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The Whole black family at the Hermitage, Savannah, Ga.

The Whole black family at the Hermitage, Savannah, Ga.

Photograph shows a large family of African Americans posed outside former slave quarters at Hermitage Plantation.

Polaire with negro, her "Black Slave"

Polaire with negro, her "Black Slave"

Public domain photograph related to race relations, African Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Old Negro women living in one of the slum "villages" that used to be slave quarters. Near Christiansted, St. Croix, Virgin Islands

Old Negro women living in one of the slum "villages" that used to be s...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway - Cambridge Fleet at Long Wharf

Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway - Cambridge Fleet at Long Wh...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Original Caption: A clear blue sky and high thin clouds reflect on the smooth waters of the Choptank River while five white-washed hulls lay still as thei... More

Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway - A Greensboro Landscape

Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway - A Greensboro Landscape

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Original Caption: The farm field creates a wide green space somewhere between summer's cultivation and winter's fallow. Location: Location: Greensboro, M... More

Lake Erie Coastal Ohio Trail - Hubbard House Underground Railroad Terminus

Lake Erie Coastal Ohio Trail - Hubbard House Underground Railroad Term...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Original Caption: Built between 1840 and 1841 by William and Catharine Hubbard, this home was a Northern Terminus on the Underground Railroad, providing r... More

Statue of Booker T. Washington "Lifting the Veil of Ignorance," by Charles Keck located at Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama

Statue of Booker T. Washington "Lifting the Veil of Ignorance," by Cha...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

The Oaks, home built for Booker T. Washington and his family in Tuskegee, Alabama

The Oaks, home built for Booker T. Washington and his family in Tuskeg...

The Washington family lived in the house from 1900 - 1925. Most furnishings were made by local craftsmen and students. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Geor... More

FORT BENNING, Ga – Retired Sgt. 1st Class Melvin Morris,

FORT BENNING, Ga – Retired Sgt. 1st Class Melvin Morris,

FORT BENNING, Ga – Retired Sgt. 1st Class Melvin Morris, who earned a Medal of Honor for his valor during the Vietnam War and is one of the first African-American Green Berets, talks to Soldiers Feb. 22 during ... More

Redeemed in Virginia by Catherine S. Lawrence. Baptized in Brooklyn….by Henry Ward Beecher, May, 1863. Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence, a Redeemed Slave Child, 5 years of age.

Redeemed in Virginia by Catherine S. Lawrence. Baptized in Brooklyn….b...

Picryl description: Public domain historical book on American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Old slave market, St. Augustine, Fla.

Old slave market, St. Augustine, Fla.

Stereograph showing Florida slave market. Copyright 1896. No. 761. Public domain photograph of building, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Capt. Vernice Armour stands in front of an exhibit

Capt. Vernice Armour stands in front of an exhibit

Capt. Vernice Armour stands in front of an exhibit at the National Museum of the Marine Corps. Armour was America's first female African American combat pilot and flew the AH1 W SuperCobra in two combat deployments.

Hutson Lee papers advertising sales of slaves in Charleston in 1859 and 1860

Hutson Lee papers advertising sales of slaves in Charleston in 1859 an...

This broadside is one of 15 found in the Hutson Lee papers advertising sales of slaves in Charleston in 1859 and 1860. This broadside advertises a slave auction of 106 slaves held at the slave mart on Chalmers ... More

A report of the trial of Arthur Hodge, Esquire, (late one of the members of His Majesty's Council for the Virgin-Islands) at the island of Tortola, on the 25th April, 1811, and adjourned to the 29th of the same month, for the murder of his Negro man slave named Prosper /

A report of the trial of Arthur Hodge, Esquire, (late one of the membe...

Tried at the Court of Common Pleas, Tortola, Virgin Islands. Shaw & Shoemaker 26592 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

A report of the trial of Arthur Hodge, Esquire, (late one of the members of His Majesty's Council for the Virgin-Islands) at the island of Tortola, on the 25th April, 1811, and adjourned to the 29th of the same month, for the murder of his Negro man slave named Prosper /

A report of the trial of Arthur Hodge, Esquire, (late one of the membe...

Tried at the Court of Common Pleas, Tortola, Virgin Islands. Shaw & Shoemaker 26592 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Slave Markt - A large group of people standing around a harbor

Slave Markt - A large group of people standing around a harbor

Public domain image of a historic view of Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Old slave couple , Mercer county.

Old slave couple , Mercer county.

Public domain illustrated book page scan, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Prospect of the coast from El Mina to Mowri; Negro canoes carrying slaves at Mansrow; Prospect of St. Georges castle at El Mina.

Prospect of the coast from El Mina to Mowri; Negro canoes carrying sla...

Public domain image of a historical view, city, building, cityscape, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Portrait photo of Francis Black, ex-slave, Texarkana

Portrait photo of Francis Black, ex-slave, Texarkana

420249. District no. 27. Picture no. 590. Official project no. 565-3-3. Work project no. 6950(27). Forms part of: Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Administration, Federal Wri... More

Cash! All persons that have slaves to dispose of, will do well by giving me a call, as I will give the highest price for men, women, & children. Any person that wishes to sell, will call at Hill's tavern, or at Shannon Hill for me, and any infor

Cash! All persons that have slaves to dispose of, will do well by givi...

Slaves- Sale. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 186, Folder 27.

Abu Nabut and Negro Slaves in Cairo

Abu Nabut and Negro Slaves in Cairo

Public domain image of Egyptian art, free to use, no copyright restrictions photo - Picryl description

Come one! Come all!. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Come one! Come all!. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Advertising sale of slaves by James L. Coleman, Augusta, Ga., 26 Dec. 1856.

A slave father sold away from his family

A slave father sold away from his family

African-American slave leaving his family. Illus. in: The Child's Anti-Slavery Book..., New York, [1860], frontispiece. Ref. copy may be in SSF - NEGRO SLAVERY AUCTIONS AND TRADE 1860. This record contains unve... More

Live oak and palmetto tree, Elliot's Hilton Head, S.C.

Live oak and palmetto tree, Elliot's Hilton Head, S.C.

Photograph shows two trees and a few men near a cabin or slave quarters, Elliot Plantation. Title is inscribed in ink on the front of the mount. Gladstone's inventory code and notes: M22. Purchase; William A. G... More

Slaves of the rebel Genl. Thomas F. Drayton, Hilton Head, S.C.

Slaves of the rebel Genl. Thomas F. Drayton, Hilton Head, S.C.

Photograph showing a group portrait of African American men and women on a plantation. Date from Gladstone collection checklist. Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113.265) No. "42" inscribed o... More

[A series of statistical charts illustrating the condition of the descendants of former African slaves now in residence in the United States of America] Negro population of the United States compared with the total population of other countries / / Done by Atlanta University.

[A series of statistical charts illustrating the condition of the desc...

Maps show comparison of African American population in the United States with several European countries and Australia. Title from LOT 11931, no. 37; part title from item. Chart prepared by Atlanta University s... More

[A series of statistical charts illustrating the condition of the descendants of former African slaves now in residence in the United States of America] Conjugal condition of American Negroes according to age periods.

[A series of statistical charts illustrating the condition of the desc...

Line graph shows percentage of African American men and women who are single, married, or widowed by age. Title from LOT 11931, no. 37; part title from item. Chart prepared by Atlanta University students for th... More

One room of old Trepagnier plantation house as it is today. This house is now occupied by Negroes. About 100 years ago this was the scene of an uprising on the part of Negro slaves. They were held off by M. Trepagnier until the arrival of military forces which decimated the ranks and paraded the heads on poles through the streets of New Orleans. Norco, Louisiana

One room of old Trepagnier plantation house as it is today. This house...

Public domain photograph of the 1930s-1940s World War Two, armed forces, military production, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Old Negro (former slave) Willis Winn with horn with which slaves were called. Near Marshall, Texas

Old Negro (former slave) Willis Winn with horn with which slaves were ...

Public domain photograph related to race relations, African Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a man sitting on a porch, Texas, during Great Depression

A black and white photo of a man sitting on a porch, Texas, during Gre...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a worker, construction, carpenter, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

CARTER G. WOODSON - TEACHER, HISTORIAN, PUBLISHER

CARTER G. WOODSON - TEACHER, HISTORIAN, PUBLISHER

Carter G. Woodson - with biographical paragraphs. Artworks and Mockups for Cartoons Promoting the War Effort and Original Sketches by Charles Alston

Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway - Yellow Grass and Blue Water at Stewart's Canal

Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway - Yellow Grass and Blue Wate...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Original Caption: With switchgrass gently swaying and blue water flowing, Stewart's Canal and the surrounding landscape provide a scenic stop to contempla... More

Civil Rights Memorial, Montgomery, Alabama

Civil Rights Memorial, Montgomery, Alabama

The Civil Rights Memorial, designed by Maya Lin, is a circular black granite table that chronicles the history of the movement in lines that radiate like the hands of a clock. Water emerges from the table's cen... More

The Oaks, home built for Booker T. Washington and his family in Tuskegee, Alabama

The Oaks, home built for Booker T. Washington and his family in Tuskeg...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Alabama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Paul Delaney, left, and Washington Star colleague Ron

Paul Delaney, left, and Washington Star colleague Ron

Paul Delaney, left, and Washington Star colleague Ron Sarro, far right, interview the late gay civil rights activist Baynard Rustin, center, in 1968 at The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industria... More

Jules Jones, a native of Oakland Ca., an African-American

Jules Jones, a native of Oakland Ca., an African-American

Jules Jones, a native of Oakland Ca., an African-American R&B singer, performs a song called "Survive" during the Joint Base Lewis-McChord Black History Month Observance Ceremony hosted by the 16th Combat Aviat... More

Hutson Lee papers advertising sales of slaves in Charleston in 1859 and 1860

Hutson Lee papers advertising sales of slaves in Charleston in 1859 an...

This broadside is one of 15 found in the Hutson Lee papers advertising sales of slaves in Charleston in 1859 and 1860. This broadside advertises a slave auction of 67 slaves held at Ryan's mart on Chalmers Stre... More

Hutson Lee papers advertising sales of slaves in Charleston in 1859 and 1860

Hutson Lee papers advertising sales of slaves in Charleston in 1859 an...

This broadside is one of 15 found in the Hutson Lee papers advertising sales of slaves in Charleston in 1859 and 1860. This broadside advertises a slave auction of 47 slaves from Christ Church Parish held at Ry... More

Grandchildren of slaves. African-American experience

Grandchildren of slaves. African-American experience

Public domain illustrated book page scan, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sold to go South.

Sold to go South.

Public domain illustrated book page scan, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

View of Cape de Verde; View of the Negro town at Rusisco.

View of Cape de Verde; View of the Negro town at Rusisco.

Public domain scan of 17th-18th century landscape print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

James Singleton Black, ex-slave, 83 years old

James Singleton Black, ex-slave, 83 years old

230016. Written on back: maybe James Singleton. Submitted by Iris England. Forms part of: Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers' Project slave narr... More

[Black slaves working in sugar mill. Hispaniola. Part 5, plate 2]

[Black slaves working in sugar mill. Hispaniola. Part 5, plate 2]

Illus. in: De Bay, Americae...1590. Reference copy may be in E141.B88. Reference copy may be in SSF (Gr) - Plantation crops Sugar, LOT 4410A. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Boutique de la rue du Val-Longo / J.B. Debret, delt. ; lith. de Thierry Frères, succ. de Engelmann & Cie.

Boutique de la rue du Val-Longo / J.B. Debret, delt. ; lith. de Thierr...

Illustration showing interior of slave market. Public domain scan of lithograph illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Esclaves nègres, de différentes nations / J.B. Debret, delt. ; lith. de Thierry Frères, succrs. de Engelmann & Cie.

Esclaves nègres, de différentes nations / J.B. Debret, delt. ; lith. d...

Illustration showing faces of black women slaves from various tribes reflecting different styles of dress and adornment. Illus. in: Voyage pittoresque et historique au Brésil, depuis 1816 jusqu'en 1831 ... / pa... More

Portraits of Hannibal and Cyprian, with vignettes illustrating African character and wrongs

Portraits of Hannibal and Cyprian, with vignettes illustrating African...

An abolitionist print, asserting the nobility of the African peoples and deploring their inhumane treatment under the slave trade. There are two vignettes: "Treatment of the Africans" (top) showing African nati... More

[The battle of Bunker's Hill, June 17th 1775] / [painted by J. Trumbull ; on stone by A. Hoffy]

[The battle of Bunker's Hill, June 17th 1775] / [painted by J. Trumbul...

Print shows British and American soldiers in hand-to-hand combat during the Battle of Bunker Hill; among the soldiers depicted are Major General Joseph Warren, Captain Thomas Gardner, Major Andrew McClary, Colo... More

Common mode of whipping with the paddle

Common mode of whipping with the paddle

Man whipping slave as two other men and a child watch. Illus. in: Trial and imprisonment of Jonathan Walker, at Pensacola, Florida, for aiding slaves to escape from bondage. Boston : Pub. at the Anti-slavery of... More

Mansion of James Hopkinson, Edisto Island, S.C.

Mansion of James Hopkinson, Edisto Island, S.C.

Photograph shows slaves standing in fenced yard and a side view of the Hopkinson house. Title inscribed in ink on front of mount. Gladstone's inventory code and notes: M22; plantation workers in front of mansio... More

The day of Jubelo / E. B. Bensell, pinxt ; photo. and pub. by Phil. Pho. Co., 730 Chestnut St.

The day of Jubelo / E. B. Bensell, pinxt ; photo. and pub. by Phil. Ph...

Photograph shows African Americans (freed slaves?) celebrating in a plantation house, includes couples dancing and children playing. The photograph reproduces a work by the artist Edward Bensell. Entered accor... More

A slave-coffle passing the Capitol

A slave-coffle passing the Capitol

Slaves wearing handcuffs and shackles passing the United States Capitol, around 1815. Illus. in: A popular history of the United States. New York : Scribner, Armstrong, and company, 1876-1881. Reference copy in... More

A couple of women sitting outside of a building. Office of War Information Photograph

A couple of women sitting outside of a building. Office of War Informa...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

Ohio River Scenic Byway - Slave Pen Exhibit

Ohio River Scenic Byway - Slave Pen Exhibit

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Original Caption: National Underground Railroad Freedom Center patrons learn more about a slave pen, which was used to hold slaves being transported furth... More

Mark Peterson of Lakewood, Wash., an African-American

Mark Peterson of Lakewood, Wash., an African-American

Mark Peterson of Lakewood, Wash., an African-American actor with the theater company, Living Voices, plays a role of an 11 year old who joined the revolutionary war during the Joint Base Lewis-McChord Black His... More

The Oaks, home built for Booker T. Washington and his family in Tuskegee, Alabama

The Oaks, home built for Booker T. Washington and his family in Tuskeg...

The Washington family lived in the house from 1900 - 1925. Most furnishings were made by local craftsmen and students. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Geor... More

The Oaks, home built for Booker T. Washington and his family in Tuskegee, Alabama

The Oaks, home built for Booker T. Washington and his family in Tuskeg...

The Washington family lived in the house from 1900 - 1925. Most furnishings were made by local craftsmen and students. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Geor... More

Got your habits on - Public domain sheet music scan
New York State Military Museum librarian James Gandy

New York State Military Museum librarian James Gandy

New York State Military Museum librarian James Gandy surveys one of 2,596 Regimental Personnel Cards containing information on New York National Guard Soldiers who enlisted or reenlisted in the 369th Infantry-... More

Capt. Duwayne Ruffin, Rear-Detachment commander of

Capt. Duwayne Ruffin, Rear-Detachment commander of

Capt. Duwayne Ruffin, Rear-Detachment commander of the 626th Brigade Support Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team “Rakkasans,” 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), educates fifth graders Feb. 22 at Liberty Elem... More

Edmund Brookins, a member of the Cherry Point chapter

Edmund Brookins, a member of the Cherry Point chapter

Edmund Brookins, a member of the Cherry Point chapter of the Montford Point Marine Association, poses for a photo with Master Sgt. Johnnie Thompkins Jr., one of the first African Americans to enlist in the Mari... More

Coast Guard members and civilian employees sample foods

Coast Guard members and civilian employees sample foods

Coast Guard members and civilian employees sample foods from black culture around the world after the black history month celebration at Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington, D.C., Feb. 21, 2019. The theme of... More

Chief Master Sgt. Jack Johnson Jr., U.S. Africa Command

Chief Master Sgt. Jack Johnson Jr., U.S. Africa Command

Chief Master Sgt. Jack Johnson Jr., U.S. Africa Command command senior enlisted leader, speaks to the audience at the Black History Month luncheon at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, Feb. 19, 2013. The luncheon hono... More

Hutson Lee papers advertising sales of slaves in Charleston in 1859 and 1860

Hutson Lee papers advertising sales of slaves in Charleston in 1859 an...

This broadside is one of 15 found in the Hutson Lee papers advertising sales of slaves in Charleston in 1859 and 1860. This broadside advertises a slave auction of 44 slaves from St. Johns Berkeley held at the ... More

Hutson Lee papers advertising sales of slaves in Charleston in 1859 and 1860

Hutson Lee papers advertising sales of slaves in Charleston in 1859 an...

This broadside is one of 15 found in the Hutson Lee papers advertising sales of slaves in Charleston in 1859 and 1860. This broadside advertises a slave auction of 158 slaves held at the slave mart on Chalmers ... More

Charley, a slave boy from New Orleans / Chas. Paxson, photographer, N.Y.

Charley, a slave boy from New Orleans / Chas. Paxson, photographer, N....

Photograph shows a full-length portrait of freed slave, Charles Taylor, sitting, facing front. The United States flag is draped on the floor next to him.

Old Negro [former slave] with horn with which slaves were called; Near Marshall, Texas.

Old Negro [former slave] with horn with which slaves were called; Near...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a worker, construction, carpenter, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Glass cup in the shape of a negro head

Glass cup in the shape of a negro head

Glass objects, Roman Empire. Public domain photograph of archaeological object, Roman Empire, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Colored individuals along the road side

Colored individuals along the road side

Drawing shows an African American slave woman leaning against a split rail fence along with three children. She says, "Oh I so glad you come, 'massa says he wish you were in da bottom of the sea--but you ain't ... More

Runaway reward poster, Washington DC
Slave pen, Alexandria, Virginia / negative by William R. Pywell ; positive by A Gardner.

Slave pen, Alexandria, Virginia / negative by William R. Pywell ; posi...

Photograph showing exterior view of Price, Birch & Co., dealers in slaves. Address: 1315 Duke St., Alexandria, Virginia. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington... More

Mansion of the rebel Genl. Thomas F. Drayton, Hilton Head, S.C.

Mansion of the rebel Genl. Thomas F. Drayton, Hilton Head, S.C.

Photograph showing African American slave women and Union soldiers outside Drayton's house. Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113.272). Gladstone's note: M22.

A poster with a man and a woman facing each other. Racial segregation racism black.

A poster with a man and a woman facing each other. Racial segregation ...

A poster for campaign / A poster for the two platforms - public domain stock photo.

[A series of statistical charts illustrating the condition of the descendants of former African slaves now in residence in the United States of America] Comparative rate of increase of the white and Negro elements of the population of the United States / / Done by Atlanta University.

[A series of statistical charts illustrating the condition of the desc...

Line graph shows comparison of African American to white populations between 1790 and 1890. Title from LOT 11931, no. 37; part title from item. Chart prepared by Atlanta University students for the Negro Exhibi... More

Great Lakes Seaway Trail - Harriet Tubman

Great Lakes Seaway Trail - Harriet Tubman

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Original Caption: This black-and-white photo shows Harriet Tubman posed, standing with her hands perched on a chair. Tubman was the most famous conductor ... More

Grave of Booker T. Washington located at Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, Alabama

Grave of Booker T. Washington located at Tuskegee University, Tuskegee...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Civil Rights Memorial, Montgomery, Alabama

Civil Rights Memorial, Montgomery, Alabama

The Civil Rights Memorial, designed by Maya Lin, is a circular black granite table that chronicles the history of the movement in lines that radiate like the hands of a clock. Water emerges from the table's cen... More

Lt. Col. Kirt R Boston, 793rd Military Police Battalion

Lt. Col. Kirt R Boston, 793rd Military Police Battalion

Lt. Col. Kirt R Boston, 793rd Military Police Battalion commander, the Rev. Joe W. Blackburn, guest speaker, and Col. Adam W. Lange, U.S. Army Alaska‚ deputy commander, pose for a photo after Fort Wainwright's ... More

A black and white photo of two women. Freedmen's bureau black history genealogy.

A black and white photo of two women. Freedmen's bureau black history ...

Find the best copyright-free images of beautiful women. Download all photos, art posters, and prints: images you can use without copyright restrictions, even for commercial purpose.

It's ROTC for me - one cadet's story

It's ROTC for me - one cadet's story

Kentucky State University Cadet Trae Walker hopes his experience as a history major, enlisted Soldier and future officer will allow him to be a leader in a more welcoming and inclusive Army.

Chief Warrant Officer 4 Phillip Brashear, a U.S. Army

Chief Warrant Officer 4 Phillip Brashear, a U.S. Army

Chief Warrant Officer 4 Phillip Brashear, a U.S. Army Reserve command chief warrant officer for the 80th Training Command, walks up the steps of the Dudley Memorial Building with his son, Tyler Brashear, an ROT... More

Pastor France A Davis, a notible civil rights activist

Pastor France A Davis, a notible civil rights activist

Pastor France A Davis, a notible civil rights activist who marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the Civil Rights movement, speaks to members of the Utah Air National Guard to honor Black History Month... More

Airman 1st Class AnnAleada Whitehead, a personnelist,

Airman 1st Class AnnAleada Whitehead, a personnelist,

Airman 1st Class AnnAleada Whitehead, a personnelist, or human resource specialist assigned to the 180th Fighter Wing, Ohio Air National Guard, discusses African American History Month. Air National Guard photo... More

U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Ronald E. Jolly Sr., U.S.

U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Ronald E. Jolly Sr., U.S.

U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Ronald E. Jolly Sr., U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air Forces Africa logistics, engineering and force protection director, signs a message board during the Juneteenth: Vigil for Healin... More

SASEBO, Japan (Feb. 21, 2018) Lt. j.g. Yusuf Abdullah

SASEBO, Japan (Feb. 21, 2018) Lt. j.g. Yusuf Abdullah

SASEBO, Japan (Feb. 21, 2018) Lt. j.g. Yusuf Abdullah speaks at the Commander, Fleet Activities Sasebo Black History Month celebration Feb. 21, 2018. The event featured presentations, readings and a speaker wit... More

[Slave quarters on a plantation, possibly in Beaufort, South Carolina]

[Slave quarters on a plantation, possibly in Beaufort, South Carolina]

Photograph shows African Americans standing next to the slave houses, Port Royal, South Carolina. (Source: similar Brady negative: LC-B811-211 and researcher M. P. Higgins, 2018) Photographer name from negativ... More

I am a Patriot d- me Sir and I will be a Patriot ..., British Cartoon Print

I am a Patriot d- me Sir and I will be a Patriot ..., British Cartoon ...

Cartoon shows Charles James Fox, an English patriot, standing among a group that includes a small child, an old woman, a slave, and a shoeshiner. This cartoon is an apparent attack on the British Opposition to ... More

Emancipation. And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves, within designated states and parts of States are, and henceforeward [sic] shall be free! [J. L. Magee copy of the Emancipation Proclamation.]

Emancipation. And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid...

Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Nursery at Elliot's Plantation, Hilton Head, S.C.

Nursery at Elliot's Plantation, Hilton Head, S.C.

Photograph shows slaves sitting in from of a building described at the "nursery". Gladstone's inventory code and notes: M22. Edge loss on the upper right corner of the mount. Title is inscribed in ink on the f... More

[2nd South Carolina Infantry Regiment raid on rice plantation, Combahee, South Carolina, and escaped slave named Gordon]

[2nd South Carolina Infantry Regiment raid on rice plantation, Combahe...

Top illustration shows slaves escaping to a Union ship as buildings burn in the distance. Three bottom illustrations show an escaped slave in tattered clothing upon his crossing of Union lines, welts from being... More

Whitaker family / photographed by J.A. Palmer, Aiken, S.C.

Whitaker family / photographed by J.A. Palmer, Aiken, S.C.

Photo shows a large African American family of mostly women and children, gathered around the porch of a log and clapboard cabin, with wood shingle roof and stone chimney, and a large cauldron in the foreground... More

[John Brown, 1800-1859, bust portrait, facing right in memorial frame]

[John Brown, 1800-1859, bust portrait, facing right in memorial frame]

Frame includes words "The Just man shall be in eternal remembrance -- Gave his life for the liberation of the slave."

[A series of statistical charts illustrating the condition of the descendants of former African slaves now in residence in the United States of America] Proportion of freemen and slaves among American Negroes.

[A series of statistical charts illustrating the condition of the desc...

Line graph shows percentage of African Americans in slavery between 1790 and 1870. Title from LOT 11931, no. 37; part title from item. Chart prepared by Atlanta University students for the Negro Exhibit of the ... More

[The Georgia Negro] Slaves and free Negroes. - Exposition Universelle Internationale de 1900, Paris

[The Georgia Negro] Slaves and free Negroes. - Exposition Universelle ...

Graph shows percentage of enslaved African Americans compared to free African Americans from 1790 to 1870. Title from LOT 11931, no. 1; part title from item. Chart prepared by Du Bois for the Negro Exhibit of t... More

[A series of statistical charts illustrating the condition of the descendants of former African slaves now in residence in the United States of America] Proportion of total Negro children of school age who are enrolled in the public schools.

[A series of statistical charts illustrating the condition of the desc...

Bar graph shows percentage of African Americans enrolled in public schools between 1876 and 1896. Title from LOT 11931, no. 37; part title from item. Chart prepared by Atlanta University students for the Negro ... More

Robert Richardson, miner, arrested for breaking and entering a marine store

Robert Richardson, miner, arrested for breaking and entering a marine ...

Name: Robert Richardson.Arrested for: not given.Arrested at: North Shields Police Station.Arrested on: 18 November 1907.Tyne and Wear Archives ref: DX1388-1-117-Robert Richardson..For an image of his accomplice... More

Negroes at Gees Bend, Alabama. Descendants of former slaves of the Pettway Plantation. They are still living under very primitive conditions on the plantation

Negroes at Gees Bend, Alabama. Descendants of former slaves of the Pet...

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Negroes at Gees Bend, Alabama. Descendants of slaves of the Pettway plantation. They are still living very primitively on the plantation

Negroes at Gees Bend, Alabama. Descendants of slaves of the Pettway pl...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Alabama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway - Cars Parked Before Buildings in Historic Downtown Cambridge

Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway - Cars Parked Before Buildin...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Original Caption: Restaurants, shops, art galleries, museums, and accommodations line Race Street in Historic Downtown Cambridge. The town's architecture ... More

Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway - Standing Before the Harriet Tubman Organization Mural

Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway - Standing Before the Harrie...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Original Caption: The Harriet Tubman Organization's president, Donald Pinder, stands before a vibrant, folk art mural depicting Tubman's life. Location: ... More

Woodward Avenue (M-1) - Automotive Heritage Trail - Red Wings Victory Parade down Woodward Avenue

Woodward Avenue (M-1) - Automotive Heritage Trail - Red Wings Victory ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Original Caption: Through a canyon of skyscrapers one can see the 2008 Red Wings Stanley Cup Victory Parade and some of the 1million people that came to c... More

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