Black History Month

Unidentified African American soldier in Union cavalry uniform with cavalry saber in front of painted backdrop showing landscape

Unidentified African American sailor in Union uniform sitting with arm resting on table

Unidentified African American Union soldier with a rifle and revolver in front of painted backdrop showing weapons and American flag at Benton Barracks, Saint Louis, Missouri

Unidentified African American soldier in Union uniform with wife and two daughters

Interior Secretary Ickes congratulates Marian Anderson at concert. Washington, D.C., April 9. Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, who introduced Marian Anderson at her open-air concert at the shrine of the president who freed her race from slavery, congratulating her after the concert to which an estimated 75,000 listened

Colored army teamsters, Cobb Hill, Virginia

John Sharper

Life in Camp Cameron

Soldiers of the 79th New York at camp

Band of 107th U.S. Colored Infantry

Civil rights march on Wash[ington], D.C.

Martin Luther King press conference

Rev. Ralph David Abernathy speaks at Nat'l. Press Club luncheon

Official portrait of President-elect Barack Obama

A drinking fountain. [Sign: White.]

Phillis Wheatley, Negro servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston

[Young African American woman, three-quarter length portrait, facing slightly right, with hands folded on her lap]

Mary Church Terrell, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front

Official portraits of the 1976 U.S. Supreme Court: Justice Thurgood Marshall http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2002721282/ Collection: Miscellaneous Items in High Demand http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/cph/

[Portrait of Mary McLeod Bethune]