Photos of 1890s-1910s African American life

[cole phelps]

It almost scares the day lights out of me knowing that 100 years from now...someone will be looking at our photos and thinking the same way that we are thinking now.

shyts trippy breh

 

[Sane]

also if you wangt to learn about life for blacks around that time i highly recommend you watch this doc. its the GOAT documentary.

Excellent Documentary

 

[Tommy Knocks]

It's amazing how we never lost our swag, it just carried over from africa and continued on, same with music, it's like its encoded in our dna or something.

couple of things I noticed....

1) 2 generations ago people appeared darker skin, and closer to african than we do now.

2) everyone is perming their hair, now if I remember correctly in class, its because of this woman....Madam CJ Walker.

She was the first african american millionaire, the Oprah of that time. She invented relaxer. She was huge back then, and a big influence. People relaxed their hair til the 60s when folks finally started culture revolting, civil rights movement.

5 star thread.

 

[cole phelps]

slave reunion 1916

"This is an incredible piece of history: its a photograph of former slaves taken in 1916. They're over 100 years old at the time the photo was taken. At the time of their birth the industrial revolution was in its infant stage."

 

[cole phelps]

 

[Alex Cross]

A+ thread brehs. Any way we can get prints of these?

 

[cole phelps]

 

[cole phelps]

 

[Blackking]

5 star thread.

11 star, makes you consider madd shyt.

 

[cole phelps]

11 star, makes you consider madd shyt.

thanks breh

 

[cole phelps]

 

[cole phelps]

 

[cole phelps]

African American veterans marching in a Civil War Veteran's parade, New York City, May 30, 1912.

 

[No Sleep]

good stuff

 

[MikelArteta]

dope pictures but these times look boring as hell