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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Photographer Arthur Rothstein 1915-1985, Botanist and Inventor George Washington Carver 1864-1943, Library of Congress, 1942

American Botanist and Inventor. Dr. George Washington Carver was born in Diamond Grove, Missouri, around 1864. He is one of the United States' most…

Tags: African-Americans, Agriculturel, Alabama, Botany, Farming, George Washington Carver, Peanuts, Scientists

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

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