Company E, 4th U.S. Colored Infantry, were part of the defending forces of Washington, D.C. Photo shows two rows of African Americans holding rifles at Fort Lincoln in 1864.
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Middle class African American family seated on lawn in Georgia, ca. 1899.
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Obedient Defiance
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The Doll Test
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Christianity and Enslaved Africans in the United States (part 2 of 2)
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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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Young African-American woman posing for photograph in Detroit, Michigan circa 1948
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African Americans and Whites fleeing stockyard area during the Chicago race riot, 1919