Hidden Black Histories 3/4

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The Muse Brothers.

According to accounts, the brothers were the grandsons of former slaves and sons of tobacco sharecroppers born in Roanoke, Virginia, in...

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Willie Earle

Willie Earle is shown in a police mug shot. Accused of robbing and killing a white taxi driver, he was lynched by a group of whites in...

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Two men drink from segregated water fountains.

‪ Two men drink from segregated water fountains. Location and date are unspecified. ‬ ‪ •‬In July 1866, after ratifying the Thirteenth...

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Buckwheat

Here is an image of William Thomas, Jr. outside of his role as Buckwheat. Because of the time he grew up, we never had time to see him in...

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Johannesburg, South Africa 1960

Black South African workers are seen as they line up at a pass office to the front counter at a government office to get their new...

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Black Children With The Highest IQ'S

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Sojourner Truth

On May 29, 1851, Sojourner Truth, an abolitionist, and formerly enslaved black woman, addressed a Women’s Rights Convention in Akron,...

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Yusuf Hawkins

Yusuf Hawkins was 16 when he was shot dead in Bensonhurst after being surrounded by a mob of bat-wielding white youths. •On August 23,...

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Rosa Parks

Portrait of Rosa Parks. 1955. ‪ ‪•‬‬After a day at work at Montgomery Fair department store, Rosa Parks boarded the Cleveland Avenue bus...

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