Afro History

Southern Rhodesia Africa 1953 Acacia (Photo credit: expom2uk)

Victoria Falls from the Zimbabwean side (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Victoria Falls from the sky, September 2003 Photo by Vberger (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Victoria Falls (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Zimbabwe (orthographic projection) Español: Zimbabue (proyección ortográfica) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Flag of Zimbabwe Rhodesia between June, 1979 – April, 1980. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Tulsa-riot-fire (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Little Africa on Fire. Tulsa Race Riot, June 1st, 1921 Apparently taken from the roof of the Hotel Tulsa on 3rd St. between Boston Ave. and Cincinnati Ave.. The first row of buildings is along 2nd St. The smoke cloud on the left (Cincinnati Ave. and the Frisco Tracks) is identified in the Tulsa Tribune version of this photo as being where the fire started. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Little Africa on fire. Tulsa Race Riot, June 1st, 1921 This photo was taken from on top of the Santa Fe Freight office at 1st St. and Elgin Ave., showing the fires on Archer towards Greenwood. The Goodner-Malone company (1 N. Frankfurt) building is in the center of the photo. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Map showing the location of the secessionist Republic of Biafra within Nigeria. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Flag of Biafra Igbo: Okoloto nke Biafra (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Member states of ECOWAS (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Deutsch: Jomo Kenyatta, Präsident von Kenia. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Aerial photograph of the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (NBO/HKJK) in Nairobi, Kenya (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Jomo Kenyatta Statue in front of Kenya High Court, Nairobi, Kenya Русский: Памятник Джомо Кениате, Найроби, Кения (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Althea Gibson, half-length portrait, holding tennis racquet / World Telegram & Sun photo by Fred Palumbo. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

In 1950 tennis star Althea Gibson (1927-2003) became the first African American to compete in the U.S. Nationals. The next year she became the first African American to play at Wimbledon, England. (Museum of American History – Behring Center) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Jesse Owens shook racial stereotypes both with Nazis and segregationists in the USA at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Owens performing the long jump at the Olympics. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: ‘The Last Moments of John Brown’, oil on canvas painting by Thomas Hovenden (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Daguerreotype of John Brown (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: William Harvey Carney (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Col. Benjamin O. Davis Jr. Col. Benjamin O. Davis Jr., commander of the Tuskegee Airmen 332nd Fighter Group, in front of his P-47 Thunderbolt in Sicily. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

from http://www.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/070207-F-9999W-001.jpg. General Benjamin O. Davis Jr. Benjamin O. Davis Jr., an aviation pioneer, is one of the most famous Tuskegee Airmen of World War II. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

LIEUT. COL. BENJAMIN O. DAVIS, JR. – AIR FIGHTER – NARA – 535698 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Langston Hughes, 29 February 1936 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

1530 – 1534 15th Street, N.W. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Racing driver Willy T. Ribbs, photographed at Sears Point International Raceway in 1984. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Willy T. Ribbs – 1991 CART Race – Laguna Seca – October 1991 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: The corner of Press and Royal Streets, where the memorial to Plessy v Ferguson stands (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Side one of the memorial in New Orleans, Louisianna of the Plessy-v-Ferguson memorial located at the corner of Press St & Royal St (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: upclose veiw of the Plessy v Ferguson memorial in New Orleans (Photo credit: Wikipedia)