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The Gold Dust Twins advertising campaign used caricatured Black children to sell cleaning products, which reinforced racist stereotypes and white nostalgic myths of Black servitude in the 20th-century United States.
Pittsburgh’s segregated Hill District became a hub of jazz and Black culture. Charles “Teenie” Harris, the renowned photographer and chronicler of Black life, captured it all.
Writer and director Oscar Micheaux was a creative entrepreneur and one of the most important figures in African American cinema during the early twentieth century.
Slavery ended in 1865. But many Black Southerners remained unfree laborers under the convict leasing system.
The hidden story of the English national team’s first Black footballer.
The Parkridge Country Club demonstrated the fragile promise of African American recreational space in 1920s Los Angeles