#african american culture

aestheticsontrial:

Harlem, 1983. 

Taken by Thomas Hoepker

(viaRemembering the African-American Suffragists Who Fought a Dual Oppression - Vogue)

eternallybeautifullyblack:

The African-American Suffragists History Forgot 

by Lynn Yaeger 

[T]hough we may have vague notions of the American women who fought so heroically for the ballot on this side of the Atlantic, they are, in our minds, in our imaginations, in the photographs and first-person narratives that have come down to us, uniformly white people.

[ReadLynn Yaeger’s Vogue.com article in its entirety here.]