Ethel Waters, Kenneth Spencer, Eddie Rochester Anderson, Lena Horne, and Rex Ingram in a scene from the motion picture. (credit: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture)
Black History Month: Historical Photographs
Booker T. Washington, Principal of Normal and Industrial Institute, Tuskegee, Ala. (credit: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture)
Black History Month: Historical Photographs
Ethel Waters, Kenneth Spencer, Eddie Rochester Anderson, Lena Horne, and Rex Ingram in a scene from the motion picture. (credit: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture)
Black History Month: Historical Photographs
Dorothy Dandridge (ca. 1950s) (credit: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture)
Black History Month: Historical Photographs
Harriet Tubman, abolitionist. (credit: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture)
Black History Month: Historical Photographs
Oscar Bernard, featherweight boxer, known as the Panama Cannonball. ca.1929 (credit: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture)
Black History Month: Historical Photographs
Philip Randolph, labor leader and co-founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. (credit: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture)
Black History Month: Historical Photographs
Langston Hughes as a student at Lincoln University, Pennsylvania. (1927) (credit: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture)
Black History Month: Historical Photographs
Frederick Douglass, abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer, n.d. (credit: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture)
Black History Month: Historical Photographs
W.E.B. DuBois (credit: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture)
Black History Month: Historical Photographs
Sojourner Truth. (credit: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture)
Black History Month: Historical Photographs
Duke Ellington and orchestra in a scene from the motion picture Cabin in the Sky. (1943) (credit: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture)
Black History Month: Historical Photographs
Jackie Robinson and Louise Beavers in a scene from the motion picture The Jackie Robinson Story. (1950) (credit: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture)
Black History Month: Historical Photographs
Ruby Dee and Jackie Robinson in a scene from the motion picture The Jackie Robinson Story. (1950) (credit: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture)
Black History Month: Historical Photographs
Three-quarter length portrait of jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and composer Sidney Bechet with clarinet (credit: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture)
Black History Month: Historical Photographs
Scientist George Washington Carver in his laboratory at Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. (credit: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture)
Black History Month: Historical Photographs
Wells-Barnett, journalist and civil rights activist. (credit: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture)
Black History Month: Historical Photographs
Madame C.J. Walker at wheel of car with her niece Anjetta Breedlove, Alice Kelby and Lucy Flint, forewoman and secreta c 1911 (credit: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture)
Black History Month: Historical Photographs
Silent Protest parade on Fifth Avenue, New York City, July 28, 1917, in response to the East St. Louis race riot on July 28, 1917. (credit: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture)
Black History Month: Historical Photographs
Fisk jubilee singers, 1871. (credit: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture)
Black History Month: Historical Photographs
African Free School, No. 2, New York (credit: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture)
Black History Month: Historical Photographs
The fifteenth amendment. (19 May 1870) (credit: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture)