HIS 180: African American History: 1865 to Present: Home

A collection of nearly 30,000 "rarely seen" photographs of the black diaspora with a focus on the United Kingdom and United States. The earliest photographs date from the mid-nineteenth century. The aim, according to the website's homepage, is to "enhance and highlight untold stories from the past." Preview the collection without registering. Full access to images for educators and researchers conducting projects requires an application and "up to two weeks" for review.

"The Ronnie Moore digital collection captures the political and social empowerment of African Americans in the South during the 1960s. Images of CORE activists, and the African American populations they served, are displayed in photographs of voter registration drives in Florida and South Carolina, freedom schools in Mississippi, and direct protest demonstrations in Louisiana and North Carolina. Images from Moore’s work with SEDFRE emphasize the economic activism carried out by African Americans during the late 1960s and 1970s in Northern states such as New Hampshire, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Indiana, and Maryland. Other economic initiatives depicted are farming cooperatives in Louisiana, job training for youth and adults in Mississippi, and the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign in Washington D.C."

"Charles 'Teenie' Harris (1908–1998) photographed Pittsburgh’s African American community from ca. 1935 to ca. 1975. His archive of nearly 80,000 images is one of the most detailed and intimate records of the black urban experience known today."