Portrait of William Jones taken in Chicago, 1907. African American, Autoethnography, Cultural Activism William Jones (Megasiáwa / Black Eagle) (1871-1909) William Jones was the first American Indian to receive a Ph.D in anthropology, although he preferred not to be addressed by the title “Dr.” and is one of the first Native American scholars to publish …
John Wesley Work II photo from Nashville, Tenn. 1911. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. Shelf locator: Sc 784.7-F (Fisk University news. Jubilee Singers number. After forty years, 1871-1911.). Frederick Jerome Work photo at the home of Albert C. (Albert Coombs) Barnes , Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania. …
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. “Composers Bob Cole, James Weldon Johnson and J. Rosamond Johnson” New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed October 12, 2022. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/7f947850-e020-0130-79c8-58d385a7b928 African American, Music, Literature, Activism and African American, Music, Theater James Weldon Johnson and John Rosamond Johnson (1871-1938) …
Photo by James E. Purdy (1859 – 1933). National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Object Number NPG.80.25. African American, Cultural Theory, Sociology William Edward Burghardt DuBois (1868-1963) William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was one of the most influential figures in African American studies and American history. Born and raised in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, he traveled south …
Photograph from Anna Julia Cooper Collection, Howard University African American, Education, Activism Anna Julia Haywood Cooper (1859-1964) Dr. Anna Julia Cooper championed education for Black women and working adults. Among the most educated women of her day, she wrote one of the first statements of Black feminist thought. Born in bondage in 1858 in Raleigh, …
Author Charles Waddell Chesnutt at the age of 40. Photo taken by Chesnutt Bros. (Cleveland, Ohio) between 1897 and 1898. From the Cleveland Public Library Image Collection African American, Literature, Folklore, Activism Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932) Charles Chesnutt was an attorney, author and activist who drew on folklore to illuminate the complexities of transitioning into …
Photo by C.M. (Charles Milton) Bell (ca. 1849-1893), taken in 1893 in Washington D.C. From the New York Public Library digital collections. African American, Ethnography, Literature, Activism Charlotte Forten Grimke (1837-1914) Charlotte Louise Forten was born free and raised in the prominent Forten-Purvis abolitionist family in Philadelphia’s elite African American community. Due to segregation, she …
Photo ca. 1879. National Archives, Frank W. Legg Photographic Collection of Portraits of Nineteenth-Century Notables, 1862–1884. NAID: 558770, War and Conflict Number 113. African American, Autoethnography Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) Enslaved from birth, Frederick Douglass, neé Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, was born in Talbot County, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in 1818 to an enslaved …