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.

Posted 3 months ago
Packing the Heat | 1937 on Flickr.
Women’s rifle team, Howard University, Washington DC, 1937. Scurlock Studio Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

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