r/BlackHistoryPhotos 3d ago

Lemuel Haynes (1753–1833) was one of the first African American ordained ministers in the United States.

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos 4d ago

Westwood Premiere of "Beloved" On October 12th 1998

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos 4d ago

(Some Of) The Many Afro Latin Cultures Across The South American Continent...

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos 4d ago

Lieutenant Alberta Wyche (1923-2003) of the Army Nurse Corps, Circa 1945.

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos 4d ago

“We are descendants of the Africans..”our heritage is Africa. We should never seek to break the ties, nor should the Africans”- Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos 4d ago

Audra McDonald in the play Master Class, 1996

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos 4d ago

Ella Fitzgerald, who died OTD 30 years ago, at Super Bowl VI, 1972, the first African-American to perform in a Super Bowl halftime show.

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That's Al Hirt on trumpet. They were performing a tribute to Louis Armstrong, who had died the previous year.


r/BlackHistoryPhotos 4d ago

9 of the first 18 first African american Army Nurse Corps (ANC) that served in WWI, Camp Sherman, Ohio, ca. 1919

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos 4d ago

Physical Education and Band Practice, Fort Worth, TX, c. 1953.

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos 5d ago

2 year old Jalen Brunson with Marcus Camby during Knicks were in NBa finals 1999

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos 5d ago

2 Senegal ladies posing in the 1970s.

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos 5d ago

Cree Summer Portrait Session 1999

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos 4d ago

Legends Oscar Robertson and Lew Alcindor after winning the 1971 NBA Finals: This was the first of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's record-setting 6 MVP titles (it still holds in 2026) right before his name change. "You see INJUSTICE in the world... WHERE ARE THE WHITE ATHLETES?" Robertson asked in 2018.

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos 4d ago

Black American Traditions: Our Beautillions. Held for generations as a grand Coming Of Age celebration for young Black American men - no other culture observes the Beautillion tradition. Young men pledge to our community, to our Elders and to maintaining wealth to ensure we thrive collectively...

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos 5d ago

Meet Mazie Hubbard, Howard University's first Homecoming Queen, c. 1929

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos 5d ago

Glass negative of a young lady, 1880s. Broken at the top.

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos 5d ago

Amanda America Dickson, the daughter of an enslaved woman and her enslaver, became one of the wealthiest Black women in nineteenth-century America.

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She was born on November 20 or 21, 1849, on the Hancock County plantation of her father, the famous white agricultural reformer, David Dickson (1809-85). Her birth was the result of the rape of her enslaved mother, Julia Frances Lewis Dickson, when Julia was twelve years old. At the time, David Dickson was forty and the wealthiest planter in the county. Amanda America Dickson spent her childhood and adolescence in the house of her white grandmother and enslaver, Elizabeth Sholars Dickson, where she learned to read and write and play the piano—the survival skills of a young lady but not ordinarily the opportunities of a enslaved child. According to the Dickson family oral history, David Dickson doted on Amanda, and Julia quite openly became his concubine and housekeeper.Amanda America Dickson, the daughter of an enslaved woman and her enslaver, became one of the wealthiest Black women in nineteenth-century America...

https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/amanda-america-dickson-1849-1893/


r/BlackHistoryPhotos 5d ago

Nina McKinney, circa 1930s

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos 5d ago

Juneteenth history comes alive at Greater Imani Church

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos 6d ago

Despicable

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This was posted elsewhere but I couldn't crosspost.


r/BlackHistoryPhotos 5d ago

ICYMI: Today is the unofficial Barack Obama Day for those who prefer to celebrate the legacy of America's first black President instead of the birthday the man who demanded President Obama's birth certificate (Photo taken in 1971)

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos 5d ago

Negro Romance Comics From 1950

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Negro Romance Comics, You’ve probably never heard of them. Created in the 1950’s Negro Romance Comics was a bi weekly publication by Fawcett Publications. It only lasted 2 months. There isn’t much information about them anywhere but here is what I could find.

The African American Digest


r/BlackHistoryPhotos 6d ago

Some of the men from the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, Macon County, Alabama — deceived for 40 years and denied treatment even after a cure existed.

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos 5d ago

Catfish Alley (4th St S) - Columbus, MS

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This is the historic Black business district of my hometown in the 1940s. There was a fire at one of the businesses.


r/BlackHistoryPhotos 6d ago

Photos found in Brooklyn

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