Far From Home | 1940
A family of Florida migrant workers on their way to Cranberry, New Jersey, to pick potatoes, 1940. [click image to enlarge]
Church Hat Divas | 1941
A group of African American girls waiting church to end so they can see the processional, South Side of Chicago, Illinois, 1941. [click image to enlarge]
Welcome to Black History Album (“The Way We Were”) …..a photo gallery that chronicles how Black America lived, loved, worked celebrated, worshipped and more, from the end of slavery in the 1860’s to the black power movement of the 1960’s.
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Kool Kats | 1941
African American entertainers working the crowd at an African American nightclub located on the Southside of Chicago, Illinois,... [Read More]
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Town Meeting | 1939
A country store on dirt road on a hot and lazy Sunday afternoon near Gordonton, North Carolina, 1939. [click image to enlarge] Read More →
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Saturday Night Fever | 1939
African Americans jitterbugging in a juke joint on a Saturday evening in Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta, 1939. [click image to... [Read More]
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Jamm’in | 1938
Jazz orchestra bringing down the house at the National Rice Festival, Crowley, LA, 1938. [click image to enlarge] Read More →
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All In The Family | 1902
Photograph of an African American grandmother surrounded by her grand kids (caption: “Happy Family”), 1902. [click... [Read More]
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