President Reagan with National Security Advisor Colin Powell (1988) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Booker T. Washington, half-length portrait, seated (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Via Library of Congress. See catalog.loc.gov. Booker T. Washington, seated on steps of porch, with wife and two sons. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
U.S. Army General Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By Harris & Ewing
Booker T. Washington
Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X meet before a press conference. Both men had come to hear the Senate debate on the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This was the only time the two men ever met; their meeting lasted only one minute. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Tomb of Martin Luther King, Jr. & Coretta Scott King (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Martin Luther King, 1964 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Martin Luther King Jr.
Maya Angelou (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
President Barack Obama presenting Maya Angelou with the Presidential Medal of Freedom (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Ben Gordon of the Detroit Pistons during a game against the Milwaukee Bucks (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Muddy Waters in Toronto, Canada, 1971 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Cameron Maybin (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By Simba Madziva – Jill Scott
By Clinton Library
Maya Angelou
Ronald Harmon Brown, Secretary of Commerce for President Clinton (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum/White House
Marvin Gaye performing in concert during the 1970s. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Marvin Gaye in 1973 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By Tamla – Billboard, page 1, 27 April 1974,Marvin Gaye in 1973 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Marvin Gaye performing in concert during the 1970s. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell in a promotional 1967 photo (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By photo by-J. Edward Bailey
Marvin Gaye
Sean Taylor (en) with the Washington Redskins football (American) team until his death in November 2007, formerly with the University of Miami Hurricanes (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Jimmy Cliff in concert (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
David Oyelowo at the International Press Academy’s 12th Annual Satellite Awards (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By The pictures are over 100 years old and so authorship is uncertain.
By The pictures are over 100 years old and so authorship is uncertain.
English: Jack Johnson, 1915 Source:Library of Congress – George Grantham Bain Collection Restrictions: Per LOC reproduction #LC-USZ62-29331 – no known restrictions on photograph Publish date: March 31, 1915 Photographer: Unknown Publisher:Unknown (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
1870 celebration of the Fifteenth Amendment as a guarantee of African American voting rights (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By Alfred Waud
The First Vote
By David Shankbone