Afro History

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)

Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site, Topeka, Kansas, USA – Monroe Elementary school, where racial segregation was challenged in 1954 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Monroe Elementary School – Brown Vs the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas national historic site. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site, Topeka, Kansas, USA – Monroe Elementary school, where racial segregation was challenged in 1954 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Sammy Davis, Jr. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Scroller’s Club of Kappa Alpha Psi – Wilberforce University (PD) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Kappa Alpha Psi Chapter at Wilberforce University in 1922 (PD) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)