Black History Album: The Way We Were

A vintage photo blog chronicling the life and times of Blacks in America. How we lived, loved, struggled & triumphed from the end of slavery in 1865 to the Black Power movement of the 1960s.

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Dominique Deveraux aka Diahann Carroll | 1979 on Flickr.
Actress Diahann Carroll holding court in her living room discussing the plight of Blacks in the television industry. Quote, “For some reason, whenever black skin is on television, everyone relates to it as if it’s a documentary.”’

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