Picturing Black History

Photographs and stories that changed the world

A collaboration of and

Stokely Carmichael

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.

Nina Simone’s Life in Music and Activism

The performer’s transformation from jazz to politics during the Civil Rights Era

Trinidad-born American Black activist Stokely Carmichael (later known as Kwame Ture, 1941 - 1998) (centre, left) with officials at a meeting in honour of an International Day of Solidarity with the American Black Power movement, Hanoi, North Vietnam, 1967.

International Networks of the American Civil Rights Struggle

What do Thurgood Marshall, Malcolm X, and Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) have in common? The internationalism of American civil rights activism.