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Tag Archives: African-Americans
1966: Bring Me My Robe
Louis Mélançon: Leontyne Price as Cleopatra in Samuel Barber’s Antony and Cleopatra (1966)
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Tagged 1960's, 20th Century, African-Americans, Art, Costumes, Leontyne Price, Louis Mélançon, Music, Photography, Shakespeare
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1964: I Haven’t Lost the Faith
MLK preaches on July 4, 1965, two years after the March on Washington: About two years ago now, I stood with many of you who stood there in person and all of you who were there in spirit before the … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, African-Americans, Civil Rights, Martin Luther King Jr., Oratory, USA
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1852: What, to the Slave
What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, African-Americans, Civil Rights, Frederick Douglass, Labor, Oratory, Photography, Portraits, Samuel J. Miller, Slavery, USA
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1934: Self-Portrait with Pipe
Samuel Joseph Brown: Smoking My Pipe (1934)
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Tagged 20th Century, African-Americans, Painting, Portraits, Samuel Joseph Brown, USA
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1920’s: Portraits
Winold Reiss: Turtle (1920) Japanese Student II (1925) Nenauaki , Queen Woman (1928) Harlem Girl I (1925)
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Tagged 20th Century, African-Americans, Art, Germany, Japan, Native Americans, Painting, USA, Winold Reiss, Women
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1937: Mother and Child
Dorothea Lange: Wife and child of tractor driver. Aldridge Plantation (1937) (source)
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Tagged 20th Century, African-Americans, Art, Children, Mothers, Women
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1963: A Tumultuous Day
Front and back of New York Times file photo of Martin Luther King, Jr. From a collection entitled “Unpublished Black History,” online here. Here is the story behind the King portrait: Consider the close-up of Dr. King above. It is … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, African-Americans, Civil Rights, Journalism, Martin Luther King Jr., Photography
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1943: Lena Horne Doesn’t Entertain Racism
From Bartlett’s Book of Anecdotes (2000): Al Duckett, a freelance journalist during World War II, recounts the following story about Lena Horne: “She had been sent to a camp in the south to entertain the troops. She was scheduled to … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, African-Americans, Civil Rights, Lena Horne, Women, WWII
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1845: Frederick Douglass Visits Ireland
Shortly after the 1845 publication of his Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Frederick Douglass left the US for a two-year tour of Ireland and Britain. During his time in Ireland, he befriended and appeared on … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, Activism, African-Americans, Civil Rights, Daniel O'Connell, Frederick Douglass, Ireland, Slavery, USA
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