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 and beyond
Two unidentified African American teenage girls featured in an ad promoting June (1964) as dairy month. Charlotta Bass / California Eagle Photograph Collection, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 1964
A group of African Americans sitting on benches at a bus stop under a brick wall showing an advertising for Coca Cola (“Drink Coca Cola, Pure As Sunlight”). 1939