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| Two pioneers of Nicodemus, Kansas--famous town settled by African Americans in 1870s. |
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| Tuskegee Institute, 1913: "A Corner in the Electrical Division." |
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| Richmond, Virginia, 1900: African-American men and women posed by machinery in Lexington Laundry. [From the W.E.B. Du Bois photograph collection of African Americans, exhibited at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900.] |
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| Buffalo, N.Y., 1899: Interior of African-American store. Caption card tracings: [African Americans--In business; Stores...] [From the W.E.B. Du Bois photograph collection of African Americans, exhibited at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900.] |
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| Washington, D.C., 1930s: Group portrait of Asa Philip Randolph (center front in dark coat) with railroad employees, and a group of African-American men and women on steps in the background; in front of the Twelfth Street branch of the Y.M.C.A. One of the principal players in the death of Jim Crow, Randolph's slogan of "Service not Servitude" underscored his socialism and his willingness to strike and confront in mass demonstrations the workings of Jim Crow. |
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The Hickman family-owned BAR-20 store in Mineola, Texas, with neighborhood children, 1952. Hickman helped to rebuild the store in 1945 after it burned down.
Photo courtesy of the R. C. Hickman Photograph Collection, Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin. |
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