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DRIVE’IN IN MY PINK CADILLAC | 1950

Boxer Sugar Ray Robinson styling in front of his flamingo-pink Cadillac. In the background……his night club and eatery, Sugar Rays, 1950. © George Karger, Life Magazine

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LAW MAN | 1945

Constable J. B. (John Buddlee) Bolden with holstered gun posed with one foot on bumper of flag-draped Pontiac car. Charles “Teenie” Harris (1908–1998), Carnegie Museum of Art.

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Room Service | 1967

Beauty contestants at Hampton House, 1967, Miami, FL

Original caption: Negro Queens at Hampton House, Miami tour, August 16, 1967.Credit: City of Miami Photograph Collection, HistoryMiami.com

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An African American woman sitting on car bumper, Shreveport, Louisiana, circa 1931. The Burns Archive

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Toddlers & Tiaras | 1899 on Flickr.

Full length portrait of an unidentified a young African American girl wearing a formal white princess gown with gloves. Daniel Murray, photographer. 1899

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Little Ballerinas on Flickr.

Doris Patterson’s dance class, Washington DC., 1948, Addison Scurlock, photographer. Scurlock Studio Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

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