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SCANS FROM MY 1957 WRENS COLORED HIGH SCHOOL YEARBOOK FROM WRENS, GEORGIA *THREAD*
AMERIKA IN BLACK
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AMERIKA IN BLACK
@AmerikaInBlack
Primary source documents pertaining to the Black experience in America's cities. SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED. See also: @60sto70sto80s
Urban America
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- DC-based poet Gil Scott-Heron shows off his side of the city, the side most outsiders may not know about (1982)
00:00 - Washington DC (1948). In the Shadow of the Capitol, photographed by Marion Palfi.
- Baltimore, Maryland (1973). Bikers take a break in Druid Hill Park. Photographed by Roland L. Freeman.
- A girl sitting outside a park near Union Station, Washington DC (1943).
- Los Angeles, California (1939). A couple hits the dance floor for a jitterbug competition.
- Some hair from my 1990 Forest Park High School yearbook in West Baltimore
- Chesapeake Bay, Maryland (1905). Women picking crabs for the market.
- Replying to @AmerikaInBlackA profile on Gloria, a 22-year-old single mother who decided to occupy an abandoned home in Southwest Philly. Here, she discusses her story, process, and reasoning:
00:00 - Young girls take a swim at Druid Hill Park, Baltimore (1949)
- North Philadelphia (1968). The expansion of Temple Univ. displaced the surrounding Black residents, w them having little say in the future of their homes. Colleges have long been an engine of gentrification/displacement in urban centers. Here they are expressing their grievances:
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