1,372 Free Photos of African American History

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These children were turned out of the St. Lawrence Hotel, Chestnut St., Philadelphia, on account of color - J. E. McClees, artist, 910 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. LCCN2010647868
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CH-NB - USA, Cincinnati-OH- Menschen - Annemarie Schwarzenbach - SLA-Schwarzenbach-A-5-10-100
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803rd Pioneer Infantry Battalion on the U.S.S. Philippine (troop ship) from Brest harbor, France, July 18, 1919). no. 29 LCCN2010651612
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180517-N-ZG607-0051 - LT Pamela Resurreccion, USN
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CH-NB - USA, Cincinnati-OH- Menschen - Annemarie Schwarzenbach - SLA-Schwarzenbach-A-5-10-098
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Redeemed in Virginia by Catharine S. Lawrence. Baptized in Brooklyn, at Plymouth Church, by Henry Ward Beecher, May 1863. Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence, a redeemed slave child, 5 years LCCN2010647882
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Harvard Theatre Collection - Horace Weston TCS 1.1073 - cropped
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Scrappper: Truck loaded with scrap metal is weighed on platform scale before being unloaded in wholesale junkyard during the salvage campaign, Victory Program. Washington, D.C. May 1942.
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African American woman identified as Aunt Fannie, servant of the Lott family) - Fredricks & O'Neil, Fifth Avenue Photograph Gallery, 179 Fifth Avenue, New York ; L.D. Fredricks ; John LCCN2017660617
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Photograph of an unidentified African-American youth with a wreath at the entrance to the Lincoln Memorial, during... - NARA - 199492
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CH-NB - USA, Charleston-SC- Menschen - Annemarie Schwarzenbach - SLA-Schwarzenbach-A-5-11-165
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CH-NB - USA, Charleston-SC- Menschen - Annemarie Schwarzenbach - SLA-Schwarzenbach-A-5-11-186
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James Johnson, Vicksburg, MIssissippi, can tell you what a Red Cross canteen meant to him. - NARA - 533566
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Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. (A male marcher.) - NARA - 542034
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171207-N-BB261-0072 - Framed photograph of the late CPO Joseph George, USN
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Company of (African American) troops that make up labor battalion, Governor's Island, New York. - NARA - 533589
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CH-NB - USA, Charleston-SC- Menschen - Annemarie Schwarzenbach - SLA-Schwarzenbach-A-5-11-163
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CH-NB - USA, Charleston-SC- Menschen - Annemarie Schwarzenbach - SLA-Schwarzenbach-A-5-11-185
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CH-NB - USA, Charleston-SC- Menschen - Annemarie Schwarzenbach - SLA-Schwarzenbach-A-5-11-164
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Farm Aid: A Home supervisor writing out a check for a FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower. Saint Mary's County, Maryland. September 1940.
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Hot All Nite: Young man with his bicycle on 47th Street, Chicago, Illinois, 1941.
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803rd Pioneer Infantry Battalion on the U.S.S. Philippine (troop ship) from Brest harbor, France, July 18, 1919). U.S.S. Philippine LCCN2010651621
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803rd Pioneer Infantry Battalion on the U.S.S. Philippine (troop ship) from Brest harbor, France, July 18, 1919). U.S.S. Philippine LCCN2010651616
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Full-length portrait of a soldier, identified in inscription as Pvt. C. Kelsey, Company C, 152nd New York Volunteers) - J.P. Ball, 30 W. 4th St LCCN2010647782
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CH-NB - USA, Charleston-SC- Menschen - Annemarie Schwarzenbach - SLA-Schwarzenbach-A-5-11-168
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Lieutenant Jimmie (James Reese) Europe and his famous jazz band of the 369th (African American) Infa . . . - NARA - 533521
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Freezing Down: Stevedores along the riverfront in Saint Louis, Missouri, January 1939.
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Celluloid Palace: Scene outside a movie theater on the Southside of Chicago, Illinois. April 1941.
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Young couple moving in at Homesteads built as part of the New Deal housing and work programs. Newport News, Virginia, 1937.
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Photograph of a color guard of black children holding flags and a wreath at the entrance to the Lincoln Memorial. - NARA - 199491
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... women employed at Savannah Quartermaster Depot, Savannah, Georgia., ca. 1943 - NARA - 522887
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Hazel Scott on December 17, 1943 playing at Naval Station Great Lakes - 80-G-294759 (28080175326) (cropped)
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Hall Monitor: The corridor between classes at Central High School. A teacher watching to see that the students keep in order. Charlotte Court House, Virginia, June 1943
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803rd Pioneer Infantry Battalion on the U.S.S. Philippine from Brest harbor, France, July 18, 1919). no. 16, 803rd Pioneer Infantry band LCCN98501232
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Country residence (Idle Hour) for William K. and Alva Vanderbilt, Oakdale, Long Island, New York). (Kitchen and servants' rooms addition). (Elevation) - Richard M. Hunt, architect, New LCCN2010647867
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803rd Pioneer Infantry Battalion on the U.S.S. Philippine (troop ship), from Brest harbor, France, July 18, 1919). no. 14, Bugler's blues LCCN2010651610
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Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence, a redeemed slave child, 5 years of age ... - R. S. De Lamater, photographer, 258 Main St., 3 doors above Post Office, Hartford, CT. LCCN2010647886
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PO2 (SW) Mendoza, USN
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Fort Stewart, Georgia. Female Crew Chief. SP4 Debbie Bonillia, 132d Avn Company, is a Crew Chief for the Army CH47... - NARA - 531468
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Kaiser's picture as a talisman. Corporal Fred McIntyre, known as Devil's Man, just returned with 36 . . . - NARA - 533516
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Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. (Women marchers.) - NARA - 542013
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Children from Miner Normal School
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James Henry Lane (1814-1866), politician and leader of the Free State Party of Kansas, full-length portrait, with gun) - from photographic negative, from Brady's National Portrait Gallery LCCN2010647936
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Vanguard of new york conscripts arrive at Camp Upton, Long Island. One thousand-nine hundred-forty . . . - NARA - 533526
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Admiral John Richardson with navy sailors, March 2018
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Charles Smoot family in front of house 1908 (3196829950)
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170421-N-LI768-058 - CAPT Mark A. Melson, USN
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Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. (Leaders marching.) - NARA - 542001
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Coosa Valley, Alabama. Interior of FSA temporary home occupied by (African-American) tenant. - NARA - 522639
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Negro sailors of the USS MASON commissioned at Boston Navy Yard 20 March 1944 proudly look over their ship which is... - NARA - 520644
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Domestic servants waiting for a streetcar on their way to work early in the morning. Mitchell Street, Atlanta, Georgia 1939.
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Quartermaster Corps Band, Knights of Columbus Hall, Camp Taylor, Louisville, Kentucky. - NARA - 533591
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Virginia, Petersburg, Fancy Group, Army of the Potomac - NARA - 533350
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A FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower building a new gate for his yard. Prairie Farms, Montgomery, Alabama, 1939.
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Corner Pockets: Portrait of a man on the corner of 44th and State Streets, Chicago, Illinois, 1941.
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Famous New York (African American) soldiers return home. Lieutenant James Reese Europe, for years S . . . - NARA - 533575
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Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence, a redeemed slave child, five years of age as she appeared when found in slavery. Redeemed in Virginia by Catharine (i.e., Catherine) S. Lawrence; baptized LCCN2010651630
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Jesse L. Berch, quartermaster sergeant, 22 Wisconsin Regiment of Racine, Wis. (and) Frank M. Rockwell, postmaster 22 Wisconsin of Geneva, Wis. - J. P. Ball's Photographic Gallery, No. 30 LCCN2008678814
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Slave pen of Price, Birch and Co., Alexandria, Va - NARA - 529226
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Soldiers of the 93rd Infantry Division (United States) Cautiously advancing through the jungle, while on patrol in Japanese territory off the Numa-Numa Trail - NARA - 531184 (cropped)
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Cannon mounted in the camp of Duryea's and Bainbridge's Batteries, 15th Arkansas Confederate Infantry, Port Hudson, Louisiana) - photographed by McPherson & Oliver, Baton Rouge, La LCCN2010647765
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Cannon mounted in the camp of Duryea's and Bainbridge's Batteries, 15th Arkansas Confederate Infantry, Port Hudson, Louisiana) - photographed by McPherson & Oliver, Baton Rouge, La LCCN2010647766
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803rd Pioneer Infantry Battalion on the U.S.S. Philippine (troop ship) from Brest harbor, France, July 18, 1919). no. 2(...), Sun bath, U.S.S. Philippine LCCN2010651615
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But Not Forgotten: Decorating a soldier's grave in one of the Black sections of Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day. Arlington, Virginia. May 1943.
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Children on the steps of Mrs. Brown's home. FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower on Prairie Farms, Montgomery, Alabama, 1939.
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803rd Pioneer Infantry Battalion on the U.S.S. Philippine (troop ship) from Brest harbor, France, July 18, 1919). no. 3, 803rd P. Inf. Band LCCN2010651609
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-... troops in Burma stop work briefly to read President Truman's Proclamation of Victory in Europe.-, 05-09-1945 - NARA - 531341
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Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. (Leaders of the march leading marchers down the street.) - NARA - 542003
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Fighting with the 2nd Infantry Division north of the Chongchon River, Sergeant First Class Major Cleveland, weapons... - NARA - 531389
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Full-length portrait of unidentified civil war soldier standing next to a table) - J.P. Ball's Photographic Gallery, No. 30 West 4th St., between Main and Walnut Streets, Cincinnati, O LCCN2010647783
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The Junk Park, Camp Devens, Massachusetts. - NARA - 533620
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Bridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural workers' camp. The children are discouraged from going to the fields, but told to stay around camp where they can play safely. July 1942.
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Negro draftees ready for service. Lexington, Kentucky. - NARA - 533545
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Two-story building with U.S. flag flying from second floor, possibly used as Freedmen's quarters) - J. D. Heywoods photographic rooms, Craven St., 3d door South PO, New Berne, N.C LCCN2010647739
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Types of national Army men from El Dorado, Arkansas. Group of National Army men taken from El Dorad . . . - NARA - 533558
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Black soldier, Indian war period, Infantry, Co. D with shoulder knots, holding noncom sword, wearing aiguelette, crossed rifles with D on kepi, white gloves plus 3 service stripes (i.e. 15 LCCN2010650832
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Surprise Valley Farm, Arthur Curtiss James property, Beacon Hill Road, Newport, Rhode Island. Courtyard with wagon and team and African American workman LCCN00651310
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Workplace Democracy: Election of officers to the Ford local 600, United Automobile Workers, Congress of Industrial Organizations. 80,000 River Rouge Ford plant workers voted, April 1942.
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Mrs. Sam Crawford helps with tobacco harvesting on her husband's farm in Maryland., 10-08-1943 - NARA - 532819
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Captain Thomas C. Lebo, 10th Cavalry, wearing officers dress uniform) - J. C. H. Grabill, official photographer of the Black Hills & F. P. R. R., & Home Stake Mining Co., Studios, Deadwood LCCN2010645140
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803rd Pioneer Infantry Battalion on the U.S.S. Philippine (troop ship), from Brest harbor, France, July 18, 1919) no. 15, Part of 4000 troops on U.S.S. Philippine LCCN2010651618
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Post war soldier wearing white cross belt, oval US buckel, double breasted coat, epaulets, shako red, white and blue pompom, holding 45-70 rifle with fixed bayonet, wearing gloves, painted LCCN2010650829
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Evicted: State highway officials moving evicted Black sharecroppers away from roadside to area between the levee and the Mississippi River. New Madrid County, Missouri, 1938.
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Lieut. Governor Dunn, La - NARA - 527896
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The head of the nation's nightmare - see what dreams may come from too free an indulgence in the pipe of peace (caricature of Ulysses S. Grant in bed dreaming; visions of African American LCCN2001696524
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Eloy District, Pinal County, Arizona. (African-American) cotton pickers ready to go to work in the f . . . - NARA - 522021
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Workin' on the Railroad: Portrait of Abbie Caldwell, employed in the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad yard to clean out potash cars. Clovis, New Mexico. March 1943.
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Largest Murder Trial in the History of the United States. Scene during Court Martial of 64 members . . . - NARA - 533485
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So Long the Road: Portrait of an elderly cotton sharecropper in Mississippi, June 1937. She was born 'two years before the surrender' (In 1863, two years before the end of the Civil War).
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Crowds waiting for the parade of the famous 369th (African American) Infantry, formerly 15th New Yor . . . - NARA - 533517
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15th Infantry fighters home with War Crosses. French liner La France arrives with 15th Infantry . . . - NARA - 533550
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Photograph of a Demonstrator at the Civil Rights March on Washington - NARA - 542029
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... troops in Burma stop work briefly to read President Truman's Proclamation of Victory in Europe. - NARA - 531341
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Harmony Community, Putnam County, Georgia.... Negroes in the Harmony Community. - NARA - 521373
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An MP on motorcycle stands ready to answer all calls around his area. Columbus, Georgia - NARA - 531136restoredh
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Near Buckeye, Maricopa County, Arizona. Sister of cotton picker. - NARA - 522541
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A Dollar a Day: Turpentine worker's family near Cordele, Alabama. Father's wages one dollar a day. This is the standard of living the turpentine trees support July 1936.
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Women in war. Supercharger plant workers. Plant foremen regard 20-year-old Annie Tabor as one of their best lathe operators, despite her lack of previous industrial experience. October 1942.
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