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#MOW50 Civil rights campaigner and organizer Karen House holds... 23 Aug 2013 | 08:56 pm
#MOW50 Civil rights campaigner and organizer Karen House holds up buttons for the ‘March on Washington for Jobs & Freedom,’ several weeks before the August 28, 1963 event. The buttons, which depict a ...
Dinah Washington, the iconic singer of jazz, blues, pop and... 23 Aug 2013 | 06:38 pm
Dinah Washington, the iconic singer of jazz, blues, pop and anything else she wanted to sing, photographed by Ebony’s photographer Isaac Sutton as she does a little shoe shopping in the 1950s. Photo: ...
Katherine Dunham, circa 1940s. Ms. Dunham formed Ballet Nègre,... 21 Aug 2013 | 11:41 pm
Katherine Dunham, circa 1940s. Ms. Dunham formed Ballet Nègre, one of the first black ballet companies in America in 1930, long before she was famous. She once said of her work, “I admit that a strong...
Coretta Scott King, photographed by Moneta Sleet for Ebony in... 17 Aug 2013 | 09:26 pm
Coretta Scott King, photographed by Moneta Sleet for Ebony in 1958. Mrs. King was a graduate of Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio (B.A. Music Education, 1951) and the New England Conservatory of...
Billie Holiday playing records and hanging out with her dog... 16 Aug 2013 | 04:30 am
Billie Holiday playing records and hanging out with her dog Mister circa 1945. Photo by Metronome/Getty Images.
Percy Verwayne (1895-1968) was the original Sportin’ Life... 13 Aug 2013 | 11:14 pm
Percy Verwayne (1895-1968) was the original Sportin’ Life in the 1927 Broadway DuBose and Dorothy Heyward play, “Porgy,” the precursor to the iconic 1935 George Gershwin opera “Porgy and Bess.” Mr. Ve...
Harry Belafonte and Dorothy Dandridge photographed by Charles... 13 Aug 2013 | 12:14 pm
Harry Belafonte and Dorothy Dandridge photographed by Charles Williams in an offstage moment from “Carmen Jones”. A very similar shot from this session appeared in the September 30, 1954 issue of Jet ...
Eartha Kitt photographed by Gordon Parks as she was being fitted... 13 Aug 2013 | 10:25 am
Eartha Kitt photographed by Gordon Parks as she was being fitted for a dress by a woman who I am 99.9% sure is none other than the pioneering fashion designer Zelda Wynn Valdes in 1952.
Sidney Poitier with his first wife, Juanita Hardy, and... 13 Aug 2013 | 05:32 am
Sidney Poitier with his first wife, Juanita Hardy, and playwright Lorraine Hansberry at the opening of “A Raisin in the Sun” in New York City in 1959. Photo: Moneta Sleet for Ebony magazine via Art.co...
Nat “King” Cole at home with his wife Maria in 1957.... 13 Aug 2013 | 04:52 am
Nat “King” Cole at home with his wife Maria in 1957. Their daughter Carol Cole once said that her mother “radically altered” her father’s style. She replaced his zoot suits with the classic, bespoke p...
