

Frederick Douglass

Daniel A. P. Murray

Booker T. Washington

Ida B. Wells-Barnett

W. E. B. Du Bois

Nannie Helen Burroughs

Marcus Garvey

Paul Robeson

Marian Anderson

Josephine Baker

Thurgood Marshall

Richard Wright

Daisy Bates

Fannie Lou Hamer

Althea Gibson

Bessie Smith

Bessie Coleman

Mary McLeod Bethune

Madame C. J. Walker

Mary Cardwell Dawson

Ella Baker

Fannie Lou Hamer

El Centro, California (vicinity). Girls at the Imperial County Fair.

Boys at marine monument

Billie Holiday

Ethel Waters

Lena Horne

Dizzy Gillespie

Duke Ellington performing at the Hurricane Club

Former slave Lucindy Lawrence Jurdon

Briton Hammon

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