GOT MILK!  1964 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 FIND US ON TWITTER | FACEBOOK | TUMBLR | FLICKR | PINTEREST

GOT MILK!  1964

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

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Hair stylist, longtime beauty salon owner and community activist Cleo Jackson adds false braids to accent the ethnic look of new style designed for black people. Model is Henri Munsford. Los Angeles, CA, 1972. Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive, UCLA Library. Copyright Regents of the University of California, UCLA Library. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike License. FOLLOW US VIA TWITTER | FACEBOOK | TUMBLR | FLICKR | RSS Original Article

Hair stylist, longtime beauty salon owner and community activist Cleo Jackson adds false braids to accent the ethnic look of new style designed for black people. Model is Henri Munsford. Los Angeles, CA, 1972. Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive, UCLA Library. Copyright Regents of the University of California, UCLA Library. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike License.

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Dorothy Dandridge | Hollywood Icons & Legends Series Casual portrait of actress Dorothy Dandridge in the living room of her Beverly Hills home. Los Angeles, CA, 1954. Allan Grant, photographer.Life Magazine © Time Inc. Dorothy Jean Dandridge (1922–1965) was the first African-American to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for Carmen Jones, and in 1959 she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for Porgy and Bess. FIND US ON TWITTER | FACEBOOK | FLICKR  SUBCRIBE VIA  RSS | EMAIL

Dorothy Dandridge | Hollywood Icons & Legends Series

Casual portrait of actress Dorothy Dandridge in the living room of her Beverly Hills home. Los Angeles, CA, 1954. Allan Grant, photographer.Life Magazine © Time Inc.

Dorothy Jean Dandridge (1922–1965) was the first African-American to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for Carmen Jones, and in 1959 she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for Porgy and Bess.

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Swing Time II | 1938 on Flickr. Negro Nite Life on Central Avenue Series, African American clubgoers with couple dancing in Los Angeles, Calif., 1938.FIND US ON TWITTER | FACEBOOK | FLICKR  SUBCRIBE VIA  RSS | EMAIL

Swing Time II | 1938 on Flickr.

Negro Nite Life on Central Avenue Series, African American clubgoers with couple dancing in Los Angeles, Calif., 1938.

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Swing Time | 1938 on Flickr. Negro Nite Life on Central Avenue Series, African American clubgoers with couple dancing in Los Angeles, Calif., 1938FIND US ON TWITTER | FACEBOOK | FLICKR  SUBCRIBE VIA  RSS | EMAIL

Swing Time | 1938 on Flickr.

Negro Nite Life on Central Avenue Series, African American clubgoers with couple dancing in Los Angeles, Calif., 1938

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Pretty Kitty Katt | 1953 on Flickr. Singer Eartha Kitt, seated in empty nightclub in Los Angeles, CA, 1953. Los Angeles Times photographic archive, UCLA Library. Copyright Regents of the University of California, UCLA Library. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. FIND US ON TWITTER | FACEBOOK | FLICKR  SUBCRIBE VIA  RSS | EMAIL

Pretty Kitty Katt | 1953 on Flickr.

Singer Eartha Kitt, seated in empty nightclub in Los Angeles, CA, 1953. Los Angeles Times photographic archive, UCLA Library. Copyright Regents of the University of California, UCLA Library. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.


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