This young African-American woman posing for photograph in Detroit, Michigan circa 1948 is my maternal grandmother, Vivian Margaret Nance.
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Jefferson Franklin Long (1836 – 1901)
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Louis Farrakhan “likes what he sees in Donald Trump”
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Sojourner Truth (1797-1883) lifelong activist for abolition of slavery and civil rights for freed slaves and women
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Special Field Orders, No. 15
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The Legend of Dinkie the Conjurer!
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African Americans, members of 369th Colored Infantry, wave from a troop ship as they arrive back in New York City, ca. 1919
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Convicts leased to harvest timber circa 1915, in Florida