Black Americans @BLKAmericans_
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Snickers Gap, Virginia, 1900 Photographed by Frances Benjamin Johnston
Raymond Schuyler and his children, Ethel, Stephen, Beatrice and Dorothea. Worcester, Massachusetts, 1904 Photographed by William Bullard
Laborers at Quartermaster's Wharf, Alexandria, Virginia, 1863-65
Thomasville, Georgia, 1884-91 Joseph John Kirkbride
Jack and Abby Landlord, Savannah, Georgia, 1875
The Edward W. West family, Boone County, Missouri, 1919
On the way to church, Alabama, 1972 Photographed by Chester Higgins
Los Angeles, CA, 1956 Photographed by Harry Adams
Lottie and Charles Peets Lawton, Oklahoma, 1913
Two mothers with children watching marchers during the Selma to Montgomery march, 1965 Photographed by Stephen Somerstein
Pasquotank County, North Carolina, 1899.
The Jones family, 1942 Zebulon, North Carolina Photographed by Arthur Rothstein
Virginia-born coachman Thomas A. Dillon and his wife, Margaret, a domestic servant and native of Newton, Massachusetts with children Thomas, Margaret, and Mary. Worcester, Massachusetts, 1904 Photographed by William Bullard
28 students of a one-room school, New Madrid County, Missouri, 1939.
John C. Corpening and Martha A. Rutherford Corpening with seven of their 10 children in front of their home. Bridgewater, North Carolina, Late 19th Century
Onboard the bugeye Thomas Blades in the harbor of St. Michaels, Maryland, 1910
North Carolina, 1890s - 1920s
Untitled, Chicago, Illinois, 1953 Photographed by Gordon Parks
ChristinaProenzaColes @ProenzaColes
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10K Followers 547 Following Mostly here for reparations for descendants of US chattel slavery
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17K Followers 3K Following Spiritual Warrior. Educator, Consultant & Organizer. Undoing anti-Black racism in media, education & politics.
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14K Followers 11K Following Because I'm Bless by the Best I live by faith and believe in my God
DAP/ADOS TRIBE🇺�.. @Black_Action
8K Followers 1K Following Making a way for our children’s children.
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6K Followers 1K Following “Melanin pigment coloration is the NORM for the hue-man family.”Dr.Frances Cress-Welsing|🇺🇸Foundational Black American✨BlackAm Space only🖤|#ReparationsNOW|
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7K Followers 1K Following Dedicated to Civil Rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer, a new documentary told in her own words now streaming and an educational website featuring a K-12 curriculum.
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7K Followers 2K Following I'm a proud Foundational Black American #BlackAmericaFirst
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1 OF NONE VILLAIN �.. @in_da_grass
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15K Followers 3K Following Author of AMERICAN FOUNDERS: How People of African Descent Established Freedom in the New World. I study, research, teach, & tweet American history.
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GullahMuseumSC @GullahSc
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1K Followers 223 Following Holsinger Studio portraits offer new insights into Black history in Charlottesville & Central Virginia. A @UVA & @JSAAHC project. Exhibition 9/22/22 to 6/24/23.
History Defined @historydefined
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22K Followers 309 Following Detroit Tigers fan for life. Historian of slavery, Civil War era, author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom. Won a P-Prize. Teacher first.
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992K Followers 5 Following learn your history!✊🏿 || IG; https://t.co/AC9LLjusJd || Support us on https://t.co/HHs3SgCItNMary McLeod Bethune (b. 1875) risked her life for democracy as an educator & civic leader who worked with presidents FDR & Truman. She founded a college in Florida, faced down the Klan during voter registration drives & publicly campaigned against the prevalence of lynching.
Mary Silvinia Burghardt Du Bois, with her sister & infant son William, aka W. E. B. Du Bois (New York Public Library Digital Collection). The Burghardts descended from a formerly enslaved ancestor who fought in the American Revolution.
In 1892, Dr. Lawson Scruggs, a physician & democracy champion who had been formerly enslaved in Virginia, published a book chronicling the achievements of African American women titled Women of Distinction: Remarkable in Works and Invincible in Character.
Poems on various subjects, religious and moral. By Phillis Wheatley bit.ly/3jJOvv5
Pinetop Perkins in Clarksdale Mississippi, 2009, age 95.
DeSantis and aides: legally banning AP Black history means you join a long tradition of losers - the former Confederates ultimately lost this battle; so did the Nazis, so did McCarthyites, so did Leninists. The bell will toll for thee too. Protect teachers!
After purchasing his freedom, Isaac Flood moved to Oakland, CA in 1853 & married Elizabeth Scott in 1855. She started the 1st public school for Black students in the state. This is their daughter Lydia. See the Flood Family Papers, the African American Museum & Library at Oakland
On D-Day, Waverly Woodson, a medic from Philadelphia, treated wounded soldiers under heavy fire despite being wounded himself. He saved the lives of some 200 soldiers, was among the 1.2 African Americans who served in WWII, & served in the Korean War as well.
Charles Young became a US Army colonel in 1916, led troops with distinction abroad, built & protected Yosemite & Sequoia national parks, was military attaché to Liberia & Haiti. His father had fled slavery to join the Union Army & fight for the freedom of others in the Civil War.
Tunica, Mississippi. Photographs by Jane Rule Burdine (1985-1987)
Granville County, North Carolina. Photographs by Dorothea Lange (1939) via the Library of Congress
Henry Highland Garnet issued a Call to Rebellion in 1843 to end slavery & discrimination. Garnet’s family had escaped slavery to NYC though slave catchers attempted re-enslavement. Garnet addressed the US House of Representatives in 1865 & was appointed a US ambassador in 1881.
Remembering Fayard Nicholas, born on this day in 1914 in Mobile, Alabama. Here he is dancing with his younger brother Harold in the 1943 film "Stormy Weather."
In 1773 Phillis Wheatley became the 2nd American woman to publish a book, & her work fueled international abolitionist politics. This engraving was likely made by Scipio Morehead & included in Wheatley's book with an inscription from author to artist, both of whom were enslaved.
Richard Allen (b. 1760) was an American founder who linked abolition & patriotism & recognized “Black freedom was the true barometer of the success of American democracy.” R. Newman, Freedom’s Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, & the Black Founding Fathers.
The dominant narrative in Latin America is that racism doesn’t exist, but that’s a lie. Here’s why.
October 18, 1926 — Guitarist, Chuck Berry was born in St. Louis, Missouri.
During the American Revolution, tens of thousands of enslaved African Americans sought freedom by aligning with the British -- which is why historian Gary Nash called the American Revolution the largest slave revolt in U.S. history.
James Armistead Lafayette risked his life in the American Revolution to infiltrate British troops & gather intelligence that aided the Patriots’ victory at Yorktown and the founding of the nation. thevalentine.org/rva50-object-5…
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