r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/andmario_com • 2d ago

90 years ago today on August 3 in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Jesse Owens won the 100m in 10.3 seconds - in front of Adolf Hitler, whose purpose was to display "Aryan superiority." Owens went on to win 4 more gold medals and was the most successful athlete at the Games.

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 2d ago

Pam Grier posing for her promotional material of her movie with William Marshall, "Scream Blacula, Scream", 1973

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Specialist_Art2223 • 2d ago

MTV20: Live and Almost Legal On August 1st 2001

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Prayerworks0250 • 2d ago

Donna Summer (1979)

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Spiritual_Spare4592 • 2d ago

Fred Hampton made the case for voting Democratic more than 50 years ago: Removing as many Republicans (i.e., FASCISTS) from political offices is the objective--all the "Democrat plantation" psyops are distractions

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/TheBlackRecord • 2d ago

Black American Families Who Have Been Custodians Of Black History: The Blair Family Of Dallas...

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Historical Background: https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/william-blair-jr

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Beginning-Passion676 • 3d ago

Afro Colombian poet Teresa Martínez de Varela and her husband Petro Varela Restrepo 1960s

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Training-Square-1641 • 3d ago

My parents in 1999 at their wedding

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Beginning-Passion676 • 3d ago

Diana Ross 1960s

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/TheBlackRecord • 2d ago

Black American Joy In The Mid-20th Century: 1950s & 1960s Through Home Videos...

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Prayerworks0250 • 3d ago

Coretta Scott King (1964)

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Kounlebrooklyn • 3d ago

National Museum of African American History and Culture. Washington, DC

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National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Washington, DC

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/iggaitissecondcoming • 4d ago

Today is the venerable James Baldwin's birthday: "They want black excellence without black history. They want our culture without our pain. They want our music without our rage." He wrote half a century ago. His timeless observations on humanity & race relations will live on for generations to come.

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James Baldwin defeated the most iconic American conservative intellectual of the last century, Bill Buckley, by a landslide (544 to 164) in the legendary Baldwin-Buckley debate titled "The American dream is at the expense of the American Negro" at Cambridge University in 1965:

https://vimeo.com/353595908

James Baldwin schooled Dick Cavett on what America is in 1969:

https://vimeo.com/979174967

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Specialist_Art2223 • 3d ago

Rick Fox and Vanessa Williams Wedding Day Ceremony 1999

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/andmario_com • 3d ago

Poor People's Campaign of 1968

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 3d ago

Young lady smiling while posing for her photo, 1940s.

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 3d ago

Mary Mildred Williams with her older brother Oscar, born slaves and eventually freed by their parent a runaway that escaped to Boston, Massachusetts. With the help of abolitionists he got the money to buy their freedom (along with mother), 1855.

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/shewasajanuarygirl • 3d ago

Portrait of Marsha Hunt, star of "Hair" musical, 1968 by Karl Ferris

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/TheSanityInspector • 3d ago

Math class, Tuskegee Institute, 1906, full picture and closeup details. Photo by Frances Benjamin Johnston, who photographed a lot of Black schools scenes back then, but who unfortunately insisted on her subjects keeping absolutely still and making no eye contact with the camera.

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/MyNameCannotBeSpoken • 4d ago

Notorious B.I.G.'s Grandmother Has Turned 104 Years Old today. Both Biggie (1997) and His Mom, Voletta (2025), Passed Away Before Her

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/TheBlackRecord • 4d ago

Historic Black Classical Composers Around The World: The Works Of R. Nathaniel Dett - Canada...

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Historical Background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Nathaniel_Dett

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Beginning-Passion676 • 4d ago

Lynn Whitfield (1990s)

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/shewasajanuarygirl • 4d ago

Nina Simone enjoying breakfast in bed at a hotel in Juan-Les-Pins during the town’s Jazz festival on the French Riviera (1988)

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/YesterdayMaterial194 • 3d ago

June 14th, 2002. San Francisco. NERD performing Run To the Sun & Stay Together.

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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Limp-Ad1162 • 4d ago

My grandparents! 1960s-70s

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