Afro History

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)

Daniel Hale Williams, c. 1900. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Map of African, with African Union member states in dark green and states with suspended membership in light green (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Roy Wilkins, former NAACP president. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. Davis, Jr., actor and performer, with Roy Wilkins, Executive Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People., 08/28/1963 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Roy Wilkins, civil rights activist. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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

Interior Of Arthur Ashe Stadium During 2007 US Open (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: “The Oaks”, former home of Booker T. Washington located on the Tuskegee University campus in Tuskegee, Alabama. The building is a contributing property to the Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site and National Landmark. (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)

English: Faculty of Tuskegee institute (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

History class at Tuskegee, 1902 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Tuskegee Institute usdaphoto (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Cropped screenshot of Hazel Scott from the trailer for the film Rhapsody in Blue. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the 1964 Civil Rights Act as Martin Luther King, Jr., and others, look on. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: President Lyndon B. Johnson at the signing the 1964 Civil Rights Act. White House East Room. People watching include Attorney General Robert Kennedy, Senator Hubert Humphrey, First Lady “Lady Bird” Johnson, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., F.B.I. Director J. Edgar Hoover, Speaker of the House John McCormack. Television cameras are broadcasting the ceremony. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)