Browse Items (18 total)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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