Adorable photo of a black cheerleading squad in Los Angeles, 1963
(via USC Libraries)
My newest illustration, Belinda Bloodflower.
Can find the print and wares at my Redbubble shop or Society6 Shop
Protestor at Weinstein Hall demonstration for the rights of gay people on campus, 1970
(via Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. (1970).Protestor at Weinstein Hall demonstration for the rights of gay people on campus Retrieved from http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-57d9-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 )
Jennifer Beals in Perky Jean commercial, 1983
Home Again
A crowd of African American Women's Army Corps members waving at the camera, Staten Island Terminal, New York Port of Embarkation, March 13, 1946.
(via NYPL)
Happy to be home
African American members of the Women's Army Corps standing in the snow and throwing snowballs at each other, Camp Shanks, New York, January 3, 1946
(found at NYPL)
Cicely Tyson in 1961 stage production, “The Blacks”
Photo by Martha Swope
(citation: Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. "Unidentified actor and Cicely Tyson in the stage production The Blacks" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1961. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/239aa000-4395-0133-c398-00505686a51c )
Diahann Carroll and Fred Williamson on December 1970 cover of TV Guide
Mr. Potato Head ad from the 1970s
The Kiss (Der Kuss)
Peter Behrens
1898
The Crimson Skull, a silent film by Norman Studios, starred an all black cast. Actors Lawrence Chenault and Anita Bush star in this 1922 western. The film is believed to be lost.
You can read more about the film and Norman Studios at the Norman Studios website.
(film poster found at Library of Congress)
Japanese pop band, Pinky & Killers in 1969 Coca Cola commercial. The lead vocalist was Yoko Kon.