Afro History

Photograph taken in about August 1943, when the ship was first completed. This view was retouched by the censor to remove radar antennas, adding the pennant at the masthead in their place. It was then released for publication in March 1944. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The Scottsboro Boys, with attorney Samuel Leibowitz, under guard by the state militia, 1932 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The crowd at Scottsboro on April 6, 1931 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

My father used to say that it’s never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, ‘You never know what you can accomplish until you try.’ (Photo credit: symphony of love)

English: A plaque commemorating the Fifth Pan African Conference/Congress held in Manchester in 1945. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Judge Jane Bolin, first black female to occupy a court bench (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Hank Aaron’s Hall of Fame plaque (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Men of the 24th Inf. Regt. move up to the firing line in Korea. July 18, 1950. Breeding. (Army) NARA FILE #: 111-SC-343967 WAR & CONFLICT BOOK #: 1385 {| style=”background-color:#fffff7; border:2px solid #aaaa88; width: 100%;” align=”center” cellspacing=”8″ direction: ltr;” class=”layouttemplate” |- | width=”80px”|70px|link= | —- [ English] | [ Français] | Việt | +/− |}Category:Images from the National Archives and Records Administration (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Several Tuskegee airmen at Ramitelli, Italy, March 1945. (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)

Men of the 332nd Fighter Group attend a briefing in Italy during 1945 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: This is a photograph of the Hangar 1 Museum located at Moton Airfield at the Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site in Tuskegee Alabama. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The Storming of Fort Wagner, the most famous battle fought by the 54th Massachusetts. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The painting The Old Flag Never Touched the Ground, which depicts the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment at the attack on Fort Wagner, South Carolina, on July 18, 1863. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Coltrane (1957 album) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

John Coltrane House, 1511 North Thirty-third Street, Philadelphia (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Cristal Montanez Miss Venezuela & Janelle Commissiong Miss Universe in Colombia Raising Funds Cancer Association (3) (Photo credit: Cristal Montanez Venezuela)

George Washington Carver (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: George Washington Carver, American botanist and inventor, at work in his laboratory Français : George Washington Carver, botaniste américain et inventeur, au travail dans son laboratoire Original caption: Series VII.1, Photographs, Box 7.1/3, file “II. Photographs–Carver, George Washington,” USDA History Collection, Special Collections, National Agricultural Library. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: George Washington Carver (front row, center) poses with fellow staff members at the Tuskegee Institute (now known as Tuskegee University) located in the U.S. state of Alabama. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Picture of George Washington Carver taken by Frances Benjamin Johnston in 1906 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: President Reagan and Arthur Ashe. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Venus Williams At Arthur Ashe Stadium During The 2007 US Open (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Left: Niagara Movement leaders W.E.B. Du Bois (seated), and (left to right) J.R. Clifford, L.M. Hershaw, and F.H.M. Murray at Harpers Ferry. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Women at the 1906 Niagara Movement Conference at Harpers Ferry: Mrs. Gertrude Wright Morgan (seated) and (left to right) Mrs. O.M. Waller, Mrs. H.F.M. Murray, Mrs. Mollie Lewis Kelan, Mrs. Ida D. Bailey, Miss Sadie Shorter, and Mrs. Charlotte Hershaw. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)