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1.
African American family sitting on a porch

Date:

1969

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2.
Blind singles concert at Salem Methodist Church

Creator:

McAdams, David.

Date:

May 23, 1965

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3.
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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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

Creator:

Wolf, Heinz.

Date:

1963

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6.
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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7.
John H. Murray talking with African American woman outside of house in Berkeley, Calif.

Creator:

Robinson, Louie.

Date:

1961 approx.

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8.
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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9.
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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10.
Black literary figures, including Nikki Giovanni and Roy L. Hill with a poster of Malcolm X

Date:

1960s

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11.
Men and women wearing O.E.S. society sashes

Creator:

Bastress, Robert L.

Date:

April 1958

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12.
Rachel, standing on a busy sidewalk

Date:

October 21, 1958

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13.
Members of the Good Samaritan Club standing in front of cross

Date:

December 21, 1957

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14.
Men and women in front of circus sign that says Thaisa Gardner Beautiful Tiny Mite

Date:

August 1956

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15.
Miss Etta and Brunson looking at storaged goods such as canned food

Creator:

Bryson, S.K.

Date:

December 6, 1955

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16.
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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17.
African American men and women sitting at a table drinking alcoholic beverages

Date:

February 16, 1954

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18.
Men wearing society fezzes and women near boat entrance

Creator:

Hooper, Wert S.

Date:

August 2, 1954

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19.
Funeral service at First A.M.E. Church

Creator:

Farnborough Foto.

Date:

February 28, 1953

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20.
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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21.
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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22.
St. Augustine choir in graduation robes in front of pipe organ

Creator:

Mosley, John W.

Date:

1951

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23.
African American singers and musicians performing at concert in Saint Augustine (Fla.)

Date:

1950

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24.
Black physicians in Philadelphia, circa 1950

Date:

1950 approx.

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25.
Johnnie Hughes Combo : Philadelphia Pa.

Creator:

Photo Art Studios.

Date:

October 29, 1949

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26.
Ruth Brown, and her band performing on stage at Powello's Cafe

Date:

October 16, 1949

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27.
African American boy and man shaking hands in front of Mary McLeod Bethune

Date:

February 28, 1948

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28.
Sarah Washington and other men and women, standing on stage in a Philadelphia night club

Date:

1948

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29.
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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30.
Canada Lee in a suit at the USO in Philidelphia, Pa.

Date:

January 20, 1945

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31.
Group posing in front of a USO Club

Date:

November 1945

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32.
Five men and woman around Mr. Jackson's desk

Creator:

Ensminger Studio.

Date:

October 12, 1944

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33.
Men, women, girls and boys at a confirmation with two robed men in front

Creator:

Lawson Foto.

Date:

1944

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34.
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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35.
United States Army, Station Hospital, 268th, October 5, 1943 [panorama]

Creator:

LaPerla Studio.

Date:

October 5, 1943

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36.
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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37.
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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38.
Men and women standing behind a hand-railing during the progressive spiritualist graduation

Creator:

Moore.

Date:

1942

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39.
WPA chorus on stage next to piano

Date:

February 20, 1942

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40.
An African American man and African American woman doing the jitterbug on Ebbetts Field at halftime

Date:

1941

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41.
An African American man and an African American woman doing the jitterbug at Ebbetts Field at halftime

Date:

1941

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42.
Man and woman doing the jitterbug on Ebbetts Field at halftime

Date:

1941

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43.
Miss Augusta Savage with members of the Art Crafts Guild

Creator:

Berkley.

Date:

1940

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44.
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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45.
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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46.
Silas Green Band in front of train car in 1939 with Native American entertainer

Date:

December 2, 1939

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47.
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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48.
Floyd Ray and his orchestra : Coconut Grove (Miami, Fla.)

Date:

April 19, 1937

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49.
Post-graduate class of Provident Hospital, Chicago, watching doctor and nurse perform surgery

Date:

July 13, 1937

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50.
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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51.
African American man and women standing on the front steps of a building

Date:

1935

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52.
Schoolchildren and teacher in front of a rural school house in Georgia

Creator:

Song Shot Service.

Date:

1934

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53.
Dancers in leopard spot skin costumes

Date:

October 18, 1933

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54.
Lil Armstrong's (stage) orchestra starting tour at Kendonne Theater, Buffalo (N.Y.)

Date:

1932

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55.
Paul Robeson and Eslanda Goode Robeson in 1931

Creator:

Ben.

Date:

1931

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56.
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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57.
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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58.
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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59.
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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60.
Man and woman walking in the street

Creator:

Star Photos.

Date:

January 5, 1929

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61.
On the levee : Mississippi flood, 1927

Creator:

Coovert's Studio (Memphis, Tenn.)

Date:

1927

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62.
Knoxville Colored High School class of '26

Creator:

Browder's Studio.

Date:

1926

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63.
A Night in Dixie Dixie Review : African American men's Dixie band, two in ticket booths, with five African American women on stage

Creator:

Century.

Date:

1926

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64.
African American men, women and children watching the 41st anniversary and mortgage burning services of the High Street Baptist Church, Roanoke, Virginia, and the presentation of an automobile to the Pastor, Sunday, September 20th, 1925

Date:

September 20, 1925

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65.
Vernan Hughes on xylophone, playing with band

Date:

1924

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66.
J. Finley Wilson dressed in an overcoat and hat standing next to an old style car with an African American woman inside the car, in front of steps leading up to a brick building

Creator:

Webster Photo.

Date:

1923

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67.
A group of actors and actress and African American musicians on stage

Date:

1922

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68.
Lucille Hegamin wearing a sleeveless dress surrounded by men in suits playing drums, a tuba, a trombone, a trumpet, a violin, a saxophone and a piano

Creator:

Elcha (New York, N.Y.)

Date:

1921

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69.
Tulsa Race Riots : African American man standing on the back of a truck, with a dead body laying in front of him, with African American men and women in the background, walking up steps towards a door

Date:

1921

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70.
Men and women in cap and gowns on graduation day

Creator:

McNeill, Robert H. and McNeill News Photo Service (Washington, D.C.)

Date:

1920

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71.
Mr. Earle and woman standing in a pharmacy in Brooklyn

Date:

1920s to 1930s

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72.
Portrait of an African American man in suit and hat with an African American woman in a dress and hat

Creator:

O Studio.

Date:

1916

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73.
Young African American men and women of Hygienic Public School choir

Date:

1915

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74.
African American man being lynched

Date:

August 22, 1913

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75.
Roosevelt speaking at National Negro Business League

Creator:

Culver Pictures, Inc. (New York)

Date:

1910

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76.
African American men and women crossing the street next to the Monumental A.M.E. Church, in Steelton, Pennsylvania

Date:

1907

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77.
Portrait of Blanche Thompson in a dress and J. Homer Tutt in a suit

Date:

between 1904 and 1906

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78.
Weighing up the cotton at dinner hour

Creator:

Graves, C. H. (Carleton H.), -1943.

Date:

1900

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79.
Small log cabin on the grounds of Biltmore House, with men, women, and children doing various jobs

Creator:

Lindsey, T. H. (Thomas H.)

Date:

1897

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80.
Three African American men, one woman and two children standing and sitting outside a log cabin in Jacksonville, Fla. in 1893

Creator:

O. Pierre Havens.

Date:

1893

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81.
African American men and women posing in a line, in front of a building

Date:

November 15, 1885

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82.
Cotton gin in full blast, Florida

Creator:

Kilburn Brothers.

Date:

1879

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83.
20th Century Melody Orchestra, Charelston (S.C.)

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unknown

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84.
An African American actor and actress in Run Little Children in Los Angeles, Calif.

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unknown

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85.
An African American boy in a tuxedo carrying a cushion with a ring and an African American girl in a dress carrying a basket walking together down an aisle between African Americans seated in pews

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unknown

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86.
African American boys and girls sitting in pews for Sunday school, with adults sitting and standing in the back

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unknown

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87.
African American boys and girls sitting on a bench, with men and women standing behind them, in front of a church building

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unknown

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88.
An African American bride and groom sitting cutting their wedding cake

Creator:

Pittsburgh Home Photographer.

Date:

unknown

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89.
An African American bride, groom and their wedding party, with the women in pink, green yellow, purple and blue dresses [hand colored]

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unknown

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90.
African American children, men and women in front of a church in Augusta, Ga.

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unknown

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91.
African American choir singing in front of a group in a church

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unknown

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92.
African American church singers in front of pipe organ

Creator:

Moorer.

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unknown

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93.
African American cooks making sandwiches behind a counter, while African American men and women sit in front of them

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unknown

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94.
African American couple

Creator:

Eve's Photo Gallery.

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unknown

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95.
African American dentist training his dental assistants

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unknown

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96.
African American dentist with patient in dental office

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unknown

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97.
African American family

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unknown

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98.
African American family

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unknown

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99.
African American family, with man giving woman a plate of food, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Creator:

Harper, Park B.

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unknown

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100.
An African American man and an African American woman dressed casually standing in driveway next to brick wall in front of garage door

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unknown

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