Vintage Photographs of Black Americans in the late 1800's - mid 1900's

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some from Texas:

 

[OfTheCross]

the city of Houston was founded by Black people ??

 

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the city of Houston was founded by Black people ??

no

Augustus Chapman Allen - Wikipedia

 

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some from Texas:

Norris Wright Cuney was a real one. Chairman of the Texas Republican party. His takeover of the party spurred white conservative Republicans to kick black folk out during the Lily White Movement. The beginning of the parties' ideological shift.

Some CA representation: Col. Allensworth. Founded the first Black city in California.

Allen Allensworth - Wikipedia

 

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Norris Wright Cuney was a real one. Chairman of the Texas Republican party. His takeover of the party spurred white conservative Republicans to kick black folk out during the Lily White Movement. The beginning of the parties' ideological shift.

facts!

Cuney even coined the term "Lily White"

Some CA representation: Col. Allensworth. Founded the first Black city in California.

Allen Allensworth - Wikipedia

another great

 

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earliest i've seen of him

Even earlier with his mom and aunt (1868)

Mary Silvinia Burghhardt Du Bois, with her sister and infant son William

 

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I was wondering if anyone would notice who he was! I don't want to dox myself here. Vashti married Carl, so no blood relation. My line is from the other John Sr son Daniel Murphy, not Carl.

I did a post on the Murphy’s here:

America's Most Powerful Black Families
Personally know the Chicago clan.

 

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Spoiler

Freedwoman - 1938 - Alabama

An African American man sitting in doorway and holding a horn, April 1939.

Joseph Hayne Rainey was an American politician. He was the first black person to serve in the United States House of Representatives, the second black person to serve in the United States Congress and the first black presiding officer of the House of Representatives.

James C. Napier | Tennessee Encyclopedia

I ran across a rare video of Napier (no sound)

 

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I ran across a picture of Patton's sister and niece

 

[Mystic]

Somebody great great great grandma was a dime

She was gorgeous.

She was married to George Walker.

Aida Overton Walker (14 February 1880 – 11 October 1914), also billed as Ada Overton Walker and as "The Queen of the Cakewalk", was an African-American vaudeville performer, actress, singer, dancer, choreographer, and wife of vaudevillian George Walker. She appeared with her husband and his performing partner Bert Williams, and in groups such as Black Patti's Troubadours. She was also a solo dancer and choreographer for vaudeville shows such as Bob Cole, Joe Jordan, and J. Rosamond Johnson's The Red Moon (1908) and S. H. Dudley's His Honor the Barber(1911). Aida Overton Walker is also well known for her 1912 performance of the “Salome” dance at Hammerstein’s Victoria Theatre. This was Aida’s response to the national “Salamania” craze of 1907 that spread through the white vaudeville circuit.

I'm shooting up the cotton club

 

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"Desmia and Dot."
Description: Two young African American men standing on a beach. From an album page labeled, "Escambia Bay."

not getting a very Harlem vibe from these two...

 

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LOL - Maybe cause they are from Alabama -- and they are brothers.