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Charlayne Hunter (1961) leaving the University of Georgia campus after registering as a student. She holds a place in Georgia civil rights history as one of the first two African American students (the other student was Hamilton Holmes) admitted to the University of Georgia. Also known for her career as an award-winning journalist, Hunter-Gault is respected for her work on television and in print. Women In History, World History, High Society, Brave, African American Women, African Americans, University Of Georgia, African Diaspora, Before Us

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Charlayne Hunter (1961) leaving the University of Georgia campus after registering as a student. She holds a place in Georgia civil rights history as one of the first two African American students (the other student was Hamilton Holmes) admitted to the University of Georgia. Also known for her career as an award-winning journalist, Hunter-Gault is respected for her work on television and in print.

Earl Francis “Big Cat” Lloyd was the first African American to play in a National Basketball Association game. Today In Black History, Black History Facts, Black History Month, Black Power, African American Culture, Famous Black, African American History, Thing 1

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Earl Francis “Big Cat” Lloyd was the first African American to play in a National Basketball Association game.

Today in Black History, 3/13/2014 - Anne Wiggins Brown was the first African American vocalist admitted to the Julliard School in 1928. For more info, check out today's blog! Vintage Black Glamour, Black Girls Rock, Beautiful Black Women, Retro Vintage

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Today in Black History, 3/13/2014 - Anne Wiggins Brown was the first African American vocalist admitted to the Julliard School in 1928. For more info, check out today's blog!

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Viola Davis Desmond (1914 –1965) was an Black Nova Scotian who was granted a posthumous pardon, the first to be granted in Canada. The gov't of Nova Scotia also apologized for convicting her for tax evasion, when, in fact, she was resisting a "whites only" discrimination policy in a movie theatre in 1946. Desmond's story was one of the most publicized incidents of racial discrimination in Canadian history. Desmond acted 9 yrs before the famed incident by civil-rights activist Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks, Civil Rights Activists, Canadian History, Nova Scotia

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Viola Davis Desmond (1914 –1965) was an Black Nova Scotian who was granted a posthumous pardon, the first to be granted in Canada. The gov't of Nova Scotia also apologized for convicting her for tax evasion, when, in fact, she was resisting a "whites only" discrimination policy in a movie theatre in 1946. Desmond's story was one of the most publicized incidents of racial discrimination in Canadian history. Desmond acted 9 yrs before the famed incident by civil-rights activist Rosa Parks.

Nathan Francis Mossell (1856-1946) was an African American doctor who helped establish the first black hospital in Philadelphia. History Pics, Strange History, Cthulhu, African History, Black Is Beautiful

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Nathan Francis Mossell (1856-1946) was an African American doctor who helped establish the first black hospital in Philadelphia.

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This picture gave me chills and …look which side is so filled with cowardice that every single one of their faces are covered. Because I couldn’t resist doing some snooping, apparently this picture is from a 1938 stand-off between the Klan and Black residents/locals of Lakeland, Florida. I found it in a special exhibition archive at the Lakeland city website, here. And here’s an article recounting historical and current racial tensions in Polk County and Lakeland in specific. Barack Obama, Martin Luther King, Lakeland Florida, Ku Klux Klan, Jesse Owens, Harry Truman, American History

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This picture gave me chills and …look which side is so filled with cowardice that every single one of their faces are covered. Because I couldn’t resist doing some snooping, apparently this picture is from a 1938 stand-off between the Klan and Black residents/locals of Lakeland, Florida. I found it in a special exhibition archive at the Lakeland city website, here. And here’s an article recounting historical and current racial tensions in Polk County and Lakeland in specific.

Before the Williams Sisters - Margaret and Matilda Peters, affectionately known as ‘Pete” and Repeat’. The Peters made history with their doubles record from the 1930s to the 1950s. At a time when African Americans were not allowed to compete against whites, the Peters sisters played in the American Tennis Association, which was created specifically to give blacks a forum to play tennis competitively. Inducted into the USTA’s Mid-Atlantic Section Hall of Fame in 2003. Native Americans, Black And White

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Before the Williams Sisters - Margaret and Matilda Peters, affectionately known as ‘Pete” and Repeat’. The Peters made history with their doubles record from the 1930s to the 1950s. At a time when African Americans were not allowed to compete against whites, the Peters sisters played in the American Tennis Association, which was created specifically to give blacks a forum to play tennis competitively. Inducted into the USTA’s Mid-Atlantic Section Hall of Fame in 2003.

First Miss Black California and First Miss Black America (1973), Fashion model Von Gretchen Shepard captured the crown after graduating cum laude from Howard University. Jet Magazine, Black Magazine, Ebony Magazine Cover, Magazine Covers, Black History, Dona Summer, Famous Black People, Pageant Tips

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First Miss Black California and First Miss Black America (1973), Fashion model Von Gretchen Shepard captured the crown after graduating cum laude from Howard University.

The Dahomey Amazons are the only documented all-female official front-line combat arms military unit in modern history. Single-mindedly devoted to hardening themselves into ruthless instruments of battlefield destruction, these machete-wielding, musket-slinging lady terminators were rightly-feared throughout Western Africa for over 250 years, not only for their devotion to battle, but for their utter refusal to back down or retreat from any fight unless expressly ordered to do so by their king. Ancient Aliens, Haiti History, Modern History, Dahomey Amazons, Afrika Corps, Art Afro

Dahomey Amazons

The Dahomey Amazons are the only documented all-female official front-line combat arms military unit in modern history. Single-mindedly devoted to hardening themselves into ruthless instruments of battlefield destruction, these machete-wielding, musket-slinging lady terminators were rightly-feared throughout Western Africa for over 250 years, not only for their devotion to battle, but for their utter refusal to back down or retreat from any fight unless expressly ordered to do so by their king.

"The Harlem Playgirls was an African American swing band active in the Midwest and throughout the United States from the mid-1930s to the early 1940s. This is great!" Black Like Me, Vintage Style, Historical Photos, Vintage Advertisements, Vintage Photos

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"The Harlem Playgirls was an African American swing band active in the Midwest and throughout the United States from the mid-1930s to the early 1940s. This is great!"

Columbus Ledger, July 30, 1910. Garden variety racism....know your history before you're doomed to repeat it. History Books, Pseudo Science, By Any Means Necessary

By Any Means Necessary

Columbus Ledger, July 30, 1910. Garden variety racism....know your history before you're doomed to repeat it.

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This 1962 Charles Williams image shows Brenda A. English, the first African American Rose Queen candidate. Vintage Beauty, Vintage Fashion, Women's Fashion, 1950s Fashion, Fashion Ideas, Beautiful People

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This 1962 Charles Williams image shows Brenda A. English, the first African American Rose Queen candidate.

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This 1940s ad for Pepsi is one of the first ads specifically targeted toward African Americans. The young boy pictured is Ron Brown, future United States Secretary of Commerce. Clock Vintage, Vintage Ads, Vintage Posters, Vintage Stuff, Vintage Black, Vintage Ephemera, Vintage Frames

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This 1940s ad for Pepsi is one of the first ads specifically targeted toward African Americans. The young boy pictured is Ron Brown, future United States Secretary of Commerce.

Meet Josephine Holloway, one of the first African American Girl Scout troop leaders who lobbied for the Girl Scouts to include African Americans. Girl Scout Troop, Girl Scouts, Scout Leader, Luis Gonzaga, African American Girl

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Meet Josephine Holloway, one of the first African American Girl Scout troop leaders who lobbied for the Girl Scouts to include African Americans.

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pdxrainforest.blo... Known as the "Black Thomas Edison" Scientist Granville T. Woods invented the telephone transmitter, telegraph system and received over 60 patents. Black History Books, Real Life Heros, African American History Month, Expressions, Black People, Inventions

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pdxrainforest.blo... Known as the "Black Thomas Edison" Scientist Granville T. Woods invented the telephone transmitter, telegraph system and received over 60 patents.

Jane Bolin (1908 - 2007) was the first African American female judge in the United States. Her father, Gaius Bolin, the first African American graduate of Williams College, practiced law in Poughkeepsie. Bolin graduated from Wellesley College in 1928. She was the first black woman to graduate from Yale University School of Law and the first to be admitted to the New York City Bar Association. Tilda Swinton, Maria Callas, Elizabeth Taylor, Sophia Loren, Brigitte Bardot, Ute Lemper, Adele

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Jane Bolin (1908 - 2007) was the first African American female judge in the United States. Her father, Gaius Bolin, the first African American graduate of Williams College, practiced law in Poughkeepsie. Bolin graduated from Wellesley College in 1928. She was the first black woman to graduate from Yale University School of Law and the first to be admitted to the New York City Bar Association.

Queen Ranavalona III, Madagascar’s last Queen (1861 - 1917) Tagged "African kings" | AFRICAN, BLACK & DIASPORIC HISTORY History Major, Roberta Santiago, Madagascar Photos, Vintage Photographs, Black Royalty

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Queen Ranavalona III, Madagascar’s last Queen (1861 - 1917) Tagged "African kings" | AFRICAN, BLACK & DIASPORIC HISTORY

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Death mask of a black man who died from syphilis during the Tuskegee study

Until the mid-60s, the Aborigines came under the Flora And Fauna Act, which classified them as animals, not human beings. This also meant that killing an Aborigine meant you weren’t killing a human being, but an animal. Fotografia Social, Call Of Cthulhu, Interesting History, Flora And Fauna, History Facts, Slavery History

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Until the mid-60s, the Aborigines came under the Flora And Fauna Act, which classified them as animals, not human beings. This also meant that killing an Aborigine meant you weren’t killing a human being, but an animal.

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Union officer with "contraband", 1862

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(1817-1892) Charles Henry Langston, the grandfather of poet Langston Hughes, was born a free man on a Virginia plantation in 1817 to Captain Ralph Quarles and Lucy Jane Langston, Quarlesï¿½ mulatto slave. He had two brothers, John Mercer (who would become a Virginia Congressman in 1888) and Gideon. After the death of his father in 1834, Charles inherited a large part of his fatherï¿½s estate, and he went to be educated at Oberlin College in 1842 and 1843. Anthropologie, Journaling

(1817-1892) Charles Henry Langston, the grandfather of poet Langston Hughes, was born a free man on a Virginia plantation in 1817 to Captain Ralph Quarles and Lucy Jane Langston, Quarlesï¿½ mulatto slave. He had two brothers, John Mercer (who would become a Virginia Congressman in 1888) and Gideon. After the death of his father in 1834, Charles inherited a large part of his fatherï¿½s estate, and he went to be educated at Oberlin College in 1842 and 1843.