AIN’T NOTHING LIKE THE REAL THING, BABY | 1901
Sheet Music Cover,1901. Love this image.
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Former slaves at reunion in Washington, D.C. c. 1916
WAC Audrey Meyers circa 1944. She served as a medical technician at Halloran General Hospital in New York City from 1944-1945. Photo via Jackson Library, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
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THE WAY WE WERE - THE BLACK VICTORIANS | 1898
Formal portrait of African American woman of the Victorian Age (1890s).
STORMY WEATHER | 1943
Stormy Weather is a 1943 American musical film produced and released by 20th Century Fox. The movie is considered one of the best Hollywood musicals with African-American casts, the other being MGM’s Cabin in the Sky, and is considered a primary showcasing of some of the top African-American performers of the time, during an era when African-American actors and singers appearing rarely in lead roles in mainstream Hollywood productions, especially the ones of the musical genre.
Starring Lena Horne, Bill Robinson, Cab Calloway, Katherine Dunham,
Fats Waller, Fayard Nicholas, Harold Nicholas, Ada Brown,and Dooley Wilson
BOARDING HOUSE BLUES | 1948
Vintage African American “Race” Movie Poster
Directed by Josh Binney and featuring an all-black cast headed by the Moms Mabley. Because films like this were aimed specifically at segregated inner-city black audiences, they were treated like disposable product by the studios, which offered them a surprising amount of leeway in terms of material. Drug jokes and sexual innuendos, which would surely have been censored in mainstream films in 1948, rub elbows with some truly bizarre novelty acts
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