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al.com: Unseen. Unforgotten.

Dozens of previously unpublished photographs from the Civil Rights era, located in 2006 in a storage closet at the Birmingham (Alabama) News. Organized by theme (such as the Freedom Riders, school desegregation, and voting rights) and year. Includes captions from the photo files.

Ancestry.com - U.S., African American Photo Collection, 1850-2000 $

Original source: Selected photo collections from the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington D.C. And selected photos from the National Archives and Records Administration, Archival Research Catalog, Washington, D.C. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

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Historic Photographs, Black West Virginia

This is a display of vintage African-American photographs from West Virginia. Each post provides information about the subjects of the photographs if known. Many subjects of the pictures are unknown. The content ranges from post Civil War tintypes to early mid 20th century snapshots.

Holsinger Collection, Small Library, UVa

The Holsinger Studio Collection constitutes a unique photographic record of life in Charlottesville and Albemarle County, Virginia, from before the turn of the century through World War I. Approximately two-thirds of the collection are studio portraits, and among these are nearly 500 portraits of African-American citizens of Charlottesville and the surrounding area. Part of the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia.

Leon K. Hughes Photography Collection

An online archive of African American photography. Part of the Kansas Collection, Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas.

Old Photographs of African Americans

Unknown Old African American Photographs to be identified by researchers and family historians. You can post your unknown photographs here.

The Mitchell Collection of African American History

AfricanAmericanCollection.com is a website that displays one of the world's most comprehensive collections of African American History in the form of artifacts, books, letters, photographs, newspapers and more. The collection is absolutely amazing and is a great resource for people to view some of our nations most interesting moments in African American History.

U.S. National Archives and Records Administration - Pictures of African Americans During World War II

The images described in this leaflet illustrate African-American participation in World War II. The pictures were selected from the holdings of the Still Picture Branch (NNSP) of the National Archives and Records Administration. The majority of the pictures were chosen from the records of the Army Signal Corps in Record Group (RG) 111, the Department of the Navy in RG 80, the Coast Guard in RG 26, the Marine Corps in RG 127, and the Office of War Information in RG 208.