Afro History

English: Bernard Anthony Harris, Jr. a former NASA astronaut. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

STS-55 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

STS-63 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Publicity photo from Good Times. Pictured are John Amos (James) and Esther Rolle (Florida). This was for the premiere of the show. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: The Supremes’ star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, 7060 Hollywood Blvd. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Jean-Bertrand Aristide meets Bill Clinton in the Oval Office, October 14, 1994. Français : Jean-Bertrand Aristide rencontre Bill Clinton dans le bureau ovale, 14 octobre 1994. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Medgar Evers College building A (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Medgar Evers (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Tony Dungy, the head coach of the Indianapolis Colts football team, arrives onboard USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19) via helicopter. (Cropped from a U.S. Navy photograph) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

1870 celebration of the Fifteenth Amendment as a guarantee of African American voting rights (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg, Gauteng, on 13 May 1998 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

A section of lunch counter from the Greensboro, North Carolina Woolworth’s where the Greensboro sit-ins began is now preserved in the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History. A section of lunch counter now appears in the display of the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History. Counter from the Greensboro sit-ins. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Jackie Robinson and Satchel Paige in the uniform of the Kansas City Monarchs (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Satchel Paige (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The Haitian National Palace (Presidential Palace), located in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, heavily damaged after the earthquake of January 12, 2010. Note: this was originally a two-story structure; the second story completely collapsed. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Map of Haiti (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Map of Port-Au-Prince and Carrefour in Haiti (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

View of Port-au Prince from Hotel Montana, which was destroyed by the 2010 Haiti earthquake. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Debris in the streets of the Port-au-Prince neighborhood of Bel-Air, in the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti Earthquake. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Ronald McNair, NASA Astronaut, died in Challenger mission. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: NASA NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION FOR RELEASE: May 16, 1978 PHOTO NO. 78-HC-172 ASTRONAUT CANDIDATES FROM LEFT TO RIGHT RONALD E. MCNAIR GUION S. BLUFORD FREDERICK D. GREGORY (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The crew of Space Shuttle mission STS-51-L pose for their official portrait on November 15, 1985. In the back row from left to right: Ellison S. Onizuka, Sharon Christa McAuliffe, Greg Jarvis, and Judy Resnik. In the front row from left to right: Michael J. Smith, Dick Scobee, and Ron McNair. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Ronald Erwin McNair (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Leontyne Price (color) by Jack Mitchell (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Screenshot of Mahalia Jackson from the film Imitation of Life (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: The Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York City (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

New York – Harlem, 125th street Apollo Theater (Photo credit: Wikipedia)