Picturing Black History

Photographs and stories that changed the world

A collaboration of and

Georgia

A photograph of three African American women who were identified as domestic helpers waiting for a street car, all three women are wearing coats and hats, two men and a woman who are white are also waiting on transportation, Atlanta, Georgia. 1939. From the New York Public Library.

Black Women’s Work and Leisure in the Black Mecca

The everyday lives and struggles of Black women in Atlanta reveal the roots of their activism.

A drill instructor during an inspection of paratroopers at Fort Benning in Chattahoochee County, Georgia, 24th February 1944

Walter Morris and the “Triple Nickles” Jump into History

Despite systemic racism, Black soldiers forced their way into parachute training and took one major step toward integration.

View of students and teachers outside what is thought to be a Freedmen's school, Beaufort, South Carolina, late 1860s.

Learning in Secret Places

Susie Baker and the drive for education equality before Brown v. Board of Education