#African American activists

[yourdailyqueer]

Lucy Diggs Slowe (deceased)

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: 4 July 1885 

RIP: 21 October 1937

Ethnicity: African American

Occupation: Former prof tennis player, professor, activist

Note of firsts: First Black woman to serve as Dean of Women at any American university. Won the national title of the American Tennis Association's first tournament in 1917, the first African-American woman to win a major sports title. First person from her school to attend Howard University.

#Lucy Diggs Slowe #lgbt history #black history #lgbt #lesbian #female #1885 #rip #historical #black #poc #african american #athlete #tennis #teacher #activist #first #popular #popular post #300

[sbrown82]

Marsha Hunt performing at the Anson Rooms in Bristol University’s Students Union for a Halloween Ball in 1969.

#marsha hunt #singer #model #writer #activist #actress #black actress #karis jagger #mick jagger #the rolling stones #music #rock & roll #black women #black woman #black girl #african american #african american women #black beauty #black is beautiful #afro #1960s #1969 #vintage #black & white #swinging 60s #london #icon #legend #photo #sbrown82

[bitter69uk]

Adieu to truly great trailblazer Harry Belafonte (1 March 1927 – 25 April 2023), who’s died aged 96. He was a singer (who popularized calypso music in the 50s), actor of stage and screen, outspoken civil rights activist (on close terms with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr) and – as this vintage pin-up amply demonstrates – a raving beauty.

#harry belafonte #african-american #black is beautiful #civil rights movement #civil rights activist #male beauty #male pinup #vintage male pinup #retro male pinup #calypso #calypso music #trailblazer

[pagansphinx]

Black History Month

James Baldwin (1924-1987)

"It comes as a great shock around the age of five, or six, or seven, to discover that the country to which you have pledged allegiance along with everyone else has not pledged allegiance to you.”

– James Baldwin

#american author #james baldwin #african american writer #civil rights activist #black history month #black history #black history matters #pagan sphinx art blog #queer history #urban fiction

[kemetic-dreams]

Marjorie Joyner (née Stewart; October 24, 1896 – December 27, 1994) was an American businesswoman, hair care entrepreneur, philanthropist, educator, and activist. Joyner is noted for being the first African-American woman to create and patent a permanent hair-wave machine. In addition to her career in hair care, Joyner was highly visible in the African-American community in Chicago, once serving as head of the Chicago Defender Charity network, helping organize the Bud Billiken Day Parade and fundraiser for various schools

#african #afrakan #kemetic dreams #africans #afrakans #brown skin #brownskin #marjorie joyner #african american #hair care #activist #businesswoman #educator

[afrotumble]

Dias, named after reggae singer Bob Marley, is of Jamaican and Cape Verdean descent. She was born in Philadelphia and grew up in West Orange, New Jersey. Her mother, Janice Johnson Dias, is co-founder of the GrassROOTS Community Foundation.

When Dias was age 11, she complained to her mother that all of her mandatory readings were books about white boys and dogs. Dias decided to start a book drive, #1000BlackGirlBooks, to bring more attention to literature featuring black female protagonists, with the goal to collect 1,000 books to donate for black girls to other schools. Within a few months, more than 9,000 books were collected. Many of these books have been sent to a children's book drive in Jamaica. The campaign also called public attention to the lack of diversity in children's literature. Dias attended West Orange High School in West Orange, New Jersey, graduating in 2022. She is currently attending Harvard University.

#books #book drives #black female characters #writers #activists #african american

[importantwomensbirthdays]

Frances Mary Albrier

Civil rights activist Frances Mary Albrier was born in 1898 in Mount Vernon, New York. Albrier moved to Berkeley, California in 1920, beginning a decades-long career of community activism. An advocate for employment opportunities for African-Americans, she formed the Citizens Employment Council to champion fair employment practices for the city's Black community. Albrier also served as director of the Alameda County Branch of the NAACP and President of the San Francisco Chapter of the National Council of Negro Women. In 1954, she won the NAACP's Fight for Freedom Award. Later in life, Albrier also took up the causes of peace and disarmament, and the rights of senior citizens and people with disabilities.

Frances Mary Albrier died in 1987 at the age of 88.

Image source: Schlesinger Library

#civil rights #activists #activism #black history #african-american history #african-american #black women

[menandwomanofhistory]

Angela Davis

#history #vintage #angela davis #african american history #activist #political activist #black panthers #black panther party #american history #philosopher #academic #scholar #author #writer #black history

[eohoppeofficial]

Paul Robeson, 1926.

©E.O. Hoppe Estate Collection

#paul robeson #opera singer #actor #activist #black excellence #e o hoppe #shirtless #handsome #african american history

[misspeculiar-principe]

Chloe Cole

(Source)

#chloe cole #american #african-american #czech-english #activist #lgb #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #lgbt+ #lgbtq+ #lgbtqia+ #trans #transgender #transexual #trans agenda #pride #alphabet #rainbow #save the children #youtube

[yourdailyqueer]

Megan Thee Stallion

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Bisexual

DOB: 15 February 1995  

Ethnicity: African American

Occupation: Singer, songwriter, rapper, musician, producer, activist

#Megan Thee Stallion #bisexuality #bipoc #sapphic #lgbtq #female #bisexual #1995 #black #poc #african american #singer #songwriter #rapper #musician #activist #music producer #popular #popular post #400

[kyllaaky]

training school for black civil rights activist

- trained to not react to assault or annoyance so that they wouldn’t be kicked out of school.

#black history is american history #black history #civil rights activist #civil rights movement #black rights #african america history

[kbjones]

Number 145 of 150

Jackie Robinson in his Dodgers uniform. https://wp.me/pLP9Y-5cd #art #artsample #illustration #cartoon #JackieRobinson #baseball #celebrity #history #civilrightsera #black #africanamerican #integration #blackhistory #americanhistory #kidlit #kidlitart

Our next historical figure (or celebrity, depending on how you categorize him) is Jackie Robinson. He was the first black baseball player in Major League Baseball. He played for the Brooklyn Dodgers and earned many accolades throughout his baseball career. Although he’s most famous for breaking the color line in MLB, he had a long history of activism throughout his life. More information on him…

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#activist #African American #American history #art #art sample #at bat pose #baseball #baseball player #black #black history #black man #Brooklyn Dodgers #caricature #cartoon #celebrity #character #children&039;s illustration #childrenspublishing #civil rights era #commission #digital art #digital artist #drawing #famous person #historic figure #history #illustration #illustrator #image #integration

[kecobe]

Paul Robeson Winold Reiss (American, born Germany; 1886–1953) In: The New Negro: An Interpretation. Edited by Alain Locke; book decoration and portraits by Winold Reiss (New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1925) The New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

#Winold Reiss #Reiss #portraits #book illustrations #book illustration #illustrations #American artists #American art #American illustrators #American illustration #Alain Locke #Paul Robeson #Robeson #The New Negro #African Americans #Black Americans #American singers #American actors #American activists #African American singers #African American activists #African American actors #Harlem Renaissance #African American portraits #African Americans in art #1920s Harlem #Man at His Best #men's suits #American icons #Black icons

[pagansphinx]

Elizabeth Catlett (American/Mexican, 1915-2012) was a culptor and printmaker, known for her depictions of African American women. Ms. Catlett sought to affect social and political change. Her work is a mixture of abstract and figurative in the Modernist tradition, with influence from African and Mexican art traditions

“I have always wanted my art to service black people—to reflect us, to relate to us, to stimulate us, to make us aware of our potential.” ~ Elizabeth Catlett

Phillis Wheatley • 1973 • bronze and wood • 21 1/2 x 12 1/4 x 10 1/2 in., Art © Estate of Elizabeth Catlett • Collection of National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington D.C.

Political Prisoner • 1971 • Polychromed cedar • Art and Artifacts Division - Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library, Harlem

© 2020 Catlett Mora Family Trust / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

Sharecropper • printed 1970 • Color linocut on cream Japanese paper • Art Institute of Chicago

Homage to Black Women Poets • 1984 • Mahogany • SCAD Museum of Art - Savanah, Georgia

My right is a future of equality with other Americans • 1947, printed 1989 • lithograph in color

Woman Fixing her Hair • 1993 • Mahogany and opals • Metropolitan Museum of Art

Head • 1947 • Terracotta • Whitney Museum of American Art • 10 3/4 × 6 1/2 × 8 3/4in. (27.3 × 16.5 × 22.2 cm)

Singing Head • Elizabeth Catlett • 1980 • black Mexican marble • Smithsonian American Art Museum

#art #sculpture #modern art #activist art #African-American art #linocut #whitney museum #20th century art #smithsonian american art museum #new york public library #scad art museum #the metropolitan museum of art #art history #cultural history

[aiiaiiiyo]

#Portrait of African-American orator #abolitionist and women’s rights activist Sojourner Truth circa 1860; Illustration of Truth preaching to a crowd from a lectern. #SilentStrategist #oldschool