Friday, July 30, 2010

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Pass The Popcorn | 1939

Pass The Popcorn | 1939

A colored people movie house (Rex Theatre) located in Leland, Mississippi, 1939. Now playing: “The New Adventure of Tarzan”... [Read More]

Thirst for Civil Rights | 1939

Thirst for Civil Rights | 1939

Photography of African American man drinking at “Colored” water cooler in streetcar terminal, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. ... [Read More]

N.A.A.C.P. Ball, 1912

N.A.A.C.P. Ball, 1912

The photograph presumably depicted an N.A.A.C.P. event, the 1912 Mid-Winter Assembly, in Baltimore, Maryland. A young W.E.B.... [Read More]

A Dollar and Ten ‘Gone…with the Wind,’ 1947

An early civil rights group picket of the movie, “Gone with the Wind,” showing at the uptown Lincoln Theater, Washington... [Read More]

NAACP Women’s Service Group, 1921

NAACP Women’s Service Group, 1921

NAACP Women’s Service Group, Washington D.C., 1921. Photographer Addison Scurlock, National Museum of American History,... [Read More]