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![Photograph of Class SE 43 K newly commissioned pilots (Tuskegee Airmen) at Tuskegee Army Flying School, in bomber jackets with a fighter airplane, Tuskegee, Alabama, 1942.](https://picturingblackhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/469442375-Reduced-800x632.jpg)
Outside the Frame
![Five of the 21 American soldiers who refused to return to America at the end of the Korean War. The sign on the truck reads: "We Stay for Peace." They moved to China; by the 1960s, all but two had returned home.](https://picturingblackhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/515462862-Reduced-Cropped-800x586.jpg)
Black Soldiers After the Korean War
![Eduardo Kobra's 'Muddy Waters Tribute' mural, part of the Wabash Arts Corridor is displayed downtown in Chicago, Illinois on April 13, 2019.](https://picturingblackhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/1143291074-Reduced-copy-800x702.webp)
Muddy Waters: Ain’t that a Man
![Paul Robeson, singer, performer and civil rights activist, is welcomed in Russia, Moscow, Russia, January 19, 1935.](https://picturingblackhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-469430051.webp)
Paul Robeson in the Soviet Union
![Plaque à l'entrée du siège du Black Panther Party en Algérie.](https://picturingblackhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/947811272reduced-800x542.webp)
The Panthers and Palestine
![W. E. B. DuBois (1868-1963), American educator and writer.](https://picturingblackhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/515578990-small-624x800.webp)
The Souls of Black Folk
![African-American children in a segregated swimming pool at Druid Hill Park, Baltimore, Maryland, 1955.](https://picturingblackhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/513065409-Reduced-800x455.webp)
Members Only
![January 1922: Soccer player Jack Leslie from Plymouth Argyle FC.](https://picturingblackhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/3374867-584x800.jpg)
The Erasure of Jack Leslie
![Triptych of 19th Century Feminists](https://picturingblackhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Bruckmann-Triptych2-800x450.jpeg)
The Nineteenth-Century Roots of Black Feminism
![MORNING MUSTERING OF THE 'CONTRABAND' AT FORTRESS MONROE, ON THEIR WAY TO THEIR DAY'S WORK, UNDER THE PAY AND DIRECTION OF THE U.S](https://picturingblackhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/517213748-800x511.jpg)
Journey to Freedom
![In 1959, Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru (C) is flanked by his guests, American civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King (L) and wife Coretta Scott King during a one-month visit to India at the invitation of the Gandhi Peace Foundation.](https://picturingblackhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/517323686-800x624.jpg)
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Global Dream
![American gospel singer Sister Rosetta Tharpe standing onstage, singing at the microphone with her guitar, at Cafe Society Downtown, New York City, December 11, 1940](https://picturingblackhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/3232352-800x670.jpg)
The Godmother of Rock and Roll
![Henry Brown in Box](https://picturingblackhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/henry-brown-illustration-800x573.jpg)
The “Unboxing” of Henry Box Brown
![Claude Brown, author of Manchild in the Promised Land, testifies before the Senate subcommittee on Executive Reorganization on the conditions of black American ghettos.](https://picturingblackhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/GettyImages-515449442-scaled-e1704829579401-679x800.jpg)
Manchild in the Senate Hearing
![American Republican politician, Robert Smalls (1839 - 1915), born a slave in South Carolina, he was later elected to serve as a Congressman for his home state.](https://picturingblackhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/GettyImages-2665664-530x800.jpg)
The Remarkable Life of Robert Smalls
![Circa 1968: Studio portrait of American pianist and jazz singer Nina Simone (1933 - 2003) reclining on the floor while wearing a sleeveless, V-neck dress with a shell neckpiece.](https://picturingblackhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/3202526-800x634.jpg)
Nina Simone’s Life in Music and Activism
![Paul Robeson (right) sings "O Canada" with Willie Murphy(left), Mine and Smelter Union official from Vancouver, British Columbia, at the International Peace Arch on the international boundary between Canada and the United States, 1952.](https://picturingblackhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/U999379ACME-800x644.jpg)
A Voice Without Borders
![Freedom Riders Near Burning Bus](https://picturingblackhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/517368186-800x562.jpg)
Freedom Riders in the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
![A drill instructor during an inspection of paratroopers at Fort Benning in Chattahoochee County, Georgia, 24th February 1944](https://picturingblackhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/1432823149-800x649.jpg)
Walter Morris and the “Triple Nickles” Jump into History
![Portrait of African-American abolitionist Frederick Douglass](https://picturingblackhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/GettyImages-1345162229-646x800.jpg)
Powerful, Though Silent: Frederick Douglass’ Portraits
![Graffiti covers the walls of the hotel room of Mark Essex.](https://picturingblackhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/515107206-800x571.jpg)
The Writings of Mark Essex
![Lunch Counter Protest in North Carolina](https://picturingblackhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/514693448-800x533.jpg)
The Rise of the Student Sit-In Movement
![Beauty Contest Entries And Winner](https://picturingblackhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/515950890-800x607.jpg)
Crowning Miss Parkridge: Black Leisure in Southern California
![African-American Boys in Mississippi Press Office](https://picturingblackhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/GettyImages-535084228-800x546.jpg)
The Children of the Mississippi Freedom Summer
![Founder of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority Norma Elizabeth Boyd, February, 1981](https://picturingblackhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/GettyImages-518685815-461x800.jpg)
Norma Elizabeth Boyd, Racial Uplift, and the Divine Nine
![Benjamin Mays American Baptist Minister and Civil Rights Leader at podium](https://picturingblackhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/GettyImages-1366675947-800x600.jpg)
Preaching with the Choir
![Gladys Bentley](https://picturingblackhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Untitled-800x568.jpg)
Gladys Bentley: Pioneering Queer Performer
![The autobiography of abolitionist Sojourner Truth](https://picturingblackhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/GettyImages-3112085-800x654.jpg)
The Truth and Myth of Sojourner Truth
![Workers from Barbados arriving at Cristobal Port, on th SS Ancon American steamship](https://picturingblackhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/GettyImages-542403960-533x800.jpg)
Black Laborers on the Panama Canal
![Harper's The First Vote Illustration](https://picturingblackhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/GettyImages-1406098723-568x800.jpg)
Josiah T. Walls, Black Congressman from Florida
![Black Panther Sample Ballot](https://picturingblackhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/541223334screenres-800x534.jpg)
Surviving Strategic Discontent
![Huey Newton](https://picturingblackhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/GettyImages-515574716-800x519.webp)
Behind the Lens: Panthers and the Premier
![Marching Mothers - Hillsboro, Ohio](https://picturingblackhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/b051d2_591b3fe1af114e3aa9ae7f06fec4aca4mv2-800x770.webp)
Behind the Lens: Marching Mothers
![Poise and Perseverance](https://picturingblackhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/GettyImages-514694374-800x515.webp)
Behind the Lens: Poise and Perseverance
![Student Activists](https://picturingblackhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/b051d2_81aab3248a5744bd841d239efaccb5c3_mv2-798x800.webp)
Student Activism and the Rise of Black Studies
![Picture of Bob Marley singing](https://picturingblackhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/b051d2_15845d4c313746fdaf716febe5f6fa06_mv2-800x511.webp)
A Lyrical Revolution
![Hattie McDaniel](https://picturingblackhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/b051d2_593c6765059840979e3ae9067b185101mv2-800x613.webp)
America’s Two Favorite Mammies
![Alice Walker](https://picturingblackhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/b051d2_d66e4afe9a484fdc8d8c628f3e13d84dmv2-800x736.webp)
Remembering Alice Walker’s The Color Purple
![A 1906 photograph of a mathematics classroom illustrates how the Tuskegee Institute used “correlation” theory and the Sloyd system to teach applied mathematics.](https://picturingblackhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/b051d2_2616c9e69c6a47089943bc13699c24femv2-800x746.webp)
Twenty-Two Divided by Seven, at the Tuskegee Institute
![Sharecroppers](https://picturingblackhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/b051d2_32b8b10c2abe4301a9db4ef06940843d_mv2-2-1-798x800.jpg)
A Sharecropper’s Family
![An 1868 political cartoon by Thomas Nast “Patience on a Monument,” depicting the horrors suffered by African Americans and the efforts by the Republican Party's Reconstruction to help rectify the injustice.](https://picturingblackhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/b051d2_ab0aa77a79164ef38c2768485f9a12d4mv2-457x800.webp)
The Monument to Patience
![Two American educators, Charlotte Hawkins Brown (1883-1961) and Alice Freeman Palmer (1855-1902)](https://picturingblackhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/b051d2_55151faa00ca43f58af14bb63ece7044_mv2-652x800.jpg)
Putting Their Heads Together
![Bombing MOVE](https://picturingblackhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/b051d2_30b44f7dd45d424cbcc38cbb7015c88amv2-800x683.webp)
Bombing MOVE
![Edmund Pettus Bridge John Lewis Funeral](https://picturingblackhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/b051d2_1073e3e0a67048efadd79e957d2719bfmv2-800x670.webp)
Photographing History in the Making
![Twice Buried](https://picturingblackhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/b051d2_b672416de87344fab84a1b40d9721864mv2-800x683.webp)
Twice Buried
![members of a 105-mm gun battery on the Fifth Army front in Italy, catch up on the mail from home between spurts of action.](https://picturingblackhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/b051d2_b55801f87db84380a44909c567180aabmv2-628x800.webp)
A Tough Road Uphill
![Bettmann Archive](https://picturingblackhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Bettmann1-300x288.webp)
The Bettmann Archive
![half-length portrait of pressman Joseph Goldman placing a metal plate on AFRO's Goss press in the print room, Baltimore, Maryland, 1960.](https://picturingblackhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/b051d2_ad73fc0342e24007a291093f7172f5d9mv2-244x300.webp)
Afro Newspaper Collection
![Tupac and Flava Flav](https://picturingblackhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/b051d2_04fae8e6841e42d88d60692bd6844f56mv2-800x488.webp)
Clarence Gatson Collection
![Men demonstrating outside the U.S. Capitol](https://picturingblackhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/b051d2_53145c77179e4e00833daabd1f0e22eamv2-800x508.webp)