Rare and very interesting photos

[kirkout]

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.

My wildest memory of living in the U.K. when I was a child for 3 years was everyone that was black was considered Jamaican. I remember telling folks I was from America not Jamaica and they would ignore me and still call me Jamaican. Later on, I was told that all black people that lived in England were considered Jamaican. I always thought that was interesting. I lived in the U.K. from 1980 - 1983. I got my first taste of curry goat, jerk chicken and rice and peas and I have never looked back. Lol.

 

[Casca]

A Southern Chain Gang 1903 colorized

 

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A boy and his rooster, Columbia, South Carolina, early 1920s

 

[the13thround]

Winston cigarettes in the early 1970s produced some ads heavily influenced by the popular ‘Blaxploitation’ (coined by the Los Angeles National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) head and ex-film publicist Junius Griffin) movies of the era. These are a handful of Winston cigarette ads, which ran in Ebony and Sephia (formerly ‘Negro Achievements’) from 1971-1973. These publications were targeted, as they were far more attractive to the tobacco advertisers than the perceivably-cheap, nonglossy negro daily newspapers of the pre-war era.

 

[Casca]

He was born as Sidney Poitier on 20 February, 1927 to Evelyn and Reginald James Poitier and was raised in Nassau, Bahamas.

He moved to New York at the age of 17 and worked as dishwasher. He was taught to read English newspaper by a Jewish waiter over several nights.
Sidney Poitier won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role of Homer Smith in the 1963 film “Lilies of the Field.” He was the first African American actor to win this award.

Sidney Poitier refused to film below the Mason-Dixon line, in southern Pennsylvania, since he and Harry Belafonte had recently been harassed by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi. So the film was shot in Illinois The famous slap, where Tibbs retaliates against a racist landowner, wasn’t improvised, though, as has been suggested. I kept telling Poitier that Tibbs was a sophisticated detective, not used to being pushed around. I showed him how to do the slap. “Don’t hit him on the ear,” I said. “I want you to really give him a crack on the fatty side of his cheek.” I told him to practise on me. A black man had never slapped a white man back in an American film. We broke that taboo.- Norman Jewison

 

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The Ronettes before opening for The Beatles in Cleveland (1966)

 

[darth frosty]

 

[darth frosty]

 

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Ray Charles with a young fellow blind musician named Stevland Hardaway Morris (aka Stevie Wonder) 1960s

 

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Laura Gemser, “Black Emmanuelle”, 1975 - One of the most beautiful and exotic women to grace European erotica in the 70’s.

 

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Muhammad Ali looks in the mirror at the 5th Street Gym, Miami in 1970.

 

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Kathleen Cleaver, 1960’s Black Panther Party, former wife of Eldridge Cleaver, indisputable activist for equal rights but also a Yale graduate, Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude and later Yale law, after deciding she wanted to become a lawyer after watching the Watergate Hearing in the 1970's.

 

[The G.O.A.T.]

Props to the OP. GREAT THREAD!!

 

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Muhammad Ali and Andre the Giant compare the size of their hands, 1976.

 

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Stevie Wonder & Michael Jackson, 1980

 

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Richard Pryor on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1965

 

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Miners using an “aerial tram” to descend into the Kimberly Diamond Mine in South Africa, ca. 1885.

 

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Working on an A-31 Vengeance bomber, Nashville, Tennessee (1943)

 

[the13thround]

NYC 1970

 

[ScytheSalvation]

Linus Torvalds on the same system that runs the git repos and all other projects he has designed.

There is video of this. He's actually on a treadmill while developing software.

 

[tajshan]

powerful thread, full of history..

 

[jack walsh13]

Thread is amazing!!!

 

[rude_dog]

NYC 1970

I was just a kid but I can remember when people dressed like this.

 

[the13thround]

Shady Grove, Alabama 1956

 

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Girl Scouts at the 1966 Booker T. Washington High School Homecoming Parade. Montgomery, Alabama in October 1966.

 

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Civil Rights student leaders at Clark Atlanta University to meet with Dr. Martin Luther King on desegregation strategy and organizing sit-ins, in 1960.

 

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Valerie Ansley and Danny Glover High School prom in San Francisco, 1964.

 

[ORIGINAL NATION]

 

[TimRock]

Nia long?

 

[the13thround]

On August 9, 1956, 20,000 women staged a march to the Union Buildings in Pretoria to petition against legislation that required African persons to carry the ‘pass’. The women sang a protest song that was composed in honour of the occasion: Wathint’Abafazi Wathint’imbokodo! (Now you have touched the women, you have struck a rock).

 

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Florynce “Flo” Kennedy speaks at a protest to exonerate a Black victim of attempted rape, Joann Little on July 12, 1975. In 1972, Little, 20, fled her jail cell in Beaufort, NC after killing the white deputy sheriff who tried to rape her. Little used the jailer’s ice-pick against him & she was placed on trial for murder.

Joan Little - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

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Sean Combs along with is mother Janice, 1974

 

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1968 Shirley Chisholm became the first black woman in the U.S. to be elected to Congress.

 

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Ayissi Eyenga Julienne, the very first Miss Cameroon, 1959, Cameroon