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A black and white photo of a man smoking a cigarette, North Carolina. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a man smoking a cigarette, North Carolina. ...

Public domain photograph of Great Depression, farm, farmer, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a man in a suit and tie, Iowa. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a man in a suit and tie, Iowa. Farm Securit...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Negro farmer rolling much-repaired wagon wheel into blacksmith shop to see if it can again be repaired. Depew, Oklahoma

Negro farmer rolling much-repaired wagon wheel into blacksmith shop to...

Public domain photographs related to race relations, African Americans, discrimination, segregation, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

House in Negro slum district. Norfolk, Virginia

House in Negro slum district. Norfolk, Virginia

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s house, porch, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The new and the old in the apartment houses in the Negro section of Chicago, Illinois

The new and the old in the apartment houses in the Negro section of Ch...

Public domain image of a historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Chicago, Illinois. Scene in Negro section

Chicago, Illinois. Scene in Negro section

Picryl description: Public domain image of historical building ruins, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Negro landowner who had moved out of the Santee-Cooper basin to a resettlement near Moncks Corner, South Carolina region

Negro landowner who had moved out of the Santee-Cooper basin to a rese...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Negro farmer carting some of his farm equipment out of the area that is being taken over by the Army. Caroline County, Virginia

Negro farmer carting some of his farm equipment out of the area that i...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s Virginia, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

"Hotel" Pahokee for Negro migratory laborers. Garbage in foreground. Pahokee, Florida

"Hotel" Pahokee for Negro migratory laborers. Garbage in foreground. P...

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bedroom. House in Negro slum district. Norfolk, Virginia

Bedroom. House in Negro slum district. Norfolk, Virginia

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s Virginia, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Negro family and friends at one of the prefabricated houses for Negroes at Hazlehurst Farms Inc., Hazlehurst, Georgia

Negro family and friends at one of the prefabricated houses for Negroe...

Public domain photograph of Great Depression, farm, farmer, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Temple Court off D Street and Delaware Avenue, S.W. Washington, D.C. Negro slum area with Capitol in background

Temple Court off D Street and Delaware Avenue, S.W. Washington, D.C. N...

Public domain photograph of the 1930s, United States, cars, streets, John Kennedy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Negro farmers shopping on Saturday afternoon in Liebowitz's store. Greensboro, Greene County, Georgia

Negro farmers shopping on Saturday afternoon in Liebowitz's store. Gre...

Public domain photograph of Georgia in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dwellings in Negro section of Chicago, Illinois

Dwellings in Negro section of Chicago, Illinois

Public domain photographs related to race relations, African Americans, discrimination, segregation, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A man standing in front of a crowd of people. Office of War Information Photograph

A man standing in front of a crowd of people. Office of War Informatio...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

Funeral of nineteen year old Negro sawmill worker in Heard County, Georgia

Funeral of nineteen year old Negro sawmill worker in Heard County, Geo...

Public domain photograph related to race relations, African Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Houses in the Negro section of Eutaw, Alabama

Houses in the Negro section of Eutaw, Alabama

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House and children in Negro section of Chicago, Illinois

House and children in Negro section of Chicago, Illinois

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mosquito Crossing, Greene County, Georgia. The new Negro school

Mosquito Crossing, Greene County, Georgia. The new Negro school

Public domain photograph of Georgia in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

At a meeting of Negro FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrowers in a church near Woodville. Greene County, Georgia

At a meeting of Negro FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrowers in ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, civil rights movement, African Americans, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Negro sawmill workers getting some lunch in the back of a grocery store in Franklin. Heard County, Georgia

Negro sawmill workers getting some lunch in the back of a grocery stor...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

John Kirk maintaining the law and checking up on Saturday night in the Negro quarter of Belle Glade, Florida

John Kirk maintaining the law and checking up on Saturday night in the...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, civil rights movement, African Americans, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a woman and a child. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a woman and a child. Office of War Informat...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

Union Point, Greene County, Georgia. Community sing at the Negro church

Union Point, Greene County, Georgia. Community sing at the Negro churc...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, civil rights movement, African Americans, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Negro family and their home in one of the alley dwellings. Washington, D.C.

Negro family and their home in one of the alley dwellings. Washington,...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children, kids, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A group of men standing next to each other. Office of War Information Photograph

A group of men standing next to each other. Office of War Information ...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

A black and white photo of a group of children and a dog. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a group of children and a dog. Office of Wa...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

A group of people walking down a street. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A group of people walking down a street. Great Depression FFSA / OWI N...

Public domain image of a historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Siloam, Greene County, Georgia. Singing class in a Negro school

Siloam, Greene County, Georgia. Singing class in a Negro school

Public domain photograph of Georgia in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a man and a woman. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man and a woman. Office of War Informatio...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

In a Negro home. Heard County, Georgia

In a Negro home. Heard County, Georgia

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bureau, office furniture, desk, chair, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Setting up the pins in Negro bowling alley. Chicago, Illinois

Setting up the pins in Negro bowling alley. Chicago, Illinois

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a man in a suit and hat. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man in a suit and hat. Office of War Info...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

Mosquito Crossing, Greene County, Georgia. The new school for Negro children

Mosquito Crossing, Greene County, Georgia. The new school for Negro ch...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a school, preschool, children, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A couple of kids sitting next to each other. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A couple of kids sitting next to each other. Great Depression FFSA / O...

Public domain photograph of Great Depression, farm, farmer, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Manpower. Negro bomber plant workers. William Howell, aircraft worker in a large Eastern plant, is inserting bearings in a surface control of a medium bomber. Howell got his job after completing a war training course. Glenn L. Martin Bomber Plant. Baltimore, Maryland

Manpower. Negro bomber plant workers. William Howell, aircraft worker ...

Public domain photograph of Maryland in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

War worker goes to Washington. Miss Clara Camille Carroll, recently arrived war worker from Cleveland, Ohio, was lucky. The 760,000 dollar Lucy D. Slowe Resident Hall had just been opened for Negro women war workers, and the War Housing desk at the United States Informational Service referred her as a possible tenant. There she met W. Spurgeon Burke, managing director

War worker goes to Washington. Miss Clara Camille Carroll, recently ar...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. Benjamin Stephens is one of the many old-timers speeding ship production in an Eastern navy yard. He operates a pneumatic chipper on the giant propellers which send American ships to all ports of the world

Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. Benjamin Stephens is one of the man...

Public domain photographs related to race relations, African Americans, discrimination, segregation, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Newport News, Virginia. Negro shipyard worker at his rural home

Newport News, Virginia. Negro shipyard worker at his rural home

Public domain image of cattle, livestock, farm animals, agriculture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Chicago, Illinois. High school students at the monument in honor of Negro soldiers killed in World War I

Chicago, Illinois. High school students at the monument in honor of Ne...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Negro steelworker. Fred Heeben, veteran Negro worker employee of a large East Coast steel mill, is participating in his second world war production drive. This sixty-year-old war worker is shown on his bycicle rushing time cards and tools from one part of the massive steel plant to another. Bethlehem Fairfield Steel

Negro steelworker. Fred Heeben, veteran Negro worker employee of a lar...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Fort Knox. Negro mechanics. Transmission job on an army truck at Fort Knox, Kentucky. This Negro soldier, who serves as truck driver and mechanic, plays an important part in keeping the army's transport fleets in service

Fort Knox. Negro mechanics. Transmission job on an army truck at Fort ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Negro infantry. This Negro infantryman in training at Fort Belvoir, Virginia represents a good type of soldier. When the Engineer Corps regiment to which he belongs is graduated from Fort Belvoir he will be well prepared for military duty

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Negro infantry. This Negro infantryman in trai...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military training, armed forces fort, camp, exercise activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

War worker goes to Washington. Miss Clara Camille Carroll of Cleveland, Ohio, contributes her bit to the war effort in her daily work. She is one of the thousands of Negro girls now filling clerical positions in the nation's capital

War worker goes to Washington. Miss Clara Camille Carroll of Cleveland...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Chicago, Illinois. Good Shepherd Community Center. At a recital of a young Negro pianist

Chicago, Illinois. Good Shepherd Community Center. At a recital of a y...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Government hotel for Negro women war workers. The spacious lounge of the 760,000 dollar Lucy D. Slowe Residence Hall, first government constructed hotel for Negro women war workers in Washington, D.C., is shown above. The 322 residents of the hotel will also enjoy a comfortable lobby, a fountain room for leisure hour snacks, a cafeteria, valet shop and beauty salon

Government hotel for Negro women war workers. The spacious lounge of t...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Negro steelworkers. This operator of a mobile hoist is one of the various Negro employees of a large East Coast steel mill which has turned its facilities to 100 percent war Production. Bethlehem Fairfield Steel

Negro steelworkers. This operator of a mobile hoist is one of the vari...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an automobile, 1940s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Detroit, Michigan. Negro baby in a crib. These are conditions under which families originally lived before moving to the Sojourner Truth housing project

Detroit, Michigan. Negro baby in a crib. These are conditions under wh...

Public domain image of infant, child, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Detroit, Michigan. Negro doing embroidery work in her bedroom. These are conditions under which families originally lived before moving to the Sojourner Truth housing project

Detroit, Michigan. Negro doing embroidery work in her bedroom. These a...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bureau, office furniture, desk, chair, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. Negro school teacher whose husband is a doctor watching her son and daughter hotstepping in the basement playroom of their home in the outskirts of Washington

Washington, D.C. Negro school teacher whose husband is a doctor watchi...

Public domain image of coupe, engagement, family, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Construction of the liberty ship "Booker T. Washington." Ernest Enloe Cotton, former Tuskegee student now employed by the California Shipbuilding Corporation, is shown with a lead man examining the weld-head put on a section of the double bottom of a liberty ship. The "Booker T. Washington," first ship named for a Negro, was constructed in this yard. Mr. Washington founded Tuskegee Institute in Alabama

Construction of the liberty ship "Booker T. Washington." Ernest Enloe ...

Public domain photograph of California in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Massachusetts at a Negro Catholic church on the South Side, Chicago, Illinois

Massachusetts at a Negro Catholic church on the South Side, Chicago, I...

Public domain photographs related to race relations, African Americans, discrimination, segregation, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

This Negro employee counter-sinks holes prior to riveting this wing panel. Negroes and whites work together at North American Aviation

This Negro employee counter-sinks holes prior to riveting this wing pa...

Public domain photograph of California in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

NYA (National Youth Administration) work center, Brooklyn, New York. Two bench workers, one white and one a Negro, who are receiving training in machine shop practice, removing the burrs from a side piece for a metal pulley block

NYA (National Youth Administration) work center, Brooklyn, New York. T...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington (southwest), D.C. Three Negro children in their home

Washington (southwest), D.C. Three Negro children in their home

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty during the Great Depression, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. Negro family at dinner. The husband is a doctor, the wife a teacher, the son a student at Howard University, and the daughter in high school

Washington, D.C. Negro family at dinner. The husband is a doctor, the ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Construction of the liberty ship "Booker T. Washington." G.M. Matthews, Negro burner assigned to the steel plate ship of the California Shipbuilding Corporation, is one of the more than 500 skilled, semi-skilled, and unskilled Negro workers in the yards which built the "Booker T. Washington," first liberty ship named for a Negro

Construction of the liberty ship "Booker T. Washington." G.M. Matthews...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Newport News, Virginia. Negro shipyard worker's family

Newport News, Virginia. Negro shipyard worker's family

Public domain photograph of a historic place in Virginia, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washington, D.C. A group of Washington Negro war workers leaving the United Service Organization (USO) branch of the Young Mens' Christian Association (YWCA). Because of the gas rationing they are using horses and wagons for their hayride

Washington, D.C. A group of Washington Negro war workers leaving the U...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Rushing the SS George Washington Carver to completion. Negro skilled workers played an important part in the construction of the SS George Washington Carver, second Liberty Ship named for a Negro, in the Richmond Shipyard No. 1 of the Kaiser Company. One of the best chippers in the yard is Bonaparte Louis, Jr., shown above with a fellow worker as the Carver is being rushed to completion

Rushing the SS George Washington Carver to completion. Negro skilled w...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

A black and white photo of a tall building, Jacksonville, Florida. Negro apartment house

A black and white photo of a tall building, Jacksonville, Florida. Neg...

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Negro Marines prepare for action. Breaking a tradition of 167 years, the U.S. Marine Corps started enlisting Negroes on June 1, 1942. The first class of 1,200 Negro volunteers began their training three months later as members of the 51st Composite Defense Battalion at Montford Point, a section of the 200-square mile Marine Base, Camp Lejeune, at New River, North Carolina. Photo shows "boots" (new recruits) learning to drill

Negro Marines prepare for action. Breaking a tradition of 167 years, t...

Public domain photograph of North Carolina in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Negro Marines prepare for action. Breaking a tradition of 167 years, the U.S. Marine Corps started enlisting Negroes on June 1, 1942. The first class of 1,200 Negro volunteers began their training three months later as members of the 51st Composite Defense Battalion at Montford Point, a section of the 200-square mile Marine Base, Camp Lejeune, at New River, North Carolina. Among the outstanding Negroes in the original group of Negro Marines is Private First Class Walker Manley, formerly organist of the Christian Church in Raleigh, North Carolina, and a demonstrator for the Hammond Organ Company, who is now post organist at Camp Lejeune. In addition to being organist for the Montford Point chapel, he is also organist for several of the chapels where white enlistees worship

Negro Marines prepare for action. Breaking a tradition of 167 years, t...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Answering call for volunteer nurses aides. The call for 100,000 volunteer nurses aides to relieve the acute shortage of graduate nurses is answered by Negro housewives and mothers throughout the country. At Freedmen's Hospital in Washington, D.C. where an eighty-hour training courses has been in progress since last October. Volunteers begin practical training in the central dressing room. Photo shows Mrs. Louis Lucas (left) and Miss Susie Freeman (right) wrapping bandages

Answering call for volunteer nurses aides. The call for 100,000 volunt...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of the 1930s - 1940s, woman, female portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Newport News, Virginia. Mrs. Ethel R. Stephens, organizer of the Consumer Interest Council, a group of Negro housewives at Newport News, making a report to the members of the Special Services Section of the Office of Price Administration, concerning point rationing. Left to right: Mrs. M. Barr, Miss A. Wilson, Miss Freedman, Mrs. Ethel Stephens, Miss Warrick, and Miss F. Williams

Newport News, Virginia. Mrs. Ethel R. Stephens, organizer of the Consu...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Negro color guard

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Negro color guard

Picryl description: Public domain image of military training, armed forces fort, camp, exercise activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington public schools go to war. The public schools of Washington, D.C., like those in most other sections of the country, have revised their curricula to fit the pupils for fuller participation in the war effort. At a recent exhibit of work done in the Negro schools under the Office of Civilian Defense, the slogan, "Save, Serve, Conserve" was prominently displayed. Photo shows this slogan adorning an exhibit by one of the chemistry classes

Washington public schools go to war. The public schools of Washington,...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Negro Marines prepare for action. Breaking a tradition of 167 years, the U.S. Marine Corps started enlisting Negroes on June 1, 1942. The first class of 1,200 Negro volunteers began their training three months later as members of the 51st Composite Defense Battalion at Montford Point, a section of the 200 square mile Marine base, Camp Lejeune, at New River, North Carolina. Photo shows raw recruits ("boots") getting their equipment upon joining the Marines

Negro Marines prepare for action. Breaking a tradition of 167 years, t...

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Baltimore, Maryland. Building the SS Frederick Douglass. More than 6,000 Negro shipyard workers are employed at the Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, where the Liberty ship is being rushed to completion. The noted orator and abolitionist leader worked as a ship caulker in the vicinity of this yard before he escaped from slavery. Two workers bolting plates for welding on the second day of construction

Baltimore, Maryland. Building the SS Frederick Douglass. More than 6,0...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Crowd outside of fashionable Negro church after Sunday service, Chicago, Illinois

Crowd outside of fashionable Negro church after Sunday service, Chicag...

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Plantation no. 6 Rockville Plantation Negro church, Charleston, S.C.

Plantation no. 6 Rockville Plantation Negro church, Charleston, S.C.

Photograph shows an exterior view of the church on the Rockville Plantation on Wadmalaw Island, South Carolina. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). Inscribed on verso: Rockville Plantation Negro... More

Baltimore, Maryland. Bus bound for the Negro section at four p.m.

Baltimore, Maryland. Bus bound for the Negro section at four p.m.

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Negro boys on Easter morning. Southside, Chicago, Illinois

Negro boys on Easter morning. Southside, Chicago, Illinois

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, civil rights movement, African Americans, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Apartment building in Negro section of Chicago, Illinois

Apartment building in Negro section of Chicago, Illinois

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Negro cotton worker, New Madrid County, Missouri

Negro cotton worker, New Madrid County, Missouri

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Beaufort, South Carolina. Negro family representing several generations. All born on the plantation of J.J. Smith

Beaufort, South Carolina. Negro family representing several generation...

Public domain historical photo, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Negro going in colored entrance of movie house on Saturday afternoon, Belzoni, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

Negro going in colored entrance of movie house on Saturday afternoon, ...

Photograph shows side of Crescent Theatre in Belzoni, Mississippi. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013)

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. A Negro shipyard worker

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. A Negro shipyard w...

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Negro family praying at graves of their relatives on All Saints' Day, New Roads, Louisiana

Negro family praying at graves of their relatives on All Saints' Day, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to death, coffin, grave, funeral, burial, monument, cemetery, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Receipt for $500.00 payment for Negro man, January 20, 1840]

[Receipt for $500.00 payment for Negro man, January 20, 1840]

10192B. Caption on item: Receipt given Judge S. Williams of Eufaula by Eliza Wallace in payment of $500.00 for a Negro man, Jan. 20, 1840. This paper is owned by Richard Malcolm McEachern, grandson of Judge Wi... More

Negro cabin and oaks, Florida - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Negro cabin and oaks, Florida - Public domain image. Dry plate negativ...

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Requires legislation to keep his job. Eddie Augustine Savoy, 85-year-old negro who is rounding out 60 years service in the State Department, will not be retired because of old age of Secretary Stimson's recommendation is carried out. At Stimson's suggestion, Rep. Fish, whose grandfather, a former Secretary of State, gave Savoy work in 1871, will introduce a bill to permit Eddie to keep on working. His duties consist of announcing visitors who call upon the Secretary and he has acquired a remarkable memory for faces, names, and titles, 1/31

Requires legislation to keep his job. Eddie Augustine Savoy, 85-year-o...

A man sitting at a table with a book. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Negro at religious meeting in Nashville, Tennessee

Negro at religious meeting in Nashville, Tennessee

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Construction of a million dollar bridge across the Tidal Basin. Archie A. Alexander, Negro, senior partner

Construction of a million dollar bridge across the Tidal Basin. Archie...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a road works, construction, excavation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Interior of a Negro dwelling, Hamilton Co., Ohio

Interior of a Negro dwelling, Hamilton Co., Ohio

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A group of people walking down a dirt road - FSA / Office of War Information Photograph

A group of people walking down a dirt road - FSA / Office of War Infor...

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Negro dwelling interior, Hamilton Co., Ohio

Negro dwelling interior, Hamilton Co., Ohio

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A fine old home alongside a shabby Negro house. Florida Avenue and 19th Street N.W., Washington, D.C.

A fine old home alongside a shabby Negro house. Florida Avenue and 19t...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential building, house, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Negro youngsters in doorway of alley dwelling. Washington, D.C.

Negro youngsters in doorway of alley dwelling. Washington, D.C.

Picryl description: Public domain image of children, kids, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Negro boy near Vicksburg, Mississippi

Negro boy near Vicksburg, Mississippi

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Negro workers on Newport News Homesteads, Virginia

Negro workers on Newport News Homesteads, Virginia

Picryl description: Public domain image of a construction site, wooden frame, timber, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Negro child on the Mississippi Delta

Negro child on the Mississippi Delta

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Negro in Greenville, Mississippi

Negro in Greenville, Mississippi

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Negro sharecropper's shack. Near West Memphis, Arkansas

Negro sharecropper's shack. Near West Memphis, Arkansas

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A group of men sitting around a picnic table, Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph

A group of men sitting around a picnic table, Virginia. Farm Security ...

Public domain photograph of military personnel, army, militia, infantry, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Negro. Washington, D.C. slum area

Negro. Washington, D.C. slum area

Public domain photograph of Washington DC, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Delta cooperative farms. Hillhouse, Mississippi. Negro cabins are on one side, white cabins on the other

Delta cooperative farms. Hillhouse, Mississippi. Negro cabins are on o...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural countryside landscape, farmhouse, farm field, pasture free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Gees Bend Negro splitting wood. Alabama

Gees Bend Negro splitting wood. Alabama

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Alabama. Farmers during Great Depression. A couple of men standing next to each other.

Alabama. Farmers during Great Depression. A couple of men standing nex...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Negro, liquor store and employment notice in the Negro section of Belle Glade, Florida

Negro, liquor store and employment notice in the Negro section of Bell...

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