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What is Black history and culture?
What is Black history and culture? The story of an enslaved people who freed themselves. The sounds of poetry, oratory, and music. A long parade of workers, soldiers, artists, musicians, scholars, athletes, judges, and politicians; men and women peacefully marching right into the centers of political power. That is the story I see on Wikimedia Commons, much more than 27 images can illustrate.
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Slave dance, 1780s
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Head of a Negro by John Singleton Copley, c, 1777
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The Rev. Absalom Jones painted by Raphael Peale, 1810
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Jack, 1850
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Dred Scott, c.1857
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The Bone Player by William Sidney Mount, 1857
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Whipped Peter, c. 1863
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Gordon, soon after he escaped slavery by entering Union lines, 1863
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Flag of the 22nd Regiment, United States Colored Troops with the motto Sic Semper Tyrannis, 1865
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Sojourner Truth, 1870


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African American families watch boats on the Suwannee River c 1950
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Six year old Ruby Bridges desegregating a school in New Orleans with the protection of US marshals, 1960

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Malcolm X, 1964
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Thurgood Marshall, 1956, by Betsy Graves Reyneau
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Jim Brown, 1959
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Roberto Clemente, 1966
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Bill Russell guards Wilt Chamberlain, 1969
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Sergeant Margaret Herrera and First Lady Michelle Obama, 2009

References
- ^ "Special Collections, March on Washington, Parts 1-17". Open Vault. at WGBH. August 28, 1963. Retrieved September 15, 2016.
- ^ "Special Collections, March on Washington, Part 17". Open Vault. at WGBH. August 28, 1963. Retrieved September 15, 2016.
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