Picturing Black History

Photographs and stories that changed the world

A Collaboration of

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Stories

Untold stories and rarely seen images of the Black experience

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America's Two Favorite Mammies

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A Sharecropper's Family

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Bombing MOVE

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A Tough Road Uphill

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A Mother's Power

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Booker T. Washington Reframed

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At War with Memory

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Learning in Secret Places

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Love is the Message

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Don't Call it a Riot

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Major Players: Nat King Cole Meets Baseball Legend Orestes Minoso

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African Americans, Anti-Racism, and Cuba

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Remembering Alice Walker's The Color Purple

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The Monument to Patience

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Photographing History in the Making

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Mary McLeod Bethune

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The Revolution of Being

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Martin Delany, Unapologetic African

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The Locked Out

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Busing and School Desegregation

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Workers of the World

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International Networks of the American Civil Rights Struggle

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Poise and Perseverance

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Panthers and the Premiere: Black Internationalism and Cold War China

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Twenty-Two Divided by Seven, at the Tuskegee Institute

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Putting Their Heads Together

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Twice Buried

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Charles Young: The Life of a Soldier

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Wade in the Water

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The Imam of American Islam

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King, Nashville, and Nonviolent Direct Action

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Carter Godwin Woodson

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The Black Fists Protest

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The Gilligan Case: Police Brutality and Civil Rights in Harlem 1964

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Marching Mothers