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1.
Gospel party with old couple and four children

Creator:

Harris Photo.

Date:

November 4, 1972

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2.
Group photo of Brotherhood Youth Movement

Creator:

Harris Photo.

Date:

June 12, 1972

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Mississippi attorney William Miller (L) of Jackson, Imari Obadele, (C), president of the Republic of New Africa, and Aishei Salim, minister of information for the republic, announcing the construction of buildings in Hinds County

Date:

1971-30-3

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Sunday school of New York on parade

Creator:

Harris Photo.

Date:

June 5, 1971

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5.
Men and women at the National Urban League Conference

Date:

August 1970

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African American family sitting on a porch

Date:

1969

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Afro-Spanish Restaurant

Creator:

Hamilton, Alex.

Date:

November 9, 1968

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Antigua Progressive Society members around a podium

Date:

June 1, 1968

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9.
Blind singles concert at Salem Methodist Church

Creator:

McAdams, David.

Date:

May 23, 1965

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An African American woman in a dress and three African American men in suits at the American Folk Blues Festival, 1963

Creator:

Wolf, Heinz.

Date:

1963

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11.
Album cover photo of Brooks Berry & Scrapper Blackwell

Creator:

Rosenbaum, Art.

Date:

1963

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Victoria Spivey in a dress, Lonnie Johnson in a suit, and Muddy Waters in the background at the American Folk Blues Festival, 1963

Creator:

Wolf, Heinz.

Date:

1963

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Willie Dixon in a suit standing playing the double bass and Victoria Spivey in a dress performing at the American Folk Blues Festival, 1963

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Wolf, Heinz.

Date:

1963

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Snooks Eaglin playing guitar on a set of steps outside of a house, with men, women and children gathered around him

Date:

1962

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15.
John H. Murray talking with African American woman outside of house in Berkeley, Calif.

Creator:

Robinson, Louie.

Date:

1961 approx.

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16.
John H. Murray with woman in dining room, having breakfast and reading the newspaper in Berekely, Calif.

Creator:

Robinson, Louie.

Date:

1961 approx.

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17.
Rosalie Reese accepting her prize for first place individual twister in the Dewer's Twist contest in Small's Paradise

Date:

November 28, 1961

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18.
Black literary figures, including Nikki Giovanni and Roy L. Hill with a poster of Malcolm X

Date:

1960s

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19.
Men and women wearing O.E.S. society sashes

Creator:

Bastress, Robert L.

Date:

April 1958

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20.
Rachel, standing on a busy sidewalk

Date:

October 21, 1958

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21.
Members of the Good Samaritan Club standing in front of cross

Date:

December 21, 1957

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22.
Men and women in front of circus sign that says Thaisa Gardner Beautiful Tiny Mite

Date:

August 1956

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23.
Miss Etta and Brunson looking at storaged goods such as canned food

Creator:

Bryson, S.K.

Date:

December 6, 1955

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24.
Miss Helen Colbert, Mr. Leslie Scott and Mr. Lawson Ambassador NSA to Greece at a reception in Athens Greece in 1955

Date:

1955

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25.
African American men and women sitting at a table drinking alcoholic beverages

Date:

February 16, 1954

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26.
Men wearing society fezzes and women near boat entrance

Creator:

Hooper, Wert S.

Date:

August 2, 1954

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27.
Funeral service at First A.M.E. Church

Creator:

Farnborough Foto.

Date:

February 28, 1953

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28.
African American men and women at one long table with party streamers above them

Creator:

Hooper, Wert S.

Date:

May 26, 1952

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29.
Anne Wolfolk, Jalyeane A. Taylor, Ray Ferynson and Eugene Whitlock at the American Council on Human Rights 2nd annual meeting

Creator:

Dummett.

Date:

February 10, 1952

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30.
Atlanta Life Delegates to the N.N.I.A. Convention

Date:

1951

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31.
Attorney Willard B. Ransom, now general manager of company delivers memorial eulogy at the grave of Mme. C.J. Walker in New York during the pilgrimage honoring her sponsored by the National Beauty Culturists League in 1951

Creator:

Madam C.J. Walker College of Beauty Culture (Kansas City, Mo.)

Date:

1951

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32.
St. Augustine choir in graduation robes in front of pipe organ

Creator:

Mosley, John W.

Date:

1951

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33.
Three African American women and one man looking at a bulletin pamphlet

Creator:

Godbey.

Date:

July 29, 1951

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34.
An African American man and an African American woman standing on some stairs embracing

Date:

1950 approx.

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35.
An African American man in a suit and bow tie standing in front of an end table looking at an African American woman in a skirt and blouse seated in a cushioned chair

Date:

1950s

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An African American man seated at at a desk with a typewriter holding a pen with paper in front of him kissing an African American woman seated on the edge of the desk

Date:

1950s

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37.
African American singers and musicians performing at concert in Saint Augustine (Fla.)

Date:

1950

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38.
Black physicians in Philadelphia, circa 1950

Date:

1950 approx.

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39.
Department store lunch counter with Colored Only sign

Creator:

Withers, Ernest C., 1922-2007.

Date:

1950s

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40.
Johnnie Hughes Combo : Philadelphia Pa.

Creator:

Photo Art Studios.

Date:

October 29, 1949

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41.
Men and women around dining table

Creator:

Blanche, Wilbert H.

Date:

June 1949

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42.
Ruth Brown, and her band performing on stage at Powello's Cafe

Date:

October 16, 1949

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43.
African American boy and man shaking hands in front of Mary McLeod Bethune

Date:

February 28, 1948

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44.
Sarah Washington and other men and women, standing on stage in a Philadelphia night club

Date:

1948

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45.
African American men and women standing around a desk, under a sign for Alumni Associates of Methodist Schools

Creator:

Dummett.

Date:

May 17, 1947

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46.
Billie Holiday wearing a dress and necklace seated next to Louis Armstrong wearing a suit standing and playing a trumpet

Date:

1947

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47.
Canada Lee in a suit at the USO in Philidelphia, Pa.

Date:

January 20, 1945

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48.
Group posing in front of a USO Club

Date:

November 1945

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49.
Five men and woman around Mr. Jackson's desk

Creator:

Ensminger Studio.

Date:

October 12, 1944

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50.
Men, women, girls and boys at a confirmation with two robed men in front

Creator:

Lawson Foto.

Date:

1944

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51.
Women and some men of Masons Choral Club with books on ground

Creator:

Vodery News Service (Cambridge, Md.)

Date:

1944

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52.
An African American man in a trenchcoat and hat standing with an African American woman in a dress standing on the porch of a house with snow on the ground

Date:

January 19, 1943

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53.
Picture of a group of African American women in dresses seated at a table with a row of African American men in uniform and women in dresses with a band band on a raised platform behind them

Creator:

E.F. Joseph Studios (Oakland, Calif.)

Date:

January 23, 1943

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54.
United States Army, Station Hospital, 268th, October 5, 1943 [panorama]

Creator:

LaPerla Studio.

Date:

October 5, 1943

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55.
African American men and African American women dancing in a large room with a wooden floor with a band and decorations in the background

Creator:

E.F. Joseph Studios (Oakland, Calif.)

Date:

December 28, 1942

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An African American woman in a wedding gown holding a boquet with her arm through the arm of an African American man in military uniform standing in front of a fireplace

Creator:

E.F. Joseph Studios (Oakland, Calif.)

Date:

December 9, 1942

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57.
Billie Smith wearing a dress and fur coat, standing next to a man wearing a suit and holding a hat

Creator:

Woodley, Jesse E.

Date:

February 13, 1942

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58.
Couples of African American men in uniform and African American women in dreses walking arm in arm in lines across a wooden floor

Creator:

E.F. Joseph Studios (Oakland, Calif.)

Date:

December 9, 1942

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Couples of African American men in uniform and African American women in dresses walking arm in arm in lines across a wooden floor

Creator:

E.F. Joseph Studios (Oakland, Calif.)

Date:

December 9, 1942

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60.
Doris Miller in uniform signing autographs in a group of African American women in dresses and uniform with a African American man in uniform in the foreground taking their picture

Creator:

E.F. Joseph Studios (Oakland, Calif.)

Date:

December 16, 1942

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61.
Doris Miller in uniform standing with a group of African American men in uniform and suits and African American women in dresses in front of a Christmas tree

Creator:

E.F. Joseph Studios (Oakland, Calif.)

Date:

December 21, 1942

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62.
A group of African American men, some in suits and some in uniform, and African American women, most in dresses, some in uniform, in a rec hall with pool tables and table tennis

Creator:

E.F. Joseph Studios (Oakland, Calif.)

Date:

December 9, 1942

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63.
A group of African American men, some in suits and some in uniform, and African American women, most in dresses, some in uniform, seated around tables playing games

Creator:

E.F. Joseph Studios (Oakland, Calif.)

Date:

December 9, 1942

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64.
Group of men, some in uniform and some in suits, and women, some in dresses and some in uniform, two men playing table tennis

Creator:

E.F. Joseph Studios (Oakland, Calif.)

Date:

December 9, 1942

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65.
Group picture of African American men and women in four rows, most of the women in dresses, some in uniform, most of the men in navy uniform, some in suits

Creator:

E.F. Joseph Studios (Oakland, Calif.)

Date:

December 9, 1942

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66.
A group picture of African American men in uniform and African American women in dresses with a cake on a table and sign saying A happy birthday

Creator:

E.F. Joseph Studios (Oakland, Calif.)

Date:

December 9, 1942

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67.
Group picture of three rows of African American men in uniform and African American women in dresses

Creator:

E.F. Joseph Studios (Oakland, Calif.)

Date:

December 9, 1942

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68.
Henrietta Miller seated in a chair with some men in suits and a woman in uniform seated in a row behind a desk below a USO banner and United States flag

Creator:

E.F. Joseph Studios (Oakland, Calif.)

Date:

August 4, 1942

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69.
A line of 5 African American men and two women, three of the men are in military uniform, the other two in tuxedos, the two women in dresses

Creator:

E.F. Joseph Studios (Oakland, Calif.)

Date:

December 12, 1942

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70.
Margaret Walker standing behind a WMCA microphone surrounded by Nicodemus, Noble Sissle and three other men

Date:

between 1942 and 1944

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71.
Marva Trotter, wife of Joe Louis, in a dress on stage with a band, a few African American men in naval uniform with another man and a woman in a dress in the foreground in front of a Christmas tree

Creator:

E.F. Joseph Studios (Oakland, Calif.)

Date:

December 28, 1942

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72.
Men and women standing behind a hand-railing during the progressive spiritualist graduation

Creator:

Moore.

Date:

1942

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73.
Men in navy uniform and women in dresses seated at a long table eating

Creator:

E.F. Joseph Studios (Oakland, Calif.)

Date:

December 16, 1942

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74.
Two African American men in uniform and two African American women in dresses playing cards at a table with a row of three African Amrican men in uniform and two African American women in dresses behind them

Creator:

E.F. Joseph Studios (Oakland, Calif.)

Date:

August 23, 1942

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75.
WPA chorus on stage next to piano

Date:

February 20, 1942

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76.
An African American man and African American woman doing the jitterbug on Ebbetts Field at halftime

Date:

1941

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77.
An African American man and an African American woman doing the jitterbug at Ebbetts Field at halftime

Date:

1941

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78.
Man and woman doing the jitterbug on Ebbetts Field at halftime

Date:

1941

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79.
Lincoln colored drive-in movie

Creator:

Withers, Ernest C., 1922-2007.

Date:

1940s

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80.
Miss Augusta Savage with members of the Art Crafts Guild

Creator:

Berkley.

Date:

1940

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81.
Picture of Billie Holiday in a dress with Jimmy Powell holding an alto saxophone, Roy Eldridge playing a trumpet, Sonny White playing the piano and John Williams with all the men wearing suits and three of them wearing hats

Date:

1940

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82.
Picture of Billie Holiday wearing a dress seated on a chair with Sonny White, Lawrence Lucie, John Williams, Kermit Scott, Jimmy Powell, Harold Doc West dressed in suits and hats standing around her

Date:

1940

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83.
Vocalion recording session with Roy Eldridge on trumpet, Billie Holliday singing, Jimmy Powell and Carl Frye on alto sax, Kermit Scott on tenor sax, Sonny White on piano, Lawrence Lucie on guitar, John Williams on bass and Doc West on drums

Date:

February 29, 1940

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84.
Silas Green Band in front of train car in 1939 with Native American entertainer

Date:

December 2, 1939

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85.
African American men, women and children at the feast in honor of the ninth anniversary of the reincarnation of the Prophet Noble Drew Ali

Date:

August 7, 1938

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86.
Floyd Ray and his orchestra : Coconut Grove (Miami, Fla.)

Date:

April 19, 1937

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87.
Post-graduate class of Provident Hospital, Chicago, watching doctor and nurse perform surgery

Date:

July 13, 1937

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88.
Seven men dressed in suits, including J. Mercer Bursell and J. Finley Wilson, and an African American woman in a dress standing behind a table with paintings on the wall behind them

Date:

April 26, 1936

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89.
Walter White, Royal Wilkins, William Patterson, and other women and children posing in front of a Coca Cola advertisement in 1936

Date:

1936

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90.
African American man and women standing on the front steps of a building

Date:

1935

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91.
Mary McLeod Bethune and Roland Hayes, standing in front of a building

Date:

1934

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92.
Schoolchildren and teacher in front of a rural school house in Georgia

Creator:

Song Shot Service.

Date:

1934

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93.
Dancers in leopard spot skin costumes

Date:

October 18, 1933

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94.
Lil Armstrong's (stage) orchestra starting tour at Kendonne Theater, Buffalo (N.Y.)

Date:

1932

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95.
Paul Robeson and Eslanda Goode Robeson in 1931

Creator:

Ben.

Date:

1931

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96.
Thousands of interested spectators watching eighty colored believers in the old-fashioned gospel, wade into the waters of the Potomac River to take part in the time-honored ceremony which attends the wholesale baptism

Date:

June 30, 1931

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97.
Large group of boys and girls, an African American man, three African American women and a baby in front of John D. Earle Prescription Pharmacy

Date:

1930s

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98.
African American men and women at the State Association in Marion, S.C. on June 18-20, 1929

Date:

June 1929

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99.
Group picture of Universal Life Insurance Co. stock holders in front of entrance to the home office of Universal Life Insurance Co.

Date:

1929

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100.
Man and woman walking in the street

Creator:

Star Photos.

Date:

January 5, 1929

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