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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Four young African American women standing beside an automobile. Addison Scurlock, photographer. Scurlock Studio Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. -
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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A family of Florida migrant workers on their way to Cranberry, New Jersey, to pick potatoes, 1940. -
An African American boy in bell-hop’s uniform, ca. 1885. Randolph L. Simpson African-American Collection. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
