Photos of 1890s-1910s African American life

[talamak]

I see a DEMON in this picture.

 

[cole phelps]

Bump

 

[Black Haven]

I really need to do some digging through my family's history.I betcha I'm bound to find some mind blowing stuff

 

[Black Haven]

Thomas "Blind Tom" Wiggins (May 25, 1849 – June 14, 1908) was an African American musical prodigy on the piano. He had numerous original compositions published and had a lengthy and largely successful performing career throughout the United States. During the 19th century, he was one of the best-known American performing pianists. Although he lived and died before autism was recognized, he is now regarded as an autistic savant.

Before there was Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder our tribe has geniuses on deck

 

[Ol’Otis]

these smug ass o'fays in the back chuckling

 

[Ol’Otis]

I wonder if im in anyway related to anyone in those pics

i'm thinking the same thing

 

[bruistoff]

Black Excellence

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[Asicz]

Yo its ill wjhen you look at notorious neighborhoods and projects like in the South but if you see images of the same places in the 1940s etc. It looks MAD different.

 

[Asicz]

People dressed sharper back then yo

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Before there was Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder our tribe has geniuses on deck

another from around the same time

John William "Blind" Boone (May 17, 1864 – October 4, 1927)





Blind almost from birth, musician and composer John William Boone became one of the most influential performers of his era. With the aid of his manager, John Lange, Boone brought a mixture of classical music, Negro spirituals, and folk songs to the concert stage, breaking color barriers in the time of Jim Crowe. Nobody Plays Like Boone tells the remarkable story of this turn-of-the-century entertainer through his music and the words of his friends from across Missouri and around the world.

 

[staticshock]

I wonder how nikkas talked back then.

they watching from heaven like

look at the photos of the black soldiers..the pride they felt as well as their communities.
now a days we get called toms and c00ns on the coli for being in the military.

 

[Black Haven]

look at the photos of the black soldiers..the pride they felt as well as their communities.
now a days we get called toms and c00ns on the coli for being in the military.

Its mainly TLR, I hardly take anything serious thats posted in this section because, alot posters in this section just say something radical that creates a buzz or just for shyts and giggles.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Booker T. Washington addressing a laughing crowd of African American men in Lakeland, Tennessee, during his campaign promoting African American education. Ca. 1900.

Black and white portrait of Alexander Walters, an American clergyman and noted civil rights leader who was born a slave in Bardstown, Kentucky, just before the Civil War, then rose to become a bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, then president of the National Afro-American Council, the nation's largest civil rights organization, wearing a robe, 1902.

 

[ElMorenoFeo809]

Would love to go back in time and interact with these brehs and brehettes. I wonder what would they think of us today.

 

[Blessings]

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