Dope!!!!Harlem Hellfighters back from WWI, wearing the Cross of War medals, 1919..-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/369th_Infantry_Regiment_(United_States)#Honors
Rare and very interesting photos
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Maroons in Jamaica 1905.
Immigrants arrive in Tilbury docks, London, England on the Empire Windrush ship from Jamaica in 1948. This was the start of open immigration from the Caribbean to the UK.
Now England want's to give them the Trump Treatment after they helped put that country back on its feet.Immigrants arrive in Tilbury docks, London, England on the Empire Windrush ship from Jamaica in 1948. This was the start of open immigration from the Caribbean to the UK.
Portrait of the cast of the television show 'Good Times,' Los Angeles, California, August 3, 1978. Pictured from left, all in formal wedding attire, are American actors Ralph Carter, Janet Jackson, Esther Rolle (1920 - 1998), BernNadette Stanis (in wedding dress), Ben Powers, Ja'net DuBois, and Jimmie Walker.
The Jackson family, (clockwise from lower row, left): Janet, Randy, Jackie, Michael, Tito, Marlon, LaToya and Rebbie Jackson, c. 1977.
In 1958, the Klan was burning crosses in Robeson Co. NC. At a rally intended to "put the Indians in their place and end racial mixing" they were routed by a surprise attack mounted by Lumbee tribal members. These two WWII vets managed to capture the Klan's banner.
Famous jazz pianist Fats Waller was kidnapped by gangsters for three days in Chicago in 1926. He was the "surprise guest" at Al Capone's birthday party. He was later found very drunk, extremely tired, and had earned thousands of dollars in cash from Capone and other party-goers as tips.
RuPaul 1968
Kalulu, seen here, is often pictured with explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley as 'his boy'. Here, he holds his own with striking poise. Kalulu (Ndugu M'Hali). London Stereoscopic Company, 8 August 1872. Victorian England.
Black family in Victorian England, London 1880.
Born in 1860 in St. Croix, then the Danish West Indies, Peter Jackson -- pictured -- was an accomplished boxing champion who spent long periods of time touring Europe. In England, he staged the famous fight against Jem Smith at the Pelican Club in 1889. In 1888 he claimed the title of Australian Heavyweight Champion. He died from tuberculosis in Sydney in 1901.Peter Jackson. London Stereoscopic Company, 2 December 1889.
Sargano Alicamousa Aboyne, pictured, was a Lion and tiger trainer who traveled to London as a teenager and worked and toured throughout Europe, working in Astley's Amphitheater and George Sanger's London theatre. Sargano Alicamousa. Aboyne, 1890s.
Dejazmatch Alamayou Tewodros (1861-1879), 'Prince of Ethiopia', was orphaned aged seven following the British attack on Magdala, Abyssinia and was brought to England by Sir Robert Napier, placed in the care of explorer Captain Tristam Speedy. Tewodros died in England in 1879 from pleurisy.Prince Alamayou. Isle of Wight, 1868.
The history of Black Britain is often told from 1948, the year the "Empire Windrush" ship arrived on British soil. Images like this one are easily retrievable from a brief internet search, but the aim of Black Chronicles II is to go back even further. Jamaican boxers Charles Smith, Ten Ansel, Essi Reid, John Hazel, Boy Solas and manager Mortimer Martin are pictured arriving at Tilbury on the Empire Windrush.
Pictured is Eleanor Xiniwe of The African Choir - a group of entertainers from South Africa who toured Britain between 1891-93. The group left Africa for Europe at the end of the 19th century on a mission to raise funds for education, and even performed for Queen Victoria. Eleanor Xiniwe, The African Choir. London Stereoscopic Company, 1891.
Albert Jonas and John Xiniwe who were part of the touring African choir, London, England, 1891.
I came across a couple of archives years ago of color photos of Black soldiers during WW2. I think it was from Duke University and there was another from a different University. I'm sure that I have them saved on an old hard drive in the back of the closet.
I was in the Engineer Branch of the Army and went to school at Ft. Belvoir, VA. This was the Color Guard on Ft. Belvoir back in the 40s, so I had that photo blown up into a large poster and hung it behind my desk. I wish I could find the original site with the full sized photos.
I was in the Engineer Branch of the Army and went to school at Ft. Belvoir, VA. This was the Color Guard on Ft. Belvoir back in the 40s, so I had that photo blown up into a large poster and hung it behind my desk. I wish I could find the original site with the full sized photos.
Nathan"Nearest"Green(c.1820 – ?), incorrectly spelled "Nearis" in an 1880 census,[1]was a Black head stiller, commonly referred to now as a masterdistiller. Born into slavery and emancipated after the Civil War, he is known as the master distiller who taught distilling techniques toJack Daniel, founder of theJack DanielTennessee whiskeydistillery. Green was hired as the first master distiller for Jack Daniel Distillery,[2]and he was the first African-American master distiller on record in the United States.[1]
Aannnd in true American fashion, they've made a version in his honor and named it "Uncle" Nearest.Nathan"Nearest"Green(c.1820 – ?), incorrectly spelled "Nearis" in an 1880 census,[1]was a Black head stiller, commonly referred to now as a masterdistiller. Born into slavery and emancipated after the Civil War, he is known as the master distiller who taught distilling techniques toJack Daniel, founder of theJack DanielTennessee whiskeydistillery. Green was hired as the first master distiller for Jack Daniel Distillery,[2]and he was the first African-American master distiller on record in the United States.[1]
I believe that a small percentage of the profits WILL go to his descendants at least.
Jack Daniels will still be rolling in
though.
Was this intended for another thread?
It doesn't fit the mold of rare nor interesting...this is an everyday sighting.
They still have some of his descendants working for Jack Daniels and always have but wonder if any of them are share holders which they should be.Aannnd in true American fashion, they've made a version in his honor and named it "Uncle" Nearest.
I believe that a small percentage of the profits WILL go to his descendants at least.
Jack Daniels will still be rolling in
Red Summer was the late winter, spring, summer, and early autumn of 1919, which were marked by hundreds of deaths and a number of casualties across the United States, as the result of anti-black white supremacist terrorist attacks that occurred in more than three dozen cities and one rural county. In most instances, whites attacked African Americans. In some cases many black people fought back, notably in Chicago and Washington, D.C. The highest number of fatalities occurred in the rural area around Elaine, Arkansas, where an estimated 100–240 black people, and five white people, were killed; Chicago and Washington had 38 and 15 deaths, respectively, and many more injured, with extensive property damage in Chicago.[1]
The racial riots against blacks resulted from a variety of postwar social tensions related to the demobilization of veterans of World War I, both black and white, and competition for jobs and housing among ethnic European Americans and African Americans.[2] In addition, it was a time of labor unrest in which some industrialists used black people as strikebreakers, increasing resentment. The riots were extensively documented in the press, which, along with the federal government, feared socialist and communist influence on the black civil rights movement following the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. They also feared foreign anarchists, who had bombed homes and businesses of prominent business and government leaders.
Civil rights activist and author James Weldon Johnson coined the term "Red Summer"; he had been employed as a field secretary since 1916 by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). In 1919, he organized peaceful protests against the racial violence of that summer
Will Brown, victim of Omaha, Nebraska lynching
African American being stoned by whites during 1919 Chicago race riot
The racial riots against blacks resulted from a variety of postwar social tensions related to the demobilization of veterans of World War I, both black and white, and competition for jobs and housing among ethnic European Americans and African Americans.[2] In addition, it was a time of labor unrest in which some industrialists used black people as strikebreakers, increasing resentment. The riots were extensively documented in the press, which, along with the federal government, feared socialist and communist influence on the black civil rights movement following the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. They also feared foreign anarchists, who had bombed homes and businesses of prominent business and government leaders.
Civil rights activist and author James Weldon Johnson coined the term "Red Summer"; he had been employed as a field secretary since 1916 by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). In 1919, he organized peaceful protests against the racial violence of that summer
Will Brown, victim of Omaha, Nebraska lynching
African American being stoned by whites during 1919 Chicago race riot
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Ethiopia 1965
Black Beauty Pageants in London, England. 1970s
Chicken Bone Beach was the segregated section for African Americans on Atlantic City's beach area. Between 1900 and the early 1950s, African Americans were socially restricted to use the Missouri Avenue Beach Area. Since many vacationing Black families arrived with chicken-laden hampers, the strip became affectionately named "Chicken Bone Beach."
