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

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African American woman and child in front of a cabin in Selma, Alabama.


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"Aunt Dora Queen," a midwife in Eufaula, Alabama.

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"Aunt Ann and Uncle Nat."
Description : The postmark date on the back of this postcard is September 1907.

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

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"First photograph ever taken of the first cotton picking machine."
 

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"Git up dar buck."
Description" African American woman with a pair of oxen hitched to a plow.
Date: 1900 circa

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"Negro woman carrying basket of groceries on head. Montgomery."


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"Just [?] Lane."
Description : Young African American man at a picnic for the State Normal School in Montgomery, Alabama. From an album page labeled, "S.N.S. Picnic, Washington Park."
Date: 1926

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"Pals."
Description: Two young African American women holding hands around a pole.
Time Period: 1920-1929

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African American woman dressed up, wearing earrings and a corsage.
Date: 1900 circa

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"Sweethearts."
Description: Young African American couple at a picnic for the State Normal School in Montgomery, Alabama. From an album page labeled, "S.N.S. Picnic, Washington Park."
Date: 1926

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"Uncle" Hardy Bankhead, husband of Kiz Bankhead and formerly enslaved by James Greer Bankhead.
Date: 1930 February 14
 

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I’ll never forget the day when my paternal grandfather told me and my sister that his grandfather was a slave (I’m only four generations from slavery....) These photos should be a daily reminder that slavery was not as far off as cac’s and c00ns make it seem.
Exactly. I saw some documentary showing how slavery was still going on up until the 60s in places throughout the south. It’s not like slaves had access to any information going on outside the plantation to even know slavery was over unless the slave master announced it to them or someone Black from outside the plantation came in. I also didn’t realize the extremely mass amount of free labor is done in prison. Didn’t even realize it’s was California inmates fighting the wildfires in California for basically a dollar a hour... They want us to be enslaved forever.
 
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