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- 4-H club children examine plants
- In this black and white photograph, a black boy wearing thick-rimmed glasses is sitting at a school desk and examining a plant. The rootball is exposed and he is pulling out a few strands of the root system. Surrounding him and looking on are six other children,...
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- 4-H sale selling chickens in Mecklenburg

- Several large cages full of chickens are the center of attention in this black and white photograph from the 1950s. Four African American 4-H club members are standing behind the cages as they listen to someone up at the podium in front of them. A loud speaker...
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- African American English
- Excerpt about African American English from the documentary Voices of North Carolina, produced by Neal Hutcheson and the North Carolina Language and Life Project. This video is one in a series that also includes: The...
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- African American Marines, World War II

- Original title: "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...
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- African American Marines, World War II

- Original title: "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...
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- Arthur Griffin on desegregation
- Arthur Griffin is an African American man who attended segregated schools in the 1950s and 1960s. He graduated from Second Ward High School, an African-American high school in Charlotte, North Carolina which closed in 1969. He later became involved in school...
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- At the bus station in Durham, North Carolina

- An African American man stands at a bus station beneath a sign reading "Colored Waiting Room."
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- A black man reads of the Emancipation Proclamation

- Man reading a newspaper with headline, "Presidential Proclamation, Slavery," which refers to the Jan. 1863 Emancipation Proclamation.
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- A black sailor in the American Revolution

- This African American sailor, whose portrait here was painted during the American Revolution, wears the uniform of a sailor in the navy rather than of one on a private ship.
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- Board of Directors AME Zion Publishing House

- Meeting of the Board of Directors of the AME Zion Publishing House, 1916. Left to right, front row: Dr. W. H. Goler of Livingstone College, Bishop A. J. Warner, Bishop George Clinton, Dr. S. G. Atkins of Winston-Salem State College. Back Row: The Reverend...
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- C. C. Spaulding

- Portrait of C.C. Spaulding at age 30. Spaulding was originally the general manager and later the president of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company.
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- Caldwell Phifer and crew

- Caldwell W. Phifer, a prominent African American contractor, posing with his crew at the Caswell Apartments construction site, Charlotte, North Carolina, on September 29, 1927.
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- Cecelia Richardson

- Cecelia Richardson, a seamstress in Charlotte, North Carolina, was well-known for her dress designs. She was the wife of Samuel Richardson, one of the first black firemen in Charlotte.
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- Charlotte Business People

- Business people of Brooklyn in front of the Queen City Drug Store on East Second Street, Charlotte, North Carolina. c. 1910.
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- Civil Rights March

- On December 16, 1963, a group of people, mostly African Americans, marched in a civil rights rally in Bear Grass, North Carolina. From the Daily Reflector, Greenville, North Carolina.
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- Colored Undertakers Association of North Carolina

- Fifth Annual Session Colored Undertakers Association of North Carolina, May 25-26, 1932. The group is pictured on South Brevard Street in front of the Alexander Funeral Home.
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- Company E, 4th U.S. Colored Infantry, at Fort Lincoln

- Shows 27 African Americans in two lines with rifles resting on the ground.
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- Cover of Opportunity magazine, February 1926

- Cover of Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life, February 1926: Industrial Issue. Shows two black silhouetted workers at a blacksmith's forge surrounded by fire and lightning.
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- Dressing for the Carnival

- Painting by Winslow Homer (1836–1910), 1877, shows an African American man being helped with preparation for a carnival by two women. In 1875, Homer made studies of African Americans around Petersburg, Virginia, and this painting may be one of several based...
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- Drinking fountain on the county courthouse lawn, Halifax, North Carolina.

- An African American boy stands at an outdoor drinking fountain. A sign on a nearby tree marks the fountain as "Colored."
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