Afro History

Crispus Attucks (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

An artist’s conception of Crispus Attucks (1723–1770), the first “martyr” of the American Revolution. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: My photo of the Boston Massacre victims grave including Crispus Attucks in Boston Massachusetts’ Granary Burying Ground. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Screenshot of footage of King beaten by LAPD officers on March 3, 1991 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell during a basketball game (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Wilt Chamberlain’s 100-point game (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

edited (colour) picture Image:Wilt Chamberlain.jpg Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player wearing uniform of Harlem Globetrotters. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Uganda (orthographic projection) Português: Uganda (projeção ortográfica) Español: Uganda (proyección ortográfica) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Downtown Uganda (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Students in Uganda (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Ethnolinguistic map of Uganda. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The platinum record for Michael Jackson’s Thriller album on display at the Hard Rock Café, Hollywood in Universal City, California. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Michael Jackson (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: The star of Michael Jackson on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood Deutsch: Der Stern von Michael Jackson auf dem Walk of Fame in Hollywood (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Carl Lewis in midair during a long jump for track and field as an athlete at the University of Houston (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Carl Lewis at the “green carpet” for the Save the World Awards 2009 (Zwentendorf Nuclear Power Plant, Lower Austria). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Civil Rights Movement Co-Founder Dr. Ralph David Abernathy and his wife Mrs. Juanita Abernathy follow with Dr. and Mrs. Martin Luther King as the Abernathy children march on the front line, leading the SELMA TO MONTGOMERY MARCH in 1965. The Children are Donzaleigh Abernathy in striped sweater, Ralph David Abernathy, 3rd and Juandalynn R. Abernathy in glasses. Name of the white Minister in the photo is unknown. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Jimmie Lee Jackson (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Elijah Muhammad standing behind microphones at podium / World Telegram & Sun photo by Stanley Wolfson. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Kwame Nkrumah, the First President of Ghana (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Kwame Nkrumah’s grave inside the Kwame Nkrumah memorial in Accra Ghana. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

List of 1st Marine Aircraft Wing Commanders (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: This photo is taken by Chensiyuan; it shows the town of Soufrière, St Lucia, as seen from the road approaching it from the north, and in the background the twin peaks of Petit Piton and Gros Piton. Español: Esta foto tomada por Chensiyuan muestra el pueblo de Soufrière, en Santa Lucía, visto desde la carretera que se aproxima a él desde el norte, y en el fondo están los dos picos Petit Piton y Gros Piton. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The Pitons in St. Lucia with the fishing village of Soufriere in the foreground (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Map of Saint Lucia (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Location of Saint Lucia in the Caribbean (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Petit Piton, St. Lucia. Gros Piton in the background. Deutsch: Petit Piton, St. Lucia. Im Hintergrund Gros Piton. Euskara: Petit Piton eta Gros Piton mendiak. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X meet before a press conference. Both men had come to hear the Senate debate on the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This was the only time the two men ever met; their meeting lasted only one minute. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Malcolm X waiting for a press conference to begin on March 26, 1964 Deutsch: Malcolm X, aufgenommen am 26. März 1964, auf den Beginn einer Pressekonferenz wartend (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Malcolm X (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Frederick Douglass (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Frederick Douglas Memorial Hall at Howard University in Washington, DC. This building, along with three others, was declared a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 2001. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Oscar-nominated film director John Singleton, taken during a USC Football rally (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

W.E.B. Du Bois, Gelatin silver print c.1911, (Photo credit: Wikipedia)