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Carol La Brie by Patrick Sauteret. Vogue Italia, 1971.
Patrick Kelly and Coco Mitchell
Pat Cleveland
Diana Ross, 1973.
Janet Collins, circa 1950.
Eartha Kitt Giving Dance Lessons. Hollywood, 1963.
Lena Horne, May 1950.
Halston and Pat Cleveland, circa 1978 by Ron Galella
Beverly Johnson. Cosmopolitan, February 1976.
Torchy in Heartbeats, 1952
Zora Neale Hurston at the New York Book Fair, 1937.
Harry Belafonte, circa 1950s
Advertisement for Madam Walker's Glossine Hair Dressing
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mrs. Coretta Scott King voting on Nov. 3, 1964.
Margaret Tynes and Harry Belafonte. Chicago, June 1956.
Diahann Carroll
Josephine Baker and Carmen de Lavallade
Actor-Director Frank Silvera, 1946
Naomi Sims, Cosmopolitan, August 1973
Carmen De Lavallade and Geoffrey Holder, March 3, 1955. Carl Van Vechten.
Hazel Scott circa 1940s.
Fredi Washington, circa 1930s.
Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte in "Carmen Jones," 1954.
Lena Horne in London, 1964.
The Bo-Lo Game, 1937.  Jacob Lawrence.
Girl in the Garden, 1979.  Romare Bearden.
Katherine Dunham with Garland Wilson, circa 1940s.
Lena Horne embracing her daughter Gail Jones, October 7, 1960.
The Thankful Poor, 1894.  Henry Ossawa Tanner
Marsha Hunt, 1968.
Judy Pace, 1970s.
Diana Sands, January 1963. Carl Van Vechten.
Chorus girls rehearse at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, 1936.  Lucien Aigner.
Corridor (Phone) 2003. Lorna Simpson.
Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte on the cover of TAN magazine, January 1955.
Jet Magazine, April 3, 1952.
The Octoroon Girl, 1925. Archibald Motley
Pearl Bailey, July 1946. Carl Van Vechten.
Nat "King" Cole and Sidney Poitier at the Oscars
Josephine Baker
Cocktails, 1926. Archibald Motley.
Diana Ross, 1979.  Francesco Scavullo.
Lena Horne, MGM publicity photo circa 1940s.
Donyale Luna, 1966.
Dorothy Dandridge as Carmen Jones, 1954.
Eartha Kitt and Sammy Davis, Jr. filming Anna Lucasta, 1958.
Dr. Martin Luther and Coretta Scott King, March 1956.
Portrait of Claudia in Yellow Armchair, 2005.  Derek Walcott.
Africa Comics via The Studio Museum in Harlem
Crib of the Infant Jesus, 15th century
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