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Harvard University, Widener Library, Harvard University, Harvard University, 1920

The Widener Library is the central part of Harvard University's library system. It is the largest university library system in the world. Though it…

Tags: African-Americans, Gutenberg, Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library, Harvard, Harvard Uuniversity, Libraries, Widener Library

Joyce Eng. Co., James Benson Dudley, Library of Congress, July 19 1902

A newspaper sketch of James Benson Dudley, president of The Agricultural and Mechanical College for the Colored Race.

When James Dudley was…

Tags: African-Americans, Agricultural and Mechnical College, Education, Engineering, James Benson Dudley, Jobs

National Archives, Record of Rights - Children Freed By the Union Army 1863, National Archives, 1863

The picture of propriety, two children emancipated by the Union Army in 1863 stare somberly from this cartes-de-visite—an inexpensively reproduced…

Tags: African-Americans, Civil War, Isaac and Rosa, National Archives, Native Americans, Schools, Union Army

Historic Houston Photographs, Carnegie Library, Historic Houston Photographs, 1904

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled. Andrew…

Tags: African-Americans, Andrew Carnegie, Carnegie Library, Houston, Philanthropy, Public Libraries

DeStaffany Custom Art LLC, Alma Smith Jacobs, Librarian, DeStaffany Custom Art LLC, 2016

A black and white photograph of Alma Smith Jacobs, the first African American to serve as Montana State Librarian. Alma Jacobs began her library…

Tags: African-Americans, Alma Smith Jacobs, American Library Association, Civil Rights, Librarian, Montana

Bill Maudlin, For Whom The Bell Tolled, Library of Congress, May 27 1959

Political ‘cartoon’ of Arkansas governor Orval Eugene Faubus being held down by the Liberty Bell. The Bell has been inscribed with “Little Rock School…

Tags: African-Americans, Arkansas, Cartoons, Integration, Little Rock Schools, Orval Eugene Faubus, Racism, Segregation

Unknown, Nannie Burroughs, Woman's National Baptist Convention, Library of Congress, 1905-1915

Nannie Burroughs leading the Woman’s National Baptist Convention with other members of the convention. Nannie Burroughs was an African-American…

Tags: African-Americans, Nannie Burroughs, Training School for Women and Girls, Wages, Women, Women's National Baptist Convention

Pete Souza, President Barack Obama, Pete Souza, 2012

None given

Tags: African-Americans, Barack Obama, Healthcare, Obama, Presidents

Kaitlin Whalen, Booker T. Washington, William H. Johnson, 1944-1945

Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up,…

Tags: African-Americans, Booker T. Washington, Civil Rights, Education, Reformer, Tuskegee

Department of Housing and Urban Development, 1980 - Patricia Roberts Harris, First African American Woman to Serve in the United States Cabinet, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Unknown

Patricia Roberts showed a drive for excellence from a young age. Raised by her mother in Illinois, she received five scholarship offers to college and…

Tags: African-Americans, Ambassador, Cabinet, HHS, Luxembourg, Patricia Roberts Harria, Women

Carl Van Vetchen - Photographer, Robert Berks - Sculptor, Memorial for Mary McLeod Bethune, Educator and Activist, Washington, D.C., Library of Congress, April 6 1949: Photograph, July 10, 1974: Sculpture

Memorial commemorating Mary McLeod Bethune, an educator and activist who made significant contributions to the rights of African Americans. The…

Tags: African-Americans, Civil Rights, Education, Mary McLeod Bethune, Memorial, Women

Institute for Colored Youth, 1869 - Fanny Jackson Coppin, First African-American Female Principle, Institute for Colored Youth, 1869

Portrait image of Fanny Jackson Coppin"Fanny Jackson Coppin (October 15, 1837 – January 21, 1913) was an African American educator...She served as the…

Tags: African-Americans, Education, Fancy Jackson Coppin, School Principal, Women

Unknown, Mary Eliza Mahoney, First African American Nurse 1845-1926, HCR Home Care, Late 1800s

Mary Mahoney was the first African-American woman to study and work as professionally trained nurse. Born in Massachusetts, she was a hospital worker…

Tags: African-Americans, Mary Mahoney, Nursing, Women, Women's Rights

John Phillips, Mississippi Midwives: A Glimpse of Health Care History in the Segregated Community, John Phillips, 1929

These three photos were taken during the summer of 1929 in Indianola and Ruleville, Mississippi. The photos are part of a research project focusing on…

Tags: African-Americans, Ann R. Brown, Health, Healthcare, Mississippi, Racism, Segregation

Charles Henry Alston, A Well Fed Nation is a Fighting Nation - World War II Public Health Initiative, National Archives at College Park, 1943

Charles Alston, an African-American artist and educator, created this drawing in 1943. It shows a strong, healthy family (man, woman, and two…

Tags: African-Americans, Charles Alston, Eating, Health, War, World War II

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE, Benjamin O. Davis Sr., 1st. African American General in the Regular Army & U.S. Armed Forces, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE, No date given

"My own opinion was that blacks could best overcome racist attitudes through achievements, even though those achievements had to take place within the…

Tags: African-Americans, Benjamin O. Davis Sr., General, Military Service, War

John Clifton, 2001 - Colin L. Powell, First African American Secretary ofState, US Department of Defense., 1989

Colin Luther Powell was the 65th United States Secretary of State, serving under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005. He was the first African…

Tags: African-Americans, Colin Powell, Military Service, Secretary of State