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This photograph is of Magic Johnson, a retired professional basketball player and present-day businessman, philanthropist, and motivational speaker. Johnson played for the Los Angeles Lakers for thirteen seasons (1979-1991), and was a member of the…

This black-and-white photograph show an African-American student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill whose shirt reads "THINK BLACK INK." Black Ink was an African-American student newspaper founded in 1969 at UNC. It served as a…

This is a photograph of the battle flag used by the Confederate States of America during the U.S. Civil War.

This photograph is of California National Guardsmen patrolling the streets of Los Angeles during the now infamous April 1992 race riots. The riots broke out after a jury acquitted white police officers who had brutally beaten an African-American man,…

This photograph is of the continent of Africa, with flags of individual nations superimposed on it.

This photograph is of Sidney Lowe, North Carolina State University's first African-American head coach of men's basketball. Lowe, who coached the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Memphis Grizzlies before coming to NCSU, also played as a the starting…

This photograph is of Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave who became a prominent leader of the abolitionist movement prior to the U.S. Civil War. His autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845) was a…

This photograph is of Marcus Garvey, a Jamaican political leader, writer, and activist who was a strong proponent of Black Nationalism. Garvey has been credited with synthesizing previous strands of political, economic, and cultural Black Nationalism…

This is a photograph of Malcolm X, born Malcolm Little and later known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. Malcolm X was an African-American minister and human rights activist during the 1950s and early 1960s. He was the leader and public face of the Nation…

This photograph is of Booker T. Washington, a former slave who became an important leader of the African-American community at the turn of the twentieth century. Washington lived in the era of Jim Crow segregation in which African Americans were…