Afro History

The Reverend Al Sharpton leading the first protest march over the death of Yusef Hawkins in Bensonhurst, 1989. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Al Sharpton (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

George Poage (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The Chaconia (Warszewiczia coccinea) is the national flower of Trinidad and Tobago. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Map of Trinidad and Tobago (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Trinidad and Tobago (orthographic projection) Español: Trinidad y Tobago (proyección ortográfica) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Thurgood Marshall, appointed by Kennedy to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Polski: Thurgood Marshall (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Original six members of the Black Panther Party (November, 1966) Top left to right: Elbert “Big Man” Howard; Huey P. Newton (Defense Minister), Sherman Forte, Bobby Seale (Chairman). Bottom: Reggie Forte and Little Bobby Hutton (Treasurer) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Black Panther Party members standing in the street, armed with a Colt .45 and a shotgun (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Dr. Martin Luther King giving his “I Have a Dream” speech during the March on Washington in Washington, D.C., on 28 August 1963. Español: Dr. Martin Luther King dando su discurso “Yo tengo un sueño” durante la Marcha sobre Washington por el trabajo y la libertad en Washington, D.C., 28 de agosto de 1963. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Martin Luther King, Jr. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Tomb of Martin Luther King, Jr. & Coretta Scott King (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

African American author, educator, and political activist W. E. B. Du Bois. (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)

W. E. B. Du Bois (1868 – 1963), co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), in 1918. Deutsch: Der Soziologe William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868–1963), Mitbegründer der afroamerikanischen Bürgerrechtsorganisation National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), aufgenommen 1918 von C.M. Battey (1873–1927). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The Kunene river viewed from the Namibian side, near Swartbooisdrift, 4km west of the small village Ongato, in the Angolan Cunene province. Makalani palms fringe the opposite bank. Deutsch: Kunene in der nähe von Swartbooisdrift, 4km entfernt von Ongato, Cunene provinz, Angola (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Cape Ground Squirrels close to Solitaire in the Namib desert, Namibia Deutsch: Borstenhörnchen in der nähe von Solitaire, Namibwüste, Namibia Français : Des ecureuils de terre près de Solitaire, en Namibie (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Namibian highway (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

A sand dune in Namibia (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Map of Namibia Español: Mapa de Namibia (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Miss You (Aaliyah song) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Edith S. Sampson, pioneering Black lawyer and judge (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Eleanor Roosevelt and Edith Sampson at United Nations in New York – NARA – 196115 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: WASHINGTON, BOOKER T. Digitally retouched. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Booker T. Washington’s house at Tuskegee (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Photograph of Booker Washington and Theodore Roosevelt at Tuskegee Institute. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Jomo Kenyatta and President of West Germany Heinrich Lübke in 1966 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Photograph of the Jomo Kenyatta Airport 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)

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

Discovery of Nat Turner: wood engraving illustrating Benjamin Phipps’s capture of Nat Turner (1800-1831) on October 30, 1831 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Improved version of the logo for Template:North American Slave Revolts, using the same public domain image, created in photoshop. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

19th Century woodcut depiction of the Southampton Insurrection (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The Coat of arms of Senegal (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Landscape of Casamance Region, southern Senegal (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Map of Senegal Español: Mapa de Senegal (Photo credit: Wikipedia)