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Thursday, February 10, 2011

BLACK HISTORY MONTH PEOPLE

NEW AND NOTEWORTHY: Martin Luther King Jr. January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968, (7 IMAGES) and I Have a Dream Address at March on Washington August 28, 1963. Washington, D.C. FULL STREAMING VIDEO

African American - Dr. Charles R. Drew, W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois, Eldridge Cleaver, Dred Scott, James Meredith at the University of Mississippi, 125th St. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, Ebenezer Baptist Church, Carter G. Woodson, Bessye J. Bearden, Garrett Augustus Morgan, Sr., Lewis Howard Latimer, Benjamin Banneker, Malcolm X, Althea Gibson.

African American 2 - Colonel Charles Young, 1st Vote for African Americans, Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C, Marcus Garvey, Central High School Little Rock, Arkansas, Louis Armstrong playing trumpet, Negro farmer plowing his field of four acres, Black Troops at Iwo Jima, Black Father and Child Father's Day.
Portrait of James Weldon Johnson, James Weldon Johnson (June 17, 1871 – June 26, 1938) was a leading American author, poet, early civil rights activist, and prominent figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Johnson composed the lyrics of "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing,"

George Washington Carver, full-length portrait, seated on steps (bottom center), facing front, with staff], He was born into slavery in Newton County, Marion Township, near Diamond Grove, now known as Diamond, Missouri.

Teaching the Negro recruits the use of the minie rifle, wood engraving., CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1863, NOTES: Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 7, 1863 March 14, p. 161

Martin Luther King and Malcolm X waiting for press conference.

Booker T. Washington, half-length portrait, seated at desk, facing right, Booker T. Washington protests Alabama's refusal to permit voting by African-Americans.

TITLE: The shackle broken - by the genius of freedom / lith. and print by E. Sachse & Co.. CALL NUMBER: PGA - Sachse--Shackle broken

A former slave, Mississippi Republican Hiram Revels, becomes first African-American U.S. Senator.

Harriet Tubman, full-length portrait, seated in chair, facing front, probably at her home in Auburn, New York. National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection.

One of a number of highly racist posters issued as part of a smear campaign against Pennsylvania gubernatorial nominee John White Geary by supporters of candidate Hiester Clymer.

Matthew Henson, America's greatest Negro explorer, went to Greenland in 1891, the quest for the North Pole was just taking form.


Sojourner Truth, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left. I sell the shadow to support the substance. African American Odyssey, Picturing African Americans in the Nineteenth Century.

He died for me!, Card showing woman symbolizing America holding wreath over dying Afro-American. From: Album varieties no. 3; The slave in 1863. Philadelphia, 1863.


Seated black soldier with pistol and jacket. Forms part of: Gladstone collection (Library of Congress). PUBLISHED: [between 1860 and 1870]

The Fifteenth Amendment and its results. Another of several large prints commemorating the celebration in Baltimore of the enactment of the Fifteenth Amendment.

The great November contest. Patriotism: versus Bummerism. The strongly racist character of the presidential campaign of 1868 is displayed


The Freedman's Bureau! An agency to keep the Negro in idleness at the expense of the white man.

"Rosa Parks Was Arrested for Civil Disobedience December 1, 1955 - Rosa Parks stood up for what she believed, or rather, sat down for what she believed.

Dred Scott, Wood engaving in 'Century Magazine', 1887.

Jack Johnson, boxer, full-length portrait, standing in ring, facing slightly right.

Frederick Douglass, CALL NUMBER: BIOG FILE - Douglass, Frederick [item] , head and shoulders, facing right.



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