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Primary source documents pertaining to the Black experience in America's cities. SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED. See also: @60sto70sto80s

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SCANS FROM MY 1957 WRENS COLORED HIGH SCHOOL YEARBOOK FROM WRENS, GEORGIA *THREAD*
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DC-based poet Gil Scott-Heron shows off his side of the city, the side most outsiders may not know about (1982)
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Washington DC (1948). In the Shadow of the Capitol, photographed by Marion Palfi.
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An elite Washington, DC family (circa 1900)
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Baltimore, Maryland (1973). Bikers take a break in Druid Hill Park. Photographed by Roland L. Freeman.
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Students at Morgan State University (1963)
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A girl sitting outside a park near Union Station, Washington DC (1943).
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Los Angeles, California (1939). A couple hits the dance floor for a jitterbug competition.
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Some hair from my 1990 Forest Park High School yearbook in West Baltimore
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Chesapeake Bay, Maryland (1905). Women picking crabs for the market.
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taken at a soul club in NYC, by David Reed (1973)
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A profile on Gloria, a 22-year-old single mother who decided to occupy an abandoned home in Southwest Philly. Here, she discusses her story, process, and reasoning:
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Young girls take a swim at Druid Hill Park, Baltimore (1949)
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THE ORAL ACCOUNTS OF THE FORMERLY ENSLAVED LIVING IN MARYLAND (late 1930s) *THREAD*:
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North Philadelphia (1989/90). Photographed by Eugene Richards.
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Columbia Heights, Washington DC (1965). Couples enjoy a night out at the Black-owned Pitts Motor Inn Lounge. Photographed by Eric Bard.
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Prince George's County, Maryland (1988). Taraji P. Henson's senior yearbook photo at Oxon Hill High School.
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Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn (1983). A summer block party on Madison Ave btwn Tompkins Ave & Throop Ave. Photographed by Robert Madden of National Geographic.
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taken in Flatbush, Brooklyn (1980) shot by Jamel Shabazz
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Harlem, Manhattan (1983). A 17-yr-old Dez TFP, also known as DJ Kay Slay, painting a car at a train yard. Photographed by Martha Cooper.
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Young girls clean up their block, somewhere in Baltimore, Maryland (1935)
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Crown Heights, Brooklyn (1973). Skaters enjoy themselves at the Empire Roller Rink on Empire Blvd & Bedford Ave. Photographed by Peter Simins.
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Philadelphia (1984). In the 1980s, Philly was home to about 40k abandoned houses, and thousands of ppl in need of housing. As a response, Philadelphians made an organized effort to solve the housing problem by squatting. *THREAD*
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Washington, DC (1920s). Howard University students watching a football game, photographed by Addison Scurlock.
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An elderly couple in Hampton, Virginia (1898)
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Prince George's County, Maryland (1940). A man enrolled in the Civilian Conservation Corps paves a road in Beltsville. The CCC was a gov't agency that employed men btwn 18-25 to work on America's public lands, forests, and parks.
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Baltimore, Maryland (1980s). Black visitors of a flea market discuss their opinions on the opposite gender of the decade.
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United States of Attica by Faith Ringgold (1972), a map detailing many Indigenous, slave, and immigrant uprisings in each state since the 1700s and dedicated to the men who died during the 1971 Attica prison riots in upstate NY.
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Harlem, Manhattan (1980). The staff of Sylvia's Restaurant, the world-famous soul food staple in the neighborhood. Photographed by Carol Highsmith.
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Baltimore, Maryland (1940s). A street scene, photographed by Bradley Smith.
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Portraits of the Tuskeegee Airmen of Baltimore, Maryland (1944)
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West Baltimore, Maryland (1956). Churchgoers at the Lexington Terrace housing project pose for the camera on Palm Sunday.
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Glass factory workers in Alexandria, Virginia (1911)
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Washington, DC (1920s). A photo of the Howard Players of Howard University, the oldest Black student acting group in America. Photographed by Addison Scurlock.
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Teenagers having fun at Druid Hill Park, Baltimore (1950)
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A woman posing with tobacco leaves near Washington, DC (1899). Tobacco was a staple crop in Maryland and Virginia from the 17th to 19th centuries.
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East Baltimore, Maryland (1968). A boy spray paints "BLACK POWER" on Harford Road during the riots after the death of Dr. King.
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St. Mary's County, Maryland (1940). A woman using a pressure cooker in her kitchen to can corn.
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Hampton, Virginia (circa 1900). Louis Firetail, of the Sioux Crow Creek tribe in South Dakota, visits an American History class at Hampton University.
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Hampton, Virginia (1935). Young children learn math from a student teacher at the Whittier School, the practice teaching ground at Hampton U. Many HBCUs started out as "normal" (teaching) schools, designed to increase education/literacy after slavery thru Black educators.
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Washington, DC (1995). Rosa Lee Cunningham, a mother of 8, explains why she never learned how to read. Her situation is the story of illiteracy in many Black communities throughout the 20th century. She died of AIDS later that year. Please read her story:
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Howard University soccer team, circa 1930. Photographed by Addison Scurlock.
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Baltimore, Maryland (1993). Alumni at Morgan State University's Homecoming Game.
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City Councilman (and future mayor) John Street discusses the cyclical problem of abandoned housing in Philly. The clip goes on to explain the government's failure in addressing this problem.
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Brooklyn, New York (1990). Photographed by Gideon Mendel.
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Somewhere in Virginia (1910)
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Howard University, Washington DC (2001). Fans scream as DMX performs at the college's annual Yardfest, during Homecoming weekend. Photographed by Marvin Joseph.
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Professor John Mercer Langston, Howard University Law School's founding dean (1870)
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A sewing class at Howard University (circa 1900)
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Baltimore, Maryland (1947). A young woman stands at a polling place during an election.
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A profile of Howard University in Life Magazine (1946)
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Chicago, Illinois (1969). A member of the Black Panther Party peeks through a door that was riddled with bullets by police during a predawn raid the week before.
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Daytona Beach, FL (1995). Students at Bethune-Cookman University have a chat in between classes.
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Washington DC (1940s). Students of Howard University on their first day of classes, photographed by Addison Scurlock.
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Washington, DC (2002). Photographed by Brad Richman.
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East Harlem, Manhattan (1960s). Residents of East 100th Street, photographed by Bruce Davidson.
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Howard University, Washington DC (2009). Howard alum and DC native Taraji P. Henson makes her way down Georgia Ave with Ludacris during the Howard Homecoming Parade. Photographed by Mark Gail.
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Harlem, Manhattan (1956). Partygoers wait to enter the Savoy Ballroom on Lenox Ave & 140th St. Photographed by Mario Di Biasi.
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Washington, DC (1946). Freshmen students Rose Esters, a History major from Atlantic City, NJ, and Sarah White, a premed student from Baltimore, MD pose together in Truth Hall dormitory at Howard University. Photographed by Alfred Eisenstadt.
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Dameron, St. Mary's County, Maryland (1940). Photographed by Jack Delano.
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West Baltimore, Maryland (circa 1950s). A couple poses in front of their car at the Gilmor Homes. Photographed by Irving Phillips Sr.
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Pompano Beach, Florida (1930s)
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Northwest Washington DC (1916). A convention of former slaves was held at the Cosmopolitan Baptist Church on N Street. Photographed by Harris & Ewing.
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Baltimore, Maryland (1942). Sergeant Franklin Williams and his girlfriend Ellen Hardin split a soda while he is home on leave. About 1.2 million Black Americans served in World War II.
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Adams-Morgan, Washington DC (1942). A mother pours lemonade for her children in an alley home on Seaton St. Photographed by Gordon Parks.
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Baltimore, Maryland (circa 1890). The Baltimore Blues Baseball Club, a Black pro baseball team who played against both Black and white teams. Photographed by Mark Rucker.
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On the Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, photographed by Addison Scurlock (1958)
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Southeast DC (2018). Children work and play at the Barry Farm Dwellings, a public housing development that was demolished in 2019. Photographed by Joy Sharon Yi.
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A picnic at Druid Hill Park, Baltimore (1956)
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Baltimore Maryland (1932). Students at Frederick Douglass High School, the second oldest high school for Black people in America, formerly on Calhoun & Baker Sts.
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A 25-year-old Muhammad Ali appears on PBS to discuss his 5-year prison sentencing and boxing ban for refusing to serve in the Vietnam War. He explains why his high- profile refusal is necessary for the progression of his race (1968).
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Washington, DC (1937). William Andrew Johnson, formerly enslaved by President Andrew Johnson, poses in front of the Capitol. Photographed by Harris & Ewing.
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Harlem, Manhattan (1935). Boxer Joe Louis, 21, w his new wife, stenographer Marva Trotter, 19, strolling through the neighborhood. The night before, he married Marva in an Edgecombe Avenue apartment, and won a fight against Max Baer at Yankee Stadium.
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Washington, DC (1940). Children play baseball in a "slum" area.
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Arthur Rothstein's photographs of the Northwest slums of Washington, DC (1937)
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Roanoke, Virginia (1942). Two girls collect scrap for Salvage for Victory, a nationwide campaign to collect scrap metal for the war effort.
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Pompano Beach, Florida (1930s)
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Northwest Washington DC (1935). A family stands outside their alley doorway.
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Washington, DC (1914). Students at the National Training School for Women and Girls at 601 50th St NE, the first vocational school for Black women in the country.
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Morgan State Class of 1958 (Baltimore, Maryland)
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Newport News, Virginia (1939). Bishop Grace, founder of the United House of Prayer for All People, presides over a baptism.
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A 1973 bride, somewhere in Baltimore, MD
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Hot Springs, Virginia (1920s). A group of young gold caddies at the Homestead Resort. Black caddies have been an important part of the game of golf since the late 1800s.
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Portraits of Irwin C. Miller's "Brown Skin Models" Harlem road show (1938)
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students at Morgan State College (1963)
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Baltimore, Maryland (1940s). Photographed by Bradley Smith.
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Southeast DC (1942). Two boys overlook the Frederick Douglass housing project in Anacostia. Photographed by Gordon Parks.
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Manhattan, NYC (1981). Tina Turner shopping along 14th Street. Photographed by David McGough.
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Baltimore, Maryland (1942). Sergeant Franklin Williams and his girlfriend Ellen Hardin split a soda while he is home on leave during World War II.
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Portraits of Northwest Washington DC residents, photographed by Harris & Ewing (1910s).
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Harlem Park, Baltimore (1965)
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Southwest DC (1942). Boys playing football at Union and N Sts. Photographed by Louise Rosskam.
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Washington DC (circa 1915). A laborer working, with the Lincoln Memorial in the background. Photographed by Harris & Ewing.
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An alum and a student at Morgan State College (1952)
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Baltimore, Maryland (1994). Members of the St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church on E Oliver St, which is said to be the first exclusively Black Catholic parish in America.
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A Sunday afternoon on the corner of Delaware & I, Southwest DC (1925)
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Harlem, Manhattan (1943). The congregation of Mount Olivet Baptist Church standing on its steps. Photographed by Weegee.
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