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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Ella & Dizzy | Jazz Masters Series on Flickr.

Singer Ella Fitzgerald at the Downbeat jazz club in New York City with Dizzy Gillespie looking on enchanted by voice. Also present Ray Brown, Milt (Milton) Jackson, and Timmie Rosenkrantz. William Gottlieb, Photographer. 1947

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