Former Nation Of Islam leader and civil rights activist El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz poses for a portrait on February 16 in Rochester, New York.
American abolitionist leader Harriet Tubman who escaped slavery by marrying a free man and led many other slaves to safety using the abolitionist...
Portrait of the children involved in the landmark Civil Rights lawsuit 'Brown V. Board of Education,' which challenged the legality of American...
Civil Rights Activist and NAACP Field Secretary Medgar Evers poses for a portrait circa 1960 in Jackson, Mississippi.
Field Artillery Officers and Tuskegee Airmen Elwood A Smith, Scott K Cleage, Sterling K Jackson and Wendel Long complete pre flight checks on an...
Daguerreotype portrait of American abolitionist Frederick Douglass as a young man, 1848. Formerly enslaved he became the first Black man to be...
Shortly after her release from jail, American political activist and scholar Angela Davis speaks at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois,...
American writer and social reformer William Edward Burghardt Du Bois . Du Bois helped create the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured...
October 1962, Oxford, Mississippi, Black student James Meredith leaves the registrar's office after enrolling, James Meredith was the first black...
Civil rights activist and New York State Congresswoman, Shirley Chisholm, appears at a press conference during the 1976 New York, New York,...
Studio portrait of American educator, economist and industrialist Booker T. Washington , founder of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, ca 1912.