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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Beauty and the Beach | 1930

A group of African American women strike a pose while lying on the sandy white shores of Atlantic City, NJ, 1930. James Van Der Zee, photographer.

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