What Is Black Cinema?
Published On
August 18 2022
Author
Doris Berger and Rhea L. Combs
Fredi Washington (center) performing with Duke Ellington (at piano) and his band in Black and Tan (1929), production still - pg28
W. E. B. Du Bois, diagram from The Georgia Negro: A Social Study, 1900. The diagram illustrates African slave trade routes, with the state of Georgia starred. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Daniel Murray collection, LC-DIG-ppmsca-33863. Photo: Library of Congress http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.33863
C. M. Battey (American, 1873–1927), Booker T. Washington, ca. 1908, gelatin silver print, 9 1/4 × 6 3/4 in. (23.5 × 17.1 cm). Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, 2009.37.3. Photo: Smithsonian Institution Open Access.
C. M. Battey (American, 1873–1927), W. E. B. Du Bois, 1918, silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper, 13 5/8 ×10 5/16 in. (34.6 × 26.2 cm). Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, 2009.37.3. Photo: Smithsonian Institution Open Access