Friday, July 30, 2010

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

September 19, 2009 by james  
Filed under Civil Rights, High Society

The photograph presumably depicted an N.A.A.C.P. event, the 1912 Mid-Winter Assembly, in Baltimore, Maryland. A young W.E.B. DuBois appears in the front of the crowd. Photographer Addison Scurlock, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institute.

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NAACP Women’s Service Group, 1921

September 15, 2009 by james  
Filed under Civil Rights, Portraits

NAACP Women’s Service Group, Washington D.C., 1921. Photographer Addison Scurlock, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institute.

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